{"id":15974,"date":"2010-09-03T10:48:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T09:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=15974"},"modified":"2014-06-12T15:53:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T14:53:28","slug":"if-you-no-longer-go-for-a-gap-that-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/if-you-no-longer-go-for-a-gap-that-exists\/","title":{"rendered":"If you no longer go for a gap that exists&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/nsx2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15998\" title=\"nsx2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/nsx2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/08\/nsx2.jpg 580w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/08\/nsx2-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/08\/nsx2-278x191.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/08\/nsx2-526x362.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/08\/nsx2-572x394.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>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&#8217;s apparently decadent and anachronistic existence. He might have been brutal at times. But genius is seldom perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Senna is a hero. And every now and then we need a hero.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s easy to be cynical and write off hero worship of both the deceased individual and discontinued car, there&#8217;s something about Senna&#8217;s style that endures.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the video.<\/p>\n<p>[vimeo]http:\/\/vimeo.com\/13412780[\/vimeo]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>you are no longer a racing driver&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1779,110,1780],"tags":[131,183,261,525],"class_list":["post-15974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-blog","category-people","tag-honda","tag-motorsport","tag-nsx","tag-senna"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>If you no longer go for a gap that exists.... - Influx<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"you are no longer a racing driver...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/if-you-no-longer-go-for-a-gap-that-exists\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"If you no longer go for a gap that exists.... - 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