Losing for him was already bad...
and losing against me was the worst
thing that could happen to him.
For him, second place
was the first place for losers.
He hated that.
There was nothing for him but winning.
He wanted to psyche his opposition
to think that he was in front of them.
He had to be the quickest all the time.
Ayrton would enter a corner faster
than he'd ever been before...
and trust
that something inside Ayrton Senna...
would get him and the car around the
corner. That's an act of trust or faith.
He prepared his chance,
and when it was there he took it.
And when you weren't correct, no way.
That was aggression.
So at the end if you saw the yellow
helmet, you knew you were in trouble.
I always thought that
he was just too intense about winning.
And he actually believed that
he had a God-given right to win.
You think you have a limit.
As soon as you touch this limit...
something happens and suddenly
you can go a little bit further.
With the power of your mind, your
determination, instinct and experience...
you can fly very high.
Ayrton Senna's talent,
commitment and determination...
carried him beyond normal boundaries.
He displayed a supreme ability
behind the wheel of a car...
but he also demonstrated
an immense depth of character...
of thought and of emotion.
His enormous rivalry with Alain Prost
in the late 80's and early 90's...
extracted every element of his genius.
But if there was one area
where Senna truly flew high...
it was racing in the rain.
His precision in the wet
was just unbelievable.
He felt the car so much more.
In the wet you have to be very precise.
You can't make any sudden moves
with the steering.
You got to be much more gentle.
Ayrton could feel the car
more than the other drivers.
Looking out of my commentary box, I
saw the worst weather I'd ever seen...
at any race anywhere in the world.
It was embarrassing to me
as an Englishman...
that everybody who thinks it rains
all the time in England...
were being proved right.
Ayrton was always very fast
when it was wet.
And this day, he had a little bit
of everything going for him...
and everything against us
to make us look stupid.
We employed somebody
for the weather forecast.
And he was at the airport,
close to the track at Donington.
We were
in permanent contact with him.
So we started the race...
and he was saying, not to me,
but to the engineers...
we were going to have a big shower.
There were some drops.
So I stopped for the tires, we had
a few more drops and then it was dry.
Every time he'd say something,
the opposite happened.
And I had the sad record
of changing tires seven times...
and six of those times
were the wrong way.
He was pissed off all year about having
this Ford engine in his McLaren...
because he wanted the championship,
but he knew he wouldn't make it.
All he could do was to wait
for special circumstances...
and then show everybody what
he could do. That was such a time.
He'd put into his head that he wanted
to be up front in the first lap.
He wanted everybody to look stupid
and that's exactly what he did.
They were making me hold my breath.
At the best of times, you thought: I
can't believe it. He can't stay like this.
He's bound to go off.
And there he just kept going and going.
Nobody knew where anybody was.
I remember the spray as he went.
Everyone else was cautiously going
around thinking: I better be careful.
He just went: Go. And he was off.
Gone. It was brilliant.
But he knew he could do it.
I had to go to the pits
to give the trophy away...
and I should've still been in hospital
because of a heart problem I had.
But when I got on to the podium,
I forgot about being ill, I felt 18 again.
To see the happy face he's got.
It was unbelievable.
His roots were firmly grounded in
the steel-making city of So Paulo...
the industrial heartland of Brazil.
Here, amid the energy and bustle
of South American commerce...
Ayrton developed his talents
on the car track at Interlagos.
And began a collection of trophies
that would be cherished by his family.
Ayrton was a very determined man.
He knew exactly what he wanted and
he would go at it till he achieved it.
He was very persistent. When he was
a kid people used to call him stubborn.
Because he would go to the limit
to get what he wanted.
As a child, I remember he was always
training in his go-cart.
He used to travel
to different the carting competitions.
We were always very curious to hear
how he had done at the competition.
And every year his results
would get better.
Ayrton was always very interested...
in car racing. As far as I remember
he was always involved in carting.
Before long, cart races in Brazil
and all around the world...
became all too aware
of the driver in the yellow helmet.
