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Ayrton Senna da Silva was a Brazilian racing driver and triple Formula One world champion. He remains the last Grand Prix driver killed while driving a Formula One car. May 07, 2018 Q: “I recently discovered all the online videos that show Ayrton Senna’s driving technique, particularly his habit of sharply stabbing the throttle in quick succession as he comes through the apex and then exiting out of a corner. His technique is more akin to a sewing machine than the “gently squeezing an egg” technique that is usually taught.
March 21, 1960
May 01, 1994
Ayrton Senna da Silva was a Brazilian racing driver and triple Formula One world champion. He remains the last Grand Prix driver killed while driving a Formula One car.
Ayrton Sennas Principles of Race Driving by 4.44 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions | Rate this book |
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“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'. And so 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.”
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“And suddenly I realized that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.”
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“These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.”
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