Ayrton Senna
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Ayrton Senna da Silva (March 21, 1960 – May 1, 1994) was a Brazilian racing driver and three-time Formula One world champion. He remains the last Grand Prix driver killed while driving a Formula One car.
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- I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.[1]
- 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.[2]
- 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.[3]
- 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, competing to win. And the main motivation 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.[4]
- 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.[5]
- 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.[6]
- We are made of emotions. We are all looking for emotions, basically. It's only a question of finding the way to experience them.[7]
- 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.[8]
- 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.[9]
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- ↑ TV Interview Roda Viva, TV Cultura 1986
- ↑ Interview with TV3 Catalunya, 1987 [1]
- ↑ Interview at 1989 Australian Grand Prix, November 1989 [2]
- ↑ Interview by Jackie Stewart, 1990, when answering to a comment from Jackie that he have had far more contact with other drivers than other great racing drivers [3]
- ↑ Interview for Racing is in My Blood, 1991 [4]
- ↑ Interview for Racing is in My Blood, 1991 [5]
- ↑ Interview for Racing is in My Blood, 1991 [6]
- ↑ Interview, January 1994 [7]
- ↑ Interview by Murray Walker, April 28, 1994 [8]