I met Ayrton when he was kid
driving in the carting races.
I was already painting helmets for
Fittipaldi, the Formula-1 champion...
and for Nelson Piquet. Ayrton also
wanted to have an identity of his own.
I decided to give him a warm color and
just like Ferrari has the color red...
I made his yellow
with two blue and green stripes...
coming out of his eyes to suggest
movement and aggression as well.
I decided to use the colors of our
country: green, yellow, blue and white.
Ayrton loved the design and it became
his trademark throughout his career.
I'd known him for a long time...
because we did two World Carting
Championships. In Le Mans and Estoril.
In '78 and '79, so this goes back
to the very old days.
And he was very committed.
He had this look in his eyes.
He was exceptionally committed,
more than anybody else.
We were always a very close family.
So when Ayrton went to live in
England, we missed each other a lot.
We traveled over there often
and he came here when he could...
so we could be close together.
He wrote often.
After every race, he'd send us all
the details. About every corner...
and what he did and how he did it.
I still have the letters.
And in spite of the distance,
we always remained very close.
When Ayrton moved to England,
he didn't speak English.
So he would sit
and watch television...
for hours on end, trying to understand
and trying to learn the language.
And he couldn't cook either.
He never learned.
So he spent years eating fried eggs,
boiled eggs, scrambled eggs...
any egg dish imaginable, because
that was all he knew how to cook.
When Ayrton hired me back in 1984...
he was very worried about
his physical condition.
And about his health,
because he was a very skinny man.
The media referred to him
as Skinny Ayrton Senna.
We started working together...
and we recognized his determination...
to become stronger
and more able-bodied.
He was a very persistent person...
because he went all out.
What made Ayrton different from
the rest was that he actually did it.
Because knowledge alone
doesn't mean a thing.
I always told him that: A wise man is
not someone who knows everything.
A wise man is a man who can do
the things he knows.
It's not simply a stronger muscle
or a better tone in your muscle...
but it's really the power,
the strength you get...
physically speaking, to your body,
but also to your mind.
You only really learn by doing it,
I believe.
Once I realized
there was something special in that...
I really focused
and tried to learn about myself.
You learn about your own limitations,
about your strengths, your qualities...
and, as a whole,
trying to make yourself...
a smoother person.
I don't remember exactly,
but certainly in 1983...
I was very much aware of him
in Formula 3 in England.
He was very persistent about winning.
He was already very good at it then.
But also persistent about persuading
Patrick Head and myself to let him test.
To have his first drive
in a Grand Prix Formula-1 car.
That first drive came at
Donington Park in England...
at the wheel of the Williams FW-08C.
The model that took Keke Rosberg
to victory in Monaco earlier that year.
Ayrton turned up, made himself
comfortable in the cockpit...
remembered all the instructions
about what everything was for.
At the time he was only halfway
through his first Formula-3 season.
triple the power of his usual mount.
He did an out-and-straight-back-in
lap to check over the car mechanically.
Then he just went off a second quicker
than the car'd ever been around there.
And then said: I think I got enough.
He got out of the car and went home.
We were quite astonished.
On that particular day, it was that his
brain was in control of everything else.
He was ahead of the game,
clearly belonged in GP car.
He was born for that.
We weren't ready
to put him in the team in '84...
because of contractual obligations
to other drivers.
And then he went off to Lotus
and then to McLaren.
So it was quite a long while before we
were able to offer him a seat in '94.
He went to Toleman, it was fantastic
to see another Brazilian driving.
By instinct I was always
more of a fan of Ayrton...
than I was of any other
Brazilian Formula-1 driver.
I never saw Emerson,
but I had the chance to see Nelson.
With Ayrton it was different. I felt
like he was driving tremendously...
and that he was going to be a champ.
I remember we had a discussion about
top drivers like Piquet or whatever.
And I said to Ron Dennis
and the other people:
Take the best young guy to get a very
strong team and that was Ayrton.
