Good movie on the life of Ayrton Senna. Lots of subtitles though.

Also lets you in on how political F1 racing is. (well, all racing for that matter)

Yeah, it's worth watching. He was treated like a God back home and he lived the dream till the end.

Jim

Yesterday would've been Senna's (59th, I believe) birthday.

RIP

The Senna film was a very good watch. May have to re-watch this weekend.

Unrelated, but came across this photo from an article about Senna yesterday

There have been great strides in safety since then.
Even without them, it was just bad luck. If the wheel had gone on a slightly different trajectory he would been only slightly injured.

Yep.
Looking at how much of the driver is exposed in the above pic, as compared to the current crop of cars (Even just pre-halo).

Just a perfect set of circumstances, for the Williams to hit the barrier at that angle/spot/etc for the wheel to come back in that way.

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Originally posted by 220-9er:
There have been great strides in safety since then.
Even without them, it was just bad luck. If the wheel had gone on a slightly different trajectory he would been only slightly injured.

Same with Marco Simoncelli. Some things are just freak accidents.

This doc was great. Watched it last year.