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The opportunity to join McLaren with the Honda together.

It's a great opportunity for me.

Professional, and as a personal point of view,

I feel very happy to work together with Alain.

Are we ready?

You're helping your teammate in this.

Do you think he's learning from you?

I think he doesn't need to learn anything,

especially on being quick and qualifying.

I think it's been good for both of us this year,

and the car has been good.

He has more points, I don't have.

But, still, a lot of race to come.

Ayrton Senna crosses the line and you can see his exultation.

He's saying to the camera 'I am number one!'

Demonstrated very clearly, you don't need 20 teams.

You just need one team and two drivers

that both want to win.

The worst part of that year was when we lost Enzo Ferrari.

Only six people were told,

and when I had dinner in the evening

with Silvio Berlusconi, in his house,

I had to tell him, which was very strange.

So I was honoured that I was one of the people that was being told.

I was very close to him in a very funny way.

We never had an argument and there was a good reason for that.

'Cause I didn't speak Italian and he didn't speak English.

So it was wonderful.

But we got on really, really...

And trusted each other, which is more important.

At the end of the year, Petra was born in London,

and I was living in London at that time.

I remember going in to the hospital to see the little one and her mum.

A father is so happy when the little one's born.

Something brand new in your life.

Petra and Tamara I suppose, say they're different.

Tamara is a little bit more active.

And a bit more upfront.

She'd give anything a go that was put in front of her.

Petra is a bit more reserved.

Not so much upfront.

Senna got on really well with Tamara,

and he used to call from Brazil and speak to them.

Nigel Mansell has made the big move

to join Ferrari, here at Maranello.

To drive for the world's most famous Grand Prix team.

And Prost leads the way!

Prost made a fabulous start but Senna is attacking.

And Senna outbreaks Prost.

I was very angry because we had an agreement

saying that the one who takes the best start

won't be attacked by the teammate

before the first corner.

I was very upset because I've always been very honest with my teammates.

I've done everything I could for the team and I felt very bad.

Prost made quite a lot of complaints about Senna...

..and created a very bad atmosphere at McLaren.

I have decided that I'm not going to drive for McLaren next year.

It's very important to say today

that, uh, I had six years, fantastic.

On a racing point of view and the human point of view,

there will never be a problem between McLaren and Alain Prost.

I propose more. You're saying 10,000,

I agree with 10,000. No!

But if you're, if you're saying...

His proposal is the money that has been paid in fine,

doesn't matter why, doesn't matter why.

It's just to put the most money, the biggest money possible together

that can be substantially valuable for him.

Not only for six months, but for a longer period.

You understand?

89 really highlighted how important television was

to Formula 1.

Majority of the cars that year carried on board cameras

so people really could be part of the car as a driver.

They could see exactly what was going on, all the time.

Television really came alive.

A beautiful start by Alain Prost who goes into the lead.

From the public's point of view, it was good racing.

It's how racing should be. Two guys trying to win.

The stage is now set.

This is a sprint for the chequered flag.

And as we speak, Alain Prost is in race control

talking to Jean-Marie Balestre, the president of FISA,

so the politics have started already.

Jean-Marie disqualified Senna for missing the chicane.

Why did he take this attitude against Senna?

Happened to be a French driver and French president.

Alain, big smile please.

It'd be better for Alain to win the Championship.

Good for France,

good for Jean-Marie.

Good for the French Federation.

I don't know whether that came into it at all.

I doubt it. I don't think people think like that.

Jean-Marie was the President.

And he shouldn't be a judge. He should be a President.

I did a good race and was very sad if Ayrton was not disqualified

after what happened.

The problem with Ayrton, he can't accept not to win,

and he can't accept that somebody resist an overtaking manoeuvre.

I never caused the accident.

It was never my responsibility

and that you should see in a video, not by my own words.

We all, not only me, but we all as you people, press,

everybody that contributes direct or indirect to motor-racing

have a responsibility, to worldwide,

all the fans and everyone that follows.

Millions of people that follow racing on television

because they have passion for it, they follow it.

It's a show for them.

A really monstrous decision to call Senna

a dangerous driver and the penalty is just ridiculous.

I do not see the reasoning.

The reasoning behind those two actions,

and it obviously casts some sort of lack of confidence.

Creates lack of confidence in one's mind

about the way the governing body runs itself.

Do you really, really need me to answer that question?

I refuse to walk away from the fight.

It's my nature to go right to the end

and that's what I'm going to do.

Jean Marie demanded to Senna for an apology.

Senna wouldn't apologise.

And Jean-Marie said, "Well I need, I want an apology."

