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Coincidentally, just today I caught an interview of Prost that came out as there's a mini documentary coming out on him (on a french pay channel, probably not cc'ed in english, have not seen it). So revisiting the Senna thing above, from Prost's mouth, translation is mine and not verbatim..
- I totally understood his obsession with me when I visited his room. After the funeral in Brazil, his family had me over at the house.. Pictures of me eve-ry-where. Clearly I was the guy he wanted to beat, from his karting days, he was focused on me... That desire to beat me, that made a lot more sense seeing that...
- The minute I quit, it's like a switch flipped with Ayrton. Immediately we were friends, we talked all the time, he called me 3-4 times a week for anything (some great pics shown there). He would frequently ask me to come back to F1, said he was a bit lost without me as a target to beat, not motivated (his words). He asked me to become the director or the GPDA (the driver association) but I was commentating TV at the time.. The fateful week he died, he called me even more, he was not OK, he was questioning everything... and he thought Benetton was cheating, he was very unhappy.
- I'm not on social media a lot, jsut instagram, I can't deal with haters and stuff like that.. You know where my biggest fan base is ? Brazil !
- I would not let my kid watch GP races live.. Just in case I had a bad accident. You know the worst part ? my son's first GP he was allowed to watch live was the one I was commentating, Imola, that day Ayrton died...
- On the Pandy doc and netflix series: I'm not happy with this, I understand they need to romance stuff and exaggerate some character traits but I was there in real life. We had a great relation in 88. 89 was bad but that was a lot of external factors (hinting at poor management by Ron Dennis) but after I quit we were really close. Some of what they portray in there never happened, complete fabrication maybe based on a journalist. The worst part is when they portray me as arrogant, I can be many things but arrogant is the least likely, I'm not not confident enough...
Just interesting side notes... Wish Senna had lived and they could have been friends longer..
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