“I’ll do anything to win”. Max Verstappen said that, this weekend, the F1 world championship will be played with Lewis Hamilton. It is a thought he would have had too Ayrton Senna in a similar situation: two riders on equal points in the last race of the season. Two riders who spared no blows as happened to the Brazilian so many times in his career.
On the weekend that closes the season on Sky and streaming on NOW there is Ayrton’s last lap, an original Sky Sport Stories production by Matteo Marani. Ayrton Senna was a champion on the track and a legend outside the circuits, able to bring thousands of people closer to motoring thanks to his talent and charisma. It is difficult to find another rider like him, even among those who have won more than his three world titles.
The docufilm tells the last day of the Brazilian, reconstructing through the proceedings and the voices of the protagonists what really happened on May 1st 1994 at the Tamburello curve. The sixth lap of the San Marino Grand Prix became Ayrton’s last lap due to too many mistakes in the preparation of the car and an incredible and absurd series of factors. Three million Brazilians mourned him in Sao Paulo, many artists were inspired by him, the national football team dedicated the 1994 World Cup to him, which he won over Roberto Baggio’s Italy.
That incident was a turning point in circuit safety. Today’s precautions and rules also come from that tragedy. Even those who have not seen him on the track remember and know Ayrton Senna. Those who saw him on the track could not help but think about this weekend two past world championships which, like the current one, ended up in the last few races. And they ended up in a collision, as many fear this will end.
It wasn’t Abu Dhabi, but Japan. The years 1989 and 1990. In the first, Prost and Senna, both McLaren drivers, collide. Prost retires, but is champion because Senna wins but is disqualified. The year after another collision: Prost, now a Ferrari driver, out again and Senna champion. Although F1 is also this, everyone’s hope is that the 2021 World Championship will be a race without clashes, but like any driver, both will do everything to win and tease each other. That this is the “I just think about driving at my best” of Lewis Hamilton.
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