Ayrton Senna - the legend !

12 years passed by, as F1 cars will return to the Imola track, after that fateful day, 1st May 1994, which took something away from us.

What we lost that day, was not just a champion driver or not just a fantastic human being; what we lost is a sense of certainty in life,if I may say so.

I know that life is all but certain.But then are we not trained to believe in happy-endings always ? And that the good things win in the end?
In short, "all is well that ends well". Consequently, we start expecting that all that is going good, should end well.

That is why it is such a great shock to see a 34 year old triple F1 world champion, arguably the greatest driver ever to drive an F1 car (without argument, the best ever F1 driver on a rainy track) died on track, in an accident that looked completely unlike him !

Not that he was in-fallible, none of us really are, but even his greatest critics would agree in saying that Ayrton Senna Da Silva, of all people, would not make that kind of a driving error !!
It didn't helped that he died when he was at the peek of powers !

Personally, his tragic death hit me hard, cause I was (or I am ?!) his diehard fan. I found it hard to accept that he aint there anymore or that I wont see him driving again. I even gave up watching F1 for a while, after his death.

On a philosophical side, his death taught me a very important lesson in life:
" nothing is certain in life ! So Expect the unexpected. "
Sometimes, contrary to our beliefs, bad things do happen to good people....

This is NOT what we are trained to think, but it does happen all the same. Maybe its the almighty's way of showing us that he is the final authority and that its all really controlled by him.
That is life ..... !

Ayrton's legacy will go on. He was a F1 legend while he was alive. He is still remembered today, 12 years after his death. And chances are, he will be remembered always.
More than half a dozen F1 tracks around the world, has S bends bearing his name ("The Senna S"). But more importantly his is an image that resides in the minds of drivers, fans and everyone else, who watched him drive anytime, in the minds of anyone connected to him in anyway.

Its an image of a maverick driver, who would not care for anything but victory, who would always propel himself past any danger, of whatever magnitude.
Cause for him that danger never existed, when his sites were set on the checkered flag.
For him failure was simply not an option !

This is a tribute to that spirit, which will remind us to live life in one and exactly one way:
To aim only for success at whatever we do.