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but I have nothing to lose.

I can't win the Championship,

but if I find him again the same way,

if he is correct the same way, I push him out.

Prost was sacked from Ferrari

because he criticized the car.

The only thing he could do, really,

was to take a year off,

telling everybody he was on a sabbatical.

If I finish second place,

the Championship will be over.

If Mansell does not win,

then it's almost certain

that the Championship will be over, as well.

Mansell tries to overtake,

but he goes straight on!

Mansell goes straight on!

The World Championship is over

because he can't restart!

Ayrton Senna from Brazil,

Triple World Champion!

A whole life dedicated to this moment

by a genius of international sport.

Triple World Champion,

and many titles lie ahead.

And he is still only 31 years old.

Thirty-three victories, three World Titles.

Breaking record after record.

Celebrating as only Senna does.

Ayrton Senna's third world title ensures that

he will be ranked among the all-time greats.

This is a very special gift to me.

I thank you from my heart.

I kissed Senna's left hand, Triple Champion.

I want Senna.

I want to hug and kiss him.

I have a box

full of paper cuttings and pictures.

Everything you can imagine.

He is the only good thing in Brazil.

After that third World Championship,

I saw another Senna.

He was very satisfied, very confident.

He knew the sport better than ever.

He saw it with real eyes,

for the good and the bad,

and he still loved it

as much as anyone in the paddock.

I think it is an incredible party

and anything goes.

Did you talk about Formula One today?

Formula One is so square, today is Carnival.

Have any of your girlfriends asked,

"Go faster, Ayrton"?

Yes.

To Ayrton,

becoming Triple World Champion

was the culmination

of a script that he wrote for himself

before he even entered Formula One

because he knew

he was capable of that and much more.

He was already the idol of Brazilian sport,

and now he became

a great idol of world sport.

There is a great desire in me of improving.

Getting better. That makes me happy.

And every time that I feel

I am slowing down my learning process,

my learning curve is getting flatter,

or whatever,

then it doesn't make me very happy.

And that applies not only as a professional,

as a racing driver, but also as a man.

Of course,

I shall have a lot more to learn as a man

than a racing driver

because my career

could last not many years.

My life hopefully will go still for a long time.

Maybe I'm only at

the half of my life right now,

so there is a lot to go, a lot to learn,

a lot to do still in life.

And happiness will come

when I feel complete as a whole,

which definitely I don't feel today.

But I have plenty of time to fulfill that, too.

For the next season,

the level of competition was distorted

by what was going on technically

with the Williams car.

The car balanced itself.

Each corner was controlled by a computer.

All the driver had to do was put his

right foot down and go as fast as possible,

so in a car without that,

you were at a serious disadvantage.

McLaren are still well off

the Williams-Renault pace,

with the result that

three times World Champion Ayrton Senna

has no chance of retaining his title.

When you go into this sort of

electronic war,

you can find yourself completely stuck.

The electronics do a given situation,

and no matter who you put in the car,

the electronics will do the work

and not the driver.

And I don't think that is really what you want

to have a truly World Championship

of drivers.

The negotiations are long,

and we still don't know

who Alain Prost's team mate will be.

The Triple World Champion

signed a two-year contract with Williams.

He will start testing the car this week.

The only thing I asked in the contract

was that I don't want to be

a teammate with Ayrton.

It has to be clear.

And they had accepted that very quickly.

And said, "No, it's not our intention."

That is the only thing I asked in the contract.

Because I wanted to be a World Champion.

I did not want to lose the opportunity.

It's no secret that I've been

trying very hard to get some...

Some deal with Williams.

Situation's very complex.

It is...

It's not nice. It's not clear either.

I am very certain of one thing.

I am the one who has most to lose

if I have to stop for one year or more.

Because I am at the peak of my career,

and the career of a Formula One driver

is limited.

So no one has

more to lose than myself if I stop,

professionally and in my personal life.

In 1993, Ayrton's driving was pure genius.

For me, it was the best season.

He did accomplish

some of his greatest drives.

Even though he spent most of his time

looking at the back of a Williams car,

which was much faster than his.

French racing driver Alain Prost

has won the Formula One World Drivers'

Championship for the 4th time...

Prost won the championship

and duly retired,

thus getting out of the way.

It seems like a little goodbye

from you to McLaren.

Do you think

it was the last season for McLaren?

I think so. I think it will be my last season.

Let's try and do it the best we can

for both of us.

Of course.

Okay, we'll put behind us what happened.

For sure.

Good.

Even without you saying anything,

that was my goal.

Yeah, okay.

Even without talking to you,

if we didn't talk at all,

I wouldn't change...

I would just do exactly as I always tried.

Ayrton, what did Ron Dennis say to you

when you first got from the car?

It's never too late to change your mind.

But anyway,

he said he was happy for me, and...

It's funny, but that's what he told me, too.

That's Ron!

I said, you know, we must keep

the good times, the good moments,

and let's finish that way,

finish with the good things.

It was Senna's last race for McLaren,

Prost's last race for Williams.

And although nobody knew at the time,

it was the last time

either of them would be on the podium.

Ladies and gentlemen,

Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna.

Ayrton is arguably the best driver available,

the best driver currently racing.

The team is geared to being successful,

all our partners, investors, sponsors,

expect that of us,

and that is therefore

the best piece of equipment, if you like,

you could put in the machine

to deliver to our requirements.

The International Motor Sports Federation

has banned some of

the controversial computer devices

which help drivers

in Formula One motor racing.

The ban is designed to stop the domination

of the richest Formula One teams,

like Williams-Renault, the World Champions.

Ayrton Senna is in a race against time.

He needs to integrate

into his team and adjust to the car.

He says that he is uncomfortable

with little space.

This car doesn't have

the electronic components

used on last year's cars.

It doesn't have traction control,

special brakes or electronic suspension.

The cars are immediately less stable

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