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'78, I came to Europe for the first time
to compete outside Brazil

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in the World Championship.

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It was pure driving. Pure racing.

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There wasn't any politics.

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No money involved either,
so it was real racing.

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We didn't think that karting

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would become a career.

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But it's taking on a bigger dimension

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and we're a little worried

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because he will probably race
in Formula One.

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May God always protect him

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from all danger he may face,
that's my greatest fear.

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I want to thank him
for being such a great son,

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for his good and honest work this year.

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That is more important than any title for me.

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Few people really do know my self.

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They just don't understand
what it takes from a racing driver.

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Somebody that has left behind,

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thousands and thousands of miles away,
family and friends

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to live in Europe.

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Being so young and always fighting.

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Nothing ever has come easy.

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The time has come.

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Ayrton is ready to drive a Formula One car
for the first time.

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I think God gave me this chance,

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which I have been waiting for so long.

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And now He is helping me to stay calm,
relaxed, tranquil.

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Well Ayrton, it's a beautiful city

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Iovely narrow streets for walking,
but not for racing, right?

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Yes, exactly. I got here at the last minute

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and I'm impressed
because it's my first time in Monaco.

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I've had a bit of practice

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and, luckily, managed to adapt to the track.

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There's no room for error,
as an error would lead to an accident.

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But so far I'm pretty happy.

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I was already travelling a lot,
reporting on Formula One

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when Ayrton began to stand out.
He was driving for Toleman.

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Toleman wasn't a winning team.

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It wasn't a winning car.

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It was never going to win a race.

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That's why what Ayrton did at Monaco
showed a touch of genius.

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Alain Prost, after a superb start,
has got away in the lead.

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It's Nigel Mansell second,
the two Ferraris third and fourth.

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Niki Lauda is in fifth position.

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Sixth is Rosberg.

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Seventh is Manfred Winkelhock.
Eighth is Ayrton Senna.

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But Senna has come up through the field.

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He started in 13th place
and he's now seventh.

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And off goes Nigel Mansell.

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Ayrton Senna has now passed Keke Rosberg
and is in third place.

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He comes and devours Niki Lauda!

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Ayrton Senna takes second place

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on the most dangerous part of the circuit!

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I think we are watching
the arrival of Ayrton Senna,

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a truly outstanding talent.

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He's catching Alain Prost at
something like three seconds a lap,

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and that is a truly staggering performance.

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Prost is waving his hand at the officials.
He wants to stop the race.

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And who can blame him?

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There is, in fact, from a purist
and a dispassionate point of view,

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no reason to stop the race.

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There's an official in front of me
with a red flag.

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They are going to stop the race.

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And the chequered flag is going up.

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It is incredible!

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Prost is stopping, and Senna
crosses the line before he gets there.

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Ayrton waves his arm wildly!

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He is celebrating as if he has won the race!

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If it went on for a few more laps,

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you can be sure
Ayrton would have taken the lead.

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I had a great chance to win.

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But unless you cross
the finishing line in first place,

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it is impossible to know.

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Formula One is political, it is money,

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and when you are still small,
you have to go through this.

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A tragic result for Senna. However,

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he's not gonna actually be
World Champion this year.

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He will undoubtedly be World Champion
in the future if his career continues.

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Ayrton Senna,
the new star of Formula One!

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On the Formula One podium
for the first time

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after a fantastic performance.

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What about next year?

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Are you going to stay
with the Toleman team?

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- What are your plans now for...
- I don't know.

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I don't know at the moment. It's still...
No decisions and nothing clear.

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We have to wait more time
to see what happens.

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You're not gonna be satisfied until you're
in a winning position though, are you?

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I believe ifyou are doing something
like competing, like motor racing,

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you either do well or forget it.

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Lotus was the perfect place
for Ayrton to move to.

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It was a team that had won championships
and had won many Grand Prix,

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and they worked very, very hard
around Ayrton to give his talent

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all the facilities that it needed to win.

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When I first come to Formula One in '84,

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I was starting,

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so I had so much to learn
and to achieve that anything...

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Any good result was a progress,

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was a motivation.

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Then I changed to a bigger team, to Lotus,

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and I still went up and up and up.

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And I'm still doing it.

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So even when I have some problems,
I look always to the next race.

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Because maybe one race I have no chance,
but next one or the next five will be good

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against one bad one.

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So, you got to try to
make the numbers bigger and bigger.

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Even when he was very young
he already knew what he wanted

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and he would make it happen.

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For example,
he paid extra attention in class

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so he wouldn't have to study at home

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and have more time
to play with his go-kart.

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There's no doubt that Senna came from
a background of privilege.

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His family was very comfortably off.

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Once they recognised that
his ambition was to be a racing driver,

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they had no problem backing
his early efforts in go-karts.

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But it would be a great mistake to think that
he was able to buy his way into Formula One.

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Senna himself realised

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that to make a serious,
lasting impact on Formula One,

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he had to fight his way into it
by virtue of his talent.

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Ayrton was a genius in the rain.

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Whenever the conditions were bad
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he had something else.

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Ayrton Senna wins in Portugal!

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AYRTON SENNA
Winner of Portuguese Grand Prix '85

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The race in Estoril was incredible.

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He lapped every car but one.

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It's marvellous!
It's an extraordinary feeling.

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I'm delighted because
in my second year in Formula One,

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I achieved my first dream,
which was to win a Grand Prix.

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AYRTON SENNA
Winner of Portuguese Grand Prix '85

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It's a unique thing.

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It's like a drug.

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It is something so strong and so intense.

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And once you experience it,
you keep searching for it all the time.

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I'm Mili Okada from Japan TV,

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Fuji TV, and I'm just a TV personality
and not a news reporter so...

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I see. Let's make a picture together.

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I think there are many Japanese girls

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who are fans of Mr Senna.

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I'm so close to Mr Senna and so nervous.

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Come and see Japan, and see you in Japan.

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- Thank you. A little kiss.
- Thank you.

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Bye-bye! Another kiss.

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There's only one word
that describes Ayrton's style,

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and that is "fast. "

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He would take a car
beyond its design capabilities.

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He would brake later, fly into these corners
where the car was just over the edge,

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and somehow
he could dance a dance with that car

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to where it stayed on the track.

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As I watched Ayrton's early career,

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what was very apparent was
his pace and his dedication.

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But in the end,
what you're looking for is an intellect,

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and I thought, "This guy's got what it takes. "

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In the mid-'80s,
McLaren was the team to beat.

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Ron Dennis was the best manager
and Alain Prost was the best driver.

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We all called Prost "The Professor"
because he would do,

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methodically, whatever it took
to be ahead on points.

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If it meant coming fifth,

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he would hold the fifth place
and collect those points

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rather than fighting for a second,
third or first place finish.

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And he certainly understood the politics
of the sport,

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and he played that game
smarter than anyone.

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You're known as
the Professor of Motor Racing

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because you plan everything out
and you know where you're going.

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Is that actually true?

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I'm very realistic,
so I think when I'm competitive,

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I know that I'm competing.
When I'm not, I know I'm not so.

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Why are there no women racing drivers?

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I really don't know exactly
why women are not very competitive

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in motor racing, especially in Formula One.

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But, you know, you are a beautiful woman,
and I know somebody at McLaren

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who likes you very much,
and I can arrange it.

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Alain, you know, if only someone would
teach me how to drive a car,

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a racing car,
I might be able to give up this job and...

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There is nothing important
I could not teach you.

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Does your wife drive you home?

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We're very confident that we have
the best two drivers in the world.

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The two most professional drivers, as well.

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If we're not consistently
in the winning circle next year,

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then we certainly won't be able to
put the blame at the drivers.

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It's a great opportunity for me, professional.

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And as a personal point of view,
I feel very happy to work together with Alain.

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The first year at McLaren
was very decisive in Ayrton's life.

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He was very tense,

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it was like he had the weight of the world
on his shoulders

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because now he had a responsibility

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to prove he really was a top driver.

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Ayrton has, for the first time in his career,
the car able to be World Champion,

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and he doesn't want to
let his chance go anywhere.

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- That's normal and that is going to push us.
- What about you?

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- What about you?
- It's a little bit different.

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So, you're going to let it go?

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I have a little bit more pressure than...
You put me more pressure.

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I think you could see smiles,

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but at the same time
some slightly strange body language,

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as they realised just where they were
and what was going to unfold.

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Alain, who obviously felt
he was well-nested down at McLaren,

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and the young pretender coming in
and clearly threatening that position.

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Both had great intellects
and both were very good racing drivers.

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Beating each other
became far more challenging

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than beating the rest of the field.

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That day, I suddenly realised
that I was no longer driving conscious.

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And I was in a different dimension, for me.

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The circuit for me was a tunnel,
which I was just going, going, going.

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And I realise I was well beyond
my conscious understanding.

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Ayrton was multiple seconds into the lead,
had the race in hand

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with only a handful of laps to go,
and he received a radio message that said,

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"You are so far in the lead, slow down. "

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Ayrton Senna has hit the wall.

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Senna in the barrier! He's out of the car...

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Ayrton Senna is out of his car
and out of this race.

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Ayrton Senna goes out of the lead
of the Monaco Grand Prix.

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Absolutely incredible!

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He never wanted to beat me.
He wanted to humiliate me.

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He wanted to show the people
that he was much stronger.

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Much better. And that was his weakness.