They all said:
Why do you want to have Ayrton?
I said: Why not?
I'm thinking about the team.
Having a teammate like Ayrton was
very different from the old team I had.
Also for Formula 1
it was really exceptional...
to have two drivers
of this kind of caliber.
When Ayrton came into F-1,
Prost was the top, number one.
And he was the one he wanted
to catch. He wanted to beat him.
When he started testing
and racing with us...
he wasn't interested in anyone else
in the grid, only Alain.
What was his time? What rear wing
has he got? What springs has he got?
He just wanted to know what Alain
was doing. He wanted to beat him.
He was a man like no other man
I had ever met before.
He was almost a mystic.
He was very, very, very intense.
He was a charismatic personality.
He could be absolutely charming,
but there was another side to him.
He was absolutely ruthless
when he was in the cockpit.
And he was an intensely religious,
God-fearing man.
And he actually believed
that he had a God-given right to win.
The main thing is to be yourself
and not allow people to disturb you.
To be different, because they want
you to be. You gotta be yourself.
Many times it's through a mistake
due to your personality or character...
or from interference
that you get along the way...
that you learn, and the main things is to
learn from your mistakes and get better.
I believe in the ability of focusing
strongly on something...
then you are able to extract
even more out of it.
His whole life was concentrated on
winning the race, the championship.
He had no family, no children, nothing...
so it looks like he was living
only for that.
The hardest thing to do during a race
is to maintain your concentration.
You have to concentrate at all times...
and make sure you don't have problems
that can distract you from the race.
You must be prepared technically...
and to know what to do
at the right time.
And not make any technical
or human mistakes.
In the time when we have
these sophisticated racing cars...
with skirts and electronic suspension...
to raise the car for the straights
and lower it before the corners...
you have to do many thing on the car.
Obviously, any driver to take part
in a car race...
whether Formula 1 or another category
is exposed to risks.
You are aware of the risks out there.
No one drives without using his head.
A driver who doesn't use his head
has no future.
He'll have a very brief career,
because he'll get hurt in an accident.
This profession requires
that you be fast...
that you perform,
that you're consistent and intelligent.
As a racing driver one has to be in tune
with your emotions, your body...
your mind, your psychology,
all these things.
I think Ayrton had these qualities
in abundance.
And he seemed like a driver
who was always questioning...
what it was to be a racing driver.
Once he was focused, he didn't feel
any pain or stress. Nothing.
He was just in another world.
As we all were more or less,
but he was more intense.
He was a step ahead.
There's a state of mind
that one is raised to...
where it becomes
sort of transcendental.
Ayrton spoke of his concentration
when he was in qualifying.
He talked about a state of mind
he got into...
whereby he was there,
but not really driving the car.
And these are things that are...
that speak of the level of concentration
that he achieved as a racing driver.
You had to do these qualifying laps.
You were in the box and you watched
the monitors and your competitors.
You talked to your engineer. How's the
wind, the sun, the asphalt temperature?
And then the engineer told you:
Now let's go.
That meant
you had to switch a button...
and say to yourself:
I have to be fully concentrated.
And actually get into another world...
where everything is in slow motion.
When you do a quick lap...
you try to see it in slow motion
to get all the fine things right.
And it's kind of a dream.
Everyone following F-1...
recognized that Senna
was the master of qualifying.
If you go for a corner
on qualifying tires...
with extra horsepower and
you've never had that all weekend...
how do you anticipate how fast you
can go? What the car is capable of?
Ayrton would enter a corner faster
than he'd ever been before...
and trust
that something inside Ayrton Senna...
would help him
and the car around the corner.
Now that's an act of trust or faith
or whatever you want to call it.
He explored his ultimate capabilities
more than any driver seemed to have.
The thing with him is
he was such a good driver...
that he used to adapt to the car when
he couldn't make the car go quicker.
He could make a wheelbarrow quicker.
