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I will make one other point, Senna saw what was going on and, as much as he could be an ******* when it came to his teammates, he saw what they were doing to Michael and it pissed him off. That year, Senna had as much power in the team as Ron Dennis, and sometimes told Ron Dennis what to do. I recall one race where Senna told Ron he was not going to show up, as he was so pissed off about the car, and Ron called him on the phone and agreed to pay him more money just to show up. Senna arrived at the track 10 minutes before the first practice.
At Michael's last race, where Ron had intended to let Mika drive in Michael's place, Senna told Ron to give Michael the same specification car as he had. Michael ran into trouble at the beginning of the race that dropped him to 20th, but worked his way up to third by the end of the race. That gave Michael his only podium that year.
I will also point out that in testing, Michael was faster than Mika consistently, but Mika was nearly free and Michael had a very expensive retainer...
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