So Max wrote the letter for Senna

and gave it to Jean-Marie,

and Jean Marie did what he would normally do,

changed the letter completely.

'Cause he wanted to give the letter to the press,

showing that Senna had apologised to him.

And in the end, Ron paid the fine

because we couldn't lose a superstar like Senna.

I know it can be very nice with, uh, with Nigel, no problem.

I hope it's strong, I hope it's nice.

There's going to be a lot of information

that Alain is going to bring to the team,

and I personally look forward to working with Alain.

Both on the race track and on the golf course.

00:12:55.360 -- 00:12:57.720 Senna gets a brilliant start.

Alain Prost up in to second place.

Oh dear, oh dear.

And it's race leader Ayrton Senna,

he's definitely lost a left nose wing.

And that means to say that Alain Prost now is into the lead.

Victory for Alain Prost,

victory for Ferrari at the Brazilian GP.

(CROWD CHEERING) Senna, Senna, Senna, Senna!

John, of Benetton, had spoken to me and said, "We're not winning.

"We're going to get rid of the team."

I said, "It's obviously a problem of management."

He said, "I've got a guy that's now working for us in America.

"He's running one of our shops there.

"What do you think about that?"

I said, "There's no reason, if he's a good manager

"and you're confident in him, he couldn't do the job."

So Luciano put him in charge of the team.

I liked Flavio when I met him.

He would be the sort of guy

that would make the right decisions.

I had a very good offer from Benetton

and it looks like the team will be very strong.

Nelson Piquet really is driving like a racing driver again.

People warmed to Flavio.

A lot of very nice looking young ladies did the same thing.

How's it been working with Alain, Nigel?

Is it working out well together?

Perhaps some of the information

doesn't come flowing out,

so, from that point of view alone it's probably disappointing.

He always wants to know what I'm doing,

but, very reluctant to tell me what he's doing.

Alain Prost goes over the line to win the British GP.

For his fourth victory of the year.

Three race wins on the trot.

Yes. I think it's first time it happened to me.

First time ever? Yeah.

1990 ended dramatically.

The hot news from Suzuka is that Ayrton Senna

is starting from the right hand side of the grid.

The right hand side is pole position and the track is dirty there.

Senna asked for the pole position to be changed to the left.

His request was refused and the result is that Alain Prost,

starting from second on the grid,

on the left hand side,

is actually going to have a start advantage.

That pole position in Japan was a little bit silly

because you were the quickest, you should be given

the most advantageous part of the circuit.

Jean Marie decided that Senna

should start where he was told to start.

Which I thought was completely wrong.

And Senna sprints away but Alain Prost takes the lead.

Well, that is amazing, but I fear, absolutely predictable.

Ayrton Senna, I've heard that you've recently ran

the world championship.

Have you got something to say about this?

It's over.

I think for sure I want to win the race today,

the same way I won in 88, to win the championship.

Do you think that he deliberately crashed into you?

Absolutely, 100%. If there were only 1% chance,

I'd say, "OK, there is a doubt,"

but there is not even 1%.

A lot of people thought it'd be a good idea

not to have Jean-Marie as President.

They thought maybe a fresh face, and with fresh ideas, might be good.

When the election came the following year,

he expected not to be opposed.

He expected to go sailing through without any problems.

It was strange to see Frank going to Renault for engines

and even stranger for Renault giving engines to him.

Your relationship with Renault, really seems to have blossomed,

and a lot of people really didn't think

it was going to work, did they?

If you're referring to the fact that 10 years ago,

the British teams, and the French and Italians

took opposite sides of an argument,

I would just say that it's only six months ago

the Berlin Wall came down,

I mean, everything in life changes dramatically

in any period of time or history.

Nigel almost won the world championship in 1986,

1987, and we thought his experience

and his strength, his strength of character, would be vital

to us in our desire and our need to win a world championship again.

They have persuaded me that they do have a package together

which is certainly worthy of another try.

Morning from New York.

Good evening New York, calling Moscow.

The EBU, which was based in Switzerland

used to be the distributors

for all the broadcasters.

They could decide what was broadcast and what wasn't...

..and pay what they wanted.

They didn't want competition

in the television industry.

The fact is, we're not living in the 30s and 40s, pre-television,

where it was all played for the love of the game.

Now it's played for the love of money.

I decided that we would do a deal

with each of the broadcasters, individually.

The EBU said, "If you do that,

"you're gonna lose all the broadcasters.

You won't see any live Formula 1 on television."

So we had a little bit of a discussion about this.

In the end, the BBC were the first people to say, "Let's do a deal."

And when that happened, everybody else sort of followed.

Nowhere else can you get so close to the cars.

Nowhere else is the noise so loud.