He could make anything go quicker...
because he'd change the car,
but if he didn't get it to his liking...
then he'd adapt to the car.
How often do you have a car
that's perfect?
In a perfect car,
Alain Prost was unbeatable.
He was really good when the car suited
him, but it only happened a few times.
I was doing all the tests. He wouldn't
test in winter, I did the testing for him.
I don't think he was the best driver
in setting up a car...
but when it came to driving, mentally...
getting the pole and being quick
in one lap, he really was the best.
So I don't think I learned very much,
because...
it's a bit easier to learn about the car
and how you can improve the car...
than about the mental aspect, because
you can't change it just like that.
The demands of Formula-1 racing
are absurd.
A driver has an average heartbeat
of 180 per minute. It's madness.
And peaks of 220 and 230 beats
per minute.
And although they drive an open car,
the heat is terrible.
So the demands on the driver
are very different from other sports.
It's very stressful.
There were hardships, of course.
We'd work out at one in the afternoon,
the hottest time of the day.
Because what counted in Formula 1
was that the competition was fierce.
And the tougher it was,
the better for him. Why?
Because he was better prepared
than the others, the other drivers.
In those days, they didn't work on their
bodies, or feelings or on their mind.
That's why he became invincible.
I remember when we started with
meditation, he couldn't stop thinking.
He found it incredibly difficult
to do that.
But he got so involved
in the process of meditating...
that sometimes he'd reach
deep levels of meditation.
Levels that very few people
were able to attain.
It helped him to improve the lap times...
it helped him break records
and brought him many victories.
Because his concentration level
was at a maximum...
through meditation
and by controlling his breathing.
Monaco was a special place
for Senna.
He shot to fame by nearly winning it
in his debut season.
He'd go on to take victory
in the principality a record 6 times.
But in his first McLaren outing,
Prost thought he had him.
In Monaco, the weekend was not
very good for him.
On Thursday I was ahead of him...
and Saturday I was ahead of him
the whole day.
Until the last qualifying lap.
Where he just went real quick
and he took the pole for a little bit.
I couldn't imagine he'd come back like
that, since he wasn't doing that well.
Later he said in the press conference...
that he went outside the car.
And he looked at the car and saw
how it was behaving on the track.
He then realized what he was
doing wrong and what was wrong.
He came back into the car
and drove the perfect lap.
For me it was very difficult to hear.
But, in fact, it looked like everyone
needed a guy like that.
He was different.
I was too boring and he was different.
Once you're in it, you're in it
and you gotta go to the end.
Because you commit yourself to such
a level where there's no compromise.
You give everything you have.
Absolutely everything.
And sometimes you find even more.
Because it requires more if you want
to be ahead and win.
The uncanny will to win that he had
I've never seen in another sportsman.
I certainly haven't been connected
to anybody...
that had that feral determination to win.
It was just like Alain Prost said:
Ayrton is willing to risk
that little bit more than anyone else.
For him coming in second,
was like the first place for losers.
He hated that.
There was nothing for him but winning.
Losing for him was already bad...
but losing against me
was the worst thing that could happen.
His whole motivation
was to beat me.
I remember
we went to the Bercy Carting event.
He was there watching Alain Prost
driving a cart on the big screen.
He never took his eyes off that. And
he watched Alain Prost driving a cart.
He knew that to be world champion he
had to beat Alain, who was number 1.
I remember one race, Ayrton always
used to try so hard in qualifying...
that before he took off his overalls,
he'd sit in a corner of the truck...
to get his adrenaline levels
back down.
Alain and I looked at the times, and
Alain couldn't believe he was so quick.
Where is he beating me? Not here,
I'm quick here. How is he beating me?
And I said: Look at Ayrton. He was
sitting there, he looked up and winked.
And I thought
he just felt so satisfied.
'I have beaten Alain,
and he knows I'm quicker. '
For him that was the stage
in his career where he thought:
Now I can begin to think
about becoming world champion.
