A Star Named Ayrton Senna
1998 · 112 MIN · IMDB 8.0 · 77 VOTES · DIR. Jean Claude Guiter
Overview
The Official Film of Brazil's greatest Formula One driver, Ayrton Senna, who's sudden death in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix sent shock waves around the World. It cemented his reputation both within the sport, and his native Brazil, as a legend. The film looks at his life and career using archive footage and featuring revealing interviews with the man, as well as those who knew him well; friends, family and competitors. It also shows how the Ayrton Senna Foundation, set up in his honor, is working to help under privileged and street-bound children in his native Brazil using sport as an incentive to learn. Written by Oliver Warman.
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00:00:21 Losing for him was already bad...
00:02:50 But if there was one area where Senna truly flew high...
00:04:46 He was pissed off all year about having this Ford engine in his McLaren...
00:06:58 He was very persistent. When he was a kid people used to call him stubborn.
00:09:43 so we could be close together.
00:12:00 physically speaking, to your body, but also to your mind.
00:14:20 We weren't ready to put him in the team in '84...
00:16:23 He was almost a mystic.
00:18:33 to raise the car for the straights and lower it before the corners...
00:20:26 that speak of the level of concentration that he achieved as a racing driver.
00:22:27 then he'd adapt to the car.
00:25:00 But he got so involved in the process of meditating...
00:26:56 Once you're in it, you're in it and you gotta go to the end.
00:29:05 And l thought he just felt so satisfied.
00:31:16 So we'd go out together.
00:33:28 he had ever given in any of his countless interviews.
00:35:33 He's so handsome.
00:37:39 to get him where he wanted to go. lt was a process he was going through.
00:39:54 was that he knew there was something else outside Formula 1 .
00:42:06 is to say that he was big enough to be little, if you understand what l mean.
00:44:31 l said to him: You've been world champion three times...
00:46:46 You really could see that we were friends.
00:49:13 But memories of Senna will never fade. Across the world, his spirit lives on.
00:51:45 lt's because l had, first of all, a good opportunity in life...