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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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