Ayrton Senna’s comet is still shining

Here we are, again, to look at the planet-senna from afar. Every now and then we approach and the light of a new perspective reveals a corner that was previously in the dark. Ayrton Senna He left a long time ago, the May 1, 1994. Yet his absence has never stopped being presence. Now this docufilm has come out, it’s called Ayrton Senna – The legendgoes to the first vision on Sky documentarias On August 20 at 9.15 pm, in streaming only on Now and also available on demand. The British director Francis Megahy made it and promises to raise the curtain on a champion who was many things, and each time one more.

Perhaps the secret of Senna – of his marching narrow for over three decades the collective imagination – resides right here. In his ability to reinvent himself, always remaining faithful to that image – immortal – that we have of him. Senna the special champion, who offers the legend of Formula 1 the profile of Greek statue. Senna the man in whom the lights and shadows, the breaths and the worries coexist. Senna who wins, three times the world title. Senna that loses, whenever fate is involved in it. Senna that always – in the photos, in the repertoire movies, in the stories of those who accompanied the path – holds the trace of a meloncholy Which is distance from everything, and first of all from the chaos of the world. It is as if Senna had always been among us, yet elsewhere.

The docufilm traces the pilot’s career through unpublished images And he collects reflections on his relationship with the danger, the darkness of the effort to live, the women who were next to him, his mother, sister, companions, lovers, and the family, of course. And the religion. Faith lived with great depth. He had grown up in a Catholic family, as a boy he had begun to read the Bible, he always brought it with him, in the twenty -four ribbons with which he moved from one place to the other in the world, together with a few other precious things.

I also read the Bible on the last night. The sister Viviane told a few years ago: “That day Ayrton asked God to speak to him, opened the Bible and read a step in which it was written that that day God would take him the greatest gift of all, that is, God himself”. Faith was the foundation of his “consciousness of the world”, that is, of the gaze with which he considered the last in a country – his, Brazil – which in inequalities gives a form.

In sport there are samples that make history. With their companies, with their gestures. But there are champions who do something more. They become symbols of a story that is no longer only the personal one, but it becomes collective. Ayrton Senna was many things, but most of everything was a comet capable of illuminating an era. It was the symbol, the reference, but also the gift for an entire generation.

And that generation has handed down his memory, increasing his fame and increasing his fascinating aura that was his own. So we are here to talk about a long farewell that has not yet been consumed. This new Docufilm signed by Megahy widens even more the planet that we have known so far. This is why Ayrton Senna continues to live in precious time where memories keep us company.