When Ayrton came along, his approach
was in many ways similar.
It was cerebral,
meaning he used his head at all times.
But he did so with more dash and
determination than you saw in Alain.
Alain had plenty of determination,
but never exposed it.
Ayrton was all about drive and courage.
'Let's go for it, leave the rest to me. '
Formula-1 drivers, all sportsmen, are
very competitive. They're there to win.
And you had two very different
people in: Alain Prost, the Professor...
who was quiet, very quiet.
Always spoke very quietly indeed.
Very, very smooth, very experienced...
up against Senna from South America
with a very different temperament.
So it couldn't have been better
from a commentator's point of view.
The fight that we were fighting
so hard...
was putting the performance of the car
and the team on a very high level.
If you talk about the briefings, we were
spending 3, 4, 5 hours in the briefing.
It was for two reasons:
First to improve the car and the team.
The second reason was to be sure
that we could not forget something...
that could suit us,
or suit me better than Ayrton.
Or Ayrton would want something
that suited him better.
At the end,
it became a psychological game.
There was no way I would leave
the briefing before Ayrton.
And Ayrton couldn't leave
before me anyway.
So we'd go out together.
I waited for four and a half hours
outside the motor home...
while they were having this minute
discussion about this or that.
And then the door opened
and Alain Prost came out.
He came down the steps and I said:
Alain, in God's name, what do you talk
about in there for 4.5 hours?
And he said: Oh, Murray,
about this and that.
But I don't like to be
the first to leave.
The intense nature of the battle
between the McLaren teammates...
led to a deterioration
in their personal relationship.
Other drivers
weren't at the same level...
so Senna and Prost focused on one
another both in and out of the car.
That was part of the fight we had.
Everything was tough.
On or off the track, setting up the car,
everything. It was really at the limit.
We also knew that if we were quick
and fast and had a winning car...
it was also because of us,
because of the drivers.
We were dominating Formula One.
It's not pretentious to say that.
I think Ayrton and Alain needed
each other very much.
In order for them...
to develop their own capablities
to the fullest.
Their rivalry helped them to reach
that level of excellence.
Ayrton wouldn't be who he was
without Alain Prost and vice versa.
And Alain Prost wouldn't have been
that good without Ayrton.
One time they asked Ayrton
if he had any enemies.
And he gave
one of the most beautiful answers...
he had ever given
in any of his countless interviews.
He said that life was too short
to have enemies.
And life can be shorter still, like in
his case. That statement is so true.
Like when they said that he and Alain
were enemies, which wasn't true.
So for situations like that,
his statement was just perfect.
When you're under a lot of pressure
in a particular championship or race...
it's the one that can put together...
the combination of aggression
and calculation...
that will get the best result.
More than anything you need
a very clear mind...
to understand when to be aggressive
and when to be calculating.
To win a championship, you need
the combination of those elements...
in the right dose at given moments.
Ayrton Senna's lifestyle
was that of the rich and famous.
Beautiful houses, lots of toys
and opportunities to relax.
His love for Brazil and its people was
reflected in how they felt about him.
He was idolized by the ordinary people
in the street and he still is today.
Great, extraordinary.
Pity he left us at such a young age.
-It's Ayrton. It really is.
Look, it's really him.
For us he was the best in world.
We miss him and it's a huge loss
for sports in Brazil.
He brought us joy on Sundays.
We'd get so excited during his races.
He was a great driver.
He gave us lots of enjoyment.
There'll never be
another driver like him.
He's so handsome.
He represented everything to us.
He brought us glory, he had everything.
It's an honor for any Brazilian
to have a picture in memory of him.
I think he was one of the best
Brazilians in the world...
and everyone should honor him
because he's the best. Even now.
He gave us some of the best weekends
here in Brazil.
To me he's a great athlete, a great
human being and an example to us all.
I get all choked up when I see him.
He represents a lot to me.
I miss him very much.
