I'm normally pretty skeptical of these things but I will say that the trailer gets a LOT of fine details correct
There is an entire generation whos 'education' on Senna is a single dramatic movie that was never meant to be a documentary (although most erroneously treat it as such) Senna was an incredibly complex and interesting person. His death immortalized him forever and he continues to be a fascinating character to try and understand. I hope this series does the story justice. Having been deeply involved in F1 during the Senna years it will be difficult for me to watch this facsimile of him but I will say again that I'm pretty impressed with some of the details they got right in the teaser. If that carries to the whole production it may be pretty good.
Michael Schumacher's documentary was very badly done, IMO. But the new generation need to see this and learn who Senna is. I just hope they won't screw it up.
I'm happy to see any and all F1 content. This looks like it could be good. No doubt there will be many inaccuracies and bits where they twist the timeline to fit the narrative, but a drama set in the world of F1 in the 80's and 90's sounds great to me, and I think expecting anything more will lead to disappointment. I'd love to see a drama based on the life of Tazio Nuvolari.
I wonder if they’ll show him purposely torpedoing Prost in Japan, 1990… though not interested enough to bother watching and find out.
Almost done w series and its terrific. Can tell its not typical American production. Seems very realistic to me. Can tell who every driver is just by looks, great casting. Wish would give better insight into how he became such historic talent tho. Was good driver before f1 but then just started dominating? Like how did Jordan become mj when he was cut from jv team?
I watched the first two episodes last night and was quite impressed. It is cast pretty well, and acted well. The details so far are a lot better than many other racing movies I’ve seen. I hope the rest of the series is as good.
@william or anyone else that knows. So is Toleman pronounced: 1) as "toll-man" 2) or "Toll-le-man" If I'm not mistaken, I believe I heard in the series pronounced as "toll-le-man."
The Toleman was actually a really fun car to watch. The livery was great and they sounded great too. That was a great era in F1
This is not perfect but the racing scenes are pretty good. Overall, I was expecting a lot more from this series.
Only two episodes in, but.... zzzzzzzzz... and I don't understand the purpose of this yet. It doesn't feel like the creators do either. At least not yet. I have learned: If you want to pass someone, you only need to pump the throttle. Works every time, which is why they focus on that EVERY TIME Senna makes a critical pass. The director watched too much Fast & Furious. "England" has a single race track that is in the mountains with zero trees and it appears 3 corners. Karting and practice makes you a great F1 driver. You'd think other drivers might have tried this. Senna is a god, then a no-body, then a god, then a nobody. Never any explanation as to why. He just is.
Watched the full series - it could certainly have been worse, but still, it's of limited value IMHO. I think it's a common dilemma for these biopic series, they cannot be coldmly historic and entertaining at the same time, so they end up not really knowing what they're doing.
I watched it in 3 goes a few days ago. Having raced 3 years in the UK the atmosphere on track and off is well portrayed, the actors are excellent, they did a really, really good job. The actual racing scenes are poor but they almost always are (cf Rush, Le Mans 66 etc). The dialogues were very good. The importance of Ayrton to the Brazilian people is shown superbly, as is his empathy with them. I wish there had been more episodes, there were clearly budget limitations, such as his 3 Lotus years which were dealt with very quickly, likewise his Williams stint. Too much focus on Suzuka year after year. The 1994 Imola weekend was very well done it really gets to you if it meant something for you at the time, I had seen Senna, Ratzenberger and JJ Lehto walk by in paddocks countless times in the UK, so it hit me hard. I recall sitting on a Fort Lauderdale beach that sunday afternoon trying to process the shock... Anyway while it is fashionable for the couch brigade to criticize anything racing related on screen I will say very well done.
I have not seen it yet. But I'm kinda with you, when he made his first trip to Detroit in 1984 with Toleman I was maybe the only member of the U.S. press that knew who he was, as I followed him in F3 the prior two years, I KNEW he was going to be great. That said, I talked to him a little each year in Detroit while in the pits on Fri-Sat practice sessions, I only wish I had talked to him more in-depth. He remembered me every year, but never remembered my name - and that was Ok, as I knew he was talking to thousands of people, you cannot remember everyone. I didn't talk to many - but I will say Senna was the main one, and no, selfies didn't exist in my thoughts - never even gave a thought to having someone take a pic of us talking, it simply was not important to me. I've met and talked to a TON of superstars, and have no 'selfies' to show... and that's fine, I have no ego.
I believe it was in 1990 Senna said the Toleman was the best handling car he ever drove. And no, I do not remember which magazine I read it in (the internet didn't exist back then, for the most part) You need to understand we will NEVER see a truly ACCURATE motorsports movie ever again, so we have to take what we can get, and look past any of the non-sensical BS, and enjoy any accuracies that MAY be in them (the shows).
