But he was so troubled by it that we went and looked at the wall. “With any other driver you would say ‘don’t be bloody ridiculous’. “During the debrief he said ‘I can’t make out how I hit that wall. Recalling the incident, Senna’s race engineer Pat Symonds said: “In Dallas he touched a wall and broke a wheel. Impossible right? Well, it turned out that it had. He had been nailing that corner to precision, a matter of millimetres, and was convinced that the wall had in fact moved. One great example of that came at the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix.ĭriving for Toleman, Senna retired on Lap 47 from P4 after hitting the wall. We all know that Senna was a master of his craft, a driver who spent his Formula 1 career on the absolute limit. Here are five stories that give you a glimpse, a reminder, of what made him such an iconic driver. Three-time World Champion Ayrton Senna will be forever remembered as one of the all-time greats in Formula 1.
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