Driven

Grand Prix Racing on the Edge.Driving at the Limit ('in the Zone')

'Driven: Grand Prix Racing on the Edge...Driving at the Limit

Racing ‘ in the zone’: A look inside the head, the mind of Grand Prix champions

"Racing is life - anything that happens before is just waiting."“A look inside the top two inches of the fastest drivers on planet earth – how and what they think”

“Grand Prix racing is primarily a mental contest… it’s a battle of strength
of wills by the combatants and a magnificent contest, the arena to display
and share unique gifts and talents. Perhaps in this 'theatre of speed', F1 is a metaphor for life itself”

I’ve just started researching and writing this “true labour of love” (including most info gathered from the www) , but thought I’d post up at Amazon anyway. . Anyway, I’ll keep updating at Amazon Kindle version as I write (and further) the book.

Enjoy

“totally impulsive” craig
18th October 2011
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"Racing, competing, he said, it 's in my blood. It s part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

14 May 1988 QUALIFYING FOR MONACO GRAND PRIX

The spine tingling spectacle of the late Arton Senna on a qualifying lap provided some of the most thrilling moments in the history of the sport. There has never been a faster driver over a single lap - his record of 65 pole positions is unlikely to ever be broken - nor has anyone thought so deeply about it. When he talked about his memorable lap, the one that left the most indelible impression on his exceptional mind, Senna's eyes shone with a faraway look and his voice quavered with intensity...

"Suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was kind of driving by instinct, only I was in a different dimension. I was way over the limit; but still I was able to find even more. It frightened me, because I realised I was well beyond my conscious understanding."

- “the late , great” Ayrton Senna

'The aim is to be in the Zone every time you get in the car. But that day Ayrton was somewhere else beyond the Zone…heaven”
- Lewis Hamilton (on his boyhood hero)

“You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.”
- Stirling Moss

from http://www.overdrivef1.com/

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"Senna is a genius. I define genius as just the right side of imbalance. He is highly developed to the point where he is almost over the edge. It's a close call."
- the words of Senna's great rival for the British Formula 3 title in his early years, former GP driver and now television commentator, Martin Brundle

"Ayrton has a small problem. He thinks he can't kill himself, because he believes in God...and I think that's very dangerous for the other drivers."
- his great rival and McLaren team-"mate", Frenchman Alain Prost

To Sean and Gareth and yes, you too Marie. I know you can't and don't understand my passion for motor racing, my "crazy" love of Grand Prix racing. Still thanks for brightening each day more than you can (and will) ever know.

dad

* from FORMULA 1: 'The Autobiography'
Edited by Gerald Donaldson (and first published in the UK in 2002 by Wedenfeld and Nicolson). Thanks for the great gift, dad. Bet you'd love to read and take a great deal of pleasure in this new book, "a true labour of love".

“I want to write the way Gilles Villeneuve drove and power-slid his blood-red Formula One Ferrari… with wild enthusiasm and a sense of abandonment, combined with the artists craft of a Stirling Moss, a Jim Clark, and especially that of the great Ayrton Senna, living on on the razor-blade edge of life.”

craig

for dearest mom and dad

thanks for all the support, encouragement and most of all love

Also to Dan Wheldon + Marco Simoncellli