Senna – Film Review

In less than ten years in Formula One Ayrton Senna carved out a legacy which is still felt in the sport today, nearly twenty years on from his untimely death at Imola in 1994. His unique ability to seemingly push the cars he drove beyond their physical and mechanical limits in order to achieve victory is something which is gravely missing from modern day motorsport. Senna is the documentary film on his life at the pinnacle of F1 and it demonstrates brilliantly the man’s passion for raw speed, his incredible humility in victory and defeat and above all his unflinching quest to win.
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My first memories of Formula One occur after the death of Ayrton Senna, I do not remember him racing which is not surprising coming from a GAA background where motorsport was never high on the agenda in household. The first race which I actually remember was the final race of the 1994 season, the Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide. This was the infamous race where Michael Schumacher in his Benetton Ford blatantly tried to ram Damon Hill’s Williams Renault off the road, putting him out of the race and damaging Hills car so badly he could not continue.