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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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lovely 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 if you 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
and the track got more slippery,

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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 may be able
to give up this job.

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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.

239
00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:40,910
In the small hours, Brazil is waiting

240
00:20:40,990 --> 00:20:45,740
for Ayrton Senna
to win his first world title in Formula One.

241
00:20:46,203 --> 00:20:50,043
His childhood dream.

242
00:20:54,795 --> 00:20:56,625
The pressure was on Ayrton.

243
00:20:56,714 --> 00:21:00,054
He was on pole,
he was going to be World Champion

244
00:21:00,134 --> 00:21:03,554
if he won that race,
so the pressure was huge.

245
00:21:08,726 --> 00:21:11,266
They are going to start, let's go, green light.

246
00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:12,600
Senna stalled!

247
00:21:12,897 --> 00:21:14,767
Senna left on the grid.

248
00:21:16,150 --> 00:21:20,030
Prost took the lead,
Ayrton Senna is way behind.

249
00:21:21,989 --> 00:21:25,029
There is Ayrton Senna
in fourteenth place.

250
00:21:26,535 --> 00:21:28,575
I thought, "The Championship is over."

251
00:21:29,121 --> 00:21:30,291
"It's all over."

252
00:21:34,210 --> 00:21:38,210
Senna is already up to eighth place.
He is making a fantastic recovery.

253
00:21:47,765 --> 00:21:50,175
But then his favourite thing happened,

254
00:21:50,267 --> 00:21:51,677
it began to rain.

255
00:21:53,521 --> 00:21:55,691
Senna's now in fourth place.

256
00:21:56,565 --> 00:21:59,395
Senna's coming,
he's coming, coming, coming!

257
00:22:01,112 --> 00:22:04,072
Senna is getting close.
Senna's gonna challenge for the lead.

258
00:22:04,406 --> 00:22:07,776
Ayrton Senna goes for it
and overtakes Prost.

259
00:22:07,868 --> 00:22:10,248
Ayrton Senna has got the lead.

260
00:22:17,378 --> 00:22:20,418
I started being thankful
as I was doing the last lap.

261
00:22:20,589 --> 00:22:22,259
I thanked God.

262
00:22:22,383 --> 00:22:26,303
I couldn't believe I was actually
going to win the Championship

263
00:22:27,471 --> 00:22:30,811
with all the anxiety and tension.

264
00:22:31,725 --> 00:22:33,595
I felt His presence.

265
00:22:34,812 --> 00:22:36,902
I visualised, I saw God.

266
00:22:37,731 --> 00:22:41,151
It was a special moment in my life.

267
00:22:41,986 --> 00:22:44,446
An enormous feeling.

268
00:22:44,655 --> 00:22:47,195
I have registered it in my memory,

269
00:22:47,324 --> 00:22:49,454
and it remains a part of me.

270
00:22:56,500 --> 00:22:59,670
Ayrton Senna of Brazil!

271
00:23:00,004 --> 00:23:04,514
World Champion of 1988!

272
00:23:19,356 --> 00:23:21,566
A fantastic race!

273
00:23:22,026 --> 00:23:28,196
A brilliant win because
he came back from sixteenth place.

274
00:23:40,211 --> 00:23:43,841
Ayrton, do you feel
like a World Champion now?

275
00:23:44,590 --> 00:23:46,930
I just feel peace.

276
00:23:47,426 --> 00:23:49,926
It feels like tons of weight have lifted

277
00:23:50,012 --> 00:23:52,182
from my head and shoulders.

278
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:57,730
And it is hard to comprehend
what being a World Champion is.

279
00:24:15,621 --> 00:24:17,541
He is an incredible person.

280
00:24:17,623 --> 00:24:18,793
He is so humble,

281
00:24:18,958 --> 00:24:22,378
and he raises the image of Brazil abroad.

282
00:24:22,670 --> 00:24:24,750
He shares his victories with us.

283
00:24:24,838 --> 00:24:25,958
I admire him so much.

284
00:24:26,048 --> 00:24:27,168
He's a very brave man.

285
00:24:27,258 --> 00:24:28,468
That's all I know of him.

286
00:24:28,550 --> 00:24:29,680
He is our pride.

287
00:24:30,427 --> 00:24:33,257
One of the few things
we can still be proud of.

288
00:24:33,555 --> 00:24:37,055
I once asked Ayrton
when he would stop racing.

289
00:24:37,142 --> 00:24:40,402
Mum, I'll stop
when I become World Champion.

290
00:24:40,604 --> 00:24:43,824
I knew deep inside it is not true.

291
00:24:43,983 --> 00:24:45,153
We all know that.

292
00:24:56,078 --> 00:25:00,078
When the 1988 Championship was over
and he'd won,

293
00:25:01,166 --> 00:25:06,956
it was plain to see
how he'd become a different person

294
00:25:07,047 --> 00:25:11,757
because he had, in fact, found himself.

295
00:25:11,844 --> 00:25:14,054
He discovered what he was about,

296
00:25:14,221 --> 00:25:20,021
it was a process
which had its closure with that victory.

297
00:25:28,902 --> 00:25:30,822
At Christmas things happen.

298
00:25:30,904 --> 00:25:32,284
We make new friends,

299
00:25:32,948 --> 00:25:36,408
like the one I will introduce now.

300
00:25:36,493 --> 00:25:38,163
He was part of my 1988,

301
00:25:38,370 --> 00:25:40,290
Ayrton Senna.

302
00:25:48,922 --> 00:25:51,012
Isn't he cute?

303
00:25:52,217 --> 00:25:55,177
I have a question.

304
00:25:55,554 --> 00:25:59,774
Everyone's excited,
but no one more than me,

305
00:25:59,892 --> 00:26:05,232
because it's hard to speak
now that he's my friend.

306
00:26:05,522 --> 00:26:08,612
Ayrton, what do you want for Christmas?

307
00:26:09,068 --> 00:26:11,238
A Christmas present?

308
00:26:11,779 --> 00:26:15,199
What I really want, I can't say here.

309
00:26:15,282 --> 00:26:16,872
Why not?

310
00:26:17,284 --> 00:26:22,124
Censored, but I just want happiness.

311
00:26:22,206 --> 00:26:24,206
Tell me here.

312
00:26:31,006 --> 00:26:32,666
Happy New Year.

313
00:26:33,425 --> 00:26:34,875
Happy 1990.

314
00:26:35,594 --> 00:26:37,474
Happy '91.

315
00:26:37,554 --> 00:26:39,104
Happy '92.

316
00:26:39,348 --> 00:26:41,428
Happy '93.

317
00:27:05,082 --> 00:27:10,292
The 1989 season was somewhat
less harmonious than the year before.

318
00:27:11,547 --> 00:27:15,797
Both drivers took on
different levels of aggression,

319
00:27:16,552 --> 00:27:18,302
especially when racing each other.

320
00:27:25,727 --> 00:27:28,307
That's when the gloves come off
within a team.

321
00:27:28,814 --> 00:27:32,484
That's when engineers
stop sharing information.

322
00:27:32,568 --> 00:27:35,818
That's where drivers start
looking over their shoulders to see

323
00:27:35,904 --> 00:27:38,114
who is getting what from whom.

324
00:27:40,742 --> 00:27:44,002
And Ayrton, with his love of truth,

325
00:27:44,079 --> 00:27:47,919
wasn't as in tune as Alain Prost

326
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,340
with adding another dimension,
the politics of the sport.

327
00:27:51,503 --> 00:27:52,963
Senna, Prost. Prost, Senna.

328
00:27:53,088 --> 00:27:55,418
The order of the grid
is always one or the other.

329
00:27:55,507 --> 00:27:56,757
It is war between them

330
00:27:56,842 --> 00:27:58,432
because the French driver Alain Prost

331
00:27:58,510 --> 00:28:01,640
thinks that his team-mate
has been disloyal towards him.

332
00:28:01,763 --> 00:28:04,643
And it seems that this quarrel
could have consequences

333
00:28:04,766 --> 00:28:06,516
for the rest of the season.

334
00:28:08,937 --> 00:28:12,607
Race by race,
they were growing further apart.

335
00:28:13,025 --> 00:28:15,605
He said, "This Frenchman...
This Frenchman is hard."

336
00:28:15,777 --> 00:28:17,107
"He wants war."

337
00:28:18,780 --> 00:28:20,030
Sometime after that

338
00:28:20,199 --> 00:28:22,869
they split completely,
they didn't speak any more.

339
00:28:31,460 --> 00:28:35,880
Of course, I think French FIA president
Jean-Marie Balestre at the time

340
00:28:36,131 --> 00:28:39,381
was helpful for Alain
because they were close.

341
00:28:57,819 --> 00:29:02,449
I'd like you all to welcome
the President of FISA, Mr. Balestre.

342
00:29:05,494 --> 00:29:06,704
Please, gentlemen.

343
00:29:07,955 --> 00:29:13,205
All the drivers in the world
are looking at you on TV

344
00:29:13,335 --> 00:29:18,165
because they think, stupidly,
that you are an example.

345
00:29:19,675 --> 00:29:22,635
It is a big mistake, but they think that.

346
00:29:24,638 --> 00:29:25,888
I repeat.

347
00:29:26,223 --> 00:29:30,063
No danger for the end
of the World Championship.

348
00:29:31,478 --> 00:29:33,348
Very clear.

349
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,650
Now it depends on you.

350
00:29:42,406 --> 00:29:44,366
The championship is neck-to-neck.

