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Ayrton Senna
Geburtstag: 21. März 1960
Todesdatum: 1. Mai 1994
Ayrton Senna da Silva war ein brasilianischer Automobilrennfahrer. Er wurde dreimal Weltmeister in der Formel 1, in dieser fuhr er von 1984 bis zu seinem tödlichen Unfall auf dem Kurs von Imola beim Großen Preis von San Marino 1994.
Senna bestritt in der Formel 1 insgesamt 161 Große Preise mit Toleman, Lotus, McLaren und Williams. Er erreichte dabei 41 Siege, 65 Pole-Positions sowie 19 schnellste Runden; seine größten Erfolge errang er mit McLaren-Honda.
Große mediale Aufmerksamkeit erregte Sennas intensive Rivalität zu dem Franzosen Alain Prost, mit dem er im Laufe seiner Karriere insgesamt vier Weltmeisterschaften ausfocht. Wegen seiner Fahrweise, speziell bei Regen, bekam Senna 1985 von Lotus-Teamchef Peter Warr den Spitznamen „The Magic“ .
Im April 2004 wurde Senna von einer 77-köpfigen Jury, bestehend aus Formel-1-Piloten, Teamchefs, Ingenieuren und Journalisten, zum schnellsten Formel-1-Fahrer der Geschichte gewählt. Im Dezember 2006 und im Dezember 2009 gab es erneut derartige Umfragen unter Experten, bei denen Senna wieder Platz 1 belegte. Dieselben Experten weisen allerdings im Zuge solcher Umfragen stets darauf hin, dass die verschiedenen Epochen der Formel 1 schwierig zu vergleichen seien.
Zitate Ayrton Senna
„By being a racing driver you are under risk all the time. By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win. And the main motivation to all of us is to compete for victory, it's not to come 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th. I race to win as long as I feel it's possible. Sometimes you get it wrong? Sure, it's impossible to get it right all the time. But I race designed to win, as long as I feel I'm doing it right.“
— Ayrton Senna
Interview at the 1990 Australian Grand Prix, November 1990 http://youtube.com/watch?v=9j6dGOGftY4
„If I ever happen to have an accident that eventually costs me my life, I hope it is in one go. I would not like to be in a wheelchair. I would not like to be in a hospital suffering from whatever injury it was. If I’m going to live, I want to live fully, very intensely, because I am an intense person. It would ruin my life if I had to live partially.“
— Ayrton Senna
Interview, January 1994 http://bleacherreport.com/articles/20702-ayrton-senna-fourteen-years-later
„I'm very privileged. I've always had a very good life. But everything that I've gotten out of life was obtained through dedication and a tremendous desire to achieve my goals… a great desire for victory, meaning victory in life, not as a driver. To all of you who have experienced this or are searching now, let me say that whoever you may be in your life, whether you're at the highest or most modest level, you must show great strength and determination and do everything with love and a deep belief in God. One day, you'll achieve your aim and you'll be successful.“
— Ayrton Senna
Interview, 1991 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nS8W3b3wvY
„We are made of emotions, we are all looking for emotions, it's only a question of finding the way to experience them. There are many different ways of experience them all. Perhaps one different thing, only that, one particular thing that Formula One can provide you, is that you know we are always expose to danger, danger of getting hurt, danger of dying.“
— Ayrton Senna
Interview for Racing is in My Blood, 1991 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzlKNyopKUI
„Whoever you are, no matter what social position you have, rich or poor, always show great strength and determination, and always do everything with much love and deep faith in God. One day you will reach your goal.“
— Ayrton Senna
Interview, 1991 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuJL8fKtTj8
„On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit.' As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.“
— Ayrton Senna
Interview for Racing is in My Blood, 1991 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIzjx9z_vUg
„Racing, competing, is in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I've been doing it all my life. And it stands up before anything else.“
— Ayrton Senna
Interview at the 1989 Australian Grand Prix, November 1989 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6brLntJE8s
„I believe in the ability of focusing strongly in something, then you are able to extract even more out of it. It's been like this all my life, and it's been only a question of improving it, and learning more and more and there is almost no end. As you go through you just keep finding more and more. It's very interesting, it's fascinating.“
— Ayrton Senna
Interview for Racing is in My Blood, 1991 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHuadnT588w
„If you take away Eau Rouge, you take away the reason why I do this.“
— Ayrton Senna
Interview, 1993 http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/december-2008/28/senna-connection
„It's important that the drivers stay together, because in difficult moments we have each other. If we are not together the financial and political interests of the organisers and constructors come to the fore.“
— Ayrton Senna
Interview with TV3 Catalunya, 1987 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SKJcl2N7bE
„There are no small accidents here.“
— Ayrton Senna
Interview after Friday qualifying, April 29, 1994 http://www.squarewheels.org.uk/f1/imola/
„Basically our championship starts here. Fourteen races, not sixteen. It's not a comfortable position to be in, but that's the reality. The team is conscious about the challenge we have to make to recover the ground over Benetton.“
— Ayrton Senna
Interview by Murray Walker, April 28, 1994 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iErwQ9Y0q-Y
„I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breathtaking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.“
— Ayrton Senna
TV Interview Roda Viva, TV Cultura 1986 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGcO6lXb2Zo