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His post-accident emotion
was pure anger with himself,

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and he couldn't cope with it at all.

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He actually walked back to his apartment,

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and it was two or three hours
before he surfaced.

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I just came so close to perfection
that weekend, that I relax.

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I open windows for mistakes,
and I learned that there.

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And since then

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my progressive comeback, because I lost
some confidence at that moment.

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And progressively, I fight back,

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and I got much stronger after that incident.

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Somehow I got closer to God and that
has been very important for me as a man.

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Monaco was the turning point
in the '88 season.

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Ayrton went on an amazing run,

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winning six of the next eight races.

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Putting him just ahead of Prost
in the championship.

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What happens now, you two?

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Good fun.
We will have good fun from now on.

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Fight. Maybe we fight outside the car.

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I think it's gonna get
more and more exciting, the championship.

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Is it possible to be equal
in the championship?

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- No.
- Shit.

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Can only be one winner.

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Fifteenth race of the season.

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In the small hours, Brazil is waiting

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for Ayrton Senna
to win his first world title in Formula One.

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His childhood dream.

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The pressure was on Ayrton.

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He was on pole,
he was going to be World Champion

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if he won that race,
so the pressure was huge.

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They are going to start, let's go, green light.

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Senna stalled!

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Senna left on the grid.

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Prost took the lead,
Ayrton Senna is way behind.

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There is Ayrton Senna
in fourteenth place.

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I thought, "The Championship is over.

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"It's all over. "

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Senna is already up to eighth place.
He is making a fantastic recovery.

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But then his favourite thing happened,

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it began to rain.

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Senna's now in fourth place.

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Senna's coming,
he's coming, coming, coming!

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Senna is getting close.
Senna's gonna challenge for the lead.

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Ayrton Senna goes for it
and overtakes Prost.

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Ayrton Senna has got the lead.

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I started being thankful
as I was doing the last lap.

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I thanked God.

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I couldn't believe I was actually
going to win the Championship

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with all the anxiety and tension.

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I felt His presence.

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I visualised, I saw God.

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It was a special moment in my life.

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An enormous feeling.

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I have registered it in my memory,

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and it remains a part of me.

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Ayrton Senna of Brazil!

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World Champion of 1988!

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A fantastic race!

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A brilliant win because
he came back from sixteenth place.

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Ayrton, do you feel
like a World Champion now?

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I just feel peace.

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It feels like tons of weight have lifted

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from my head and shoulders.

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And it is hard to comprehend
what being a World Champion is.

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He is an incredible person.

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He is so humble,

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and he raises the image of Brazil abroad.

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He shares his victories with us.

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I admire him so much.

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He's a very brave man.

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That's all I know of him.

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He is our pride.

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One of the few things
we can still be proud of.

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I once asked Ayrton
when he would stop racing.

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Mum, I'll stop
when I become World Champion.

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I knew deep inside it is not true.

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We all know that.

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When the 1988 Championship was over
and he'd won,

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it was plain to see
how he'd become a different person

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because he had, in fact, found himself.

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He discovered what he was about,

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it was a process
which had its closure with that victory.

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At Christmas things happen.

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We make new friends,

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Iike the one I will introduce now.

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He was part of my 1988,

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Ayrton Senna.

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Isn't he cute?

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I have a question.

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Everyone's excited,
but no one more than me,

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because it's hard to speak
now that he's my friend.

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Ayrton, what do you want for Christmas?

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A Christmas present?

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What I really want, I can't say here.

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Why not?

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Censored, but I just want happiness.

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Tell me here.

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Happy New Year.

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Happy 1990.

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Happy '91.

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Happy '92.

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Happy '93.

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The 1989 season was somewhat
less harmonious than the year before.

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Both drivers took on
different levels of aggression,

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especially when racing each other.

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That's when the gloves come off
within a team.

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That's when engineers
stop sharing information.

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That's where drivers start
looking over their shoulders to see

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who is getting what from whom.

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And Ayrton, with his love of truth,

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wasn't as in tune as Alain Prost

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with adding another dimension,
the politics of the sport.

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Senna v Prost, Prost v Senna,

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the order of the grid
is always one or the other.

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It is war between them

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because the French driver Alain Prost

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thinks that his team-mate
has been disloyal towards him.

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And it seems that this quarrel
could have consequences

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for the rest of the season.

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Race by race,
they were growing further apart.

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He said, "This Frenchman...
This Frenchman is hard.

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"He wants war. "

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Sometime after that

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they split completely,
they didn't speak any more.

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Of course, I think French FIA president
Jean-Marie Balestre at the time

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was helpful for Alain
because they were close.

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I'd like you all to welcome
the President of FISA, Mr Balestre.

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Please, gentlemen.

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All the drivers in the world
are looking at you on TV

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because they think, stupidly,
that you are an example.

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It is a big mistake, but they think that.

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I repeat.

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No danger for the end
of the World Championship.

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Very clear.

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Now it depends on you.

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The championship is neck-to-neck.

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Senna has to win the Japanese Grand Prix

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to keep the points battle going on
to the last race.

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Prost knows that if Senna does not finish,
he will be the Formula One Champion.

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Prost is first, Senna is second.

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Prost jumped into the lead.

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Prost makes a better start.

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The opportunity that Senna's looking for,
and he's going through.

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Oh, my goodness, this is fantastic.

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They crash and it is better for Prost.

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If this is the end, Prost wins the title.

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Once again,
only a victory will do for Ayrton Senna.

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Nannini goes by.

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He goes by to take the lead.

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Senna is still in the pit.

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Senna rejoins far behind Nannini.

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It's going to be almost impossible.

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It is all or nothing, five laps to go.

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A suicidal race for Senna
if he tries something.

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Prost saw Ayrton rejoin the race

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and went straight
to the Race Stewards' Office.

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Nannini is first, Senna is second.

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Senna forces it, blocks Nannini.

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Senna overtakes!

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Brazilian flags are waving.

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Everyone is on their feet.

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Ayrton Senna.

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The chequered flag!

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Senna celebrates inside his cockpit.

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He pounds his helmet.

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Ayrton Senna from Brazil!

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Visibly emotional,

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he flips open his visor
and wipes his tears.

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It was a fantastic victory,

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the like of which
I have never seen before.

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It may be in 20 minutes.

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Fucking hell.

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Want a cup of tea?

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It was unheard of
for the podium to be delayed.

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Nigel, Nigel, he missed the chicane.

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He went through the slip road.

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The longer we waited, the more
we feared things were becoming political.

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The decision taken by the Stewards,

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by the Stewards at the Japanese Grand Prix.

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Excludes car number one
and its driver Ayrton Senna

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from the final result of this race.

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Just after the race

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this Giant Screen

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repeatedly showed the accident

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and Senna rejoining the race.

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After reviewing these images,
the stewards concluded

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that because Senna
did not drive through the chicane

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to rejoin to the track,

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he infringed Article 56 of FIA regulations.

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You're the World Champion, Alain?

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Apparently, yes.

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I was not 100% sure, I know the regulation,

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but you never know
how it's going to be interpreted.

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But to be very honest,
I mean, I'm quite happy to leave,

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because I think it becomes absolutely
impossible to work with Ayrton,

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and that's a good end of championship.

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What I'd like to do now

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is show you some footage
which I think is quite relevant.

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Because we're told that you can't use
escape roads to rejoin the race.

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Escape roads are not for escaping through,
they're in fact for stopping in,

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turning round and going out of.

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Very important to remember, no exclusions,

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no penalties, no disqualifications.

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And for that he's excluded
from the Japanese Grand Prix?

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Where's the consistency? It can't be right.

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Alain, you said that
you took a normal racing line.

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I would put it to you
that from the aerial pictures,

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it looked as though
you had turned in quite early.

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It wasn't a normal line at all.

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I won 39 races
and now three championships,

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do you think that I would
do something like this on purpose?

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You know, you know,
I had already turned for the corner,

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maybe a little bit earlier, if you want,
but that was my corner.

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The Court of Appeal pronounces

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a six month suspended ban
of Senna's licence,

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which is a warning
not only for Ayrton Senna,

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but for all drivers,

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and also a $100, 000 fine.

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Even if you are
one of the biggest drivers in the world,

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you don't have the right
to cause a stupid accident.

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The way the whole affair has been treated,

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it's like I have total responsibility
for everything that took place there.

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00:37:10,948 --> 00:37:15,823
I was blamed for everything
and I was penalised for everything.

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I was treated like a criminal.

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And this is totally unacceptable.

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That was a huge blow for Ayrton

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because Balestre's attitude
was even worse than Prost's.

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He almost gave up racing in Formula One.

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Left him alone for a while.

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I gently persuaded him
if you are true to your values,

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if you believe that your values
are correct values,

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then walking away from the dark forces

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that you're faced with in life
just doesn't become an option.

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The 1990 season he came back wiser,
the team is harmonious.

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Prost has gone out of McLaren to Ferrari,

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and Senna is in a perfect position
to compete for the title.

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All drivers go on their limit.

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My limit is different from Prost's,
that is the reality.

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And instead of trying to improve
his own skills,

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he found it easier to attack me.

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Ayrton has a small problem.
He thinks that he can't kill himself

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because he believes in God
and things like this.

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And I think that's very dangerous
for the other drivers.

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Because I believe in God
and have faith in God,

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it doesn't mean I am immortal.

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It doesn't mean I am immune,

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as has been claimed.

