So I bought the Blu-Ray. Although it's turned out not to be the English version, bloody Amazon, but probably 75% of the interviews are in English so it's okay.

It's a bit of a weird documentary, with no narration, not really what I expected. I'm not sure a non-F1 fan would be anything other than bored, but maybe I'm wrong. I thought the saddest part was Roland Ratzenburger's accident, which I've never seen before.

The disk has the cinema release and an extended version (about an hour longer), which I didn't realise at first because I didn't understand the Portuguese menus . I watched the long version last night, and it has a lot more interviews, most notably lots of clips from a very frank interview with Alain Prost. It's interesting to see that some people say the film paints him as a villan, because I don't think you'd reach that conclusion if you saw the long version. The villan of the piece is really Jean Marie Belestre, but then that's probably deserved.

 

I had a quick look the other day on Amazon and it said release date for the DVD as October,

it does say the Blu-Ray languages are Italian, Portuguese, Japanese - though not in the header.


Balestre falls into the category of "sport god-fathers" like Sepp Blatter, who I despise like any despot dictator

 

I don't think Prost ended the film as a villain.
He was shown as a pall bearer at the funeral.

I loved the film, saw it at the cinema on the release day.

Had to travel quite a long way to do so though.
Odeon told me they have a few prints that will be (and still are) travelling the country for single showings.

 

Funny about the Prost comments. I think he was involved in making the film

 

The Senna movie is on Sky premier this coming Friday (09/03/12).