Our encounter was brief. Intense. A challenge to the probability theory. A little while magician whom little he had to do with races, sponsoring, formal interviews or subjects of public relations.
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3 championships of the world, 65 poles and 41 triumphs were the numbers that Ayrton gathered in 10 years
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They were, as a good friend calls, my 10 minutes of glory with the Seine. It already was three times world-wide champion. I journalist, and a common friend, he provided with accomodations that it in his house called to me by telephone and said to me: “Taking an airplane and sees. There is somebody in this city that you will want to know”. Of wise people and crazy people, all we have a little. I took the airplane. I arrived at house of my friend when the Seine left for the airport. They presented/displayed to us and it amiably offered a mini interview to me. I refused. “I want to know”, Only I said to him, “on its experience in that one curve in Japan, when you saw God”. It smiled. Its glance lifted to a vague point between the sky and the ground, and related a experience that you will find more ahead, and than she did not have much of motoring and, yes, mysticism and deep faith. Soon one took leave and one went away.
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The Seine on board its unforgettable McLaren. With this equipment it secured his 3 championships of the world
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I do not believe that it can add more data to thousands of histories that today, ten years after their death, will revolotearán in mass media. So that I have taken some extracts from interviews granted by the Seine and have tried to reconstruct part of its life in the tracks. It is the story of a full life of passion by the races and of a deep commitment to do of what it loved, a life style.
IN ITS OWN WORDS…
“To run in car to arrive a day at Formula One? So far not it fodder. Brazil already must to Piquet, that is very strong, arranged to receive the inheritance of Fittipaldi soon”. (Jesolo, 1979, Glass of Champions of Karting, Car Sprint)
“Until now for me the competition was a pleasure, but I feel bad because I have realized that the talent is not only enough, escuderías is eager for money and the psychological pressure is excessive. By force, I must choose between the familiar interests and the races and I am not going to pass the rest of my life running after the sponsors. I have ended the races of cars, I will only run karting”. (Car Sprint)
“The F2? Nor fodder, I do not believe that it is necessary for the formation of a pilot. I want to handle to a F1 the next year”. (Silverstone, 1983, Car Sprint)
“At the end of the '81 he was a little disappointed with the atmosphere of the races. It would have wanted to find a sponsor, without seeing me forced to request aid family. So I decided to pause, to remain in Brazil. But when the season in Europe began, I could not stay far”. (May, 1984, Car Sprint)
“I obtained my first point in South Africa. I have failed the classification in Imola. After five races, I can say that I have already proven the candy and the bitter thing of the F1”. (May, 1984, Car Sprint)
“At the end of the '82 Rum Dennis offered a program to me of F-3 that gave the possibility of running in the GP with the McLaren from the '84. Meanwhile to only it guaranteed some test me with the F1. I said to him that it preferred to only fix them to me and he did not understand”. (May, 1984, Car Sprint)
“The worse test was that one with the Brabham. It gave the sensation me of not to have been able to demonstrate what I could do”. (May, 1984, Car Sprint)
“The F1 is a difficult atmosphere. Until now I have obtained an optimal communication with my escudería. For me it is very important”. (May, 1984, Car Sprint)
“To leave now to the podium it seems impossible to me. I must know the F1 better. in addition, automobile race tracks like the one of Montecar it exist, that I do not know it”. (Principles of 1984, Car Sprint)
“It knew that it could make a pretty race, to leave to podio. But when the race just began I thought not to do it. Nothing was seen, tapeworm fear to leave to me. But I do not understand as a race can be stopped thus. Now, I am certainly a turn and means later I would have happened to Prost”. (Montecar it, 1984, Car Sprint)
“It renders, Rosberg, Villeneuve? I do not create in particular to seem me to any of them but who are or were good in the three… The ideal would be to do of its qualities, a cocktail… (Zolder 1984, deprived tests, Car Sprint)
“Fear? As much, practically in each curve. With the fear to always leave track under rain. To each return I have a small crisis”. (GP Portugal 1985, after the first victory, Car Sprint)
“From the error in Montecar it I have removed the force to fight by the championship of the world. It has been after that incident that I have taken the great passage in my race like pilot and professional. At that time I have approached God as it had not done it in the past. I have not changed my habits, but the way in which I see the things. It has helped the dear family, and some people me who have indicated me the right route for my mind. To these I say them now things, because them to have said before he had been dangerous in an atmosphere like the F1. I have always been catholic, but my way to believe now is different”. (GP Japan 1988, after its first world-wide title, Car Sprint)
“I was giving him thanks to God by the victory (last returns of the GP of Japan in 1988). God gave a Championship me of fight, conquering it in the penultimate test of the year, as all pilot dreams. It was an enormous gift. Praying, I was super concentrate, preparing me for a long curve, of 180 degrees, when I saw the image of Jesus. It was so great, so great! … He was not in the ground. He was suspended, with the clothes of always, the light and color always to his around. Its whole body raised towards the sky, stop, stop, stop, occupying all the space. While he had that incredible image, I drived a car of races. He lead accurately, with force… Yet! He is for becoming crazy, no? He is for becoming crazy! He did not see nothing else. It is impossible to describe. I spoke with God and He appeared. Simply one was in front of me. It was an explosion of feelings. Those seconds consecrated a whole life of work, desires, dreams and victory”. (Car Sprint)