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00:39:19,613 --> 00:39:23,278
I am as scared as anyone
of getting hurt,

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especially driving a Formula One car.

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00:39:25,327 --> 00:39:27,284
It's a constant danger.

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Is that him?

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00:39:45,137 --> 00:39:46,252
Who is it?

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00:39:46,347 --> 00:39:48,672
Martin Donnelly.

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I was in the pits. Practice was stopped.

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I hear by different people
there was an accident, was Donnelly.

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Was bad, was too bad, was disaster.

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And I decide to go to the place
to see myself.

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Million things went through my mind.
In the end, I...

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I realised I was not going to
give up my passion,

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even just having seen what I had seen.

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And I had to put myself together,

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and walk out, go to the racing car,
and do it again.

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00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,200
And do it again,
and do it even better than before,

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00:40:59,959 --> 00:41:06,328
because that was the way to kind of cover
that impact it had on me.

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00:41:07,591 --> 00:41:11,802
I was just not ready to give up.
As much as I was scared to continue,

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00:41:11,887 --> 00:41:15,754
I was not ready to give up my aim, my target,
my objective,

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00:41:15,849 --> 00:41:20,178
my passion, my dream, my life. It is my life.

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00:42:05,021 --> 00:42:10,098
As far as I hear, he is out of danger,
life danger,

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which is a lot considering the accident.

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00:42:14,739 --> 00:42:17,775
And as it happened to him,
can happen to any of us.

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00:42:17,867 --> 00:42:19,776
There are some things
that you can calculate,

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00:42:19,869 --> 00:42:23,154
but there are things which are unexpected,

487
00:42:23,247 --> 00:42:26,248
and those unexpected things
are the most dangerous ones,

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00:42:26,333 --> 00:42:27,958
Iike it happened to him today.

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00:42:36,093 --> 00:42:41,003
I hope we don't see those things
in the future.

490
00:42:51,149 --> 00:42:54,102
Amazingly, for the third time in a row,

491
00:42:54,193 --> 00:42:57,147
the championship hinged
on the race in Japan.

492
00:42:59,031 --> 00:43:03,492
But this time if Prost didn't finish,
Ayrton would be champion.

493
00:43:05,162 --> 00:43:08,116
Gentlemen, morning.

494
00:43:08,207 --> 00:43:14,079
Number of laps from green light
to chequered flag will be 53 laps.

495
00:43:14,671 --> 00:43:17,874
Dangerous behaviour
and/or dangerous manoeuvres

496
00:43:18,008 --> 00:43:19,834
will be immediately investigated,

497
00:43:20,176 --> 00:43:22,632
and may lead to suspension of the licence

498
00:43:22,721 --> 00:43:26,172
for one or more
Formula One World Championship events.

499
00:43:26,849 --> 00:43:28,676
Any questions?

500
00:43:29,936 --> 00:43:33,020
There was a big fuck-up last year
with Ayrton.

501
00:43:33,523 --> 00:43:35,562
Why do we have to repeat the same thing?

502
00:43:35,650 --> 00:43:36,930
The safest thing is...

503
00:43:37,026 --> 00:43:40,442
If you miss the chicane,
the stewards stop you.

504
00:43:40,571 --> 00:43:44,189
When you have no traffic, they let you go.

505
00:43:44,283 --> 00:43:47,699
If you have to turn around and go backwards

506
00:43:48,287 --> 00:43:52,035
against another car, that's dangerous.

507
00:43:52,541 --> 00:43:53,739
Okay.

508
00:43:55,377 --> 00:43:56,575
Does everybody feel that way?

509
00:43:56,670 --> 00:43:59,042
- Yeah.
- Yeah.

510
00:43:59,130 --> 00:44:00,874
- Thank you.
- Thank you very much.

511
00:44:03,218 --> 00:44:07,049
I can't stand it. I can't stand this. It's a joke.

512
00:44:07,180 --> 00:44:10,383
After what happened last year,
it's a joke, this situation.

513
00:44:10,475 --> 00:44:14,721
You just proved here... I said nothing,
and you see somebody raising the point,

514
00:44:14,812 --> 00:44:17,979
and you see everybody agreeing.
And last year was really bad for me.

515
00:44:18,524 --> 00:44:21,062
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but I have to leave.

516
00:44:28,116 --> 00:44:31,153
The story down in the pit lane
and on the grid is one of tension.

517
00:44:31,244 --> 00:44:35,491
With the World Championship up for grabs,
everyone is extremely tense.

518
00:44:35,582 --> 00:44:38,832
Ayrton Senna actually walked out
of the drivers' meeting today.

519
00:44:38,919 --> 00:44:40,247
He thinks that the pole position should be

520
00:44:40,337 --> 00:44:42,662
on the left hand side of the grid,
not on the right.

521
00:44:43,256 --> 00:44:46,091
Normally, if the inside was clear,
the inside for sure is better.

522
00:44:47,010 --> 00:44:51,054
Because it's dirty, the outside is better.
Like Hungary, or like...

523
00:44:51,764 --> 00:44:56,509
The racing line is the line
where the cars most normally drive.

524
00:44:56,602 --> 00:44:58,678
It's the fastest line around the track.

525
00:44:59,230 --> 00:45:04,187
It's really important to have
the pole position on the racing line.

526
00:45:05,069 --> 00:45:10,359
If you are on the opposite side, you are on
a part of the track that is rarely used

527
00:45:10,449 --> 00:45:11,611
and has half the grip.

528
00:45:12,159 --> 00:45:15,159
If you have the clear circuit,
you'll get away better

529
00:45:15,245 --> 00:45:16,823
on the outside than the inside.

530
00:45:16,913 --> 00:45:19,202
Because on the inside you have no traction.

531
00:45:19,874 --> 00:45:21,618
We'll have a look.

532
00:45:21,751 --> 00:45:22,782
Please.

533
00:45:22,877 --> 00:45:27,753
But would the Chief Steward, would the FIA,
would Balestre, agree?

534
00:45:29,801 --> 00:45:34,509
Ayrton Senna will be in pole position
for tomorrow's Japanese Grand Prix.

535
00:45:34,597 --> 00:45:36,470
Prost was second fastest.

536
00:45:53,532 --> 00:45:55,738
Pole position was his,

537
00:45:55,825 --> 00:45:59,241
and then suddenly
pole position was mysteriously

538
00:45:59,329 --> 00:46:04,619
moved to the dirty side of the circuit,
which he felt was unjust.

539
00:46:06,461 --> 00:46:08,702
That decision was influenced by Balestre.

540
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:10,504
I know that, we know that.

541
00:46:11,841 --> 00:46:14,047
I was fucked many times by the system.

542
00:46:14,135 --> 00:46:16,708
I told myself, "Today, there's no way. "

543
00:46:16,804 --> 00:46:19,473
Today has to be my way.

544
00:46:19,557 --> 00:46:22,094
I don't care what happens,
it has to be my way.

545
00:46:29,816 --> 00:46:31,560
And Senna sprints away,

546
00:46:31,651 --> 00:46:34,818
but Alain Prost takes the lead!
It's happened!

547
00:46:38,491 --> 00:46:40,531
Senna is trying to go through on the inside...

548
00:46:45,748 --> 00:46:46,911
And a collision.

549
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:48,244
Crash! They both crash.

550
00:46:49,460 --> 00:46:51,334
Senna has been hit.

551
00:46:51,420 --> 00:46:54,042
Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna
have come together again,

552
00:46:54,131 --> 00:46:58,046
and they are both off the racetrack!
This is unbelievable!

553
00:46:58,469 --> 00:47:01,754
And if the race continues,
it is the end of the Championship.

554
00:47:01,847 --> 00:47:03,507
We don't know yet
whether we're going to see a red flag.

555
00:47:03,599 --> 00:47:04,630
We haven't seen any yet,

556
00:47:04,725 --> 00:47:07,050
so it looks as if
the race is going to continue.

557
00:47:07,186 --> 00:47:09,225
The Championship is over.

558
00:47:09,313 --> 00:47:13,310
And Ayrton Senna is the 1990 Champion.

559
00:47:18,822 --> 00:47:23,318
That's a very sad way for
this year's World Championship to finish.

560
00:47:31,500 --> 00:47:34,371
Can you tell us what happened
on the first lap, Ayrton?

561
00:47:34,462 --> 00:47:36,668
Well, unfortunately,
we touched in the first corner

562
00:47:36,755 --> 00:47:40,374
when we were fighting for the lead,
and we both went off.

563
00:47:40,467 --> 00:47:41,878
Do you think that's because
the pole position

564
00:47:41,969 --> 00:47:44,923
is on the wrong side of the track here?
You wanted to change that.

565
00:47:45,013 --> 00:47:48,797
Absolutely. You fight,
you break your...to be on pole,

566
00:47:48,892 --> 00:47:51,050
and then they put you
on the wrong side of the circuit.

567
00:47:51,144 --> 00:47:53,101
How do you feel about
being World Champion?

568
00:47:53,772 --> 00:47:55,432
It's not a bad feeling at all, is it?

569
00:47:55,523 --> 00:47:57,066
Congratulations.

570
00:48:00,653 --> 00:48:05,944
What was very clear with Ayrton,
when he got back,

571
00:48:06,034 --> 00:48:12,154
is his body language, his mannerisms
showed that he was in massive conflict.

572
00:48:14,291 --> 00:48:17,328
He was certainly not proud of himself.

