Warriors of the Road

This song is about the death of Ayrton Senna, a Brazilian racing driver who died on May 1st, 1994. On his fifth lap, due to accidents leading to crowd injury, a slow-moving deployed safety car made all racers slow down. This caused a drop in his car tyre temperature and pressure which, accompanied by Senna immediately making a quick pace on lap 6, his vehicle going at 195 mph was not able to downshift in time when making a tight turn. Unable to make the turn, his vehicle drove straight into the concrete retaining wall at around 145 mph.

Two minutes after crashing, Senna was extracted from his race car by medical staff. Initial treatment took place by the side of the car, with Senna having a weak heartbeat and significant blood loss from his temporal artery being ruptured; At this point, Senna had already lost around 4.5 liters of blood, constituting 90% of his blood volume. Senna sustained fatal skull fractures, brain injuries, and a ruptured temporal artery, a major blood vessel supplying the face and scalp. According to the head of the hospital's emergency department, Maria Teresa Fiandri, any one of these three injuries would likely have killed him.