Wednesday, October 24, 2007

The Greatness Factor



Aryton Senna the best F1 driver in the history, and probably in years to come. Ok, Juan Manuel Fangio was great and so was Nuvolari but in sheer intense rivalry in Senna's era and excitement it was just an amazing to watch Senna drive, it was breath taking. Senna was beyond the limit all the time, the transcended driver that surpassed the car's potential.

Many argue why he wasn't the great because of his tactics and his sheer will to win that he will sacrifice himself. Now that's a true great, going above and beyond and shedding light to the extreme which only the true great drivers would go. Others would say that Michael Schumacher because he owns all the records in the book in terms of wins world titles and much more. Now here's the kicker, Senna didn't have the dominance Era in which Schumacher had. Senna always had to contend with another great drivers such as the likes of Prost, Piquet, and Mansell. In case you didn't know these drivers are multiple world champions except Mansell; nonetheless, these were the greats that Senna had to compete against. Now that's a tall order to surmount, but Senna manage to beat all of them.

Prost was perhaps the greatest driver that he had to contend because he was also fast consistent and very intelligent. Only he could give the menacing Senna a run for his money. Now beat that Schumi! He only had Mika Hakkinen to compete against and he retired eventually due to his new born child. So any argurment? well theres hardly any just watch 1988 season all the way up to 1994 season because you would see the real race and proved once again that Senna was truly a great driver.

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