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omgggggg I'm crying!!!! Alain gave his gloves to a boy with the Senna cap

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I just wanna talk about Damon and Ayrton’s brief time as teammates in Williams. Literally when I started looking more into Damon, I was shocked to find out that he and Ayrton were the same age. I initially thought Damon was a few years younger, roughly around the same age as Michael since he was still in his early few years in f1. Despite their 6 months age gap, it was funny to hear Damon call what Ayrton was lecturing him about as “fatherly advice” in his docu. Except this little jab on Ayrton becomes a sudden tragic detail when they kept switching between Graham and Senna’s funeral footage after Imola. Don’t get me started with Suzuka 1994. That man prayed not to God, but to Ayrton. Being a late starter in f1, it was evident that Damon looked up to Ayrton as a sort of older brother figure or, hear me out, a pseudo-father figure.

Though I could probably say the same to Alain when he was teammates with him, but there’s just something about that “fatherly advice” comment that stuck with me especially with all the home footage of Graham with his family. Also I remembered a line from Tom Rubython’s biography on Ayrton claiming Damon had consoled him when Ayrton broke down after Ratzenberger’s death. Though not officially confirmed by Hill, it’s still something to think about especially when Ayrton did talk to Damon’s wife, Georgie, reassuring her that her husband would be fine.

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teammates GERHARD BERGER and AYRTON SENNA during the 1990 FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

"I tried to study him to see where can he have his weakness, I didn’t find (anything)." - Gerhard Berger, 2025

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Ayrton once told me: "I hate him(Alain)"

I said, "but that's not right", and I showed him here in the Bible it won't do you any good if you only love those who love you, therefore, love you enemies, it is written here.

then Ayrton said: "there's no way, I hate this guy!"

—— Alex Dias Ribeiro

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who's the sleepyhead?

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Gerhard & Ayrton: Whenever he comes to Imola, he visits the Senna memorial.

It stands for special moments in motorsport history, shining winners, but also great tragedies. On May 1st 1994, Ayrton Senna lost his life in the Tamburello curve. Gerhard Berger remembers it as if "the sun had fallen from the sky." "Everyone knows what kind of position they get in our industry. It's very tragic."

Gerhard Berger and Ayrton Senna were opponents on the track but on the same line. "We want the same thing, same age, same generation. We knew each other from Formula 3, and then we had to sort it out in motorsport. We have others, the young ones who have come in, and he also has to hold his own. There, especially as it has made life difficult. But we also spent time together as ski tourists. "

Whenever the DTM boss comes to Imola, he visits the Senna memorial. This weekend, he even brought a photo in memory of his friend.

"When this stands, sometimes one just thinks, well, who would be really cool to see what would rise, but what he does and what would have also gone on in videos. "

Also in Gerhard Berger's life, a key point. "I think even more lives were lost at this place a few years earlier in the severe fires. " Mr. Berger meets track workers, including people who helped him back then. He says thank you because motorsport has become safer after Senna's death. This strip of asphalt has written history and changed the sport in many ways. But Gerhard Berger's opinion about his friend hasn't changed. "He was then and still is, in my opinion, the best driver of all time. " And here he died at the age of only 34 years.

via: https://youtu.be/3L5-adMG3zQ?si=64gNSmwtt2ffuVPy

PS. The whole interview is in German, I used a translation tool to help with the translation. I am neither a native speaker of German nor English.

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Prost: At the start of the season, the car was perhaps not very good and sure, he is Senna, but it's still difficult.

Jouve: "He is"?

He is, yes. I still say "he is". (small laugh) I'm struggling.

You liked him very much?

I did like him very much! It's all part of... You know, you can hate at times, and certainly it comes from love and respect. I respected him and I believe we shared an affinity that we both recognized but which was almost unacceptable in the mediatized and very though world of motorsport. All this while being extremely different. What would it have been had we been a bit more similar!

("F1 - Destinées extrêmes", May 1995, Pierre Jouve and Canal+, in French here from 43:49 on)

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1985 Lotus team

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1991 San marino Gerhard Berger & Ayrton Senna

via: Gerhard Berger Fanpage

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Jim Clark, Lotus, 1964

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Emerson Fittipaldi and Nelson Piquet for Nova Schin Beer commercial, 2004

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JIM CLARK, JACKIE STEWART and BRUCE MCLAREN on the podium of the 1965 BELGIAN GRAND PRIX

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Bersenna helmets

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Thinking about how Ayrton’s pallbearers had to be changed last minute because of Gerhard..

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When playboys meet: Eddie Irvine recalled a lost weekend in Dijon with James Hunt

Irvine himself agrees: “I first met James through his role as consultant to Marlboro. I’d seen James race, of course. I was a great fan. I liked his attitude; James was very much his own man. When I was invited to test for the 1988 Marlboro Formula 3 drive, I really wanted to do Formula Ford 2000 first. But I was offered the drive and James and everyone else said I should accept and move straight into F3 which, for me, was a massive step. But I did it, had a good season and that led to being in line for a Formula 3000 drive the following year. I was told to go to the final F3000 race of the season at Dijon in France, just to see what it was all about. I didn’t learn much that weekend thanks to the antics of my mentor, James Hunt.

“I met him at London Heathrow. The first thing he did was visit the Duty Free shop and buy a bottle of blue vodka. When we landed in Paris, he nipped off to meet two girls at a railway station. As it turned out, the TGV express trains were cancelled due to a strike and we had to catch a slow train loaded with naval conscripts on their way to Marseilles. It took us about five hours to get to Dijon – by which time there was nothing left of the vodka.

“We crawled through the doors of the hotel. Luckily it was very late by then and the motor racing people had gone to bed. So we retired to James’s room, where he began playing Beethoven at full blast on the portable stereo he carried everywhere with him. James ignored the banging on the walls and the ceiling until someone arrived from reception and told us to stop the party because it was 3 a.m. And James was supposed to be instructing me on how to be a professional racing driver…

“I went down for breakfast the following morning and met Volker Weidler, who was racing for the Marlboro-supported F3000 team that weekend. Volker said: ‘Last night was unbelievable. I never got any sleep at all. The people in the room beside me were partying all night. I had to ring reception to get it stopped.’

“‘Jeez, Volker,’ I said. ‘That’s awful.’ He didn’t find out who the culprits were until about four years later. We were racing in Japan and, one night, I told him. His reaction was incredible. He said: ‘I knew it! I knew Marlboro wanted me out. They sent you and James Hunt to party and keep me awake all night before the race.’ He really believed that and didn’t understand it had been the result of a five-hour train journey and a bottle of vodka; nothing more, nothing less.

“It was also the wrong reflection of what it was like having James as a mentor. He really understood what was going on between the driver and the car and could talk to you about that and a number of things to do with the racing itself. He was always very good to me and played a part in my involvement with Marlboro when I got to F1.”

via:A last heartbreaking flourish

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