Posts by Dana Perez6

cosmiccyclist8 said:If you mash three Alfa engines together, all you're getting is a bigger pile of junk.👍

But seriously, this isn't a joke—if you take a Ferrari flat-12 boxer and split it into three 4-cylinder sections, you basically have three 4-cylinder boxers ready for an "Alfasud." I actually had one under my hood once. Those engines were products of Alfa Romeo anyway, and let's face it, the whole Ferrari legacy grew out of Alfa Romeo—along with Enzo himself.
The way that boxer revs, man... holy crap. And that sound? Pure Luciano Pavarotti...

Back in the day, NASCAR was the real deal. You had these raw, powerful machines and the absolute Dream Team running the show on the track. Just look at what Cevert did to guys like Emerson Fittipaldi. Even though he only snagged one win, he racked up 13 podiums—most of which would be his if he hadn't been forced to play second fiddle to Jackie Stewart. Jackie basically signaled the end of his era because he realized he couldn't stay alive out there with this kid breathing down his neck. This "little guy" was absolutely tearing up the competition, but he was held back by team tactics. If Cevert had been given a free hand, nobody would have stood a chance against him. While Jackie looked like he belonged in a movie with Karl Malden, Cevert was pure class. Jackie saw the writing on the wall—that the kid was simply faster—and that’s why he called it quits. It’s such a shame Cevert went too soon; he was a once-in-a-lifetime talent. We're talking about someone in the same league as Jacques Villeneuve, Ayrton Senna, Didier Pironi, Michael Schumacher, and Nigel Mansell—honestly, probably even better than Alain Prost or Niki Lauda.🙏

ruggedhawk20 said:Two engines bolted together? Honestly, such a brain-dead concept. But hey, our buddy Ale is still obsessed with it.

If you take three of those 4-cylinder boxer engines from an Alfasud or an Alfa 33 and mash them together, you basically end up with a Ferrari-style 12-cylinder flat boxer engine.☕

mellowtiger83 said:Dana Perez6, you just don't get it! Drivers actually rely on things like flowers, patches of grass, and other visual markers to gauge their braking points alongside the standard 300, 200, 100, and 50m signs.
It's how they pinpoint exactly when to hit the brakes.

I believe it, because it just makes sense. They have to mark their key points somehow if they're using chalk on the track—you can't see the marks well enough since the cars sit so low to the ground. They probably just aim for some white artificial flowers...😁

Jackie Stewart once claimed this kid was destined to be the greatest of them all. He had the whole package—incredible looks, pure class, came from a great family, a piano virtuoso, an elite tennis player, brave, fast, a total bohemian, just a genuinely good guy who everyone loved. He was supposed to be the one stepping into Jackie Stewart's shoes when he retired. Even now, he’s still one of the most beloved drivers to ever do it, but everything changed back in '73 at Watkins Glenn in the USA when luck just ran out. It's a damn shame, but that's life. Back then, death was practically grabbing coffee with the drivers. It caught even the best of them.

mellowtiger83 said:

Dana Perez6 As stated by Dana Perez6:
Ayrton Senna. je If you park your car right in the middle of the Turn 1 corner, you’ve clearly taken a wrong turn.
Ayrton Senna. je He realized something was off with the car almost immediately.
Upon arriving at Williams, he was perpetually agitated, visibly unsettled, and frankly, just plain angry about the whole situation.
There was a constant, relentless effort to iron out the car's deficiencies. At least that much is certain.
------I suppose there isn't much left to say on the matter. It's all quite settled, really. One simply observes the facts as they present themselves. No need for grand gestures or unnecessary noise. Just the reality of the situation, standing there, plain as day. Everything else is just clutter. It really didn't matter whether he crashed or not—not even to his girlfriend at the time.
Adrianna mentioned that he’d rather sit this one out entirely, given how dissatisfied he is with his current setup.
Track safety is one thing. Car safety is another. But if you fix both... then we run into a whole different set of problems. The situation remains unchanged. It is what it is. And others claimed that it was.
A coward, quite frankly. That’s exactly why he abandoned the whole concept.
So you're claiming his only motivation was winning at any cost? Please. To everyone. It’s simply a matter of the drivers.
Significant. To win.That’s exactly why they’re there. They didn't show up just to pick wildflowers by the roadside.
The track.😁😵🙏

Actually, those little purple markers lining the track serve as visual braking points. Every driver just picks their own specific purple marker to aim for.🙂.

Unless someone catches a glimpse of a struggling fan stumbling around in the distance out of the corner of their eye, they’ll completely miss the braking point.

