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Originally Posted by doug_porsche
My big disappointment in Senna was that he could not turn off being competitive.
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Yup, that's a very good summary.
As for causing an accident seeming "reasonnable" in context, I respectfully disagree... I do understand he felt cheated the year before, you decide the validity of that (the push rule is still in effect by the way), but IMO, NOTHING justifies taking out a competitor on purpose, especially in open wheel racing and at F1 speeds. And if you really think it was totally safe because it was a braking zone, I look forward to never sharing a track with you ;-) you can still flip a car at low speeds in open wheels... Most of all, it shows weakness. We're talking one of the greatest of all time here, he could have passed Prost later in the race and beat him fair and square. That puts Senna in the same bucket as Schumacher to me, super talented but questionable ethics. I still put Clark at the top.
That's just me, I prefer the beating to happen on track... I'm pretty happy Sam Stosur kicked Serena's butt fair and square in the final of the US open, even though I would have liked to see Serana excluded from the event on the spot by the referee, to set the example. People behave like punks now and then...
But anyway, Senna was Senna, awesome driver, flawed human being, nothing new. Just pointing out amid the man-love gush fest that the movie is rather one-sided (understandably, of course), and I wish they would have shown Prost in a more accurate light. After all unlike Schumi who feared competition, Prost told Dennis to take senna into the team, he never pulled any questionable moves on track, and if Senna's family asked him to be a pall-bearer at the funeral, well...