573
00:48:17,419 --> 00:48:20,788
Certainly not revelling in the fact that

574
00:48:20,881 --> 00:48:23,882
this had determined
the World Championship.

575
00:48:26,345 --> 00:48:30,212
Formula One World Championship
for drivers, Ayrton Senna.

576
00:48:31,433 --> 00:48:34,138
I call on the World Champion, Ayrton Senna.

577
00:48:41,192 --> 00:48:42,936
He knew I was right with him.

578
00:48:43,027 --> 00:48:46,028
He moved to the inside line,
going towards the first corner.

579
00:48:46,114 --> 00:48:49,067
I just chased him then,
and he opened the gap.

580
00:48:49,575 --> 00:48:53,074
And knowing me like he does know,

581
00:48:53,162 --> 00:48:57,824
he must realise that if there was a gap,
I was gonna try to overtake him.

582
00:48:57,917 --> 00:49:01,617
Okay. Let me ask you
another difficult question.

583
00:49:01,712 --> 00:49:04,997
If I were to count back
all the world champions,

584
00:49:05,799 --> 00:49:10,377
the number of times they had made contact
with other drivers,

585
00:49:10,470 --> 00:49:13,886
that you in the last 36 months or 48 months

586
00:49:13,974 --> 00:49:17,592
have been in contact with
more other cars and drivers

587
00:49:17,685 --> 00:49:19,974
than they might have done in total.

588
00:49:20,897 --> 00:49:24,147
I find amazing for you to
make such a question, Stewart,

589
00:49:24,233 --> 00:49:28,148
because you are very experienced
and you know a lot about racing,

590
00:49:28,237 --> 00:49:32,449
and you should know that
by being a racing driver

591
00:49:32,575 --> 00:49:34,900
you are under risks all the time.

592
00:49:35,119 --> 00:49:39,033
And by being a racing driver means
you are racing with other people.

593
00:49:39,123 --> 00:49:41,993
And ifyou no longer go for a gap that exists,

594
00:49:42,084 --> 00:49:43,708
you're no longer a racing driver.

595
00:49:43,794 --> 00:49:46,878
Because we are competing.
We are competing to win.

596
00:49:46,964 --> 00:49:51,424
And the main motivation to all of us
is to compete for a victory.

597
00:49:51,510 --> 00:49:53,668
It's not to come third, fourth,
fifth or sixth, right?

598
00:49:53,762 --> 00:49:55,754
But hasn't that always been the case?

599
00:49:55,847 --> 00:49:58,599
But I think it's all irrelevant.
All what you're saying, Jack,

600
00:49:58,683 --> 00:50:00,308
is really irrelevant.

601
00:50:00,435 --> 00:50:04,135
Because I'm a driver that won more races
than anybody over the past three years.

602
00:50:04,272 --> 00:50:07,937
I'm a driver that has been on pole position
more than anybody in history.

603
00:50:08,025 --> 00:50:11,275
And I'm a driver that won two titles
in the past three years.

604
00:50:11,362 --> 00:50:14,446
And I don't think how...
I cannot comprehend how

605
00:50:14,532 --> 00:50:17,698
you can try to turn things around

606
00:50:17,785 --> 00:50:20,454
to say that I've been involved
in more accidents than anybody

607
00:50:20,537 --> 00:50:22,329
because that is not true, as well.

608
00:50:22,831 --> 00:50:25,500
Two of the greatest champions
in the history of Formula One

609
00:50:25,584 --> 00:50:27,078
ended up in the sand
and wasted a Championship.

610
00:50:27,169 --> 00:50:30,372
Each accused the other,
but Prost was hurt the most.

611
00:50:30,464 --> 00:50:32,006
Let's listen to his extreme reaction.

612
00:50:32,090 --> 00:50:34,961
I wanted to punch him in the face...

613
00:50:35,051 --> 00:50:38,634
but I was so disgusted,

614
00:50:38,721 --> 00:50:40,880
I could not do it.

615
00:50:40,974 --> 00:50:42,432
He revolts me.

616
00:50:43,184 --> 00:50:47,312
Senna versus Prost, which went on
for a couple of seasons, well...

617
00:50:47,438 --> 00:50:49,431
It was just absolutely wonderful
for Formula One's appeal.

618
00:50:49,523 --> 00:50:52,097
Some sports news now.
It is the end of a love story.

619
00:50:52,651 --> 00:50:55,736
The television ratings improved, you know,
everything went up.

620
00:50:55,821 --> 00:50:57,149
People talked about it.

621
00:50:57,281 --> 00:51:00,447
It was controversial, shocking, fascinating.

622
00:51:02,995 --> 00:51:05,782
The success of the sport also grew,
you know.

623
00:51:05,872 --> 00:51:08,244
Commercially and...
Bernie Ecclestone was very clever

624
00:51:08,333 --> 00:51:10,871
in the way they distribute television.

625
00:51:11,002 --> 00:51:13,209
But to keep an audience,
you need personalities

626
00:51:13,338 --> 00:51:16,671
and, of course,
the Prost-Senna story was a big hit.

627
00:51:17,509 --> 00:51:20,130
And Ayrton became very famous
outside the sport,

628
00:51:20,220 --> 00:51:24,169
thanks to the impact of Formula One on TV.

629
00:51:30,187 --> 00:51:34,315
I feel so worried for the people because...

630
00:51:35,025 --> 00:51:36,306
And we push them away.

631
00:51:36,402 --> 00:51:40,779
They're nice people and it's not a good
feeling to see them being pushed away.

632
00:51:40,864 --> 00:51:43,438
I feel so sorry, you know.

633
00:51:49,039 --> 00:51:51,364
In Brazil it was very different.

634
00:51:52,334 --> 00:51:56,201
The people were unhappy
under the regime that was ruling them.

635
00:51:57,672 --> 00:52:00,293
Poverty was just desperate.

636
00:52:00,383 --> 00:52:04,381
So his appeal there, at a hard time,
was extraordinary.

637
00:52:05,888 --> 00:52:10,846
The situation in Brazil
was very negative and depressing.

638
00:52:11,936 --> 00:52:16,479
But what happened is,
when Ayrton won numerous times,

639
00:52:16,565 --> 00:52:20,894
instead of trying to hide
his Brazilian origins, as others did,

640
00:52:21,111 --> 00:52:24,361
he did the opposite,
he'd wave the national flag.

641
00:52:24,740 --> 00:52:27,277
Ayrton would do this every Sunday.

642
00:52:27,534 --> 00:52:32,362
And people were inspired,
that's why they loved him.

643
00:52:43,883 --> 00:52:47,583
Ayrton had never won
the Brazilian Grand Prix.

644
00:52:48,095 --> 00:52:54,430
Ever since he'd been in Formula One,
it was his dream to win at home.

645
00:52:58,856 --> 00:53:01,181
The Brazilian Grand Prix is about to start.

646
00:53:01,275 --> 00:53:02,983
Red light, green light.

647
00:53:03,068 --> 00:53:04,692
He starts well.

648
00:53:05,028 --> 00:53:06,226
Come on, Senna!

649
00:53:06,405 --> 00:53:08,646
And Senna gets away in the lead.

650
00:53:19,626 --> 00:53:21,914
Ayrton pulled out a lead.

651
00:53:22,003 --> 00:53:26,830
He was then, really,
faced with a very easy race win.

652
00:53:32,972 --> 00:53:35,048
Here is Senna... It's raining.

653
00:53:35,140 --> 00:53:36,220
It's raining, stop this.

654
00:53:39,019 --> 00:53:41,688
And then, the gearbox jammed,

655
00:53:41,772 --> 00:53:45,306
and he was faced with several laps to go

656
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:47,559
only having a sixth gear.

657
00:53:50,071 --> 00:53:54,532
It should have been impossible to drive
a Formula One car stuck in sixth gear.

658
00:53:54,909 --> 00:53:58,989
He wanted to stop.
He couldn't drive any more.

659
00:53:59,664 --> 00:54:03,827
But he had tried so many times to win
the Brazilian Grand Prix,

660
00:54:04,168 --> 00:54:07,371
that he found a special inner strength.

661
00:54:17,264 --> 00:54:20,265
After this corner,
Senna is on the home straight.

662
00:54:20,350 --> 00:54:21,595
He is going to win.

663
00:54:21,685 --> 00:54:27,308
Ayrton, Ayrton... Ayrton Senna from Brazil!

664
00:54:30,277 --> 00:54:35,187
Leading from start to finish,
he wins at Interlagos!

665
00:54:36,658 --> 00:54:39,861
A great victory for Senna.

666
00:54:47,668 --> 00:54:49,162
I don't believe it.

667
00:54:54,925 --> 00:54:57,594
Fucking hell,

668
00:54:58,971 --> 00:55:00,797
I've won.

669
00:55:20,908 --> 00:55:25,369
Prost, you son of a bitch!

670
00:55:28,499 --> 00:55:30,705
He won, then passed out.

671
00:55:32,711 --> 00:55:35,000
It was his most heroic moment.

672
00:55:54,774 --> 00:55:56,731
Because of the huge physical effort,

673
00:55:56,818 --> 00:56:00,317
I had muscle spasm
in my shoulders and neck.

674
00:56:01,405 --> 00:56:03,232
The pain was absurd.

675
00:56:04,367 --> 00:56:07,486
The physical and mental stress this weekend
was huge.

676
00:56:08,871 --> 00:56:10,579
But there could only be one result.

