Today, we’re bringing you an exclusive clip from Asif Kapadia’s SENNA — a docu film chock-full of epitasis and mutiple denouements, and surprisingly it isn’t the stock footage of the high end drama that took place on the race track that will rouse cinephiles and F1 fans alike, but rather, the never before seen, behind-the-scenes footage of closed door, pre-race briefings that demonstrate the fears and safety concerns of what were the world’s best drivers, and the ineptitudes of the governing body of the F1 lead by President (worth noting Frenchmen) Jean-Marie Balestre.
I caught one of the year’s best docs in Park City earlier this year, and this choice clip underlines how Senna’s teammate, and rival Alain Prost’s deliberate faux-pas from the previous year sort of implodes one year to the date later when the 1990 Championship is on the line, and a possible similar outcome appears imminent. The experienced Nelson Piquet verbalizes what everyone is thinking and a Senna, who cried foul falling on deaf ears with the governing body at the end of the 1989 season, simply needs to check out.
Senna debuts theatrically this coming Friday, August 12th via Producers Distribution Agency (PDA).
