Monday, May 5, 2014

Salute Senna!



Capping off my Maudlin theme of the just concluded 20th Anniversary of Black Sunday, when Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna died at Imola, Italy during the San Marino GP weekend. Today marks the 20th anniversary of Senna's state funeral in Sao  Paolo, Brazil, where an estimated 500,000 mourners lined the streets to see his casket pass by, as Brazil was observing a three day (holiday) mourning period for arguably one of its greatest athlete's ever...