677
00:56:10,664 --> 00:56:13,701
Finishing the race with nothing left.

678
00:56:16,587 --> 00:56:17,962
What's wrong?

679
00:56:19,089 --> 00:56:21,662
My shoulders, my shoulders.

680
00:56:23,969 --> 00:56:25,593
Just my shoulders.

681
00:56:29,307 --> 00:56:31,264
Come here, Dad. Come here.

682
00:56:31,810 --> 00:56:32,924
Come here!

683
00:56:34,479 --> 00:56:36,270
Touch me very gently.

684
00:56:40,985 --> 00:56:42,064
Don't touch me.

685
00:56:42,153 --> 00:56:43,777
Calm down, Ayrton.

686
00:56:45,156 --> 00:56:46,698
Don't touch me!

687
00:56:46,824 --> 00:56:47,903
Do you need any help?

688
00:56:47,992 --> 00:56:50,280
Bring the flag for me.

689
00:56:51,704 --> 00:56:53,328
I fought so hard.

690
00:56:53,497 --> 00:56:58,075
I needed to finish, I needed to finish first

691
00:56:58,919 --> 00:57:00,710
because He is greater than everyone

692
00:57:00,796 --> 00:57:03,121
and He gave me this race.

693
00:57:03,215 --> 00:57:05,836
And that is what happened.

694
00:57:05,967 --> 00:57:08,672
God gave me this race and I am very happy.

695
00:57:09,054 --> 00:57:10,133
It was very exciting.

696
00:58:00,353 --> 00:58:04,350
Brazil cherishes your victory, Senna.
Congratulations.

697
00:58:04,523 --> 00:58:06,931
Thank you, Brazil, thank you, fans.

698
00:58:07,026 --> 00:58:10,608
The human heat this weekend was so great

699
00:58:10,696 --> 00:58:13,697
that we had to win this time.

700
00:58:13,782 --> 00:58:15,609
It couldn't be any other way.

701
00:58:15,784 --> 00:58:16,863
We did it.

702
00:58:50,526 --> 00:58:53,729
Life can be very difficult in Brazil.
You have...

703
00:58:54,404 --> 00:58:59,909
Brazil have all the extremes.
You have the fantastic nature.

704
00:59:00,077 --> 00:59:04,074
You can have all the good material things
that money can buy.

705
00:59:04,664 --> 00:59:07,155
But at the same time,
you have lots of problems.

706
00:59:07,250 --> 00:59:13,253
Social problems and poverty.
Some violence as a consequence.

707
00:59:14,048 --> 00:59:15,542
I try to help

708
00:59:16,759 --> 00:59:19,713
a little bit. For children, particularly.

709
00:59:22,223 --> 00:59:29,186
Because Ayrton
was so widely known in Brazil,

710
00:59:29,647 --> 00:59:32,137
many people would ask him for help,

711
00:59:33,609 --> 00:59:37,440
personal requests, hospitals,

712
00:59:37,529 --> 00:59:41,396
charities would ask him for help for instance.

713
00:59:43,285 --> 00:59:46,867
Ayrton would donate
and keep it going without fail.

714
00:59:47,789 --> 00:59:54,123
But, he no longer
wanted to make random donations.

715
00:59:54,504 --> 00:59:58,833
He wanted to develop something,
plan it, organise it,

716
00:59:59,300 --> 01:00:03,796
to help Brazil, especially children.

717
01:00:15,357 --> 01:00:19,307
Ayrton in '91 was in great form.

718
01:00:20,070 --> 01:00:22,525
I think it was his strongest year.

719
01:00:22,614 --> 01:00:26,861
He won seven races,
constantly on pole position.

720
01:00:26,951 --> 01:00:29,525
The intensity was every bit as high as ever.

721
01:00:35,084 --> 01:00:38,583
But there just seemed to be
a further wisdom,

722
01:00:38,671 --> 01:00:40,628
a further bit of growth.

723
01:01:03,904 --> 01:01:06,229
But then the car bit him hard.

724
01:01:07,699 --> 01:01:12,325
For the first time he really thought
he could be hurt in a Formula One car.

725
01:01:25,049 --> 01:01:26,876
Neurological examination

726
01:01:26,967 --> 01:01:29,838
to check the chest
and the blood pressure, the abdomen

727
01:01:30,054 --> 01:01:31,713
and the limbs.

728
01:01:31,805 --> 01:01:34,841
- And how did you feel about him?
- He's fine. He's good.

729
01:01:34,933 --> 01:01:38,017
- No problems to worry about?
- No, none at all. No.

730
01:01:40,021 --> 01:01:44,979
It's the deepest personal relationship
that I've ever had with any driver.

731
01:01:45,777 --> 01:01:50,355
Whenever I got to the circuit
and ran into Senna,

732
01:01:50,448 --> 01:01:54,196
he was usually being interviewed
or surrounded by people.

733
01:01:54,285 --> 01:01:59,243
And the moment he saw me, his face
would always light up with a beautiful grin.

734
01:01:59,874 --> 01:02:02,791
Because he had that wonderful humility,

735
01:02:02,877 --> 01:02:06,328
which is not common
amongst racing drivers.

736
01:02:08,465 --> 01:02:10,588
- All right then.
- Pleasure.

737
01:02:12,261 --> 01:02:13,589
Be careful.

738
01:02:13,679 --> 01:02:15,588
You've still got too much to do.

739
01:02:15,681 --> 01:02:17,258
Yes, a few more.

740
01:02:22,229 --> 01:02:24,351
Question? Yes.

741
01:02:25,565 --> 01:02:30,441
We talked about the chicanes
and the barriers

742
01:02:30,528 --> 01:02:32,900
that we had there with the tyres.

743
01:02:32,989 --> 01:02:34,613
Ifyou happen to hit those tyres,

744
01:02:34,741 --> 01:02:37,314
it's very likely that the tyres
throw you up in the air

745
01:02:37,451 --> 01:02:39,658
and you end up rolling.

746
01:02:39,745 --> 01:02:41,702
That's what happened with me in Mexico

747
01:02:42,164 --> 01:02:44,951
and that can happen here with other people.

748
01:02:45,251 --> 01:02:48,251
I agree that for the moment

749
01:02:48,337 --> 01:02:51,706
it's not the ideal thing that we have done.

750
01:02:52,257 --> 01:02:56,089
The President
has talked yesterday with Mr Moll.

751
01:02:56,178 --> 01:02:59,463
No, no, no, forget Mr Moll.

752
01:02:59,556 --> 01:03:01,383
And he has...

753
01:03:01,683 --> 01:03:02,798
Forget...

754
01:03:02,892 --> 01:03:05,134
Okay, the President of FlSA...

755
01:03:05,437 --> 01:03:08,521
No, forget the President.

756
01:03:08,606 --> 01:03:12,520
Now speak for the question of Mr Senna.

757
01:03:12,610 --> 01:03:16,690
About what we do today for the race.

758
01:03:16,781 --> 01:03:19,022
For the race we can do anything.

759
01:03:19,116 --> 01:03:21,821
I think it's better to
not have those tyres there.

760
01:03:21,994 --> 01:03:26,074
I happened to lose the braking point
at the first chicane yesterday.

761
01:03:26,165 --> 01:03:29,949
Let me finish, let me finish!

762
01:03:30,127 --> 01:03:33,412
And as I drove straight,
it was blocked, the road.

763
01:03:33,505 --> 01:03:34,620
And I couldn't turn back.

764
01:03:34,715 --> 01:03:39,460
If we move the tyres,
we must place the cones.

765
01:03:39,594 --> 01:03:43,971
Yes, that's fine.
And that way there is a run-off area...

766
01:03:44,057 --> 01:03:45,088
Yes.

767
01:03:46,101 --> 01:03:50,098
No, you must restart from the same place.

768
01:03:50,188 --> 01:03:53,473
Because you must respect
the distance of the race.

769
01:03:53,608 --> 01:03:55,102
You cannot come back.

770
01:03:55,193 --> 01:04:00,317
I'm sorry, that is the regulation,
it is the regulation!

771
01:04:00,448 --> 01:04:03,235
It's written in the regulation,
we got the letter yesterday.

772
01:04:03,325 --> 01:04:05,152
Page three.

773
01:04:08,997 --> 01:04:12,164
Here, the last two paragraphs on that page.

774
01:04:20,342 --> 01:04:23,212
Very good penalty for you.

775
01:04:24,012 --> 01:04:26,254
Jean-Marie, it's the same.

776
01:04:26,347 --> 01:04:30,012
No problem, Ayrton, no problem.

777
01:04:30,101 --> 01:04:33,185
Whatever is the decision,
it's the right decision, Jean-Marie.

778
01:04:33,271 --> 01:04:34,302
You must understand.

779
01:04:34,397 --> 01:04:36,804
The best decision is my decision.

780
01:04:39,485 --> 01:04:42,320
I have a feeling for that.

781
01:04:42,404 --> 01:04:45,571
No, because you don't know my decision.

782
01:04:45,658 --> 01:04:48,742
It's the best every time, my decision.

783
01:04:48,869 --> 01:04:50,280
My decision is...

784
01:04:50,370 --> 01:04:54,617
Democratic vote, only the drivers.

785
01:04:54,708 --> 01:04:56,997
By hand.

786
01:05:01,881 --> 01:05:08,762
Who are in favour that
we replace the tyres by the cones?

787
01:05:10,014 --> 01:05:11,045
Your hand.

