Rapido (for the Brazilian thrash movement - this is about Ayrton Senna, one of Brazil's finest, and MORE)

War on the track, redline the tac

Brake marker apex the turn

Stuck in the back, back of the pack

Because of some back marker jerk

Championship slipping, scales begin tipping

Nothing to stop downward spiral

Must find a way, not tomorrow today

Road race career life survival

CHORUS

Have to get faster

Precise and secure

Risk more for reward

With the foot to the floor

Brazil had the man, every driver his fan

Invincible arrogant diamond

Transcending his peers, thru deafening cheers

Senna the magical pilot

Guard of F-one, Sao Paulo's son

Imola on Sunday May first

That fateful day, all yanked away

Tamburello curve now cursed

CHORUS

His D-N-A, might be a way

Partake in his essence to win

Cemiterio do Morumbi must go (I believe it’s pronounced: Sem-i-tear-ree-oh doe Moe-rum-bee)

Exhume even though it's a sin

Inject acids in, his spirit within

Mutation spreads quickly inside

New neur-ons firing, like huge packs of lightning

Senna's pulse now along for the ride

LEAD

Possessed shooting past, frighteningly fast

Cheat treatment now taking its toll

Ruthlessly driving, 4 wheel float sliding

Demonically taking control

One final curve, with over correction

Snaps the monoque towards the wall

The front side collapses, flashback May's crash and

Tragedy once again calls

NOTES:

Ayrton Senna

guardian of F1

Senna's spinning Williams

rammed

Tamburello Curve at Imola

Brazil's pulse, but he was everyone's hero

true price of his profession

temperamental, arrogant, ruthless, single-minded, opinionated, obstinate and possessed of a frightening will to win

mistake?

Sunday May 1

The front right side of the car took the full brunt of the impact, a wheel flew off, the suspension crumpled and the Williams catapulted back onto the track. In the split second before the car hit the wall, Senna had managed to slow it to 130mph. The monocoque had stayed intact and a slight movement of Senna's head gave brief cause for hope. But he had suffered massive head injuries. Aerial pictures of the car, blood seeping from it like oil, were seen by millions of television viewers. Senna was lifted from the wreckage and taken by helicopter to the Maggiore Hospital. On board, doctors fought to revive Senna's heart.

brain dead and being kept alive only by artificial means. Under Italian law, doctors are not allowed to turn off the machines for 12 hours. But even this support proved insufficient.

6.40pm: The chief medical officer, Dr Maria Theresa Fiandri, pronounced Ayrton Senna dead.

Back at the track, in the shattered remains of Senna's car, they discovered a furled Austrian flag Senna had intended to dedicate his 42nd grand prix victory to Ratzenberger's memory.

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Senna's injuries were caused by the front right tire with attached suspension piece, which became loose on impact, hit Senna on the head and pierced his visor, and caused a fatal cranial trauma. Images of Senna's battered helmet show a puncture occurred at the top of the visor, just over his right eye. This led to the now most commonly accepted theory that one of the car's suspension bars had come loose and impacted with Senna's head.

dysthanasia, which means that a person has been kept alive improperly after biological death has taken place due to brain injuries so serious that the patient would never have been able to remain alive without mechanical means of support.

rupture of the temporal artery crushing of the brain (which was forced against the wall of the cranium causing oedema and haemorrhage, increasing intra-cranial pressure and causing brain death)

His death was considered by many of his Brazilian fans to be a national tragedy, and the Brazilian government declared three days of national mourning. More than 1 million persons followed Senna's burial in São Paulo. Senna is buried at the Cemitério do Morumbi in his hometown of São Paulo.