Despite the access Ayrton had
to his own slice of paradise...
he always knew that many Brazilians
battled not for championships...
but simply to put food on the table
and a roof overhead.
And it mattered to him
more than many people knew.
In the second year
I stayed with him in Brazil.
We drove through the favelas,
the slums.
And you see the poverty there...
while you work with someone
who has his own plane and what not.
I asked him: Doesn't it bother you
when you see things like this?
And I noticed that it was an awkward
moment in the conversation.
He said: It definitely bothers me. The
corruption, the problems, the people.
It angers and saddens me when I see
how much these people suffer.
But I'm not strong and powerful enough
yet to change anything.
It showed what direction
this man wanted to go in.
The races, the speed
and going to the limit...
were only a bridge, a vehicle,
a vessel...
to get him where he wanted to go.
It was a process he was going through.
The best remembrance I had...
was when I stayed with him
that weekend in his farmhouse.
We had a storm and the lights
and the telephone went out of order.
I needed to phone my wife,
who was in Scotland.
So we went out
and we found a telephone box.
I phoned my wife and he went outside.
It was dark.
He was standing under a street lamp
and some kids recognized him.
By then he had 20 or 30 children
around him.
He was chatting to them
and signing autographs.
When I came out of the telephone box...
That's one of the sweetest memories
I have of him.
Standing there with the light
playing on his head and shoulders...
surrounded by the kids
and being so nice to them.
Two months before the accident...
Ayrton told me he wanted to do
something for kids and young people.
He asked me to think about it
and we'd talk again later.
We never had that second talk.
Two months later he had that accident.
My family and I decided to go ahead
with the idea.
To plant the seed he left behind
and create the Ayrton Senna Institute.
He was given the opportunity
and he wanted to share that.
Most Brazilian children
don't get this opportunity.
The opportunity of an education,
and better health care...
the opportunity for a better future
and of hope.
What made Ayrton stand out
amongst Grand Prix drivers...
was that he knew there was
something else outside Formula 1.
And I think he made that
his mission in Formula 1...
to build a platform so that he could
express how he felt about humanity...
and things to do with people.
Maybe his approach within Formula 1
was ruthless sometimes...
maybe not humanitarian even.
But there's no question that
he felt a deep empathy with mankind...
and with the problems in the world.
We are made of emotions.
We're all looking for emotions basically.
It's only a question of finding the way
to experience them.
There are many different ways
to experience them.
Perhaps one thing, one particular thing
that Formula 1 can provide you...
is that you know
you're always exposed to danger.
Danger of getting hurt,
danger of dying.
Travel was a major factor
in Senna's life.
To ease the strain,
he acquired his own aircraft...
and employed the services of a pilot.
Over a period of 4.5 years...
Owen O'Mahony got to know
his employer extremely well.
We often went back and forth
to Brazil.
We'd leave So Paulo
at 10:30 at night...
and Ayrton would lay out the bed in
the back, go to sleep in his pajamas...
and at 7:00 in the morning, I'd go back
in the cabin to wake Ayrton up.
We'd land in England
at about eight in the morning...
and he'd be as fresh as a daisy
and we were totally shattered.
My compliment to him...
is to say that he was big enough to be
little, if you understand what I mean.
In April 1994, Owen flew Senna to
Imola for the San Marino Grand Prix.
Ayrton always considered
the circuit at Imola as his home ground.
Starting in '84, Senna captured the pole
position eight times in ten years.
First with Lotus...
then during the incredible series
with McLaren...
and finally with Williams.
In his last race here he captured
the pole position hands down.
He never stayed in Imola...
but in Castel San Pietro.
He always
stayed in the same hotel there.
It had a helipad. He liked to fly
over the circuit sometimes.
The name of the hotel
was Hotel Castello.
He was a very simple man.
He was kind, he mostly kept to himself.
He often requested to have dinner
in the restaurant...
and he always requested a table in
the back, away from the other guests.
The whole weekend was terrible.
First there was the accident
of Rubens Barrichello...
and the day after Roland Ratzenberger.
