The cult of Eye-​​Ear-​​Ton (correct pronun­ci­ation) Senna is a worthy one. Not only could even the unini­tiated see his incredible driving talent just by watching a single GP performance, but the way he carried himself and the sensit­ivity he demon­strated in devel­oping the sublime Honda NSX is a perfect valid­ation of top-​​level Motorsport’s appar­ently decadent and anachron­istic existence. He might have been brutal at times. But genius is seldom perfect.

Senna is a hero. And every now and then we need a hero.

While it’s easy to be cynical and write off hero worship of both the deceased individual and discon­tinued car, there’s something about Senna’s style that endures.

Like the cult of Steve Mcqueen that litters aesthet­ically oriented auto blogs all over the WWW, nestling at the heart of the bull***t is a truth: these men repres­ented a kind of untram­melled will-​​to-​​live that was funda­mentally tied into the art of driving. There are a lot of people out there who can identify with that. And, we wager, many of our readers are among them.

Enjoy the video.