351
00:29:45,409 --> 00:29:48,369
Senna has to win the Japanese Grand Prix

352
00:29:48,495 --> 00:29:52,035
to keep the points battle going on
to the last race.

353
00:29:53,166 --> 00:29:59,376
Prost knows that if Senna does not finish,
he will be the Formula One Champion.

354
00:30:18,608 --> 00:30:20,608
Prost is first, Senna is second.

355
00:30:20,902 --> 00:30:22,822
Prost jumped into the lead.

356
00:30:22,904 --> 00:30:24,414
Prost makes a better start.

357
00:31:00,650 --> 00:31:03,820
The opportunity that Senna's looking for,
and he's going through.

358
00:31:03,945 --> 00:31:07,405
Oh, my goodness, this is fantastic.

359
00:31:07,574 --> 00:31:10,124
They crash and it is better for Prost.

360
00:31:10,744 --> 00:31:16,294
If this is the end, Prost wins the title.

361
00:31:16,958 --> 00:31:22,338
Once again,
only a victory will do for Ayrton Senna.

362
00:31:55,872 --> 00:31:57,212
Nannini goes by.

363
00:31:57,624 --> 00:32:00,174
He goes by to take the lead.

364
00:32:03,964 --> 00:32:05,674
Senna is still in the pit.

365
00:32:10,345 --> 00:32:14,055
Senna rejoins far behind Nannini.

366
00:32:14,182 --> 00:32:15,852
It's going to be almost impossible.

367
00:32:16,059 --> 00:32:19,059
It is all or nothing, five laps to go.

368
00:32:19,187 --> 00:32:22,647
A suicidal race for Senna
if he tries something.

369
00:32:23,859 --> 00:32:26,239
Prost saw Ayrton rejoin the race

370
00:32:26,361 --> 00:32:29,571
and went straight
to the Race Stewards' Office.

371
00:32:34,995 --> 00:32:36,995
Nannini is first, Senna is second.

372
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,370
Senna forces it, blocks Nannini.

373
00:32:39,583 --> 00:32:42,043
Senna overtakes!

374
00:32:44,212 --> 00:32:45,752
Brazilian flags are waving.

375
00:32:45,922 --> 00:32:48,012
Everyone is on their feet.

376
00:32:48,175 --> 00:32:49,215
Ayrton Senna.

377
00:32:49,384 --> 00:32:51,724
The chequered flag!

378
00:32:51,887 --> 00:32:54,557
Senna celebrates inside his cockpit.

379
00:32:55,390 --> 00:32:56,850
He pounds his helmet.

380
00:32:56,933 --> 00:32:59,603
Ayrton Senna from Brazil!

381
00:33:00,896 --> 00:33:04,356
Visibly emotional,

382
00:33:05,066 --> 00:33:08,736
he flips open his visor
and wipes his tears.

383
00:33:08,945 --> 00:33:11,695
It was a fantastic victory,

384
00:33:11,907 --> 00:33:14,197
the like of which
I have never seen before.

385
00:33:17,078 --> 00:33:18,868
It may be in 20 minutes.

386
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:20,410
Fucking hell.

387
00:33:20,624 --> 00:33:22,044
Want a cup of tea?

388
00:33:22,751 --> 00:33:26,171
It was unheard of
for the podium to be delayed.

389
00:33:26,254 --> 00:33:30,724
Nigel, Nigel, he missed the chicane.

390
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,430
He went through the slip road.

391
00:33:39,476 --> 00:33:45,056
The longer we waited, the more
we feared things were becoming political.

392
00:34:04,125 --> 00:34:05,705
The decision taken by the Stewards,

393
00:34:05,794 --> 00:34:09,344
by the Stewards at the Japanese Grand Prix.

394
00:34:09,631 --> 00:34:12,971
Excludes car number one
and its driver Ayrton Senna

395
00:34:13,468 --> 00:34:15,178
from the final result of this race.

396
00:34:15,303 --> 00:34:16,893
Just after the race

397
00:34:16,972 --> 00:34:18,722
this Giant Screen

398
00:34:18,807 --> 00:34:20,977
repeatedly showed the accident

399
00:34:21,101 --> 00:34:24,351
and Senna rejoining the race.

400
00:34:24,646 --> 00:34:28,646
After reviewing these images,
the stewards concluded

401
00:34:28,775 --> 00:34:31,685
that because Senna
did not drive through the chicane

402
00:34:31,820 --> 00:34:33,150
to rejoin to the track,

403
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,990
he infringed Article 56 of FIA regulations.

404
00:34:38,326 --> 00:34:39,696
You're the World Champion, Alain?

405
00:34:39,828 --> 00:34:40,998
Apparently, yes.

406
00:34:42,372 --> 00:34:45,212
I was not 100% sure, I know the regulation,

407
00:34:45,333 --> 00:34:49,343
but you never know
how it's going to be interpreted.

408
00:34:49,504 --> 00:34:54,174
But to be very honest,
I mean, I'm quite happy to leave,

409
00:34:54,301 --> 00:34:58,181
because I think it becomes absolutely
impossible to work with Ayrton,

410
00:34:58,305 --> 00:35:02,135
and that's a good end of championship.

411
00:35:21,870 --> 00:35:23,540
What I'd like to do now

412
00:35:24,247 --> 00:35:30,037
is show you some footage
which I think is quite relevant.

413
00:35:30,712 --> 00:35:35,552
Because we're told that you can't use
escape roads to rejoin the race.

414
00:35:36,009 --> 00:35:41,179
Escape roads are not for escaping through,
they're in fact for stopping in,

415
00:35:41,264 --> 00:35:44,394
turning round and going out of.

416
00:35:46,561 --> 00:35:49,771
Very important to remember, no exclusions,

417
00:35:49,898 --> 00:35:53,398
no penalties, no disqualifications.

418
00:35:54,069 --> 00:35:57,699
And for that he's excluded
from the Japanese Grand Prix?

419
00:35:57,781 --> 00:36:01,911
Where's the consistency? It can't be right.

420
00:36:07,248 --> 00:36:09,288
Alain, you said that
you took a normal racing line.

421
00:36:09,417 --> 00:36:12,127
I would put it to you
that from the aerial pictures,

422
00:36:12,253 --> 00:36:14,213
it looked as though
you had turned in quite early.

423
00:36:14,297 --> 00:36:17,927
It wasn't a normal line at all.

424
00:36:18,259 --> 00:36:21,049
I won 39 races
and now three championships,

425
00:36:21,137 --> 00:36:25,887
do you think that I would
do something like this on purpose?

426
00:36:26,768 --> 00:36:29,768
You know, you know,
I had already turned for the corner,

427
00:36:29,896 --> 00:36:33,766
maybe a little bit earlier, if you want,
but that was my corner.

428
00:36:35,568 --> 00:36:39,658
The Court of Appeal pronounces

429
00:36:39,948 --> 00:36:44,118
a six month suspended ban
of Senna's licence,

430
00:36:46,121 --> 00:36:48,161
which is a warning
not only for Ayrton Senna,

431
00:36:48,289 --> 00:36:50,749
but for all drivers,

432
00:36:50,834 --> 00:36:53,924
and also a $100,000 fine.

433
00:36:54,003 --> 00:36:57,343
Even if you are
one of the biggest drivers in the world,

434
00:36:57,465 --> 00:37:01,795
you don't have the right
to cause a stupid accident.

435
00:37:03,096 --> 00:37:05,926
The way the whole affair has been treated,

436
00:37:06,015 --> 00:37:11,055
it's like I have total responsibility
for everything that took place there.

437
00:37:11,146 --> 00:37:16,016
I was blamed for everything
and I was penalised for everything.

438
00:37:16,151 --> 00:37:18,281
I was treated like a criminal.

439
00:37:19,612 --> 00:37:21,282
And this is totally unacceptable.

440
00:37:29,330 --> 00:37:32,830
That was a huge blow for Ayrton

441
00:37:32,959 --> 00:37:37,339
because Balestre's attitude
was even worse than Prost's.

442
00:37:37,672 --> 00:37:40,632
He almost gave up racing in Formula One.

443
00:37:45,388 --> 00:37:47,678
Left him alone for a while.

444
00:37:48,516 --> 00:37:53,846
I gently persuaded him
if you are true to your values,

445
00:37:55,190 --> 00:38:00,990
if you believe that your values
are correct values,

446
00:38:01,070 --> 00:38:05,410
then walking away from the dark forces

447
00:38:05,533 --> 00:38:08,913
that you're faced with in life
just doesn't become an option.

448
00:38:23,384 --> 00:38:28,604
The 1990 season he came back wiser,
the team is harmonious.

449
00:38:28,723 --> 00:38:31,353
Prost has gone out of McLaren to Ferrari,

450
00:38:31,434 --> 00:38:35,854
and Senna is in a perfect position
to compete for the title.

451
00:38:37,190 --> 00:38:40,070
All drivers go on their limit.

452
00:38:40,235 --> 00:38:45,065
My limit is different from Prost's,
that is the reality.

453
00:38:45,573 --> 00:38:50,913
And instead of trying to improve
his own skills,

454
00:38:51,246 --> 00:38:54,246
he found it easier to attack me.

455
00:38:54,582 --> 00:38:59,462
Ayrton has a small problem.
He thinks that he can't kill himself

456
00:38:59,754 --> 00:39:01,634
because he believes in God
and things like this.

457
00:39:01,756 --> 00:39:04,586
And I think that's very dangerous
for the other drivers.

458
00:39:04,759 --> 00:39:08,599
Because I believe in God
and have faith in God,

459
00:39:09,430 --> 00:39:11,520
it doesn't mean I am immortal.