Ayrton had only met him the day before,
because this was his first Grand Prix.
He was very upset about it.
The team manager
for Ratzenberger arrived.
So I had to tell the team manager
what had happened...
and Senna was standing alongside
me when I did.
The team manager went away and
Ayrton got very upset. He cried a bit.
I said to him: You've been
world champion three times...
you're the fastest man in the world...
and you like fishing.
So I said: Why don't you quit
and I'll quit and we just go fishing?
If you asked him a difficult question,
he wouldn't answer immediately.
You could see him thinking how
he would deal with that suggestion.
Finally he said: Sid, I can't quit.
And I suggested
he didn't drive that weekend.
And he said: But I've got to,
I've got to drive tomorrow.
He said: There's no way
that I can stop driving at the moment.
A special hello to my dear...
our dear friend Alain.
We all miss you a lot.
In the morning we had TV coverage.
And I was doing my job.
Then we looked
at Ayrton's commentary.
The first thing he says
is not about corners or gears...
but he said: First hello to Alain.
Alain, I miss you.
That was live. And they broadcast it
in the morning and before the race.
And again, people saw that.
So this odd sort of friendship we had...
was a little bit hidden
by all the fights we had.
In the last two weeks, we were good
but in a strange way also.
The last thing I remember
when he was alive was...
As a Ferrari driver, the Italians
have a special way of celebrating you.
When they announced my name,
the Italians were jumping and shouting.
I was just in front of his car,
and he was looking at me and laughing.
You really could see
that we were friends.
It was an honest love. He was happy
when something went well for me.
That was the last time I really looked
in his eyes and we saw each other.
There were many
heavy accidents before.
I had a very big accident in '89,
I nearly died there.
A day later Ayrton phoned me
in the hospital to ask how I was.
I said I was OK..
but that corner was very dangerous.
Someone could die there someday.
It was too dangerous.
We were just talking a bit.
Months later we went to test in Imola.
Ayrton and I said:
This corner should be changed.
We walked to this corner and
we looked how it could be changed.
We looked over the wall
and Ayrton says:
Look, you can't. There's a river
behind it, so you can't move the wall.
And we looked at each other and said:
We can't move the wall, that's it.
And we walked back. That was
the exact spot where he died.
It was the worst day in the history
of Formula 1...
because although
many drivers were killed in Formula 1...
before Ayrton Senna
none of them were as famous.
None of them were respected
and idolized worldwide like Senna was.
And the impact of Senna's death
on Formula 1 in particular...
motor racing in general
and the world at large...
was something
that had never happened before.
It has never happened since
and I pray it never happens again.
The Imola circuit witnessed
the loss of one the greats in Formula 1.
But memories of Senna will never fade.
Across the world, his spirit lives on.
I have the feeling that he's close by.
I can't explain it.
But I can feel it.
I'm sure that he's close by.
We have this thing about death where
we can't talk about it or think about it.
Our society rejects death.
It happened ten years ago now...
but the feeling is deeper
and more intense.
Things come up
in our collective consciousness...
that we were in danger of forgetting,
like his tenderness.
That he was a very simple man,
which is what impressed me the most.
And one of his nicer qualities:
His humility.
Ayrton said one time...
that the rich can't go on living
on an island...
surrounded by a sea of misery.
We all breathe the same air.
So we have to give children and young
people a fundamental chance in life.
Ayrton and I shared that vision.
It sprouted from our family.
The family raised us with these values.
They taught us to respect
other people...
and that it's important that we pass on
these opportunities to others.
To value and respect them.
And to be responsible.
We are all jointly responsible
for our own country.
In the 10 years we've been active,
we've been working for 10 years now...
we've helped 3,930,000 children
and young people all over the country.
It's because I had, first of all,
a good opportunity in life...
to grow properly, to live well,
to live a healthy life.
I learned a lot.
And I was led, at the key moments,
in the right direction, I believe.