AND THIS IS HOW THE F1ESTA IS COMING

The revealed matter that explains how the history has arrived to this crucial point as they are now the modern racing times with the biggest importance of history ever, will no longer be a secret to anyone. With only a few phrases the saga began with a legendary Pan-American race, in its first period and among them: the one in 1953 where Felice Bonetto, gave his life on board a prodigious Lancia. So, this has been the first link through immortality. And it could not be different: so, it is when the first stage of racing arrives to the racetrack known then as Magdalena Mixhuca, when the fatal and propitiatory occurred, know with Ricardo Rodriguez as the one who enshrined forever the ritual of high speed. Nine years later, the greatest ambassador of motor racing sport in Mexico, says good bye for ever: is Pedro Rodriguez who gets killed onboard a Ferrari, in Germany in 1971. He participated in the Grand Prix during its early stage between 1963 and 1970. On the other hand Moises Solana, took part only in six; and he was the zing, the third greatest driving in our country. Just like the Rodriguez brothers: he died onboard a racing car, in 1969. Why comments about a party sound apparently sinister? It was all said, we the Mexicans and our culture have the most bustling commemorations on the Day of the Dead. Quite apart from psychology and social anthropology, which explain our attraction to the final ending: its worthy to notice that Ricardo Rodriguez left us one day before November 2 and that last year’s Mexico City Formula 1 race, just like the present days’ race would be celebrated really close to that date, a not so fatal day but celebratory, on the Day of the Dead. Going beyond coincidence itself, it is worth to mention how both competitions underlies with the vertigo… …It is not about the victory itself, although it is an essential reason. It isn’t also about the glamour or the admiration that causes drivers and cars, which is also important. Without morbidity it would be very convenient to find out what is in the bottom of a surprise factor; since any day on the least thought way: a race might enclose sacrifice, grieve and tragedy. If car racing didn’t have the fatality as background they wouldn’t mean a thing. If protagonists didn’t assume ridiculous risks, competitions at full speed would lose all their charm. The deepest “how” in Formula 1: is heroism, the redemption brought about a car racing idol in the name of all of his fans. All that takes us back from Grand Prix of a previous age to the present days and with that, the charm forges even more Mexicans predilection for those epics in four wheels. And so, F1 returns to Mexican land between 1986 and 1992. A time where admiration was turned to those great wheel aces of the new wave in that time:  Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nelson Piquet, Gerhard Berger, Andrea de Cesaris, Michele Alboreto or, Stefan Johansson, but especially the British Lion, Nigel Mansell, and also the brain among all those on the tracks Alain Prost. However among all of them, the one who was paid tribute even when he was not exactly Mexican, but was part of our own for being Brazilian: Ayrton Senna. The most recent and huge idol of all times in Mexico and the world, which also gets drunk of himself and finished lying on the track’s floor, that in 1994. So that is that quite apart from the greatest idols that have been admired. Fascination is planted over all between the great of the greatest, those who have taken a great risk in-depth as their own. Reaching the impossible limits as one day did: Bonetto, Rodriguez brothers, who gave the Mexican R its name, and Solana as well as A. Senna. As can be seen, the F1 ESTA has its own ritual, a solemn cult that would be incomplete without its martyrs. They are who encourage today’s drivers with their full fearlessness legacy. Those which you will admire closely this month’s last weekend. It will be a lifetime experience, you will see.