The Ayrton Senna Episode (re-release): Celebrating the greatest driver in Formula 1 history and the cautionary tales of driven individuals

The Peter Attia Drive

Peter Attia, MD

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Fitness

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🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate the life of the legendary Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna, 25 years to the day of his tragic death, we are re-releasing this bonus episode. In this 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 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:

Who is Ayrton Senna? [3:47];
How Senna’s death changed the sport [9:52];
The 80s & 90s: a remarkable era of Formula 1 [12:57];
Hypothesizing what caused Senna’s fatal crash [17:47];
Comparing Stewart and Senna, their incredible bravery, and what lessons we can learn from them [23:32];
Best documentaries on racing, and some of Senna’s best moments [31:02];
Gilles Villeneuve, Stefan Bellof, and some of the other greats [39:17];
Why Senna is widely acknowledged as the best of all time [46:17];
Great rivalries and personalities [49:32];
Rendezvous, a high-speed drive through Paris [56:52]; and
More.

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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	Hi everyone, welcome to a bonus episode of the drive. This bonus episode is being released on May 1,
0:49.3	2019, which is the 25th anniversary of the death of Brazilian Formula One legend,
0:56.7	I Art Done Senna. This interview was originally done in the fall of 2018, Paul Conti and I spoke
1:02.8	at length about our mutual admiration for I Art Done, and we actually tied it back into some of
1:08.5	the concepts around an interview we had done earlier around depression. So if you're listening to
1:13.6	this for the first time, you may even find it helpful to go back and to listen to that.
1:18.8	It's sort of hard for me to believe truthfully that this is 25 years later. I remember the Sunday,
1:25.4	May 1, 1994, like it was yesterday, I remember exactly where I was sitting when the news came across.
1:32.8	I was in college at the time. I didn't have a television. I wasn't watching the race,
1:37.4	but it's weird. It's one of those moments that I'm sure many people understand would, you know,
1:40.9	something so profound happens, and everything about that moment is seared in your memory,
1:45.0	including literally where I was sitting, what the floor looked like, what the shelf looked like in
1:50.4	my bookcase, things like that, where my little stereo was sitting. In this episode, we obviously
1:55.4	celebrate the life of Senna and talk about perhaps what could have been. In the show notes, we're
2:00.6	going to add to what we had done in the past and include some of the really exciting and beautiful
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