460
00:39:11,599 --> 00:39:13,889
It doesn't mean I am immune,

461
00:39:14,060 --> 00:39:19,440
as has been claimed.

462
00:39:19,816 --> 00:39:23,486
I am as scared as anyone
of getting hurt,

463
00:39:23,778 --> 00:39:25,318
especially driving a Formula One car.

464
00:39:25,572 --> 00:39:27,492
It's a constant danger.

465
00:39:43,339 --> 00:39:45,129
Is that him?

466
00:39:45,341 --> 00:39:46,471
Who is it?

467
00:39:46,593 --> 00:39:48,933
Martin Donnelly.

468
00:39:57,478 --> 00:40:02,148
I was in the pits. Practice was stopped.

469
00:40:03,860 --> 00:40:08,110
I hear by different people
there was an accident, was Donnelly.

470
00:40:08,197 --> 00:40:11,777
Was bad, was too bad, was disaster.

471
00:40:11,868 --> 00:40:16,458
And I decide to go to the place
to see myself.

472
00:40:33,473 --> 00:40:37,683
Million things went through my mind.
In the end, I...

473
00:40:37,810 --> 00:40:41,270
I realised I was not going to
give up my passion,

474
00:40:41,356 --> 00:40:46,026
even just having seen what I had seen.

475
00:40:47,528 --> 00:40:51,818
And I had to put myself together,

476
00:40:51,908 --> 00:40:56,198
and walk out, go to the racing car,
and do it again.

477
00:40:56,329 --> 00:40:59,409
And do it again,
and do it even better than before,

478
00:41:00,208 --> 00:41:06,548
because that was the way to kind of cover
that impact it had on me.

479
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:12,010
I was just not ready to give up.
As much as I was scared to continue,

480
00:41:12,095 --> 00:41:15,965
I was not ready to give up my aim, my target,
my objective,

481
00:41:16,057 --> 00:41:20,387
my passion, my dream, my life. It is my life.

482
00:42:05,273 --> 00:42:10,323
As far as I hear, he is out of danger,
life danger,

483
00:42:10,445 --> 00:42:14,445
which is a lot considering the accident.

484
00:42:14,949 --> 00:42:17,989
And as it happened to him,
can happen to any of us.

485
00:42:18,119 --> 00:42:19,999
There are some things
that you can calculate,

486
00:42:20,121 --> 00:42:23,371
but there are things which are unexpected,

487
00:42:23,458 --> 00:42:26,458
and those unexpected things
are the most dangerous ones,

488
00:42:26,586 --> 00:42:28,166
like it happened to him today.

489
00:42:36,304 --> 00:42:41,274
I hope we don't see those things
in the future.

490
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:54,320
Amazingly, for the third time in a row,

491
00:42:54,447 --> 00:42:57,367
the championship hinged
on the race in Japan.

492
00:42:59,285 --> 00:43:03,705
But this time if Prost didn't finish,
Ayrton would be champion.

493
00:43:05,374 --> 00:43:08,344
Gentlemen, morning.

494
00:43:08,461 --> 00:43:14,341
Number of laps from green light
to chequered flag will be 53 laps.

495
00:43:14,884 --> 00:43:18,144
Dangerous behaviour
and/or dangerous manoeuvres

496
00:43:18,221 --> 00:43:20,061
will be immediately investigated,

497
00:43:20,389 --> 00:43:22,849
and may lead to suspension of the licence

498
00:43:22,975 --> 00:43:26,385
for one or more
Formula One World Championship events.

499
00:43:27,063 --> 00:43:28,903
Any questions?

500
00:43:30,191 --> 00:43:33,241
There was a big fuck-up last year
with Ayrton.

501
00:43:33,736 --> 00:43:35,776
Why do we have to repeat the same thing?

502
00:43:35,863 --> 00:43:37,163
The safest thing is...

503
00:43:37,240 --> 00:43:40,700
If you miss the chicane,
the stewards stop you.

504
00:43:40,827 --> 00:43:44,407
When you have no traffic, they let you go.

505
00:43:44,539 --> 00:43:47,919
If you have to turn around and go backwards

506
00:43:48,543 --> 00:43:52,253
against another car, that's dangerous.

507
00:43:52,755 --> 00:43:54,005
Okay.

508
00:43:55,591 --> 00:43:56,801
Does everybody feel that way?

509
00:43:56,884 --> 00:43:59,264
- Yeah.
- Yeah.

510
00:43:59,387 --> 00:44:01,097
- Thank you.
- Thank you very much.

511
00:44:03,432 --> 00:44:07,272
I can't stand it. I can't stand this. It's a joke.

512
00:44:07,395 --> 00:44:10,605
After what happened last year,
it's a joke, this situation.

513
00:44:10,731 --> 00:44:14,941
You just proved here... I said nothing,
and you see somebody raising the point,

514
00:44:15,069 --> 00:44:18,239
and you see everybody agreeing.
And last year was really bad for me.

515
00:44:18,739 --> 00:44:21,279
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but I have to leave.

516
00:44:28,374 --> 00:44:31,384
The story down in the pit lane
and on the grid is one of tension.

517
00:44:31,460 --> 00:44:35,710
With the World Championship up for grabs,
everyone is extremely tense.

518
00:44:35,798 --> 00:44:39,048
Ayrton Senna actually walked out
of the drivers' meeting today.

519
00:44:39,135 --> 00:44:40,465
He thinks that the pole position should be

520
00:44:40,595 --> 00:44:42,925
on the left hand side of the grid,
not on the right.

521
00:44:43,472 --> 00:44:46,312
Normally, if the inside was clear,
the inside for sure is better.

522
00:44:47,268 --> 00:44:51,268
Because it's dirty, the outside is better.
Like Hungary, or like...

523
00:44:51,981 --> 00:44:56,741
The racing line is the line
where the cars most normally drive.

524
00:44:56,819 --> 00:44:58,949
It's the fastest line around the track.

525
00:44:59,447 --> 00:45:04,447
It's really important to have
the pole position on the racing line.

526
00:45:05,286 --> 00:45:10,576
If you are on the opposite side, you are on
a part of the track that is rarely used

527
00:45:10,666 --> 00:45:11,826
and has half the grip.

528
00:45:12,418 --> 00:45:15,378
If you have the clear circuit,
you'll get away better

529
00:45:15,463 --> 00:45:17,053
on the outside than the inside.

530
00:45:17,131 --> 00:45:19,471
Because on the inside you have no traction.

531
00:45:20,134 --> 00:45:21,844
We'll have a look.

532
00:45:21,969 --> 00:45:23,009
Please.

533
00:45:23,137 --> 00:45:27,967
But would the Chief Steward, would the FIA,
would Balestre, agree?

534
00:45:30,019 --> 00:45:34,729
Ayrton Senna will be in pole position
for tomorrow's Japanese Grand Prix.

535
00:45:34,815 --> 00:45:36,685
Prost was second fastest.

536
00:45:53,793 --> 00:45:55,963
Pole position was his,

537
00:45:56,045 --> 00:45:59,455
and then suddenly
pole position was mysteriously

538
00:45:59,548 --> 00:46:04,838
moved to the dirty side of the circuit,
which he felt was unjust.

539
00:46:06,681 --> 00:46:08,971
That decision was influenced by Balestre.

540
00:46:09,141 --> 00:46:10,731
I know that, we know that.

541
00:46:12,061 --> 00:46:14,271
I was fucked many times by the system.

542
00:46:14,355 --> 00:46:16,935
I told myself, "Today, there's no way."

543
00:46:17,024 --> 00:46:19,694
Today has to be my way.

544
00:46:19,819 --> 00:46:22,359
I don't care what happens,
it has to be my way.

545
00:46:30,037 --> 00:46:31,787
And Senna sprints away,

546
00:46:31,872 --> 00:46:35,042
but Alain Prost takes the lead!
It's happened!

547
00:46:38,713 --> 00:46:40,763
Senna is trying to go through on the inside...

548
00:46:46,012 --> 00:46:47,142
And a collision.

549
00:46:47,221 --> 00:46:48,511
Crash! They both crash.

550
00:46:49,724 --> 00:46:51,564
Senna has been hit.

551
00:46:51,684 --> 00:46:54,274
Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna
have come together again,

552
00:46:54,395 --> 00:46:58,265
and they are both off the racetrack!
This is unbelievable!

553
00:46:58,733 --> 00:47:01,993
And if the race continues,
it is the end of the Championship.

554
00:47:02,069 --> 00:47:03,739
We don't know yet
whether we're going to see a red flag.

555
00:47:03,863 --> 00:47:04,863
We haven't seen any yet,

556
00:47:04,947 --> 00:47:07,277
so it looks as if
the race is going to continue.

557
00:47:07,408 --> 00:47:09,448
The Championship is over.

558
00:47:09,577 --> 00:47:13,577
And Ayrton Senna is the 1990 Champion.

559
00:47:19,086 --> 00:47:23,586
That's a very sad way for
this year's World Championship to finish.

560
00:47:31,766 --> 00:47:34,596
Can you tell us what happened
on the first lap, Ayrton?

561
00:47:34,727 --> 00:47:36,897
Well, unfortunately,
we touched in the first corner

562
00:47:36,979 --> 00:47:40,609
when we were fighting for the lead,
and we both went off.

563
00:47:40,733 --> 00:47:42,113
Do you think that's because
the pole position

564
00:47:42,234 --> 00:47:45,154
is on the wrong side of the track here?
You wanted to change that.

