Ayrton Senna

[oxford_fan]

Sunday the 1st of May.

In days, how old would that make you oxford fan?

In May 1994 I would have been 8. Was going to say it was one of my earliest memories, but I'm sure I've got a lot more in the bank before that. I remember it vividly though, along with Baggio's missed penalty at USA '94 its certainly one of my earliest sporting / tv memories.

[jonny72]

I never paid that much attention to F1 back then and was amazed watching Top Gear to see just how reckless and dangerous Senna was. Even more amazed that everyone was saying how great it was for someone to drive with such aggression and not criticise him in any way. In reality, if someone was to drive like that in F1 nowadays they would be banned - even his over taking manoeuvres that they were calling great were outlawed a long time ago.

[Summerof69]

I never paid that much attention to F1 back then and was amazed watching Top Gear to see just how reckless and dangerous Senna was. Even more amazed that everyone was saying how great it was for someone to drive with such aggression and not criticise him in any way. In reality, if someone was to drive like that in F1 nowadays they would be banned - even his over taking manoeuvres that they were calling great were outlawed a long time ago.

Part of that was down to the cars. The F1 car that Hamilton drove on the show was the last of the turbo cars, which was 1200bhp, whilst todays F1 cars have approx. 650bhp. Also when you consider that the Bugatti Veyron standard car, has 1000bhp, you can see how powerful it was.

[Benzel]

I never paid that much attention to F1 back then and was amazed watching Top Gear to see just how reckless and dangerous Senna was. Even more amazed that everyone was saying how great it was for someone to drive with such aggression and not criticise him in any way. In reality, if someone was to drive like that in F1 nowadays they would be banned - even his over taking manoeuvres that they were calling great were outlawed a long time ago.

The most talented driver ever and utterly ruthless at the same time. Brilliant.

Really enjoyed listening to Brundle talk about him, about how he would leave it up to you whether or not there'd be a crash. If he's good enough for the professionals, then it's good enough for me.

[Summerof69]

Really enjoyed listening to Brundle talk about him, about how he would leave it up to you whether or not there'd be a crash. If he's good enough for the professionals, then it's good enough for me.

So did I. They came up the ranks together, so Brundle knew him for a number of years.

[jonny72]

Really enjoyed listening to Brundle talk about him, about how he would leave it up to you whether or not there'd be a crash. If he's good enough for the professionals, then it's good enough for me.

He's looking at Senna through rose tinted glasses. Nowadays if a driver pulled an overtaking manoeuvre like the ones he was praising Senna for, he (along with all the other commentators) would call it dangerous and for the driver to be penalised, especially if it caused an accident. Drivers get penalised in practically every GP for that kind of stuff today.

Plenty of people (me included) view Schumacher as a cunt for the way he drove at times - looking back, Senna was no better and if anything a lot worse. Having said that though, I was watching that documentary on the Le Mans disaster the other night and safety was practically non existent - pit lanes part of the starting straight for example. Drivers pulled even worse stunts back in those days.

[4D]

In May 1994 I would have been 8. Was going to say it was one of my earliest memories, but I'm sure I've got a lot more in the bank before that. I remember it vividly though, along with Baggio's missed penalty at USA '94 its certainly one of my earliest sporting / tv memories.

What's your earliest memory of Oxford Utd?