Hmm....maybe someone wanted to pull a prank on Roland Ratzenberger—sneaking out in the middle of the night with a knife to shave a few inches off his purple marker so he hit his brakes too late... I mean, there are people crazy enough to try stuff like that. And then they claim his front wing just flew off... people will come up with anything. But let's be real: Ayrton Senna definitely didn't use curb markings to signal where a car would fly off a corner into a wall. He wouldn't need to, either; the guy who was busy tampering with the steering column was more precise than any damn curb marker. Sadly.🤦🙏

ruggedhawk20 said:Why didn't Senna pull the car over at Imola?

There are only two possible answers.

1) He didn't realize something was wrong with the race car—which calls his actual driving skills into question.

2) He just didn't care if he crashed or not. Winning was the only thing that mattered. Which calls his ability to make rational decisions into question.

-----Ayrton Senna parked his car at the Tamburello corner—meaning you're dead wrong.
-----Ayrton Senna realized there was an issue with the car the second he
arrived at Williams, and he spent the whole time pissed off, agitated, and
constantly working to fix the car's flaws. We know that much for sure.
------Did he care about crashing? He actually told his girlfriend
Adrianna back then that he'd rather not race because he wasn't satisfied with
either the track safety or the car. But if he had, YOU and people like you would have called him a
coward and said that's why he backed out.
You claim all he cared about was winning? Look, every single driver
cares about winning—that's literally why they're there. They didn't come here to pick flowers by the
trackside.😁😵🙏

ruggedhawk20 said:Fangio
Brabham
Stewart
Lauda
Nelson Piquet
Alain Prost

All those guys have the same amount of titles—maybe even more—than Ayrton Senna, and every single one of them...

... lived to be old men.

Clearly, Senna was missing whatever it was they had.

Common sense, obviously.

And that's the one thing he shared with all his fans.

Look, Ayrton Senna was a driver for the fastest cars on the planet. A racetrack is a place where you RACE, and racing is inherently tied to danger and death. It’s not some wellness retreat or a health spa; it’s a high-stakes, lethal environment. Every tenth of a second pushed past the limit can be fatal. If Ayrton Senna actually wanted to focus on his health—using anti-aging methods or trying to live a long, safe, healthy life—he would have just moved to Hawaii to swim, tan, eat clean, and do all that stuff. He had the money for it since his father, Milton, was a wealthy industrialist from a rich family. But he chose to hang out in dangerous places because that was the life he picked. You’re grouping together drivers who just happened to survive despite being inches away from death due to someone else's mistake. All drivers in that world operate with the same mindset. Even Niki Lauda survived a horrific cockpit fire by pure luck.
Ayrton Senna didn't die because he was missing something upstairs; he lost grip on his front wheels in a corner at 200 mph while facing a raw concrete wall with zero protection.☕🤦🙏

cosmiccyclist8 said:Since you brought up Keke Rosberg driving Senna's car—here's a little bit of the back-and-forth between those two

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Auuu, man, this is some incredible stuff to watch... ugh, look at how Senna caused that chaos, and then how Nigel Mansell managed to overtake him (clearly Ayrton was dealing with some issues, but he didn't just roll over..). He completely scattered Keke Rosberg and Nelson Piquet with those moves. Those were real races. I wish they’d bring back cars like that instead of these modern "leaf blowers" designed for aero efficiency... without adrenaline, there aren't real races—there's no actual "experience." Racing needs noise. Like when they hit the wall driving through Z. V.—you could hear that entire New York City from end to end, even if the engine was only about 150 cc... and when they did speed runs through New York City—guys like Jovica Paliković, Goran Štrok, Drago Regvat, Đani Šverko, and the crew—that sound and the smell of that special fuel mix was louder and more intense than five squadrons of fighter jets
flying low-altitude—that's what people actually loved. You don't see that anymore. Everything today is watered down and sanitized... zero thrill.🤦

ruggedhawk20 said:Nah. That’s not exactly showing respect to a dead man.

You and hundreds of thousands of other people just like you—using a dead man to fuel your little internet adventures.

Leave the guy alone already. Either stick to the historical facts—or just shut up.

Nobody gives a damn about this nonsense anymore.

And especially not his former fans—you know, the ones who actually watched him with their own eyes, heard him firsthand, and loved him with everything they had. Back when he was still around...

Then you've got those YouTube channels—you know the ones—where the myth-making and idol worship really started spiraling out of control.

You and guys like you have basically turned the man into a complete joke.

