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Originally Posted by Deschodt
I really resent the Prost thing in all those Senna docs though. Senna died, so he's now Saint Senna. Prost lived.
Prost was no more or less political than any other driver or Senna himself, he didn't even object to him coming over to McLaren. Whatever broke down was due to crap management from Ron Dennis IMO. Prost got pegged as a villain in the documentary, and yet he was a pallbearer at the funeral. Senna is the one who did the most egregious of the 2 crashes at Suzuka and didnt even pretend to take the turn ! He had that "god is with me, I pass or we crash" attitude that scared the field. I'm old I guess but I watched Senna's entire career live and even back in the days I always considered Senna to be the villain and quite a "dic#" overall - despite the undeniable obvious talent.. I read stuff from Prost where he goes on about the length at which Senna would go to beat him, Prost was his 100% focus and obsession at the time and he would have done anything... When Prost retired, Senna lost his #1 target to an extent his sense of purpose, and sorta came down to earth again and they became friends because the rivalry was purely a racing one... Prost IMO got screwed by history and the Manish Pandy documentary in particular (the guy is a total fanboy). Listen to any race today where all drivers are tattle telling on each other... Read the old magazine articles, find out.... the dead guys always get the sainthood. it's too bad he didn't live, would have been awesome to see him vs Schumacher (another one whose excesses are being swept under the blanket these days)
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I almost suspected as much.
In just about everything I've watched they present Prost
as the bad guy but all the facts didn't seem to line up.
The explanation that they all do it is probably the most likely.