565
00:47:45,279 --> 00:47:49,029
Absolutely. You fight,
you break your... to be on pole,

566
00:47:49,116 --> 00:47:51,276
and then they put you
on the wrong side of the circuit.

567
00:47:51,410 --> 00:47:53,330
How do you feel about
being World Champion?

568
00:47:53,996 --> 00:47:55,656
It's not a bad feeling at all, is it?

569
00:47:55,790 --> 00:47:57,290
Congratulations.

570
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:06,170
What was very clear with Ayrton,
when he got back,

571
00:48:06,300 --> 00:48:12,430
is his body language, his mannerisms
showed that he was in massive conflict.

572
00:48:14,517 --> 00:48:17,557
He was certainly not proud of himself.

573
00:48:17,645 --> 00:48:21,055
Certainly not revelling in the fact that

574
00:48:21,148 --> 00:48:24,148
this had determined
the World Championship.

575
00:48:26,612 --> 00:48:30,492
Formula One World Championship
for drivers, Ayrton Senna.

576
00:48:31,659 --> 00:48:34,409
I call on the World Champion, Ayrton Senna.

577
00:48:41,460 --> 00:48:43,170
He knew I was right with him.

578
00:48:43,295 --> 00:48:46,255
He moved to the inside line,
going towards the first corner.

579
00:48:46,340 --> 00:48:49,340
I just chased him then,
and he opened the gap.

580
00:48:49,844 --> 00:48:53,354
And knowing me like he does know,

581
00:48:53,430 --> 00:48:58,100
he must realise that if there was a gap,
I was gonna try to overtake him.

582
00:48:58,185 --> 00:49:01,855
Okay. Let me ask you
another difficult question.

583
00:49:01,981 --> 00:49:05,281
If I were to count back
all the world champions,

584
00:49:06,026 --> 00:49:10,606
the number of times they had made contact
with other drivers,

585
00:49:10,698 --> 00:49:14,118
that you in the last 36 months or 48 months

586
00:49:14,201 --> 00:49:17,871
have been in contact with
more other cars and drivers

587
00:49:17,955 --> 00:49:20,205
than they might have done in total.

588
00:49:21,167 --> 00:49:24,377
I find amazing for you to
make such a question, Stewart,

589
00:49:24,503 --> 00:49:28,383
because you are very experienced
and you know a lot about racing,

590
00:49:28,507 --> 00:49:32,717
and you should know that
by being a racing driver

591
00:49:32,845 --> 00:49:35,175
you are under risks all the time.

592
00:49:35,389 --> 00:49:39,309
And by being a racing driver means
you are racing with other people.

593
00:49:39,393 --> 00:49:42,233
And if you no longer go for a gap that exists,

594
00:49:42,354 --> 00:49:43,984
you're no longer a racing driver.

595
00:49:44,064 --> 00:49:47,154
Because we are competing.
We are competing to win.

596
00:49:47,234 --> 00:49:51,654
And the main motivation to all of us
is to compete for a victory.

597
00:49:51,739 --> 00:49:53,909
It's not to come third, fourth,
fifth or sixth, right?

598
00:49:54,033 --> 00:49:55,993
But hasn't that always been the case?

599
00:49:56,076 --> 00:49:58,826
But I think it's all irrelevant.
All what you're saying, Jack,

600
00:49:58,913 --> 00:50:00,583
is really irrelevant.

601
00:50:00,706 --> 00:50:04,416
Because I'm a driver that won more races
than anybody over the past three years.

602
00:50:04,543 --> 00:50:08,173
I'm a driver that has been on pole position
more than anybody in history.

603
00:50:08,255 --> 00:50:11,505
And I'm a driver that won two titles
in the past three years.

604
00:50:11,592 --> 00:50:14,682
And I don't think how...
I cannot comprehend how

605
00:50:14,762 --> 00:50:17,932
you can try to turn things around

606
00:50:18,057 --> 00:50:20,677
to say that I've been involved
in more accidents than anybody

607
00:50:20,768 --> 00:50:22,598
because that is not true, as well.

608
00:50:23,103 --> 00:50:25,773
Two of the greatest champions
in the history of Formula One

609
00:50:25,856 --> 00:50:27,356
ended up in the sand
and wasted a Championship.

610
00:50:27,441 --> 00:50:30,611
Each accused the other,
but Prost was hurt the most.

611
00:50:30,736 --> 00:50:32,276
Let's listen to his extreme reaction.

612
00:50:32,363 --> 00:50:35,203
I wanted to punch him in the face...

613
00:50:35,282 --> 00:50:38,872
but I was so disgusted,

614
00:50:38,953 --> 00:50:41,123
I could not do it.

615
00:50:41,246 --> 00:50:42,656
He revolts me.

616
00:50:43,457 --> 00:50:47,587
Senna versus Prost, which went on
for a couple of seasons, well...

617
00:50:47,670 --> 00:50:49,670
It was just absolutely wonderful
for Formula One's appeal.

618
00:50:49,797 --> 00:50:52,337
Some sports news now.
It is the end of a love story.

619
00:50:52,925 --> 00:50:55,965
The television ratings improved, you know,
everything went up.

620
00:50:56,095 --> 00:50:57,425
People talked about it.

621
00:50:57,513 --> 00:51:00,683
It was controversial, shocking, fascinating.

622
00:51:03,268 --> 00:51:06,018
The success of the sport also grew,
you know.

623
00:51:06,146 --> 00:51:08,476
Commercially and...
Bernie Ecclestone was very clever

624
00:51:08,607 --> 00:51:11,147
in the way they distribute television.

625
00:51:11,276 --> 00:51:13,486
But to keep an audience,
you need personalities

626
00:51:13,612 --> 00:51:16,952
and, of course,
the Prost-Senna story was a big hit.

627
00:51:17,783 --> 00:51:20,373
And Ayrton became very famous
outside the sport,

628
00:51:20,494 --> 00:51:24,464
thanks to the impact of Formula One on TV.

629
00:51:30,462 --> 00:51:34,552
I feel so worried for the people because...

630
00:51:35,300 --> 00:51:36,550
And we push them away.

631
00:51:36,677 --> 00:51:41,007
They're nice people and it's not a good
feeling to see them being pushed away.

632
00:51:41,140 --> 00:51:43,680
I feel so sorry, you know.

633
00:51:49,314 --> 00:51:51,654
In Brazil it was very different.

634
00:51:52,568 --> 00:51:56,488
The people were unhappy
under the regime that was ruling them.

635
00:51:57,906 --> 00:52:00,526
Poverty was just desperate.

636
00:52:00,659 --> 00:52:04,659
So his appeal there, at a hard time,
was extraordinary.

637
00:52:06,165 --> 00:52:11,085
The situation in Brazil
was very negative and depressing.

638
00:52:12,212 --> 00:52:16,722
But what happened is,
when Ayrton won numerous times,

639
00:52:16,842 --> 00:52:21,182
instead of trying to hide
his Brazilian origins, as others did,

640
00:52:21,388 --> 00:52:24,598
he did the opposite,
he'd wave the national flag.

641
00:52:25,017 --> 00:52:27,557
Ayrton would do this every Sunday.

642
00:52:27,770 --> 00:52:32,610
And people were inspired,
that's why they loved him.

643
00:52:44,119 --> 00:52:47,869
Ayrton had never won
the Brazilian Grand Prix.

644
00:52:48,373 --> 00:52:54,713
Ever since he'd been in Formula One,
it was his dream to win at home.

645
00:52:59,093 --> 00:53:01,433
The Brazilian Grand Prix is about to start.

646
00:53:01,553 --> 00:53:03,223
Red light, green light.

647
00:53:03,305 --> 00:53:04,925
He starts well.

648
00:53:05,265 --> 00:53:06,465
Come on, Senna!

649
00:53:06,642 --> 00:53:08,942
And Senna gets away in the lead.

650
00:53:19,905 --> 00:53:22,155
Ayrton pulled out a lead.

651
00:53:22,282 --> 00:53:27,122
He was then, really,
faced with a very easy race win.

652
00:53:33,252 --> 00:53:35,292
Here is Senna... It's raining.

653
00:53:35,420 --> 00:53:36,460
It's raining, stop this.

654
00:53:39,299 --> 00:53:41,929
And then, the gearbox jammed,

655
00:53:42,010 --> 00:53:45,560
and he was faced with several laps to go

656
00:53:45,639 --> 00:53:47,809
only having a sixth gear.

657
00:53:50,310 --> 00:53:54,810
It should have been impossible to drive
a Formula One car stuck in sixth gear.

658
00:53:55,149 --> 00:53:59,279
He wanted to stop.
He couldn't drive any more.

659
00:53:59,945 --> 00:54:04,115
But he had tried so many times to win
the Brazilian Grand Prix,

660
00:54:04,449 --> 00:54:07,659
that he found a special inner strength.

661
00:54:17,504 --> 00:54:20,514
After this corner,
Senna is on the home straight.

662
00:54:20,632 --> 00:54:21,842
He is going to win.

663
00:54:21,967 --> 00:54:27,557
Ayrton, Ayrton... Ayrton Senna from Brazil!

664
00:54:30,517 --> 00:54:35,477
Leading from start to finish,
he wins at Interlagos!

665
00:54:36,899 --> 00:54:40,149
A great victory for Senna.

666
00:54:47,910 --> 00:54:49,410
I don't believe it.

667
00:54:55,209 --> 00:54:57,879
Fucking hell,

668
00:54:59,213 --> 00:55:01,053
I've won.

669
00:55:21,193 --> 00:55:25,613
Prost, you son of a bitch!