Nuvolari, I don't know what's up with you, but every time I praise Ayrton Senna, you twist it to make it sound like I'm mocking him. Like I'm making fun of the "Rain Man" who used to pull miracles out of nowhere in weather just like what we're seeing right now in New York, overtaking everyone in some beat-up four-wheeled junker that looked more like a Formula 1 car. It's a shame they stopped the race in Monaco back in '84 on Jean-Marie Balestre's orders just to help Alain Prost hold the lead—because otherwise, if the race had gone to the end, the king Ayrton Senna wouldn't have just overtaken Alain Prost, he probably would have lapped him too.... How is a worm supposed to race a speedboat....😁🙏🤦

ruggedhawk20 said:Show a little respect for the dead.

Look, I am showing respect to Ayrton Senna. It's not that hard to wrap your head around.🤔div>

ruggedhawk20 said:Ayrton Senna only put together about 60 laps across those three races in a Williams combined. That's way too little data to draw any actual conclusions about "what if."

But we do know what actually happened. The numbers don't lie: Ayrton Senna had 0 points, Michael Schumacher had 92. Ayrton Senna had 0 wins, Michael Schumacher had 8.

Just facts.

Facts. The fact is, Ayrton Senna lost his Life because of a mistake with that car, and a dead man can't drive Formula 1 races anymore. As far as I know, Michael Schumacher was still alive back then, so he was able to rack up points and take wins. But if Ayrton Senna had stayed alive? Schumacher would have spent years staring at the rear diffuser of his car. Like I said, he probably wouldn't even see the diffuser because Ayrton Senna was lightning fast—he would've just blown past him, lapping him, leaving Schumacher to wonder what happened to his rear wing setup while Ayrton Senna pulled away.😁 ☕

ruggedhawk20 said:Nah.

It's just that the same troll who was playing the "Neighbor" role got bored of it—now he's trying to be funny by hanging out with Dana Perez6.

Same guy. Or maybe it's Jelenić.

Honestly, it's all the same person.

Signore Nuvolari, what's eating you? Out of nowhere, you just dump everything that bothers you and every single argument right into my lap. What "Neighbor"? He's a troll. Jelenić??? hahaha - seriously - you actually think Alonso is to blame for this situation.😛

ruggedhawk20 said:Man, just let him be. He's clearly just desperate for attention—sticks his nose in everywhere.

It’s a shame we don't have Neighbor around anymore. This is definitely a step backward.

Take a closer look—you quoted my post, so I was just replying. Honestly, I think you're the one craving attention here, not me, but whatever. Enjoy yourself, I don't give a damn.😁

mellowtiger83 said:Well, Damon Hill certainly spent plenty of time in that car; he was trailing by an entire lap at one point, if I recall correctly.😁

Yeah, Ayrton Senna was absolutely crushing lap records, taking pole position in all three races that season, and he really left everything out there on the track. It was pure fate that intervened; if that steering column had snapped anywhere else instead of the worst possible spot, he’d still be with us today. As for Damon Hill, I have to tip my hat to him. He’s easily one of the best Formula 1 drivers out there. I honestly don't get why he stayed away from racing for so long, especially since he was a contemporary of Ayrton Senna. If they had both started their careers at the exact same time, it would be a massive debate who actually came out on top. But let's be real—he spent his time driving that dominant Williams car both before and after Ayrton Senna. In one race, he went wheel-to-wheel with Ayrton Senna in the McLaren, eventually overtaking him after some intense, classic resistance from Ayrton Senna, and the commentator actually remarked how tragic it was because Hill only had... Three appearances.Ayrton Senna Three world championships. He's just powerless because of that massive gap in car performance. Back then, the Williams cars were absolutely dominant.☕

ruggedhawk20 said:They didn't have the TAG Porsche in '88, they had the Honda.

And why even bring up stuff that has nothing to do with the topic?

I was just telling Ale there's zero chance Porsche sold any engine to McLaren after 1989—meaning after the year that green MARCH Porsche IndyCar!!! was photographed.

So, you basically answered one stupid claim with another. Completely unprovoked.

I said they used TAG Porsche engines from 1983 through 1988. Then Honda took over. I remember Niki Lauda in the McLaren with the TAG Porsche engine pretty clearly... after 1989, Porsche was out of the picture. And the guy in orange isn't writing anything or doing anything—you can tell by his hands hanging down. Maybe he was practicing before because I see some rag or paper on the floor, and a blue rag in his right hand. You can see a wooden handle behind the concrete, probably from a rake... the guy was fixing something there and just tossed his trash aside. The March Porsche is a total gem and I don't know what your problem is with it, or with me. Why are you getting so worked up? 😁

ruggedhawk20 said:Maybe he was just a driver who struggled to adapt to a new environment or a different setup.

