[GradyPhilpott]

Senna died before I got into F1. I'm not sure if F1 was carried in the US, but if it was, I was too busy in the Eighties and early Nineties to have noticed.

Watching videos like this indicates that when he was on the race track, tomorrow was irrelevant. He was precisely in the moment.

It is really something that he would play chicken with another driver and be perfectly happy with whatever decision the other driver made, to yield or to hold.

One could make a very good case for Senna being a psychopath (anti-social personality disorder) given his behavior on the track and his careful manipulation of the public and his image off the track.

It would seem that for Senna, not driving on the edge would be the fate worse than death.

In that context, his death is less a tragedy and more a fitting end for a man who lived for all or nothing.