670
00:55:28,742 --> 00:55:30,952
He won, then passed out.

671
00:55:32,955 --> 00:55:35,245
It was his most heroic moment.

672
00:55:55,060 --> 00:55:56,980
Because of the huge physical effort,

673
00:55:57,104 --> 00:56:00,614
I had muscle spasm
in my shoulders and neck.

674
00:56:01,650 --> 00:56:03,480
The pain was absurd.

675
00:56:04,611 --> 00:56:07,781
The physical and mental stress this weekend
was huge.

676
00:56:09,116 --> 00:56:10,826
But there could only be one result.

677
00:56:10,951 --> 00:56:13,951
Finishing the race with nothing left.

678
00:56:16,832 --> 00:56:18,252
What's wrong?

679
00:56:19,334 --> 00:56:21,964
My shoulders, my shoulders.

680
00:56:24,256 --> 00:56:25,836
Just my shoulders.

681
00:56:29,594 --> 00:56:31,514
Come here, Dad. Come here.

682
00:56:32,097 --> 00:56:33,177
Come here!

683
00:56:34,766 --> 00:56:36,516
Touch me very gently.

684
00:56:41,273 --> 00:56:42,323
Don't touch me.

685
00:56:42,441 --> 00:56:44,031
Calm down, Ayrton.

686
00:56:45,444 --> 00:56:46,994
Don't touch me!

687
00:56:47,112 --> 00:56:48,152
Do you need any help?

688
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:50,530
Bring the flag for me.

689
00:56:51,992 --> 00:56:53,622
I fought so hard.

690
00:56:53,785 --> 00:56:58,325
I needed to finish, I needed to finish first

691
00:56:59,166 --> 00:57:00,956
because He is greater than everyone

692
00:57:01,043 --> 00:57:03,383
and He gave me this race.

693
00:57:03,503 --> 00:57:06,133
And that is what happened.

694
00:57:06,214 --> 00:57:08,974
God gave me this race and I am very happy.

695
00:57:09,343 --> 00:57:10,383
It was very exciting.

696
00:58:00,602 --> 00:58:04,612
Brazil cherishes your victory, Senna.
Congratulations.

697
00:58:04,773 --> 00:58:07,193
Thank you, Brazil, thank you, fans.

698
00:58:07,275 --> 00:58:10,855
The human heat this weekend was so great

699
00:58:10,946 --> 00:58:13,946
that we had to win this time.

700
00:58:14,074 --> 00:58:15,914
It couldn't be any other way.

701
00:58:16,076 --> 00:58:17,116
We did it.

702
00:58:50,777 --> 00:58:53,987
Life can be very difficult in Brazil.
You have...

703
00:58:54,656 --> 00:59:00,156
Brazil have all the extremes.
You have the fantastic nature.

704
00:59:00,328 --> 00:59:04,328
You can have all the good material things
that money can buy.

705
00:59:04,958 --> 00:59:07,418
But at the same time,
you have lots of problems.

706
00:59:07,502 --> 00:59:13,512
Social problems and poverty.
Some violence as a consequence.

707
00:59:14,301 --> 00:59:15,801
I try to help

708
00:59:17,012 --> 00:59:19,972
a little bit. For children, particularly.

709
00:59:22,476 --> 00:59:29,476
Because Ayrton
was so widely known in Brazil,

710
00:59:29,941 --> 00:59:32,441
many people would ask him for help,

711
00:59:33,862 --> 00:59:37,702
personal requests, hospitals,

712
00:59:37,824 --> 00:59:41,664
charities would ask him for help for instance.

713
00:59:43,538 --> 00:59:47,168
Ayrton would donate
and keep it going without fail.

714
00:59:48,043 --> 00:59:54,383
But, he no longer
wanted to make random donations.

715
00:59:54,799 --> 00:59:59,139
He wanted to develop something,
plan it, organise it,

716
00:59:59,554 --> 01:00:04,104
to help Brazil, especially children.

717
01:00:15,654 --> 01:00:19,624
Ayrton in '91 was in great form.

718
01:00:20,367 --> 01:00:22,787
I think it was his strongest year.

719
01:00:22,869 --> 01:00:27,119
He won seven races,
constantly on pole position.

720
01:00:27,207 --> 01:00:29,827
The intensity was every bit as high as ever.

721
01:00:35,382 --> 01:00:38,882
But there just seemed to be
a further wisdom,

722
01:00:38,969 --> 01:00:40,889
a further bit of growth.

723
01:01:04,202 --> 01:01:06,542
But then the car bit him hard.

724
01:01:07,998 --> 01:01:12,588
For the first time he really thought
he could be hurt in a Formula One car.

725
01:01:25,348 --> 01:01:27,178
Neurological examination

726
01:01:27,267 --> 01:01:30,097
to check the chest
and the blood pressure, the abdomen

727
01:01:30,353 --> 01:01:32,023
and the limbs.

728
01:01:32,105 --> 01:01:35,105
- And how did you feel about him?
- He's fine. He's good.

729
01:01:35,233 --> 01:01:38,283
- No problems to worry about?
- No, none at all. No.

730
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:45,280
It's the deepest personal relationship
that I've ever had with any driver.

731
01:01:46,077 --> 01:01:50,617
Whenever I got to the circuit
and ran into Senna,

732
01:01:50,749 --> 01:01:54,459
he was usually being interviewed
or surrounded by people.

733
01:01:54,586 --> 01:01:59,546
And the moment he saw me, his face
would always light up with a beautiful grin.

734
01:02:00,133 --> 01:02:03,053
Because he had that wonderful humility,

735
01:02:03,136 --> 01:02:06,636
which is not common
amongst racing drivers.

736
01:02:08,767 --> 01:02:10,887
- All right then.
- Pleasure.

737
01:02:12,562 --> 01:02:13,902
Be careful.

738
01:02:13,980 --> 01:02:15,900
You've still got too much to do.

739
01:02:15,982 --> 01:02:17,572
Yes, a few more.

740
01:02:22,489 --> 01:02:24,659
Question? Yes.

741
01:02:25,825 --> 01:02:30,745
We talked about the chicanes
and the barriers

742
01:02:30,830 --> 01:02:33,170
that we had there with the tyres.

743
01:02:33,291 --> 01:02:34,921
If you happen to hit those tyres,

744
01:02:35,001 --> 01:02:37,631
it's very likely that the tyres
throw you up in the air

745
01:02:37,754 --> 01:02:39,924
and you end up rolling.

746
01:02:40,006 --> 01:02:42,006
That's what happened with me in Mexico

747
01:02:42,467 --> 01:02:45,257
and that can happen here with other people.

748
01:02:45,512 --> 01:02:48,512
I agree that for the moment

749
01:02:48,640 --> 01:02:52,020
it's not the ideal thing that we have done.

750
01:02:52,519 --> 01:02:56,359
The President
has talked yesterday with Mr. Moll.

751
01:02:56,481 --> 01:02:59,781
No, no, no, forget Mr. Moll.

752
01:02:59,859 --> 01:03:01,689
And he has...

753
01:03:01,986 --> 01:03:03,106
Forget...

754
01:03:03,196 --> 01:03:05,446
Okay, the President of FISA...

755
01:03:05,740 --> 01:03:08,830
No, forget the President.

756
01:03:08,910 --> 01:03:12,830
Now speak for the question of Mr. Senna.

757
01:03:12,914 --> 01:03:17,004
About what we do today for the race.

758
01:03:17,085 --> 01:03:19,335
For the race we can do anything.

759
01:03:19,421 --> 01:03:22,131
I think it's better to
not have those tyres there.

760
01:03:22,298 --> 01:03:26,388
I happened to lose the braking point
at the first chicane yesterday.

761
01:03:26,469 --> 01:03:30,259
Let me finish, let me finish!

762
01:03:30,432 --> 01:03:33,732
And as I drove straight,
it was blocked, the road.

763
01:03:33,810 --> 01:03:34,940
And I couldn't turn back.

764
01:03:35,019 --> 01:03:39,769
If we move the tyres,
we must place the cones.

765
01:03:39,899 --> 01:03:44,279
Yes, that's fine.
And that way there is a run-off area...

766
01:03:44,362 --> 01:03:45,402
Yes.

767
01:03:46,406 --> 01:03:50,406
No, you must restart from the same place.

768
01:03:50,493 --> 01:03:53,793
Because you must respect
the distance of the race.

769
01:03:53,913 --> 01:03:55,413
You cannot come back.

770
01:03:55,498 --> 01:04:00,628
I'm sorry, that is the regulation,
it is the regulation!

771
01:04:00,754 --> 01:04:03,554
It's written in the regulation,
we got the letter yesterday.

772
01:04:03,631 --> 01:04:05,471
Page three.

773
01:04:09,304 --> 01:04:12,474
Here, the last two paragraphs on that page.

774
01:04:20,648 --> 01:04:23,528
Very good penalty for you.

775
01:04:24,319 --> 01:04:26,569
Jean-Marie, it's the same.

776
01:04:26,654 --> 01:04:30,324
No problem, Ayrton, no problem.

777
01:04:30,408 --> 01:04:33,488
Whatever is the decision,
it's the right decision, Jean-Marie.

778
01:04:33,578 --> 01:04:34,618
You must understand.

779
01:04:34,704 --> 01:04:37,124
The best decision is my decision.

780
01:04:39,793 --> 01:04:42,633
I have a feeling for that.

781
01:04:42,712 --> 01:04:45,882
No, because you don't know my decision.

782
01:04:45,965 --> 01:04:49,045
It's the best every time, my decision.

