Sunday 1 May - Ayrton The Magic!

If a person has no more dreams, no longer has any reason to live. Dreaming is necessary, even if in the dream goes glimpsed reality. For me it is one of the principles of life.

Ayrton Senna da Silva

Rich people cannot live on an island surrounded by an ocean of poverty. We all breathe the same air. You have to give everyone a chance.

Ayrton Senna da Silva

You'll never know how it feels when a driver wins. That helmet hides incomprehensible feelings.

Ayrton Senna da Silva

I'm a privileged, I have always had a very good life. But all I got from the life I gained with the commitment and the strong desire to achieve my goals, to win in life, not as a pilot. So let me tell you that whoever you are in life, whether you are at the lowest level, or higher, you have to have a great strength and great determination and have to face anything with great love and faith in God and one day will reach the your goals and you will succeed.

Ayrton Senna da Silva

The most important thing is to be yourself, not to let anyone hinder you, without being different because someone wants you to be different. You have to be yourself. Many times you make mistakes because of your personality, character or interference that you can find along the way. But you can just learn from your mistakes. And this is the main thing: use your errors to learn. I believe in the ability to deeply concentrate on it in order to make progress and even more.

Ayrton Senna da Silva

You can never change the world alone. But you can do your part to change a bit of it. What I really do for poverty I'll never say to anyone. F1 is a miserable thing compared to this tragedy.

Ayrton Senna da Silva

You think you have a limit, so you try to touch this limit. Something happens and you can immediately run a bit faster. Thanks to the power of your mind, your determination, your instinct, and the experience you can fly very high.

Ayrton Senna da Silva

Running, competing, it's in my blood, it's a part of me, it's a part of my life; I always use to do this and it comes before all the rest.

Ayrton Senna da Silva

Whoever you are in life, whether you are at the lowest level, or higher, you must have great strength and great determination and have to face anything with great love and faith in God and one day you will reach your goals and you will succeed.

Ayrton Senna da Silva

I have no idols. I admire hard work, dedication and competence.

Ayrton Senna da Silva

Sunday 1 May 1994

Ayrton arrives early to the circuit and here he meets his great friend, Gerhard Berger, with which he starts a short conversation about safety on the track: they both think that hasn’t been done enough to maintain security. Something will change absolutely from the next Gran Prix because it's not possible to lose a human life in this way.

He speaks a long time also with Niki Lauda; Ayrton talks again about safety on the track with him.

02:00 pm o’clock: the race is just begun when the first collision happens; Letho's car doesn’t start, and Pedro Lamy isn’t unable to avoid the impact. Many parts of car injure some spectators in the stands. The Safety Car makes 5 laps on track, while the circuit is cleaned from the debris of the accident.

When the Safety goes into the pits, drivers can start over their race. Ayrton is in the lead and Schumacher follows him. It looks like a race without joy and where maybe no one really want to run, but despite this, the circus goes on.

Ayrton passes from the start by accelerating to the maximum and starts the seventh lap; then he sees the Tamburello corner in front of him, a simple curve known in detail by the Brazilian. It’s 02:17 pm o’clock and Ayrton prepares to steer, but something goes wrong: the steering wheel is not responding to his commands. Desperately he tries to turn on left, by moving his head, his body, but nothing can correct that damn straight trajectory.

Estimated speed of entry into the curve: 307 Km / h. Estimated speed of the impact: 216 Km / h.

A second and three tenths: an eternity. The time it takes to try to steer, to curb, to raise his hands to his chest, to close his eyes, maybe to ask God to be near him.

The story is always the same: Sid Watkins arrives on track followed by Giuseppe la Piana and his medical staff, red flag. The gravity of the situation is clear for everyone, thus they decide to land the helicopter on track. Ayrton is extracted from the cockpit, his helmet is removed and first aid maneuvers are practiced. Sid Watkins remembers this eventin a posthumous interview:

"I'm not religious, but when we went by Ayrton, we pulled him out and took off his helmet. There, he sighed. I had the feeling that, at that moment, his soul had flown in the sky. "

The champion that everyone believed immortal was gone.

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