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Айртон Сенна (Ayrton Senna)
Владимир Коваленко:
Из интервью с Фрэнком Уильмсом Lunch with Frank Williams (Motorsport - 2015.05).pdf:
--- Цитировать ---When you were with Ayrton you began to
realise that you were dealing with an
extraordinary individual, a man of very
remarkable mental capacity. When he was
asking me a question I‘d say to myself, ‘Be
careful, Frank, think before you answer.‘ I‘d be
telling him what I thought we should do about
something, or what we‘d done about it last
time, and he‘d be looking at me. You could see
his mind racing all the time: ‘Is Frank giving me
the bullshit, does he know what he‘s talking
about?‘ There was always a bit of wanting to
protect his back, being wary of people around
him: he was slightly paranoid. But that was his
natural business. He was very, very clever, very
astute. I"ve always thought that, given his name
and fame, and his intelligence as well, he could
easily have become President of Brazil if he‘d so
wished. Bernie gravitated towards him. People
who are exceptionally gifted, or exceptionally
good at what they do, tend to recognise those
qualities in others.
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Владимир Коваленко:
Новый фильм о противостоянии с Брандлом в 1983 году: http://senna-vs-brundle.com/
Владимир Коваленко:
Любитель, едва не обогнавший Сенну. Воспоминания Рика Морриса
Владимир Коваленко:
Из интервью с Максом Мосли (https://cloud.mail.ru/public/82Ym/WggVy12VR):
--- Цитировать ---MM: Senna won the championship and then he let rip in a press conference. Ron, quite rightly, was very alarmed and concerned that Balestre, who was still president of the FIA and very powerful, would do him by not giving Senna a licence or whatever. Ron came to me and said: “Ayrton needs to apologise but he absolutely refuses to. Will you talk to him?"
So I invited Ayrton up to my suite — I always got on quite well with him — and I said: “Ayrton there are two kinds of people in the sport. There are amateurs and professionals. The amateur does what he feels like doing; the professional does whatever will further his career. What you did about Balestre was amateur."
He thought for a long time, and then he said: “Yes, you're right. But what you've got to understand is that I've been doing this since I was six years old and it's all I do," And his eyes started to well up. lIe was so emotional. We cobbled together a weasel statement that was put out. It wasn't really an apolog but it was close. And that was the end of it.
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--- Цитировать ---MH: Do you think Ayrton's behaviour in 1990, and the fact that he got away with it, set a bad example? Michael Schumacher seemed to adopt that tactic — more than once.
MM: I think, possibly, it did. It was wrong. It was understandable — but wrong. But it started with the great wrong the previous year.
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Владимир Коваленко:
Из интервью с Дереком Уориком:
--- Цитировать --- Ayrton spent his early days
showing everyone how ruthless he was and,
almost without thinking, you’d give him more
room than someone like Pironi or Arnoux.
It’s almost the same now- with Lewis. ‘Yellow-
helmet? Get out the way!’
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--- Цитировать --- I love sports and I've got heroes, people
who I think are special to sport. It could be
Roger Federer, the Williams sisters, Tiger
Woods, Ayrton Senna, Stirling Moss, Fangio...
people from all sorts of sports.
Senna, to me, signifies a racing driver.
He w'as brave, he was fast, he w-as religious,
compassionate, ruthless. He wras brilliant, he
was press-worthy, he wras great for Fl. He was
the complete package. He ticked every single
box. But lie was self-centred, as we know from
the way he dealt with Prost at Suzuka. And,
above all, he ruined my career!
Do not mention Ayrton Senna to my wife
Rhonda because she'll scratch your eyes out!
She hates the guy as much as I love him. I
have to say I can respect him for blocking me,
because he w-as absolutely right. Lotus at the
end of 1985 couldn’t run two cars. They certainly
couldn’t alternate the spare car for Ayrton and
for me. Ayrton was worried, I think, because of
my speed and the fact that I would be a British
driver in a British team.
He was right to think all of that. He didn’t
have doubts about his own ability and I don’t
think he had doubts about mine, but he did have
doubts about the team and those doubts were
proved correct at the end. So, despite ruining my
career, I still think that he epitomises a grand
prix driver. I love everything he did for our sport
because I think he was special. That’s why he’s
got pride of place in my study.
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