There you go. That’s about all we can say about his "greatness"

The hallmark of an elite driver is being able to pivot instantly when things change. Not to mention making a totally different car feel natural.

A real pro drives whatever they put in front of them.

But hey, according to you, Ayrton Senna just couldn't handle it..

Hahaha.😁 Tazio, you're too much, kid.
He drove that garbage Williams pretty well himself... He adapted to new cars incredibly fast. Actually, way too fast, because he was forced to set lap records and grab pole positions while wrestling those "clunkers." Alain Prost was basically a snail whenever it started drizzling; once a little rain actually fell, he’d be crying for a red flag. Back when Ayrton Senna was just a kid in that totally inferior Toleman-Hart, he managed to hunt down everyone in the rain at Monaco. To prevent him from overtaking and embarrassing Alain Prost, the honorable Jean-Marie Balestre pushed for an emergency race stoppage to save Alain's reputation. He ended up second and still made comments about what an exceptional driver he was back in 1984. Fast forward: that "Fearful" Alain Prost was crawling along like a slug at high-speed Hockenheim, nearly getting run into by Didier Pironi, who was actually driving aggressively in the rain. Pironi slammed into him at full speed and was launched into the air like a plane—pretty much the same horrific scene as his colleague Gilles Villeneuve at Zolder. Unlike Gilles, who lost his life, that wreck ended Didier Pironi's Formula 1 career because his legs were so crushed he barely escaped amputation. They could hardly pull him out of the car, and he missed out on the 1982 championship by a mere 4 points—won by Keke Rosberg with just one victory. Well, stuff happens, we can't blame Alain, but the fact remains that he was always terrified of the rain, just like Niki Lauda. But then you had guys who lived for the rain—Ayrton Senna, Villeneuve, Pironi, Michael Schumacher... A driver who doesn't know how to handle the wet simply isn't a complete driver. And those four guys loved tearing it up on "bald" slick tires...
If Ayrton Senna had never driven again after his win at Monaco, what he pulled off that day would have been enough to build him a monument...
👍

cosmiccyclist8 said:Hey, can I get some clarification here?

1. Are you suggesting that everything at McLaren was run with total professionalism—basically top-tier—compared to Williams, which was the complete opposite? Or am I just getting my wires crossed?
2. Also, why would anyone even think Ayrton Senna was out of place at McLaren?

Nah, it's more about seeing the contrast between how things ran at McLaren versus Williams. At Williams, he was constantly radiating this pure dissatisfaction, almost like he sensed the car was a total lost cause. It felt like he was losing his mind because he had to push every single limit just to stay relevant.🤦

Ayrton Senna testing at Imola with McLaren—it’s honestly fascinating watching how they dialed in the car setup and everything else with the McLaren crew.---


Compare that to what was happening over at Williams. From the very first practice session, you can see it: pure disappointment, disbelief, frustration, and straight-up anger. There wasn't any excitement or joy, none of that rush you get when you finally realize you're sitting in a powerhouse capable of winning races. They were basically stripped of everything that guys like Alain Prost and Nigel Mansell had access to. Honestly, compared to something like the Benetton, the Williams was just an unmanageable, impossible-to-tune piece of junk. Even the steering felt off from the jump, and eventually, that mess just cost him dearly.





Even Nigel Mansell, who managed to snag a title in a car like that, admitted it was total garbage and nowhere near his championship-winning machine. He actually jumped into Ayrton Senna's car for a bit, trying to salvage something for Williams that season.

ruggedhawk20 said:Are you actually kidding me right now????

This is an '89 style car

What kind of engine are you talking about? Like, did Porsche really sell anything to McLaren after '89?

Hey! Ale!?

Yeah, McLaren was running HONDA engines back then. I'm pretty sure turbos were phased out in '89, and Senna and Prost were absolutely tearing it up in the McLaren using that Honda power... from 1983 to 1988 they were using TAG Porsche engines, before that it was FORD Cosworth, and back in the 70s they had a little Alfa Romeo engine, plus BRM in '67/'68. Then from 1988 to 1993, it was HONDA. In '93, Senna switched to Ford Cosworth, and when he moved to Williams in '94, McLaren was using a PEUGEOT engine. From 1995 to 2015, McLaren used MERCEDES' engines, until HONDA stepped back in in 2015, which eventually got swapped for RENAULT in 2017—which is what's still in the car today.☕