Ayrton Senna: A True F1 Legend

[DannyQ]

RIP - Ayrton Senna 1960 - 1994

http://motorsportcentral.co.uk/f1-legend-ayrton-senna/

In your opinion who else ranks as a true legend of F1?

[Zico]

RIP Ayrton

Bit of a cop-out as dont want to start another war but if going by results obviously Fangio, Schumacher... and Pastor Maldonado.

[steveaki13]

Pastor is beyond legend

[Rollo]

Pastor is beyond legend

He is:



He knows where all the toilets are.

[journeyman racer]

Prost

[Jag_Warrior]

Niki Lauda, Gilles Villeneuve, James Hunt, Graham Hill, Jim Clark...

There is a common thread there^: to be considered a legend, it helps if you're dead (or look like you're dead).

[steveaki13]

I think there is a difference between legend and all time great. I mean Gilles Villeneuve is considered a legend by some, but did not get the chance to become an all time great.

All time greats for me.

Fangio, Ascari, G. Hill, Jim Clark, Jack Brabham, Lauda, Piquet, Prost, Senna, Schumacher, Vettel (just for 4 titles in a row)

[AAReagles]

I think there is a difference between legend and all time great. I mean Gilles Villeneuve is considered a legend by some, but did not get the chance to become an all time great.

I'm afraid that I have to admit I was disappointed with his brief engagement of driver politics, but after Imola it is understandable.

From how he was ranked while he was alive, the greatest compliment IMO came from the 79' Austrian GP winner:

"I was expecting something yellow (a Renault) to come by me at the start, but not something red! I knew it had to be Gilles, but even so I just thought, 'where the hell did he come from?'."
- Alan Jones, recollecting when the lights went green.

[jens]

I think there is a difference between legend and all time great. I mean Gilles Villeneuve is considered a legend by some, but did not get the chance to become an all time great.

All time greats for me.

Fangio, Ascari, G. Hill, Jim Clark, Jack Brabham, Lauda, Piquet, Prost, Senna, Schumacher, Vettel (just for 4 titles in a row)

It is interesting, Steve. To try to define different phrases.

Legend is more like a "mythical" status. It doesn't need to attach results to get to the memory, it doesn't even need a driver to be great or have great skills for him to become legendary.

It is just everyone's personal brain memory, what they remember and what they consider as memorable, remarkable, great. Minardi is considered as a legendary F1 team, largely because they managed to stay in F1 for so long as The Back-end Team! So it is the opposite of being legendary based on performance. You are legendary based on lack of performance!

[anfield5]

re Pastor. Beyond a leg end is a heal