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Special moments. As someone fortunate enough to travel the world reporting on a sport I love, I have to say that at times you can become bit blase. Over time, not a lot happens that you haven't seen before, the odd £50 million fine notwithstanding... But then there are things that make the hairs stand up. I, like half the world, was a great Ayrton Senna fan. Yes, his intensity and commitment led him to do things on the track that many regarded as borderline at best. Men from a different era, like Stirling Moss, who competed at a time when to be a true sportsman you first had to be a gentleman, always struggled a little with that. And with Suzuka 1990 in particular, when Ayrton won the title by unceremoniously ramming off Alain Prost at the first corner. The previous year, Alain had done the same to Ayrton, with a lot more subtlety, at a 30mph chicane. For Ayrton, Suzuka '90 was simple - an eye for an eye. There was much hand-wringing about the mentality of a man who would do such a thing going into a 150mph corner with the whole field right behind. Senna had little time for that. He knew well enough that they would both be in the gravel long before anyone else arrived and, at his level, the mechanics of it were simple enough. © 2020 Autosport
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The magnificent seven set to contest FE's title showdown After a five-month pause, the 2019-20 Formula E season finally resumes with a six-race Berlin showdown. Although anyone can still mathematically win, seven drivers stand above the rest based on form and history. Autosport judges their credentials FE 
The engineer who took Reynard to another level Senior technical transfers between customer racing car manufacturers were rare at the height of their 1990s pomp. But Bruce Ashmore's move from Lola to Reynard bucked the trend and set in motion a shift in the balance of power in US open-wheel racing Engineering 
Ask Tim: Why Albon isn't the biggest scapegoat at Red Bull A heavy crash in FP2, dropping out in Q2 and an early skirmish with Kevin Magnussen meant Alexander Albon's British Grand Prix performance came under the microscope, but Autosport's technical expert says there's another figure that has been harshly treated F1 
Why Silverstone is "not friends" with tyres A series of high-profile failures late on in the British Grand Prix led to a heart-stopping finish for winner Lewis Hamilton. But with another race on the tyre-punishing Silverstone coming this week, there is cause for deep concern F1 
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