Senna Day - Today Formulacritica takes on a particular graphic appearance which will be abandoned at midnight. An aesthetic initiative that supports a certainly more heartfelt editorial. 24 "different" hours and then returning to the normal activities of a web magazine that is immersed in the present but does not want to forget a significant past. And that of May 1, 2024 is for all intents and purposes.
Why a Senna Day? A hyper-articulated answer would be needed, long, perhaps verbose, profound in content and certainly tedious to read. Not being able to give it in a writing that introduces the initiative, I reply in a concise manner: Ayrton Da Silva was an icon of motorsport, a historical and cultural break, an everlasting symbol.
As such we intend to remember him by setting up a work that revolves exclusively around his name, his figure and what he meant for sport. And not only. Yes, because the Brazilian has crossed the boundaries of motorsport to become a trans-cultural model. In the meaning that the social sciences attribute to the term.
Senna: the watershed man
There is a Formula One that precedes his advent and one that follows his extraordinary epic which ended in the worst way for fans. But perhaps in the way he himself preferred.
“If one day I had an accident that cost me my life I would want it to be immediate. I wouldn't want to spend hours suffering in hospital or spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair”. This is the dark omen that occurred thirty years ago on one of the most dramatic days in the history of a Formula One team that was trying to get out of the habit of deaths on the track, of tragedies, of the red blood that stained suits and helmets.
This day, which Formulacritica wants to use as a complete tribute to the Brazilian champion, is not intended to be the basis for petty rhetoric, easy sentimentality, a convenient attraction for nostalgic fans. No, it is intended as a way to further attest to the caliber of one of the greatest of all time.
It aims to be, therefore, a way to tell what Ayrton was for each of us. For those like me, that day, who were on the Imola steps surrounded by fear and a deafening silence that not even the roaring naturally aspirated engines were able to pierce. But also for those who got to know him later through stories, films, momentsunrepeatable historians.
With the desire to remember the driver, the man, the symbol, but above all what he represented for us fans/narrators, we offer a series of contents that are closer to the storytelling than to the conceptual analysis of events (which will not be lacking, in any case).
Swithout the presumptuous claim of wanting to reveal new details - truly everything has been written and said about Senna - but with the desire to share a day of remembrance with our readers we invite you to follow our initiatives with also a small-big exclusive surprise which Ayrton gave us who experienced it very closely.
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