788
01:05:12,225 --> 01:05:14,632
Stop.

789
01:05:14,727 --> 01:05:16,969
Against?

790
01:05:17,063 --> 01:05:20,977
Abstention? Everybody agree, okay?

791
01:05:21,066 --> 01:05:25,562
Immediately, the work.
You replace the tyres by the cones, okay?

792
01:05:34,746 --> 01:05:37,747
Alain, what happened
going into that chicane?

793
01:05:37,874 --> 01:05:41,325
I tried to overtake Senna. It was...

794
01:05:42,045 --> 01:05:45,877
He blocked me during the whole race,
not very correct.

795
01:05:47,550 --> 01:05:49,293
I think everyone knows Prost by now.

796
01:05:49,385 --> 01:05:52,801
He is always complaining
either about the car, or the tyres,

797
01:05:52,889 --> 01:05:57,716
or the team, or the mechanics, or the fuel,
or the other drivers or the circuit.

798
01:05:57,852 --> 01:06:00,390
Always somebody else to blame.
It's never his fault.

799
01:06:00,479 --> 01:06:01,558
Yeah, no problem,

800
01:06:01,647 --> 01:06:05,479
but I have nothing to lose.
I can't win the Championship,

801
01:06:05,567 --> 01:06:11,154
but if I find him again the same way,
if he is correct the same way, I push him out.

802
01:06:13,867 --> 01:06:18,114
Prost was sacked from Ferrari
because he criticised the car.

803
01:06:19,039 --> 01:06:21,993
The only thing he could do, really,
was to take a year off,

804
01:06:22,083 --> 01:06:24,242
telling everybody he was on a sabbatical.

805
01:06:45,439 --> 01:06:48,523
If I finish second place,
the Championship will be over.

806
01:06:48,609 --> 01:06:50,815
If Mansell does not win,

807
01:06:50,902 --> 01:06:54,271
then it's almost certain
that the Championship will be over, as well.

808
01:07:16,719 --> 01:07:20,052
Mansell tries to overtake,
but he goes straight on!

809
01:07:20,139 --> 01:07:22,712
Mansell goes straight on!

810
01:07:22,850 --> 01:07:27,013
The World Championship is over
because he can't restart!

811
01:07:27,604 --> 01:07:33,274
Ayrton Senna from Brazil,
Triple World Champion!

812
01:07:33,735 --> 01:07:38,231
A whole life dedicated to this moment

813
01:07:39,324 --> 01:07:42,823
by a genius of international sport.

814
01:07:42,911 --> 01:07:45,947
Triple World Champion,
and many titles lie ahead.

815
01:07:46,080 --> 01:07:47,989
And he is still only 31 years old.

816
01:07:48,124 --> 01:07:51,789
Thirty-three victories, three World Titles.

817
01:07:51,919 --> 01:07:56,747
Breaking record after record.
Celebrating as only Senna does.

818
01:07:56,841 --> 01:08:02,380
Ayrton Senna's third world title ensures that
he will be ranked among the all-time greats.

819
01:08:25,410 --> 01:08:27,283
This is a very special gift to me.

820
01:08:27,370 --> 01:08:28,912
I thank you from my heart.

821
01:08:50,726 --> 01:08:53,810
I kissed Senna's left hand, Triple Champion.

822
01:08:53,895 --> 01:08:58,308
I want Senna.
I want to hug and kiss him.

823
01:08:58,400 --> 01:09:00,439
I have a box
full of paper cuttings and pictures.

824
01:09:00,527 --> 01:09:02,104
Everything you can imagine.

825
01:09:02,195 --> 01:09:04,567
He is the only good thing in Brazil.

826
01:09:06,616 --> 01:09:10,364
After that third World Championship,
I saw another Senna.

827
01:09:10,453 --> 01:09:15,992
He was very satisfied, very confident.
He knew the sport better than ever.

828
01:09:16,083 --> 01:09:19,950
He saw it with real eyes,
for the good and the bad,

829
01:09:20,045 --> 01:09:23,295
and he still loved it
as much as anyone in the paddock.

830
01:09:29,304 --> 01:09:31,795
I think it is an incredible party

831
01:09:31,890 --> 01:09:34,974
and anything goes.

832
01:09:35,060 --> 01:09:37,218
Did you talk about Formula One today?

833
01:09:37,312 --> 01:09:40,811
Formula One is so square, today is Carnival.

834
01:09:47,405 --> 01:09:51,449
Have any of your girlfriends asked,
"Go faster, Ayrton"?

835
01:09:56,622 --> 01:09:58,164
Yes.

836
01:10:00,417 --> 01:10:02,374
To Ayrton,
becoming Triple World Champion

837
01:10:02,461 --> 01:10:05,912
was the culmination
of a script that he wrote for himself

838
01:10:06,006 --> 01:10:07,714
before he even entered Formula One

839
01:10:07,799 --> 01:10:11,133
because he knew
he was capable of that and much more.

840
01:10:11,928 --> 01:10:15,262
He was already the idol of Brazilian sport,

841
01:10:16,099 --> 01:10:19,764
and now he became
a great idol of world sport.

842
01:10:27,318 --> 01:10:30,936
There is a great desire in me of improving.

843
01:10:31,781 --> 01:10:34,781
Getting better. That makes me happy.

844
01:10:34,909 --> 01:10:39,487
And every time that I feel
I am slowing down my learning process,

845
01:10:39,622 --> 01:10:43,240
my learning curve is getting flatter,
or whatever,

846
01:10:43,333 --> 01:10:45,955
then it doesn't make me very happy.

847
01:10:47,337 --> 01:10:52,580
And that applies not only as a professional,
as a racing driver, but also as a man.

848
01:10:53,843 --> 01:10:55,172
Of course,

849
01:10:56,971 --> 01:11:01,218
I shall have a lot more to learn as a man
than a racing driver

850
01:11:01,309 --> 01:11:04,594
because my career
could last not many years.

851
01:11:05,271 --> 01:11:08,557
My life hopefully will go still for a long time.

852
01:11:09,650 --> 01:11:14,146
Maybe I'm only at
the half of my life right now,

853
01:11:16,240 --> 01:11:20,818
so there is a lot to go, a lot to learn,
a lot to do still in life.

854
01:11:21,995 --> 01:11:26,456
And happiness will come
when I feel complete as a whole,

855
01:11:27,167 --> 01:11:29,919
which definitely I don't feel today.

856
01:11:30,003 --> 01:11:33,123
But I have plenty of time to fulfil that, too.

857
01:11:45,309 --> 01:11:49,354
For the next season,
the level of competition was distorted

858
01:11:49,480 --> 01:11:53,098
by what was going on technically
with the Williams car.

859
01:11:55,486 --> 01:12:00,278
The car balanced itself.
Each corner was controlled by a computer.

860
01:12:02,826 --> 01:12:07,038
All the driver had to do was put his
right foot down and go as fast as possible,

861
01:12:07,164 --> 01:12:10,782
so in a car without that,
you were at a serious disadvantage.

862
01:12:11,334 --> 01:12:14,834
McLaren are still well off
the Williams-Renault pace,

863
01:12:14,921 --> 01:12:18,586
with the result that
three times World Champion Ayrton Senna

864
01:12:18,675 --> 01:12:21,344
has no chance of retaining his title.

865
01:12:23,137 --> 01:12:26,138
When you go into this sort of

866
01:12:28,809 --> 01:12:30,352
electronic war,

867
01:12:33,522 --> 01:12:37,935
you can find yourself completely stuck.

868
01:12:38,861 --> 01:12:43,522
The electronics do a given situation,

869
01:12:44,157 --> 01:12:46,613
and no matter who you put in the car,

870
01:12:46,702 --> 01:12:49,239
the electronics will do the work
and not the driver.

871
01:12:50,372 --> 01:12:53,207
And I don't think that is really what you want

872
01:12:53,291 --> 01:12:56,874
to have a truly World Championship

873
01:12:58,963 --> 01:13:00,042
of drivers.

874
01:13:00,131 --> 01:13:01,625
The negotiations are long,

875
01:13:01,716 --> 01:13:04,503
and we still don't know
who Alain Prost's team mate will be.

876
01:13:04,719 --> 01:13:07,044
The Triple World Champion

877
01:13:07,138 --> 01:13:08,965
signed a two-year contract with Williams.

878
01:13:09,056 --> 01:13:11,215
He will start testing the car this week.

879
01:13:13,686 --> 01:13:15,725
The only thing I asked in the contract

880
01:13:16,021 --> 01:13:19,058
was that I don't want to be
a teammate with Ayrton.

881
01:13:19,316 --> 01:13:20,858
It has to be clear.

882
01:13:20,943 --> 01:13:23,231
And they had accepted that very quickly.

883
01:13:23,320 --> 01:13:25,111
And said, "No, it's not our intention. "

884
01:13:25,197 --> 01:13:27,604
That is the only thing I asked in the contract.

885
01:13:27,699 --> 01:13:29,277
Because I wanted to be a World Champion.

886
01:13:29,367 --> 01:13:30,743
I did not want to lose the opportunity.

887
01:13:32,495 --> 01:13:34,784
It's no secret that I've been

888
01:13:35,582 --> 01:13:38,369
trying very hard to get some...

889
01:13:41,129 --> 01:13:43,168
Some deal with Williams.

890
01:13:44,465 --> 01:13:46,541
Situation's very complex.