And nowhere else are the colours so bright.

Watch it on BBC television. 20 seconds.

Stand by.

No one has ever won the first four GPs of the season,

but Ayrton Senna has victory in the 1991 Monaco GP.

When people managed to find themselves in problems,

I did whatever I could to help them.

And this is no different with Eddie.

Poor Eddie gave me a call and said,

"They're going to get some bailiffs to come along

"and take our cars, and pound everything they can."

So I said "I tell you what I can do... "

Schumacher was available this weekend.

I've seen him in Formula 3 and I had this attitude

to give youth a chance

and to see what the potential of Schumacher is for the future.

The arrival of Schumacher in Formula One

was the same as Senna.

Eddie was over the moon to have found a superstar in the making.

I said to Flavio, "You need to get this guy, before it's too late.

"Before somebody else gets him, you need to get him,

"because he's going to be the number one."

I said, "don't worry about Eddie,

"you can always do a deal with Eddie."

You can look forward to Monza now.

If I can drive in Monza, then yeah, sure.

So I spoke to Michael and said to him,

"You better come down here, to the hotel we were staying in,

"I'm going to see you get to drive in the Benetton."

So this went on all night. And with conversations with Eddie

and Flavio and me.

And Schumacher was in his bedroom asking me

how everything was going and I said, "You just, you, go to sleep!

"Be ready to get up in the morning,

"you're going to be a Benetton driver."

It's undoubtedly clear that Jordan and Schumacher

had some sort of written agreement

for the rest of 91, 92, 93 and an option for 94.

The ethics and how we go about honouring people's contracts.

I mean, we either have to get drivers to sign contracts,

or we just leave it free for all.

I'm easy either way but I think we do have to have

some firm situations.

Eddie had got a few dollars to help him along the way

so it was a happy weekend.

Michael Schumacher finishes his first Grand Prix

in a superb, point-scoring 5th position,

ahead of his teammate Nelson Piquet.

Wheel to wheel stuff, look at this. They're almost touching.

Mansell gets in there.

00:24:01.200 -- 00:24:05.280 Jean-Marie's task was just to make sure that he got enough votes

to be re-elected.

Jean-Marie didn't do much lobbying, but Max did.

The night before the election,

I'd had dinner with one or two people.

I called Jean-Marie, I said,

"Jean-Marie, you're not going to win.

"Why don't you stand up and say that, "I'm sorry,

"I've decided I'm not going to stand now,

"and I'd like you to support my friend Max Mosley."

"Urgh," he said. "You should... Why you say this to me?

"First thing in the morning, you upset me early in the morning.

"Why you saying that?"

I said, "Jean-Marie, because I wouldn't want

"to see you not winning."

Mansell harrying Ayrton Senna.

And off! Mansell!

That's him. Mansell out.

At the very corner that claimed Prost and Senna last year.

Into the chicane goes Ayrton Senna,

on his way to win the world championship.

89 was a disgraceful championship.

I won the race here and I was robbed from it

and I will never forget that.

Then 1990 was the result of the 89 championship.

We had a disgraceful race again here

and it was a bad memory in my career,

a bad memory for Formula 1 for sure.

And this year, we show that,

without the politicians being involved,

we can have a sportive and tight and very competitive championship.

We are upset because the behaviour of Alain Prost

was not at the level that Ferrari would like for his top driver.

Ferrari decided to dispense with Prost's services,

which was a bit of a shock to Prost.

It's a typical, really Ferrari ending.

When Luca came back to Ferrari,

it wasn't such a wonderful thing to be handed.

And it was more a liability than an asset.

So Luca got hold of Niki and Niki become special advisor.

I spoke to Luca and explained to him they needed to have a manager.

So, I thought Jean Todt would be the ideal person for this.

Mansell crosses the line, to take the chequered flag

before the delighted Frank Williams.

We are not as fast as Williams.

We'll be 3rd or 4th if the two Williams finish

and not much we can do about it.

You are about to see Nigel Mansell

become the world champion of 1992.

Still with five races to go.

And, I can't remember when that last happened.

I always used to say about Nigel,

"If you don't win the world championship,

"you should get an Oscar for acting."

Because he was the greatest.

Nigel, you are world champion, what is left now?

Win a lot more races and I hope defend it

with the same team next year.

It's no secret that I've been trying very hard

to, to get some, some deal with Williams,

but I don't think Nigel's position today

or before was the problem for me going there or not.

The problem is somebody else.

Yeah, it's a non-event, I don't know why you're here. Excuse me.

Excuse me, out of the way, please.

it's impossible to accept somebody to come to a team,

February in a year with a signed contract,

veto myself and himself too,

and eventually they change his side

but stay with the veto on myself.

