#16 - Formula 1 (with Paul Conti): the best drivers, Ayrton Senna, and the cautionary tales of driven individuals

The Peter Attia Drive

Peter Attia, MD

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Fitness

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🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode, Peter and med school colleague (and brilliant psychiatrist) Paul Conti reminisce on their favorite moments in Formula 1 history, their deep admiration for the late Ayrton Senna, and the remarkable careers of their all-time favorite drivers. Paul also helps to illuminate the psychological components that made the luminary drivers great, and the cautionary lessons we can take from their incredible lives.

We discuss:

Ayrton Senna [3:45];
How Senna’s death changed the sport [9:50];
The 80s & 90s: a remarkable era of Formula 1 [12:55];
Hypothesizing what caused Senna’s fatal crash [17:45];
Comparing Stewart and Senna, their incredible bravery, and what lessons we can learn from them [23:30];
Best documentaries on racing, and some of Senna’s best moments [31:00];
Gilles Villeneuve, Stefan Bellof, and some of the other greats [39:15];
Why Senna is widely acknowledged as the best of all time [46:15];
Great rivalries and personalities [49:30];
Rendezvous, a high-speed drive through Paris [56:50]; and
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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to the Peter Atia Drive. I'm your host, Peter Atia.
0:10.0	The drive is a result of my hunger for optimizing performance, health, longevity, critical thinking,
0:15.6	along with a few other obsessions along the way. I've spent the last several years working with
0:19.7	some of the most successful top performing individuals in the world, and this podcast is my attempt
0:24.4	to synthesize what I've learned along the way to help you live a higher quality, more fulfilling life.
0:29.6	If you enjoy this podcast, you can find more information on today's episode and other topics
0:34.2	at peteratia-md.com.
0:41.6	Welcome to the bonus episode of The Drive. My guest for this episode is my dear friend Dr. Paul
0:48.3	Conti, who is not only the most brilliant psychiatrist I've ever met, but also one of the most
0:53.9	amazing Formula One fans. Paul and I on this relatively short episode, at least short for the
1:00.1	metrics of this podcast, we just go on and talk about all of our favorite things in Formula One,
1:05.0	but primarily we talk about the history of Formula One and who are the drivers that we've
1:10.4	loved the most. And of course, one of the things that we discuss in this podcast is that Paul and I
1:14.4	have a number of things in common, not the least of which is our birthday, but our love for Iarton
1:19.2	Senna. And so we talk at length about Senna. And again, I think some of you who might be thinking,
1:24.0	well, I'm not really that interested in Formula One or driving, I still think you'll find a lot
1:27.6	interesting because one of the things that Paul does in this episode is he ties into this discussion
1:33.6	of the great Formula One drivers, a lot of the psychological component of what made them great
1:39.4	and what draws us to them. I will say that, well, as I've talked about before, my son, one of my sons
1:46.4	named after Iarton Senna. And I remember when I suggested to my wife that we should name him,
1:52.8	name our son after Senna, her first thought was who, and then her second thought was what?
1:58.6	But over about six months of this pregnancy, as she got to learn more and more about Senna, she was
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