891
01:13:47,802 --> 01:13:49,082
It is...

892
01:13:51,639 --> 01:13:54,343
It's not nice. It's not clear either.

893
01:13:59,938 --> 01:14:02,560
I am very certain of one thing.

894
01:14:03,358 --> 01:14:07,522
I am the one who has most to lose

895
01:14:07,654 --> 01:14:10,655
if I have to stop for one year or more.

896
01:14:10,782 --> 01:14:14,649
Because I am at the peak of my career,

897
01:14:14,744 --> 01:14:19,620
and the career of a Formula One driver
is limited.

898
01:14:22,502 --> 01:14:27,247
So no one has
more to lose than myself if I stop,

899
01:14:27,340 --> 01:14:30,625
professionally and in my personal life.

900
01:14:46,650 --> 01:14:50,979
In 1993, Ayrton's driving was pure genius.

901
01:14:51,154 --> 01:14:52,981
For me, it was the best season.

902
01:14:55,533 --> 01:14:59,531
He did accomplish
some of his greatest drives.

903
01:15:00,413 --> 01:15:04,576
Even though he spent most of his time
looking at the back of a Williams car,

904
01:15:04,667 --> 01:15:06,494
which was much faster than his.

905
01:15:08,421 --> 01:15:10,129
French racing driver Alain Prost

906
01:15:10,214 --> 01:15:13,749
has won the Formula One World Drivers'
Championship for the 4th time...

907
01:15:13,843 --> 01:15:17,176
Prost won the championship
and duly retired,

908
01:15:17,262 --> 01:15:19,172
thus getting out of the way.

909
01:15:20,849 --> 01:15:24,598
It seems like a little goodbye
from you to McLaren.

910
01:15:24,686 --> 01:15:28,020
Do you think
it was the last season for McLaren?

911
01:15:28,106 --> 01:15:30,514
I think so. I think it will be my last season.

912
01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:42,783
Let's try and do it the best we can
for both of us.

913
01:15:42,912 --> 01:15:44,323
Of course.

914
01:15:44,413 --> 01:15:48,541
Okay, we'll put behind us what happened.

915
01:15:49,877 --> 01:15:51,122
For sure.

916
01:15:51,212 --> 01:15:52,410
Good.

917
01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:57,542
Even without you saying anything,
that was my goal.

918
01:15:57,718 --> 01:15:58,880
Yeah, okay.

919
01:15:59,052 --> 01:16:00,962
Even without talking to you,
ifwe didn't talk at all,

920
01:16:01,054 --> 01:16:05,930
I wouldn't change...
I would just do exactly as I always tried.

921
01:16:14,734 --> 01:16:17,818
Ayrton, what did Ron Dennis say to you
when you first got from the car?

922
01:16:18,613 --> 01:16:21,483
It's never too late to change your mind.

923
01:16:24,243 --> 01:16:27,694
But anyway,
he said he was happy for me, and...

924
01:16:27,788 --> 01:16:30,955
It's funny, but that's what he told me, too.

925
01:16:31,083 --> 01:16:32,411
That's Ron!

926
01:16:35,379 --> 01:16:39,127
I said, you know, we must keep
the good times, the good moments,

927
01:16:39,258 --> 01:16:42,626
and let's finish that way,
finish with the good things.

928
01:16:51,436 --> 01:16:55,730
It was Senna's last race for McLaren,

929
01:16:56,733 --> 01:16:59,058
Prost's last race for Williams.

930
01:16:59,527 --> 01:17:02,444
And although nobody knew at the time,

931
01:17:02,530 --> 01:17:06,824
it was the last time
either of them would be on the podium.

932
01:17:33,977 --> 01:17:36,847
Ladies and gentlemen,
Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna.

933
01:17:42,109 --> 01:17:48,029
Ayrton is arguably the best driver available,
the best driver currently racing.

934
01:17:48,824 --> 01:17:50,864
The team is geared to being successful,

935
01:17:50,951 --> 01:17:56,290
all our partners, investors, sponsors,
expect that of us,

936
01:17:56,415 --> 01:18:00,364
and that is therefore
the best piece of equipment, if you like,

937
01:18:00,460 --> 01:18:04,588
you could put in the machine
to deliver to our requirements.

938
01:18:04,673 --> 01:18:06,831
The International Motor Sports Federation

939
01:18:06,967 --> 01:18:10,003
has banned some of
the controversial computer devices

940
01:18:10,136 --> 01:18:13,090
which help drivers
in Formula One motor racing.

941
01:18:13,181 --> 01:18:16,764
The ban is designed to stop the domination
of the richest Formula One teams,

942
01:18:16,851 --> 01:18:19,603
Iike Williams-Renault, the World Champions.

943
01:18:22,607 --> 01:18:24,480
Ayrton Senna is in a race against time.

944
01:18:24,650 --> 01:18:27,604
He needs to integrate
into his team and adjust to the car.

945
01:18:27,695 --> 01:18:30,565
He says that he is uncomfortable
with little space.

946
01:18:30,656 --> 01:18:31,771
This car doesn't have

947
01:18:31,865 --> 01:18:35,317
the electronic components
used on last year's cars.

948
01:18:35,494 --> 01:18:37,321
It doesn't have traction control,

949
01:18:37,454 --> 01:18:39,992
special brakes or electronic suspension.

950
01:18:40,082 --> 01:18:45,752
The cars are immediately less stable

951
01:18:46,254 --> 01:18:48,662
without the electronic suspension.

952
01:18:50,008 --> 01:18:54,005
As a consequence, they are harder to drive,

953
01:18:54,345 --> 01:18:59,422
and we'll have more cars
spinning and going off the track.

954
01:19:00,184 --> 01:19:04,513
More cars spinning
is more excitement for the viewers,

955
01:19:04,981 --> 01:19:07,602
and for us, if nothing happens to the driver.

956
01:19:07,691 --> 01:19:11,060
Otherwise it's not very comfortable.

957
01:19:12,029 --> 01:19:13,938
Senna in second place.

958
01:19:15,866 --> 01:19:18,357
Almost 8 seconds between them now.

959
01:19:36,761 --> 01:19:39,715
We're certainly not happy with the way

960
01:19:40,973 --> 01:19:44,425
things are with the car
right as they are at the moment.

961
01:19:44,518 --> 01:19:46,725
The handling isn't particularly good.

962
01:19:52,067 --> 01:19:54,938
The cars weren't supposed to
have any of the electronic aids

963
01:19:55,028 --> 01:19:57,354
that they'd come with the previous year.

964
01:19:57,447 --> 01:19:59,025
But Senna became convinced

965
01:19:59,116 --> 01:20:02,033
that the Benetton
being driven by Michael Schumacher,

966
01:20:02,244 --> 01:20:06,870
who had won the first two races
of the season, had retained some of those,

967
01:20:06,957 --> 01:20:11,868
particularly the traction control,
the thing that eliminates the wheel spin.

968
01:20:15,256 --> 01:20:19,752
It didn't stack up that
he was being blown away by the Benetton.

969
01:20:20,469 --> 01:20:22,094
He wanted us to protest,

970
01:20:23,556 --> 01:20:24,931
which we didn't do.

971
01:21:01,634 --> 01:21:05,963
We are here starting from zero,
so basically our championship starts here.

972
01:21:06,055 --> 01:21:10,515
It's not a comfortable position to be in,
but that's the reality.

973
01:21:10,601 --> 01:21:15,559
Now you've won here three times already.
You really do need to make it four.

974
01:21:15,647 --> 01:21:17,307
I would love to.

975
01:21:57,688 --> 01:22:02,729
I'd never seen Senna
as tense as I did that weekend.

976
01:22:07,364 --> 01:22:10,863
At no moment did I see him smile.

977
01:22:12,368 --> 01:22:16,413
He was constantly focussed, annoyed,

978
01:22:16,581 --> 01:22:18,205
saddened really.

979
01:22:24,964 --> 01:22:26,956
It's the balance.

980
01:22:27,049 --> 01:22:29,042
Changing balance.

981
01:22:34,640 --> 01:22:36,881
The car is worse.

982
01:22:39,686 --> 01:22:42,307
Is it generally
more one balance than the other,

983
01:22:42,397 --> 01:22:43,939
or is it changing too much?

984
01:22:44,232 --> 01:22:46,355
There was a bit more understeer.

985
01:22:46,443 --> 01:22:50,820
Bit of understeer on the first lap,

986
01:22:51,447 --> 01:22:55,315
then on the second lap,
it's just changing balance.

987
01:22:57,245 --> 01:22:59,284
Oversteer and understeer?

988
01:22:59,413 --> 01:23:00,445
Yeah.

989
01:23:01,457 --> 01:23:03,366
During the middle of a corner...

990
01:23:03,459 --> 01:23:05,665
breaks away at the entrance.

991
01:23:06,670 --> 01:23:09,422
When it is supposed to break away,
it breaks away even more.

992
01:23:22,769 --> 01:23:25,141
Do you already know Ayrton
or shall I introduce you?

993
01:23:25,438 --> 01:23:27,016
No, I already know him.

994
01:23:27,148 --> 01:23:29,105
Do you know him by name
or have you met him?

995
01:23:29,192 --> 01:23:32,608
I know him because I follow Formula One,

996
01:23:32,695 --> 01:23:34,522
so I've met him before.

997
01:23:34,655 --> 01:23:36,778
Why are you so nervous?

