Sam Posey on why Senna was SO fast..
05-03-2012, 06:22 PM
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05-03-2012, 06:35 PM
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05-04-2012, 09:06 AM
#34
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That's the most popular theory, and the one I subscribe to. It had been reconfigured with some spot welds prior to the weekend. There were other mitigating factors as well. Cold tires from following an overly slow pace car, unable to get heat in them with a new "de-active" suspension....
05-04-2012, 10:37 AM
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no, only 'point' what is there is to make it to the track safe and then make it out from track back home safe and continue working your work and earning your paycheck to provide for your family while trying to enjoy some free time you can afford to spend away from your family on the track, with minimal possible damage to family budget.
05-04-2012, 11:16 AM
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I think part of the journey from being merely fast to being superhuman is having a lot of accidents. Top flight F1 drivers regularly spin and crash their cars, in practice, in qualifying, and in the race. I can't imagine what they would do when they were in junior formula. Its because they are pushing hard, and sometimes when you experiment with the limit you go over it. Repetition produces instinct, skill and habit. Being able to afford skating on that edge while you "learn" to manipulate the car at that level is something that few can financially afford, fewer are willing to do in terms of bodily risk, and fewer still have the innate talent to make it worthwhile.
Senna was really special, no doubt, but I wonder how many unrealized talents were, and are, still out there.
Senna was really special, no doubt, but I wonder how many unrealized talents were, and are, still out there.
05-04-2012, 11:56 AM
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no, only 'point' what is there is to make it to the track safe and then make it out from track back home safe and continue working your work and earning your paycheck to provide for your family while trying to enjoy some free time you can afford to spend away from your family on the track, with minimal possible damage to family budget.
-mike
05-06-2012, 06:59 AM
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"Senna was 34, which means that, by F1 standards, he did not die young, just hard and a very long way from home. Senna transcended the tiresome debate about whether race drivers are really athletes because he was something far rarer in this world than an athlete — he was a genius.
Senna could take a 1,100-pound F1 car and transform it into a living, breathing thing; a throbbing dance partner in his dangerous pas de deux.
Niki Lauda said simply, ‘He was the best driver who ever lived.’"
Senna could take a 1,100-pound F1 car and transform it into a living, breathing thing; a throbbing dance partner in his dangerous pas de deux.
Niki Lauda said simply, ‘He was the best driver who ever lived.’"
