Senna stayed ahead. And as he accelerated out of the chicane towards the chequered flag and his first world championship, many thousands of miles from home and twenty-four years from the day his father gave him his first little go-kart, he raised his eyes from the grey tarmac and saw something. According to his own later account, he saw God.
Williams/Senna
When Senna’s car hit the wall on the outside of Tamburello at 2.17 p.m. on 1 May 1994, bits flying off as it spun wildly back to the edge of the track, an old man a continent away switched his television off almost before the wreckage had come to rest.
“I knew he was dead,” Fangio said later.
Williams/Senna
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