783
01:04:49,177 --> 01:04:50,587
My decision is...

784
01:04:50,678 --> 01:04:54,928
Democratic vote, only the drivers.

785
01:04:55,016 --> 01:04:57,306
By hand.

786
01:05:02,190 --> 01:05:09,070
Who are in favour that
we replace the tyres by the cones?

787
01:05:10,323 --> 01:05:11,373
Your hand.

788
01:05:12,534 --> 01:05:14,954
Stop.

789
01:05:15,036 --> 01:05:17,286
Against?

790
01:05:17,372 --> 01:05:21,292
Abstention? Everybody agree, okay?

791
01:05:21,376 --> 01:05:25,876
Immediately, the work.
You replace the tyres by the cones, okay?

792
01:05:35,056 --> 01:05:38,056
Alain, what happened
going into that chicane?

793
01:05:38,184 --> 01:05:41,654
I tried to overtake Senna. It was...

794
01:05:42,355 --> 01:05:46,185
He blocked me during the whole race,
not very correct.

795
01:05:47,861 --> 01:05:49,611
I think everyone knows Prost by now.

796
01:05:49,696 --> 01:05:53,116
He is always complaining
either about the car, or the tyres,

797
01:05:53,199 --> 01:05:58,039
or the team, or the mechanics, or the fuel,
or the other drivers or the circuit.

798
01:05:58,162 --> 01:06:00,712
Always somebody else to blame.
It's never his fault.

799
01:06:00,790 --> 01:06:01,870
Yeah, no problem,

800
01:06:01,958 --> 01:06:05,788
but I have nothing to lose.
I can't win the Championship,

801
01:06:05,879 --> 01:06:11,469
but if I find him again the same way,
if he is correct the same way, I push him out.

802
01:06:14,178 --> 01:06:18,428
Prost was sacked from Ferrari
because he criticised the car.

803
01:06:19,350 --> 01:06:22,310
The only thing he could do, really,
was to take a year off,

804
01:06:22,395 --> 01:06:24,555
telling everybody he was on a sabbatical.

805
01:06:45,752 --> 01:06:48,842
If I finish second place,
the Championship will be over.

806
01:06:48,922 --> 01:06:51,132
If Mansell does not win,

807
01:06:51,215 --> 01:06:54,585
then it's almost certain
that the Championship will be over, as well.

808
01:07:17,033 --> 01:07:20,373
Mansell tries to overtake,
but he goes straight on!

809
01:07:20,453 --> 01:07:23,043
Mansell goes straight on!

810
01:07:23,164 --> 01:07:27,334
The World Championship is over
because he can't restart!

811
01:07:27,919 --> 01:07:33,589
Ayrton Senna from Brazil,
Triple World Champion!

812
01:07:34,050 --> 01:07:38,550
A whole life dedicated to this moment

813
01:07:39,639 --> 01:07:43,139
by a genius of international sport.

814
01:07:43,226 --> 01:07:46,266
Triple World Champion,
and many titles lie ahead.

815
01:07:46,396 --> 01:07:48,306
And he is still only 31 years old.

816
01:07:48,439 --> 01:07:52,109
Thirty-three victories, three World Titles.

817
01:07:52,235 --> 01:07:57,065
Breaking record after record.
Celebrating as only Senna does.

818
01:07:57,156 --> 01:08:02,696
Ayrton Senna's third world title ensures that
he will be ranked among the all-time greats.

819
01:08:25,727 --> 01:08:27,597
This is a very special gift to me.

820
01:08:27,687 --> 01:08:29,227
I thank you from my heart.

821
01:08:51,044 --> 01:08:54,134
I kissed Senna's left hand, Triple Champion.

822
01:08:54,213 --> 01:08:58,633
I want Senna.
I want to hug and kiss him.

823
01:08:58,718 --> 01:09:00,758
I have a box
full of paper cuttings and pictures.

824
01:09:00,845 --> 01:09:02,425
Everything you can imagine.

825
01:09:02,513 --> 01:09:04,893
He is the only good thing in Brazil.

826
01:09:06,934 --> 01:09:10,694
After that third World Championship,
I saw another Senna.

827
01:09:10,772 --> 01:09:16,322
He was very satisfied, very confident.
He knew the sport better than ever.

828
01:09:16,402 --> 01:09:20,282
He saw it with real eyes,
for the good and the bad,

829
01:09:20,406 --> 01:09:23,616
and he still loved it
as much as anyone in the paddock.

830
01:09:29,624 --> 01:09:32,134
I think it is an incredible party

831
01:09:32,251 --> 01:09:35,301
and anything goes.

832
01:09:35,421 --> 01:09:37,551
Did you talk about Formula One today?

833
01:09:37,632 --> 01:09:41,132
Formula One is so square, today is Carnival.

834
01:09:47,767 --> 01:09:51,767
Have any of your girlfriends asked,
"Go faster, Ayrton"?

835
01:09:56,943 --> 01:09:58,493
Yes.

836
01:10:00,780 --> 01:10:02,700
To Ayrton,
becoming Triple World Champion

837
01:10:02,782 --> 01:10:06,242
was the culmination
of a script that he wrote for himself

838
01:10:06,327 --> 01:10:08,037
before he even entered Formula One

839
01:10:08,121 --> 01:10:11,461
because he knew
he was capable of that and much more.

840
01:10:12,291 --> 01:10:15,631
He was already the idol of Brazilian sport,

841
01:10:16,462 --> 01:10:20,132
and now he became
a great idol of world sport.

842
01:10:27,640 --> 01:10:31,310
There is a great desire in me of improving.

843
01:10:32,145 --> 01:10:35,145
Getting better. That makes me happy.

844
01:10:35,231 --> 01:10:39,821
And every time that I feel
I am slowing down my learning process,

845
01:10:39,986 --> 01:10:43,566
my learning curve is getting flatter,
or whatever,

846
01:10:43,656 --> 01:10:46,316
then it doesn't make me very happy.

847
01:10:47,660 --> 01:10:52,910
And that applies not only as a professional,
as a racing driver, but also as a man.

848
01:10:54,167 --> 01:10:55,497
Of course,

849
01:10:57,336 --> 01:11:01,546
I shall have a lot more to learn as a man
than a racing driver

850
01:11:01,674 --> 01:11:04,934
because my career
could last not many years.

851
01:11:05,595 --> 01:11:08,885
My life hopefully will go still for a long time.

852
01:11:10,016 --> 01:11:14,516
Maybe I'm only at
the half of my life right now,

853
01:11:16,564 --> 01:11:21,194
so there is a lot to go, a lot to learn,
a lot to do still in life.

854
01:11:22,361 --> 01:11:26,781
And happiness will come
when I feel complete as a whole,

855
01:11:27,533 --> 01:11:30,243
which definitely I don't feel today.

856
01:11:30,369 --> 01:11:33,459
But I have plenty of time to fulfil that, too.

857
01:11:45,635 --> 01:11:49,715
For the next season,
the level of competition was distorted

858
01:11:49,805 --> 01:11:53,425
by what was going on technically
with the Williams car.

859
01:11:55,811 --> 01:12:00,611
The car balanced itself.
Each corner was controlled by a computer.

860
01:12:03,152 --> 01:12:07,412
All the driver had to do was put his
right foot down and go as fast as possible,

861
01:12:07,531 --> 01:12:11,121
so in a car without that,
you were at a serious disadvantage.

862
01:12:11,702 --> 01:12:15,162
McLaren are still well off
the Williams-Renault pace,

863
01:12:15,248 --> 01:12:18,918
with the result that
three times World Champion Ayrton Senna

864
01:12:19,043 --> 01:12:21,713
has no chance of retaining his title.

865
01:12:23,464 --> 01:12:26,474
When you go into this sort of

866
01:12:29,136 --> 01:12:30,716
electronic war,

867
01:12:33,891 --> 01:12:38,271
you can find yourself completely stuck.

868
01:12:39,230 --> 01:12:43,900
The electronics do a given situation,

869
01:12:44,485 --> 01:12:46,945
and no matter who you put in the car,

870
01:12:47,071 --> 01:12:49,611
the electronics will do the work
and not the driver.

871
01:12:50,741 --> 01:12:53,541
And I don't think that is really what you want

872
01:12:53,619 --> 01:12:57,249
to have a truly World Championship

873
01:12:59,292 --> 01:13:00,382
of drivers.

874
01:13:00,459 --> 01:13:01,959
The negotiations are long,

875
01:13:02,086 --> 01:13:04,836
and we still don't know
who Alain Prost's team mate will be.

876
01:13:05,089 --> 01:13:07,379
The Triple World Champion

877
01:13:07,466 --> 01:13:09,296
signed a two-year contract with Williams.

878
01:13:09,427 --> 01:13:11,587
He will start testing the car this week.

879
01:13:14,015 --> 01:13:16,095
The only thing I asked in the contract

880
01:13:16,350 --> 01:13:19,440
was that I don't want to be
a teammate with Ayrton.

881
01:13:19,645 --> 01:13:21,185
It has to be clear.

882
01:13:21,314 --> 01:13:23,574
And they had accepted that very quickly.

883
01:13:23,649 --> 01:13:25,439
And said, "No, it's not our intention."

884
01:13:25,526 --> 01:13:27,936
That is the only thing I asked in the contract.

885
01:13:28,029 --> 01:13:29,609
Because I wanted to be a World Champion.

886
01:13:29,697 --> 01:13:31,107
I did not want to lose the opportunity.

