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that impact it had on me.

I was just not ready to give up.

As much as I was scared to continue,

I was not ready to give up my aim, my target,

my objective,

my passion, my dream, my life. It is my life.

As far as I hear, he is out of danger,

life danger,

which is a lot considering the accident.

And as it happened to him,

can happen to any of us.

There are some things

that you can calculate,

but there are things which are unexpected,

and those unexpected things

are the most dangerous ones,

like it happened to him today.

I hope we don't see those things

in the future.

Amazingly, for the third time in a row,

the championship hinged

on the race in Japan.

But this time if Prost didn't finish,

Ayrton would be champion.

Gentlemen, morning.

Number of laps from green light

to chequered flag will be 53 laps.

Dangerous behavior

and/or dangerous maneuvers

will be immediately investigated,

and may lead to suspension of the license

for one or more

Formula One World Championship events.

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There was a big f***-up last year

with Ayrton.

Why do we have to repeat the same thing?

The safest thing is...

If you miss the chicane,

the stewards stop you.

When you have no traffic, they let you go.

If you have to turn around and go backwards

against another car, that's dangerous.

Okay.

Does everybody feel that way?

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

- Thank you.

- Thank you very much.

I can't stand it.

I can't stand this. It's a joke.

After what happened last year,

it's a joke, this situation.

You just proved here... I said nothing,

and you see somebody raising the point,

and you see everybody agreeing.

And last year was really bad for me.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but I have to leave.

The story down in the pit lane

and on the grid is one of tension.

With the World Championship up for grabs,

everyone is extremely tense.

Ayrton Senna actually walked out

of the drivers' meeting today.

He thinks that the pole position should be

on the left hand side of the grid,

not on the right.

Normally, if the inside was clear,

the inside for sure is better.

Because it's dirty, the outside is better.

Like Hungary, or like...

The racing line is the line

where the cars most normally drive.

It's the fastest line around the track.

It's really important to have

the pole position on the racing line.

If you are on the opposite side, you are on

a part of the track that is rarely used

and has half the grip.

If you have the clear circuit,

you'll get away better

on the outside than the inside.

Because on the inside you have no traction.

We'll have a look.

Please.

But would the Chief Steward, would the FIA,

would Balestre, agree?

Ayrton Senna will be in pole position

for tomorrow's Japanese Grand Prix.

Prost was second fastest.

Pole position was his,

and then suddenly

pole position was mysteriously

moved to the dirty side of the circuit,

which he felt was unjust.

That decision was influenced by Balestre.

I know that, we know that.

I was f***ed many times by the system.

I told myself, "Today, there's no way."

Today has to be my way.

I don't care what happens,

it has to be my way.

And Senna sprints away,

but Alain Prost takes the lead!

It's happened!

Senna is trying to go through on the inside...

And a collision.

Crash! They both crash.

Senna has been hit.

Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna

have come together again,

and they are both off the racetrack!

This is unbelievable!

And if the race continues,

it is the end of the Championship.

We don't know yet

whether we're going to see a red flag.

We haven't seen any yet,

so it looks as if

the race is going to continue.

The Championship is over.

And Ayrton Senna is the 1990 Champion.

That's a very sad way for

this year's World Championship to finish.

Can you tell us what happened

on the first lap, Ayrton?

Well, unfortunately,

we touched in the first corner

when we were fighting for the lead,

and we both went off.

Do you think that's because

the pole position

is on the wrong side of the track here?

You wanted to change that.

Absolutely. You fight,

you break your... to be on pole,

and then they put you

on the wrong side of the circuit.

How do you feel about

being World Champion?

It's not a bad feeling at all, is it?

Congratulations.

What was very clear with Ayrton,

when he got back,

is his body language, his mannerisms

showed that he was in massive conflict.

He was certainly not proud of himself.

Certainly not reveling in the fact that

this had determined

the World Championship.

Formula One World Championship

for drivers, Ayrton Senna.

I call on the World Champion, Ayrton Senna.

He knew I was right with him.

He moved to the inside line,

going towards the first corner.

I just chased him then,

and he opened the gap.

And knowing me like he does know,

he must realize that if there was a gap,

I was gonna try to overtake him.

Okay. Let me ask you

another difficult question.

If I were to count back

all the world champions,

the number of times they had made contact

with other drivers,

that you in the last 36 months or 48 months

have been in contact with

more other cars and drivers

than they might have done in total.

I find amazing for you to

make such a question, Stewart,

because you are very experienced

and you know a lot about racing,

and you should know that

by being a racing driver

you are under risks all the time.

And by being a racing driver means

you are racing with other people.

And if you no longer go for a gap that exists,

you're no longer a racing driver.

Because we are competing.

We are competing to win.

And the main motivation to all of us

is to compete for a victory.

It's not to come third, fourth,

fifth or sixth, right?

But hasn't that always been the case?

But I think it's all irrelevant.

All what you're saying, Jack,

is really irrelevant.

Because I'm a driver that won more races

than anybody over the past three years.

I'm a driver that has been on pole position

more than anybody in history.

And I'm a driver that won two titles

in the past three years.

And I don't think how...

I cannot comprehend how

you can try to turn things around

to say that I've been involved

in more accidents than anybody

because that is not true, as well.

Two of the greatest champions

in the history of Formula One

ended up in the sand

and wasted a Championship.

Each accused the other,

but Prost was hurt the most.

Let's listen to his extreme reaction.

I wanted to punch him in the face...

but I was so disgusted,

I could not do it.

He revolts me.

Senna versus Prost, which went on

for a couple of seasons, well...

It was just absolutely wonderful

for Formula One's appeal.

Some sports news now.

It is the end of a love story.

The television ratings improved, you know,

everything went up.

People talked about it.

It was controversial, shocking, fascinating.

The success of the sport also grew,

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