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It all happened for me one day during one of many stays in South America, more specifically while in Santiago, Chile when I woke up early on a Sunday morning in order to take advantage of the early light to get some good shots of my neighborhood. It was this place and time of the day that was ideal for me; who was a photographer way back then in 1992.

It was on that Sunday in May after shooting a role of film that I decided to go home and catch the Formula one race on television; the Monaco Grand Prix which I had heard so much about but had never seen. If truth be let out I was not a car racing fan at the time as I really knew very little if anything about car races other then the fact that they bored me stiff specially after having seen the American Indy and NASCAR races which like other American sporting activities that include baseball simply held no entertainment for me what so ever.

With regards to formula one this after having seen four races that season even I could see was something different from what I had known before. For instances it was not cars doing laps around a circle as was the case in America but a circuit and I could see a lot to gather my passion and I perhaps would have even become a great fan of the sport had it not been for the one factor. There was one man, "Nigel Mansell" driving for a team called "Williams Renault" who had not only won all four races that season but had lead them all from start to finish. It was not so much that I had anything personal against this English driver but for me who was not a fan of the sport yet and far less one of his the fun of seeing one man win so easily over the rest held no joy for me.

It was on that Sunday while watching this formula one race that I witnessed again how Nigel Mansell was leading this race which like all the others that year he had lead from start to finish but on this occasion he was leading over Ayrton Senna Da Sylva who found himself in second place. I after having watched four races had learnt that in this sport a two second lead was a big deal; in fact sort of like in slalom were half a second is a huge deal though Mansell was not two seconds ahead of Senna but 30 seconds which for all intensive purposes might as well have been an eternity specially since only nine laps were remaining on a course were overtaking was extremely difficult.

With regards to Ayrton Senna I had heard in the four races that I had watched that year that he was one of the best but in truth I saw nothing

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