887
01:13:32,825 --> 01:13:35,155
It's no secret that I've been

888
01:13:35,953 --> 01:13:38,713
trying very hard to get some...

889
01:13:41,500 --> 01:13:43,500
Some deal with Williams.

890
01:13:44,837 --> 01:13:46,877
Situation's very complex.

891
01:13:48,174 --> 01:13:49,474
It is...

892
01:13:52,011 --> 01:13:54,681
It's not nice. It's not clear either.

893
01:14:00,311 --> 01:14:02,901
I am very certain of one thing.

894
01:14:03,689 --> 01:14:07,859
I am the one who has most to lose

895
01:14:08,027 --> 01:14:11,027
if I have to stop for one year or more.

896
01:14:11,155 --> 01:14:14,985
Because I am at the peak of my career,

897
01:14:15,076 --> 01:14:19,996
and the career of a Formula One driver
is limited.

898
01:14:22,875 --> 01:14:27,585
So no one has
more to lose than myself if I stop,

899
01:14:27,713 --> 01:14:31,013
professionally and in my personal life.

900
01:14:47,024 --> 01:14:51,364
In 1993, Ayrton's driving was pure genius.

901
01:14:51,529 --> 01:14:53,359
For me, it was the best season.

902
01:14:55,908 --> 01:14:59,908
He did accomplish
some of his greatest drives.

903
01:15:00,746 --> 01:15:04,916
Even though he spent most of his time
looking at the back of a Williams car,

904
01:15:05,042 --> 01:15:06,882
which was much faster than his.

905
01:15:08,754 --> 01:15:10,514
French racing driver Alain Prost

906
01:15:10,589 --> 01:15:14,089
has won the Formula One World Drivers'
Championship for the 4th time...

907
01:15:14,218 --> 01:15:17,508
Prost won the championship
and duly retired,

908
01:15:17,596 --> 01:15:19,556
thus getting out of the way.

909
01:15:21,225 --> 01:15:24,935
It seems like a little goodbye
from you to McLaren.

910
01:15:25,062 --> 01:15:28,362
Do you think
it was the last season for McLaren?

911
01:15:28,440 --> 01:15:30,900
I think so. I think it will be my last season.

912
01:15:39,577 --> 01:15:43,117
Let's try and do it the best we can
for both of us.

913
01:15:43,289 --> 01:15:44,709
Of course.

914
01:15:44,790 --> 01:15:48,920
Okay, we'll put behind us what happened.

915
01:15:50,254 --> 01:15:51,464
For sure.

916
01:15:51,589 --> 01:15:52,799
Good.

917
01:15:53,257 --> 01:15:57,927
Even without you saying anything,
that was my goal.

918
01:15:58,095 --> 01:15:59,255
Yeah, okay.

919
01:15:59,430 --> 01:16:01,310
Even without talking to you,
if we didn't talk at all,

920
01:16:01,432 --> 01:16:06,312
I wouldn't change...
I would just do exactly as I always tried.

921
01:16:15,112 --> 01:16:18,162
Ayrton, what did Ron Dennis say to you
when you first got from the car?

922
01:16:18,991 --> 01:16:21,831
It's never too late to change your mind.

923
01:16:24,622 --> 01:16:28,082
But anyway,
he said he was happy for me, and...

924
01:16:28,167 --> 01:16:31,337
It's funny, but that's what he told me, too.

925
01:16:31,462 --> 01:16:32,802
That's Ron!

926
01:16:35,758 --> 01:16:39,508
I said, you know, we must keep
the good times, the good moments,

927
01:16:39,637 --> 01:16:43,007
and let's finish that way,
finish with the good things.

928
01:16:51,815 --> 01:16:56,105
It was Senna's last race for McLaren,

929
01:16:57,112 --> 01:16:59,452
Prost's last race for Williams.

930
01:16:59,865 --> 01:17:02,775
And although nobody knew at the time,

931
01:17:02,868 --> 01:17:07,208
it was the last time
either of them would be on the podium.

932
01:17:34,358 --> 01:17:37,238
Ladies and gentlemen,
Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna.

933
01:17:42,491 --> 01:17:48,411
Ayrton is arguably the best driver available,
the best driver currently racing.

934
01:17:49,206 --> 01:17:51,246
The team is geared to being successful,

935
01:17:51,333 --> 01:17:56,673
all our partners, investors, sponsors,
expect that of us,

936
01:17:56,755 --> 01:18:00,755
and that is therefore
the best piece of equipment, if you like,

937
01:18:00,843 --> 01:18:04,933
you could put in the machine
to deliver to our requirements.

938
01:18:05,055 --> 01:18:07,215
The International Motor Sports Federation

939
01:18:07,349 --> 01:18:10,389
has banned some of
the controversial computer devices

940
01:18:10,519 --> 01:18:13,439
which help drivers
in Formula One motor racing.

941
01:18:13,564 --> 01:18:17,114
The ban is designed to stop the domination
of the richest Formula One teams,

942
01:18:17,234 --> 01:18:19,944
like Williams-Renault, the World Champions.

943
01:18:22,948 --> 01:18:24,868
Ayrton Senna is in a race against time.

944
01:18:25,034 --> 01:18:27,954
He needs to integrate
into his team and adjust to the car.

945
01:18:28,078 --> 01:18:30,958
He says that he is uncomfortable
with little space.

946
01:18:31,040 --> 01:18:32,120
This car doesn't have

947
01:18:32,249 --> 01:18:35,709
the electronic components
used on last year's cars.

948
01:18:35,878 --> 01:18:37,708
It doesn't have traction control,

949
01:18:37,796 --> 01:18:40,376
special brakes or electronic suspension.

950
01:18:40,466 --> 01:18:46,136
The cars are immediately less stable

951
01:18:46,638 --> 01:18:49,058
without the electronic suspension.

952
01:18:50,392 --> 01:18:54,402
As a consequence, they are harder to drive,

953
01:18:54,730 --> 01:18:59,820
and we'll have more cars
spinning and going off the track.

954
01:19:00,569 --> 01:19:04,909
More cars spinning
is more excitement for the viewers,

955
01:19:05,324 --> 01:19:07,994
and for us, if nothing happens to the driver.

956
01:19:08,077 --> 01:19:11,447
Otherwise it's not very comfortable.

957
01:19:12,414 --> 01:19:14,334
Senna in second place.

958
01:19:16,251 --> 01:19:18,751
Almost 8 seconds between them now.

959
01:19:37,147 --> 01:19:40,107
We're certainly not happy with the way

960
01:19:41,360 --> 01:19:44,780
things are with the car
right as they are at the moment.

961
01:19:44,863 --> 01:19:47,123
The handling isn't particularly good.

962
01:19:52,454 --> 01:19:55,294
The cars weren't supposed to
have any of the electronic aids

963
01:19:55,374 --> 01:19:57,714
that they'd come with the previous year.

964
01:19:57,835 --> 01:19:59,375
But Senna became convinced

965
01:19:59,503 --> 01:20:02,383
that the Benetton
being driven by Michael Schumacher,

966
01:20:02,631 --> 01:20:07,221
who had won the first two races
of the season, had retained some of those,

967
01:20:07,344 --> 01:20:12,224
particularly the traction control,
the thing that eliminates the wheel spin.

968
01:20:15,644 --> 01:20:20,154
It didn't stack up that
he was being blown away by the Benetton.

969
01:20:20,858 --> 01:20:22,478
He wanted us to protest,

970
01:20:23,902 --> 01:20:25,322
which we didn't do.

971
01:21:01,982 --> 01:21:06,322
We are here starting from zero,
so basically our championship starts here.

972
01:21:06,403 --> 01:21:10,873
It's not a comfortable position to be in,
but that's the reality.

973
01:21:10,949 --> 01:21:15,909
Now you've won here three times already.
You really do need to make it four.

974
01:21:15,996 --> 01:21:17,656
I would love to.

975
01:21:58,038 --> 01:22:03,078
I'd never seen Senna
as tense as I did that weekend.

976
01:22:07,714 --> 01:22:11,224
At no moment did I see him smile.

977
01:22:12,719 --> 01:22:16,759
He was constantly focussed, annoyed,

978
01:22:16,932 --> 01:22:18,562
saddened really.

979
01:22:25,315 --> 01:22:27,315
It's the balance.

980
01:22:27,401 --> 01:22:29,401
Changing balance.

981
01:22:34,992 --> 01:22:37,242
The car is worse.

982
01:22:40,038 --> 01:22:42,668
Is it generally
more one balance than the other,

983
01:22:42,749 --> 01:22:44,289
or is it changing too much?

984
01:22:44,584 --> 01:22:46,714
There was a bit more understeer.

985
01:22:46,795 --> 01:22:51,165
Bit of understeer on the first lap,

986
01:22:51,800 --> 01:22:55,680
then on the second lap,
it's just changing balance.

987
01:22:57,597 --> 01:22:59,637
Oversteer and understeer?

988
01:22:59,766 --> 01:23:00,806
Yeah.

989
01:23:01,810 --> 01:23:03,730
During the middle of a corner...

990
01:23:03,812 --> 01:23:06,022
breaks away at the entrance.

991
01:23:07,024 --> 01:23:09,784
When it is supposed to break away,
it breaks away even more.

992
01:23:23,123 --> 01:23:25,503
Do you already know Ayrton
or shall I introduce you?

993
01:23:25,792 --> 01:23:27,382
No, I already know him.

994
01:23:27,502 --> 01:23:29,462
Do you know him by name
or have you met him?

995
01:23:29,546 --> 01:23:32,966
I know him because I follow Formula One,

996
01:23:33,050 --> 01:23:34,880
so I've met him before.