998
01:23:36,866 --> 01:23:39,439
Because when you're close
to someone like him,

999
01:23:39,535 --> 01:23:41,362
you always get nervous.

1000
01:23:41,829 --> 01:23:45,779
Well, good luck to the Champion
and the future Champion.

1001
01:24:02,182 --> 01:24:03,344
Fuck.

1002
01:24:31,001 --> 01:24:32,080
You have seen Rubens?

1003
01:24:32,377 --> 01:24:36,505
He's all right. He's all right.
He's shocked, of course, but he's all right.

1004
01:24:36,631 --> 01:24:37,663
Did you talk to him?

1005
01:24:37,799 --> 01:24:39,128
Yes, yes.

1006
01:24:40,552 --> 01:24:42,509
You take care, Rubens.

1007
01:25:00,196 --> 01:25:03,730
Ayrton was still uncomfortable
in the new relationship,

1008
01:25:04,575 --> 01:25:07,529
and he was very uncomfortable with the car.

1009
01:25:10,706 --> 01:25:13,707
But he struggled,
and put it on pole position.

1010
01:25:22,217 --> 01:25:23,925
Fuck.

1011
01:25:24,010 --> 01:25:26,003
I just need to get myself under control.

1012
01:25:26,179 --> 01:25:28,848
I'm doing things with that car that no-one...

1013
01:25:28,932 --> 01:25:30,889
Throwing it around a bit?

1014
01:26:12,849 --> 01:26:15,422
320 km/h there...

1015
01:26:38,123 --> 01:26:41,077
Ladies and gentlemen,
the San Marino Grand Prix organiser

1016
01:26:41,167 --> 01:26:44,702
has received a report
from the Maggiore Hospital in Bologna

1017
01:26:44,796 --> 01:26:49,671
that the driver of car number 32,
MTV Simtek Ford, Roland Ratzenberger,

1018
01:26:49,759 --> 01:26:51,965
succumbed to injuries sustained
in the accident

1019
01:26:52,053 --> 01:26:53,547
which took place at lmola circuit

1020
01:26:53,638 --> 01:26:56,093
during Saturday qualifying practice
April 30th.

1021
01:27:07,609 --> 01:27:13,066
It was the first time we had to face a dead
Formula One driver for our generation.

1022
01:27:15,534 --> 01:27:18,737
The whole atmosphere
was very heavy that afternoon.

1023
01:27:18,828 --> 01:27:22,032
Everybody was thinking about,
"What are we doing here?"

1024
01:27:22,123 --> 01:27:23,950
Or, "What's the point?"

1025
01:27:32,800 --> 01:27:35,836
Ayrton got very, very upset and cried a bit.

1026
01:27:35,928 --> 01:27:37,173
And that's when I said to him,

1027
01:27:37,263 --> 01:27:40,299
"You know, Ayrton,
you've been three times World Champion.

1028
01:27:40,391 --> 01:27:43,261
"You're the fastest man in the world. "

1029
01:27:43,352 --> 01:27:47,765
And he liked fishing,
so I said, "Why don't you quit

1030
01:27:49,024 --> 01:27:51,313
"and I'll quit and we'll just go fishing?"

1031
01:27:53,028 --> 01:27:55,020
He said, "Sid, I can't quit. "

1032
01:28:30,731 --> 01:28:34,859
On Saturday, at dinner,
Frank Williams had doubts

1033
01:28:34,943 --> 01:28:36,485
if Senna was going to be on the grid.

1034
01:28:39,155 --> 01:28:43,235
I was certain that he didn't want to race.

1035
01:29:36,127 --> 01:29:39,211
On that morning when he woke up,

1036
01:29:39,630 --> 01:29:41,706
he asked God to talk to him.

1037
01:29:43,133 --> 01:29:44,675
He opened the Bible

1038
01:29:44,760 --> 01:29:47,251
and read a passage which said

1039
01:29:47,346 --> 01:29:52,387
God would give him the greatest of all gifts.

1040
01:29:53,810 --> 01:29:56,052
Which was God himself.

1041
01:31:00,916 --> 01:31:02,992
A crash!

1042
01:31:04,378 --> 01:31:06,703
Everyone goes around, look at that!

1043
01:31:07,047 --> 01:31:10,048
Lamy arrives at full speed.

1044
01:31:10,926 --> 01:31:12,918
And there is Lehto!

1045
01:31:18,892 --> 01:31:23,719
Terrible crash.
Lamy and Lehto are very lucky.

1046
01:31:30,444 --> 01:31:32,354
The safety car goes out on track.

1047
01:31:46,460 --> 01:31:50,374
The safety car's lights are off

1048
01:31:50,464 --> 01:31:53,797
which means the safety car
is going into the pits.

1049
01:31:58,013 --> 01:32:00,848
And here we go, Senna in front,

1050
01:32:01,141 --> 01:32:02,469
Schumacher is second.

1051
01:32:09,482 --> 01:32:14,357
And Michael Schumacher tries to
pressure Senna on the sixth lap.

1052
01:33:11,541 --> 01:33:14,376
Senna crashes hard!

1053
01:33:15,086 --> 01:33:16,711
At Tamburello Corner.

1054
01:33:18,965 --> 01:33:22,049
A very serious accident.

1055
01:34:15,936 --> 01:34:17,728
We got him out of the cockpit,

1056
01:34:17,813 --> 01:34:20,933
got his helmet off
and got an airway into him.

1057
01:34:22,025 --> 01:34:26,771
And I saw from his neurological signs

1058
01:34:26,863 --> 01:34:29,864
that it was going to be a fatal head injury.

1059
01:34:38,833 --> 01:34:44,172
And then he sighed, and his body relaxed.

1060
01:34:45,381 --> 01:34:49,545
And that was the moment...
I'm not religious...

1061
01:34:49,635 --> 01:34:53,847
That I thought his spirit had departed.

1062
01:36:01,913 --> 01:36:04,320
Even at racing speed,
Tamburello is not a corner

1063
01:36:04,415 --> 01:36:05,790
that you would make a mistake on.

1064
01:36:06,918 --> 01:36:09,076
Something on the car
would have to go wrong.

1065
01:36:13,090 --> 01:36:14,917
Maybe the power steering failed.

1066
01:36:15,426 --> 01:36:17,881
Maybe it was the tyre temperatures

1067
01:36:17,970 --> 01:36:20,591
that made the car skate straight off the road.

1068
01:36:21,223 --> 01:36:22,682
It will always be a mystery.

1069
01:36:24,518 --> 01:36:26,060
Was there a cause?

1070
01:36:27,562 --> 01:36:32,224
In my opinion
the steering column broke

1071
01:36:32,442 --> 01:36:34,316
and the car became uncontrollable.

1072
01:36:34,903 --> 01:36:38,651
But above all, it was fatal because

1073
01:36:38,740 --> 01:36:44,694
the car crashed at the exact angle
for the suspension shaft

1074
01:36:44,787 --> 01:36:46,495
to hit his helmet.

1075
01:36:49,125 --> 01:36:50,619
Ayrton ran out of luck.

1076
01:36:52,503 --> 01:36:57,461
He did not have a broken bone in his body.
He did not have any bruising.

1077
01:36:59,343 --> 01:37:01,585
If that piece of assembly

1078
01:37:01,678 --> 01:37:05,094
would have gone six inches higher
or six inches lower,

1079
01:37:05,182 --> 01:37:06,806
he would have walked back to the paddock.

1080
01:37:47,055 --> 01:37:51,005
He was an idol for me.
He represented the best of Brazil.

1081
01:37:53,228 --> 01:37:54,473
I kiss you, Senna.

1082
01:37:54,687 --> 01:37:56,929
I will never forget you.

1083
01:38:00,401 --> 01:38:04,233
Brazilian people need food,
education, health

1084
01:38:04,322 --> 01:38:06,445
and a little bit of joy.
And now that joy is gone.

1085
01:40:26,124 --> 01:40:29,458
Nothing can separate me
from the love of God.

1086
01:40:31,671 --> 01:40:33,580
Who is or has been

1087
01:40:33,673 --> 01:40:37,540
the driver that you get the most satisfaction
of racing against...

1088
01:40:37,635 --> 01:40:39,213
Past or present?

1089
01:40:43,307 --> 01:40:46,474
I would have to go back

1090
01:40:50,272 --> 01:40:52,395
to '78 and '79

1091
01:40:54,568 --> 01:40:57,688
and 1980, when I was go-kart driving.

1092
01:41:00,866 --> 01:41:05,528
I came to Europe for the first time
to compete outside Brazil

1093
01:41:05,620 --> 01:41:10,247
as a team-mate for Fullerton.

1094
01:41:10,417 --> 01:41:14,082
Named Fullerton. He was very experienced.

1095
01:41:14,170 --> 01:41:16,626
I enjoyed very much driving with him

1096
01:41:16,714 --> 01:41:19,798
because he was fast, he was consistent.

1097
01:41:19,884 --> 01:41:21,923
He was, for me, a very complete driver.

1098
01:41:23,304 --> 01:41:25,795
And it was pure driving, pure racing.

1099
01:41:28,809 --> 01:41:31,810
There wasn't any politics then, right?

1100
01:41:32,187 --> 01:41:33,646
No money involved, either.

1101
01:41:33,731 --> 01:41:35,438
So, it was real racing.

1102
01:41:37,651 --> 01:41:42,277
I have that as a very good memory.