Ayrton Senna
Posted by DPCJan 19
I recently watched “Senna”, the documentary about F1 driver Ayrton Senna. It was a top production and equal to ESPN’s 30 for 30 series and the various HBO Sports documentaries that are out there. I highly recommend it, even if you don’t like auto racing.
Myself? I am more a NASCAR fan, Juan Pablo Montoya in particular, but I have the upmost respect for F1 drivers because they’re likely the best drivers in the world. During his brief career Senna won three-championships and is considered by many to be one of F1’s all-time greats.
In 2009, a poll of 217 current and former Formula One drivers conducted by the British magazine Autosport named Senna as the greatest ever Formula One driver” -Wikipedia
Various quotes by Ayrton Senna. Courtesy of BrainyQuote.com:
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.
And suddenly I realised 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.
Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.
Fear is exciting for me.
I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.
I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.
It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.
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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It is well known that I have been barely compensated for my writing efforts. By my best estimate I have made approximately $15.00 as a writer, which is enough coin to get me two-packs of Winston Lights (my brand of choice) or enough gas for my VW to handle my daily commute. I would love to be a writer that could pay the rent with his work but it’s not in the cards for DPC. To a certain degree I have accepted the grim reality that I will be a Pro Bono writer, and there is nothing wrong with that.
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Possibly attending the University of Florida’s online Masters Degree Program is wrought with conflict. On one hand I am essentially admitting that my time at Nevada was somewhat fruitless and that my degree doesn’t carry as much weight as I once thought. This is not to imply that Nevada was a waste of time and money. It wasn’t. My four-years there were great and very productive. It also helped me prove to myself that I could get an education, despite nearly flunking out of Santa Rosa High School and then flunking out of Santa Rosa Junior College.
2001 I have considered the Pack my favorite team and I have spent many an hour involved with them as an employee, critic and fan. When I was a student I covered sports for the student newspaper for two years. During my senior year I was an intern at the Athletic Department. In 2007 I wrote a weekly column for the Reno Gazette Journal that focused on Pack football and I contributed to getting Marion Motley some love from his school. Simply put my life has been consumed by the Nevada Wolf Pack over the last ten-years. But there is one issue: I am pretty much hated or loathed by the Wolf Pack community. This has been proven by the sentiments from the Wolf Pack message board that hasn’t gotten over my tenure as Guest Columnist for the RGJ. Try to get a coach fired in your weekly column or imply that a move to the FCS and you are brandished a traitor. I have a vague feeling of what Julius and Ethel Rosenberg went through.