For those who never sit through ALL the credits, shame. Here's something you might have missed...

 

Yes, it put a smile on my face in spite of the sadness of the end of the movie. No one in the theater had moved up to that point.

 

Where did you see it?

 

It premiered in NYC at the Sunshine Cinemas on Houston Street earlier in the Fall.

 

It's on Netflix streaming now! (And Amazon as well)

 

When I went to see it, the theatre was half full, perhaps 80% men. We all looked like guys who our wife set free for the evening to go see the movie.

Anyway, I am pretty sure every one of us sat through all the credits. It was very nice to see him driving off in that Carrera. I never expected that, as I always associated Senna with tooling around in an NSX...

 

Poet of a driver. F1 could sure use another like him!

 

cool, glad to know ya'll are sitting through the credits :-) That's just my "film geek" side coming out.

I just saw it on Netflix. Wish I could've seen it on the big screen. What got reinforced in my mind was how dangerous the sport was, not too long ago. Of course it still is, but what a night and day difference in fairly recent safety technology....carbon fibre, hans, etc. etc., compared to the old days. Track layouts too. Honestly, I'm a bit critical of these high speed open wheel oval races. No doubt, it's an amazing spectacle but at what expense? But I personally don't want to see anyone crash or die. It's not what interests me about the sport. I'll stick to F1 and what I feel are superior safety standards and concerns, albeit at the tragic expense of so many.

It also seems like there was a clear point in the film where racing became different. Electronics and big money were entering into the sport. The cars sounded different....more powerful, and maybe safety and track design/layout were not keeping up. And the film made interesting light of those concerns at the time. Incredible film.

 

Senna's death caused F1 to take a hard look at safety, as DW's death will do to IRL. Read some of the books on F1 in the 50's-60's.....what was it, 3 or 4 out of 10 drivers would perish?

F1 has superior standards than some other series, but give me ALMS any day for my racing fix-safety & spectacular racing. Something F1 is a bit shy on usually.....

 

You are right that tremendous progress has been made since Senna's day. What puts even more of an exclamation point on things is that F1 safety was already a lot better back in the late 80's and early 90's than it had been in, say, 1970.

It will never be a riskless sport, but it still amazes me when I read just how dangerous it really was...

 

I met Ayrton at the Detroit Grand Prix in 1982 when he was driving for Candy-Tolman and I was a young aspiring photographer. When introduced in the pits he was very congenial and even asked where I was from and who my favorite driver was. Fame gets to alot of people by it didn't seem that way with him.

 

You're lucky I only saw him on Sundays