A documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championhip ...
A documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championhip three times before his death at age 34.
The story of the monumental life and tragic death of legendary Brazilian motor-racing Champion, Ayrton Senna. Spanning the decade from his arrival in Formula One in the mid 80's, the film follows Senna's struggles both on track againt his nemesis, French World Champion Alain Prost, and off it, againt the politics which infest the sport. Sublime, spiritual yet, on occasion, ruthless - Senna conquer and trancends Formula One to become a global supertar. Privately, he is humble, almost shy, and fiercely patriotic, donating million to his native Brasil and contemplating a life beyond motor-racing. Yet he is struck down in his prime on the blackest weekend in the history of the sport, watched live on television by 300 million people. Year on he is revered in Formula One as the greatest motor racing driver of all time - and in Brasil as a Saint.