“If a person is not sleepy, it is not right any to live. To dream is necessary, if the dream even goes beyond the reality. For me, to dream, is one of the principles of the life”. (March, 1989, Car Sprint)
“I have had secret in my life, neither personal, nor professional. At this moment, everything is quite normal, nonalive nothing exceptional. The important thing is to be in degree to make what desire, that I like. To be near the people who count for me, of my family”. (March, 1989, Car Sprint)
“I saw the black flag that they removed to Mansell. It was disqualified although it has continued running and it has removed to me outside on purpose. I do not have words so it has done”. (GP Portugal, 1989, Car Sprint)
“The accusations of the FISA are lies, or episodes that happen normally in the races but that evidently they are serious only in my case. As far as the advancement in Suzuka I do not have anything to reproach to me, was Prost the one that closed the trajectory to me. From the beginning of the year it has tried to destabilize the climate in McLaren, was the unique possibility that it had to win… But I have decided that until the races give satisfaction me I continue running. I have it in the blood, are my life. In these days I have matured the conviction that my S-values stronger of those than they have tried to destroy them”. (Paris, December 1989, Car Sprint)
“At the end of 1989 it wanted to separate to me completely from the world of the F1, to cut all the contacts. But as at that time it had not felt the necessity. It had been one season very exhausting, I needed many days to recover, to block the head. The body was here, the thoughts in another side. Towards Christmas I began to reach the total balance… I went to try to Portugal because McLaren made me understand that it was necessary. They summoned when me to the World-wide Council of the FISA in Paris it did not want to go. It did not have desire. They convinced to me, but it knew that I in Brazil had done having left better to take sun”. (Angra two Kings, January 1990, Car Sprint)
“The difficulties, when it is that they arrive, are never pleasant. When a sport of high level practices, the fight, the controversies, is inevitable. I have looked for to include/understand, to see, the positive side still in the negative things. Treatment to use all this like experience for the future, or like pilot or man”. Angra two Kings, January 1990, Car Sprint)
“The rage, the resentment, is destructive feelings. For a person it is difficult not to feel certain things when it suffers, when it has happened through injustice. If there is an incessant activity, aggressive, it is very difficult to maintain the balance mental. By this I have decided to isolate me by a certain period of the F1. It must have the possibility of recycle the brain, the ideas. Thus, so many things that you do not feel in degree to do, to think, come naturally. It does two or three years it saw this of more conflicting form. Now it is very different”. (Angra two Kings, 1990, Car Sprint)
“The F1 will be always the same, even with the new regulations: whatever has better in the world of the races. The cars can be more or less beautiful and quick; but in the end, what it interests people, gets passionate that it, are the pilots”. (GP Australia, 1991, Car Sprint)
“Gloria, fame, money, value, brightness, challenge to the death, pleasure before the victory, in podio, the arrival, the trophy, the interviews. All that, from outside, is very attractive. But those things comprise of the good side of this film, although he is not it everything. This, perhaps as many others, it is a work very sacrificed. But it is clear that if we did not like we would leave, it”. (June 1991, the Country, Spain)
“The ideal is to commit the minimum permissible errors and to work so that these do not exist. Clear that to reach the perfection it would be necessary to live two lives: one to enjoy it, to live it, and second to be perfect considering all the learned one in first. It is not this my case and, as he is useless to back down, nondesire that the past makes bitter to me. Simply I dare to think that my errors serve to me as experience for the following races”. (June 1991, the Country, Spain)
“I do not like to mix the subject of the races and God, first of all because I take myself very in serious what she is written in the Bible and attempt to include/understand the life through God. I believe that it is the most normal attitude of the world in any other person, but as I am running of F1 it seems that it is a rare tiny beast”. (s/f)
“Fear? As much, practically in each curve. With the fear to always leave track under rain. To each return I have a small crisis”. (s/f, Car Sprint)
“The danger is constant. He is somehow the one that determines my limits. It is most important to feel the danger. Would dangerously define I it as attractive. Taken with balance and good sense, he is vital to know your own ones you limit”. (June 1991, the Country, Spain)
“In the F1 it is prohibited to be vulnerable. It is the immediate destruction”. (June 1991, the Country, Spain)
“One is not unpleasant because it always wins. It is the way to do the one that you makes more or less likeable, aside from the results. The majority of the people pays attention to how you move, how you behave with your escudería or the public. They approve or they disapprove your style of life. If in the '94 I have a better car, it is also is a right that I have gained”. (GP Australia, 1993)
“The feelings are the fuel of the life, the gasoline with which all we looked for the motivation. For that reason the tears are a privilege in the today world, where so many people are not able to cry…”. (1994, interview in the television)
“In my profession it is necessary to know how to assume risks and to try to palliate with I throw the deficiencies of the car. All we must die, sooner or later. The subject is when and like”.
“Hello Alain (Prost). You need to me”. (Via radio to pits of McLaren. Car Sprint Imola, 1994)
This text contains textual appointments of extracted the Spanish newspaper “the Country” of a text published by “the Newspaper of Caracas”, in June of 1991, and of the Italian magazine “Car Sprint”, published in the special number on the death of the Seine, in May of 1994. The intention when using these appointments is to pay a tribute to Ayrton the Seine with commentaries of forward edge published by important and outstanding means.
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