Plus ca change

[lil_shepherd]

We went to see Senna last night. A riveting documentary about one of the greatest of all F1 drivers. For those of you who don't know, there is no commentary, just film of interviews, races, Tv variety and interview shows, amateur family films, meetings and, of course, crashes. The technical quality is therefore often poor, but that somehow gives

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[smtfhw]

Delighted to see you finally got to see it and that you weren't disappointed...

[lil_shepherd]

Indeed I was not. I will have to get the DVD though.

[smtfhw]

There is a rumour that the original cut was 7 hours long. That's the version I want to see... and it might also be more balanced in its portrayal of a man who very definitely had two sides to him.

[carl_allery]

Senna had incredible talent, Prost had incredible skill and Mansell just refused to give up. I never really took to Senna, probably because I was already admiring Mansell's dogged determination. :)

[lil_shepherd]

I was never much of a Mansell fan. Senna was too religious to appeal to me as a person - but I admire his determination and his driving skills, his outspokenness and his concern for other drivers. The film is a tad hard on Prost...

[smtfhw]

It certainly is hard on Prost, but then it would be I suppose. I always liked him myself - couldn't abide Mansell, he was - and still is - a whinger and I can't be doing with that. Senna, I always regarded as a genius, if an unstable one, and it was not that great a surprise when he did die at the wheel of a car. In fact, a couple of years prior to the accident, Lynne and I had been at Spa, when she turned to me and said "he's going to kill himself racing one of these days."

[lil_shepherd]

"he's going to kill himself racing one of these days."

I am uneasy to see that some rather informed people are saying this about Lewis now.