997
01:23:35,010 --> 01:23:37,140
Why are you so nervous?

998
01:23:37,220 --> 01:23:39,810
Because when you're close
to someone like him,

999
01:23:39,890 --> 01:23:41,720
you always get nervous.

1000
01:23:42,184 --> 01:23:46,154
Well, good luck to the Champion
and the future Champion.

1001
01:24:02,537 --> 01:24:03,697
Fuck.

1002
01:24:31,358 --> 01:24:32,438
You have seen Rubens?

1003
01:24:32,734 --> 01:24:36,864
He's all right. He's all right.
He's shocked, of course, but he's all right.

1004
01:24:36,988 --> 01:24:38,028
Did you talk to him?

1005
01:24:38,156 --> 01:24:39,486
Yes, yes.

1006
01:24:40,909 --> 01:24:42,869
You take care, Rubens.

1007
01:25:00,554 --> 01:25:04,104
Ayrton was still uncomfortable
in the new relationship,

1008
01:25:04,933 --> 01:25:07,893
and he was very uncomfortable with the car.

1009
01:25:11,064 --> 01:25:14,074
But he struggled,
and put it on pole position.

1010
01:25:22,576 --> 01:25:24,286
Fuck.

1011
01:25:24,369 --> 01:25:26,369
I just need to get myself under control.

1012
01:25:26,538 --> 01:25:29,208
I'm doing things with that car that no-one...

1013
01:25:29,291 --> 01:25:31,251
Throwing it around a bit?

1014
01:26:13,210 --> 01:26:15,790
320 km/h there...

1015
01:26:38,485 --> 01:26:41,445
Ladies and gentlemen,
the San Marino Grand Prix organiser

1016
01:26:41,530 --> 01:26:45,070
has received a report
from the Maggiore Hospital in Bologna

1017
01:26:45,158 --> 01:26:50,038
that the driver of car number 32,
MTV Simtek Ford, Roland Ratzenberger,

1018
01:26:50,121 --> 01:26:52,291
succumbed to injuries sustained
in the accident

1019
01:26:52,415 --> 01:26:53,865
which took place at Imola circuit

1020
01:26:53,959 --> 01:26:56,459
during Saturday qualifying practice
April 30th.

1021
01:27:07,973 --> 01:27:13,443
It was the first time we had to face a dead
Formula One driver for our generation.

1022
01:27:15,897 --> 01:27:19,067
The whole atmosphere
was very heavy that afternoon.

1023
01:27:19,150 --> 01:27:22,400
Everybody was thinking about,
"What are we doing here?"

1024
01:27:22,487 --> 01:27:24,317
Or, "What's the point?"

1025
01:27:33,164 --> 01:27:36,174
Ayrton got very, very upset and cried a bit.

1026
01:27:36,293 --> 01:27:37,503
And that's when I said to him,

1027
01:27:37,627 --> 01:27:40,667
"You know, Ayrton,
you've been three times World Champion."

1028
01:27:40,755 --> 01:27:43,585
"You're the fastest man in the world."

1029
01:27:43,675 --> 01:27:48,135
And he liked fishing,
so I said, "Why don't you quit"

1030
01:27:49,347 --> 01:27:51,677
"and I'll quit and we'll just go fishing?"

1031
01:27:53,351 --> 01:27:55,351
He said, "Sid, I can't quit."

1032
01:28:31,056 --> 01:28:35,226
On Saturday, at dinner,
Frank Williams had doubts

1033
01:28:35,310 --> 01:28:36,850
if Senna was going to be on the grid.

1034
01:28:39,522 --> 01:28:43,572
I was certain that he didn't want to race.

1035
01:29:36,454 --> 01:29:39,584
On that morning when he woke up,

1036
01:29:39,958 --> 01:29:42,078
he asked God to talk to him.

1037
01:29:43,461 --> 01:29:45,051
He opened the Bible

1038
01:29:45,130 --> 01:29:47,630
and read a passage which said

1039
01:29:47,715 --> 01:29:52,755
God would give him the greatest of all gifts.

1040
01:29:54,139 --> 01:29:56,429
Which was God himself.

1041
01:31:01,289 --> 01:31:03,369
A crash!

1042
01:31:04,709 --> 01:31:07,039
Everyone goes around, look at that!

1043
01:31:07,378 --> 01:31:10,378
Lamy arrives at full speed.

1044
01:31:11,299 --> 01:31:13,299
And there is Lehto!

1045
01:31:19,224 --> 01:31:24,064
Terrible crash.
Lamy and Lehto are very lucky.

1046
01:31:30,818 --> 01:31:32,738
The safety car goes out on track.

1047
01:31:46,834 --> 01:31:50,754
The safety car's lights are off

1048
01:31:50,838 --> 01:31:54,168
which means the safety car
is going into the pits.

1049
01:31:58,388 --> 01:32:01,218
And here we go, Senna in front,

1050
01:32:01,474 --> 01:32:02,814
Schumacher is second.

1051
01:32:09,816 --> 01:32:14,736
And Michael Schumacher tries to
pressure Senna on the sixth lap.

1052
01:33:11,878 --> 01:33:14,708
Senna crashes hard!

1053
01:33:15,465 --> 01:33:17,045
At Tamburello Corner.

1054
01:33:19,344 --> 01:33:22,394
A very serious accident.

1055
01:34:16,275 --> 01:34:18,065
We got him out of the cockpit,

1056
01:34:18,194 --> 01:34:21,284
got his helmet off
and got an airway into him.

1057
01:34:22,407 --> 01:34:27,117
And I saw from his neurological signs

1058
01:34:27,245 --> 01:34:30,245
that it was going to be a fatal head injury.

1059
01:34:39,215 --> 01:34:44,545
And then he sighed, and his body relaxed.

1060
01:34:45,763 --> 01:34:49,893
And that was the moment...
I'm not religious...

1061
01:34:49,976 --> 01:34:54,226
That I thought his spirit had departed.

1062
01:36:02,298 --> 01:36:04,668
Even at racing speed,
Tamburello is not a corner

1063
01:36:04,801 --> 01:36:06,181
that you would make a mistake on.

1064
01:36:07,303 --> 01:36:09,473
Something on the car
would have to go wrong.

1065
01:36:13,476 --> 01:36:15,306
Maybe the power steering failed.

1066
01:36:15,812 --> 01:36:18,232
Maybe it was the tyre temperatures

1067
01:36:18,356 --> 01:36:20,976
that made the car skate straight off the road.

1068
01:36:21,567 --> 01:36:23,027
It will always be a mystery.

1069
01:36:24,862 --> 01:36:26,402
Was there a cause?

1070
01:36:27,907 --> 01:36:32,577
In my opinion
the steering column broke

1071
01:36:32,829 --> 01:36:34,699
and the car became uncontrollable.

1072
01:36:35,248 --> 01:36:38,998
But above all, it was fatal because

1073
01:36:39,085 --> 01:36:45,045
the car crashed at the exact angle
for the suspension shaft

1074
01:36:45,174 --> 01:36:46,884
to hit his helmet.

1075
01:36:49,512 --> 01:36:51,012
Ayrton ran out of luck.

1076
01:36:52,890 --> 01:36:57,850
He did not have a broken bone in his body.
He did not have any bruising.

1077
01:36:59,730 --> 01:37:01,940
If that piece of assembly

1078
01:37:02,066 --> 01:37:05,436
would have gone six inches higher
or six inches lower,

1079
01:37:05,570 --> 01:37:07,150
he would have walked back to the paddock.

1080
01:37:47,445 --> 01:37:51,355
He was an idol for me.
He represented the best of Brazil.

1081
01:37:53,618 --> 01:37:54,828
I kiss you, Senna.

1082
01:37:55,036 --> 01:37:57,286
I will never forget you.

1083
01:38:00,791 --> 01:38:04,591
Brazilian people need food,
education, health

1084
01:38:04,670 --> 01:38:06,800
and a little bit ofjoy.
And now that joy is gone.

1085
01:40:26,479 --> 01:40:29,809
Nothing can separate me
from the love of God.

1086
01:40:32,026 --> 01:40:33,936
Who is or has been

1087
01:40:34,028 --> 01:40:37,908
the driver that you get the most satisfaction
of racing against...

1088
01:40:37,990 --> 01:40:39,620
Past or present?

1089
01:40:43,662 --> 01:40:46,832
I would have to go back

1090
01:40:50,628 --> 01:40:52,798
to '78 and '79

1091
01:40:54,965 --> 01:40:58,045
and 1980, when I was go-kart driving.

1092
01:41:01,222 --> 01:41:05,892
I came to Europe for the first time
to compete outside Brazil

1093
01:41:05,976 --> 01:41:10,646
as a team-mate for Fullerton.

1094
01:41:10,815 --> 01:41:14,435
Named Fullerton. He was very experienced.

1095
01:41:14,527 --> 01:41:16,987
I enjoyed very much driving with him

1096
01:41:17,071 --> 01:41:20,161
because he was fast, he was consistent.

1097
01:41:20,241 --> 01:41:22,331
He was, for me, a very complete driver.

1098
01:41:23,661 --> 01:41:26,161
And it was pure driving, pure racing.

1099
01:41:29,166 --> 01:41:32,166
There wasn't any politics then, right?

1100
01:41:32,545 --> 01:41:33,995
No money involved, either.

1101
01:41:34,088 --> 01:41:35,838
So, it was real racing.

1102
01:41:38,008 --> 01:41:42,678
I have that as a very good memory.