Wasn't it Senna who found out what caused everyone trouble with tire grip but didn't tell anyone, thus gaining an advantage? It had to something to do with a protective coating on new tires that he had scrubbed before going onto the track?
I said it wasn’t untypical of Latin drivers to be aggressive , I didn’t say you had to be Latin to be aggressive
Senna was a fragile-ego idiot and you have to be naive to believe that ‘move’ on Prost was an overtaking attempt. He knew he was going to get beaten in the race and was hoping his pole position would confer him some semblance of control on the race, but because he had a beef with the pole position being on the ‘wrong’ side of the track he said, ‘there’s no way I’m able to get to that first corner first. If I get to that first corner and I’m not able to get through, I won’t be exiting it.’ Imagine the paranoia in the guy to believe that in Japan, driving a Honda powered car, they would conspire to change the pole position to disadvantage him on purpose! It’s all he moaned about before the race. It was an intentional hit to take out his rival, pure and simple. NASCAR-level bump and run, with open-wheel cars. It was reckless and dangerous with the whole field, fully-fuelled, all bunched up behind at the start of a race. And if you don’t believe that, maybe you’ll believe Ron Dennis (from an old Autosport article): “I looked at the traces (from Senna’s car), the brake and the throttle pedals, and you didn’t need to be Einstein to work out what had happened.”
Well I’m not a naive, and didn’t say it wasn’t intentional. I said it was glossed over as a purely intentional move. What I said, is that incident would’ve been investigated in a very different way today by the stewards, which would’ve likely muddied the view of it. Hamilton clearly intentionally took Max out at Copse, but because of all the Monday morning quarterbacking, it’s believed perhaps it was a racing incident. You’ll read where I said Senna admitted he wasn’t lifting for the corner, no matter what. If you believe Bellastre treated Senna and Prost equally throughout the season, then we could discuss naïveté.