And I think if Prost wants to be called a "so" champion,

3x world champion,

come back in a sportive way and maybe win another championship.

He should be sportive.

The way he's doing, he's behavin, like a coward.

Will you all settle down, otherwise I shall go.

It's up to you. I have a statement here.

(LOUD FEEDBACK)

It's taken many hours...

It's taken many hours to put together.

And I haven't, er, I haven't slept.

I've just been given a message,

which I'm not at liberty to tell you

but it's tried to stop me doing what I'm doing now.

Due to circumstances beyond my control

I have decided to retire from Formula 1.

I have made this decision with some regret.

Of course a team owner, any team owner

is free to choose whomever he likes to work for him.

I thought I had a deal, when clearly I did not.

Ut's always push and shove in Formula 1,

it's such a brilliantly competitive sport.

I love it. I'd be uneasy if it were quiet.

I'd think I was being knifed in the back,

or about to be knifed in the back.

Prost had gone to Williams,

Senna was left in McLaren, but knew the car wasn't up

to beating Williams so he went to America and tested an Indy car.

When Phillip Morris heard of all this

and knew exactly what was going on...

..the only way they could convince Senna to stay

was to offer him $1million a race.

And this strangely, had an effect on Senna.

We didn't have too many superstars,

so again, Philip Morris did a lot for Formula 1.

Ayrton literally had no chance

against Prost in the Williams.

Well I've heard directly from Max Mosley,

which means it's confirmed that Prost will be a given

a 10 second penalty for a jump start.

Well, how about that?

I can't understand because I think the car was moving a little bit

at the start but I didn't do anything wrong, I think.

The car was moving maybe 10 cm, 20 cm

because the clutch was not correct, but I did a perfect start.

For sure when you do a perfect start it's always close to the limit.

Ayrton Senna crosses the line to win the 1993 Monaco GP

with Alain Prost following him home, a lap adrift in 4th position.

I think the penalty was just to make the race more interesting,

and I don't think that is correct.

I want to stop in the best, best way.

Being on the top on the track, being happy outside.

I had a very, very good relation with Frank Williams

and his whole team, and despite all this year,

we had a fantastic relation with, er, with Damon.

And everything is perfect.

So some could say, "if it's perfect, why doesn't it continue?"

and some would say, "and that's the best moment to stop."

00:37:05.320 -- 00:37:08.080 James Hunt, the former world motor racing champion

has died suddenly.

He was 45 and suffered a heart attack at home, in London.

James lost a lot of money, in fact,

a little while before we'd lost him, he'd come to borrow £2,000.

And he was a bit embarrassed to ask.

And I was embarrassed that he had to ask.

'Cause he was such a superstar.

We lost something which I thought, and still believe,

is very important in F1.

That a driver should drive a car completely unaided.

So he gets in the car.

From then on in, it's his decisions

whether he wins or loses or has a crash or whatever happens,

it's up to him.

The Williams suspension system is brilliant.

It's really really clever with the things it does.

But in the end, even Frank's effort becomes self-defeating

because they will then win by such a huge margin

that no one will want to watch anymore.

The decision has to be to stop.

We're all a little upset that the rules are changed

so abruptly from time to time because racing cars

are very, very complicated machines and have to be managed correctly.

I'm starting a completely new partnership with Williams.

This new set of rules will bring the team closer together.

Williams is not going to enjoy the same advantage.

I was determined that we would have the best coverage

of any sport on television.

We controlled

exactly what was going to be broadcast.

As it was early on in the race,

I was sort of doing what I normally do during that time

and I'd sort of, I think, picked up an apple to eat

and I was going to see somebody.

And then I heard Ayrton hadn't come round

so I went to the controller to find out why.

All they knew was it was an accident.

So I called Sid Watkins on our radios.

I said, "What happened?"

So Sid said, "Well, it's his head."

And I thought he said he was dead.

So walked down out of the control tower

and saw Ayrton's brother.

And said to his brother, "I'm terribly sorry that...

"Sorry he's...he's dead."

Chucked the apple away,

then spoke to one or two other people.

They said about stopping the race or not stopping the race.

And eventually it became quite clear

that it would be the worst thing for the promoter in Italy

for the race to be stopped, by law it would be bad

if we did that because we'd be completely responsible,

even if we're not responsible.

And then found out obviously he had died.

My wife wanted to go to the funeral

because she was quite close to Ayrton.

I wasn't too popular.

His brother had of reported to the rest of the family

he thought that I was a bit callous and didn't give a damn.

I stayed in the hotel and watched it on television.

Max said to me, "Now Formula 1 is dead."

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