Originally posted by Spacecadet
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He was a feckin dangerous son of abitch who was marked to die early, in my book, from the moment I saw him in F3.
Barcelona in '91 (maybe '92) when he was trying to scare Mansell by steering towards him at over 200 mph. And people have the temerity to suggest Hamilton is dangerous...
As for the loss of stability comment, all they had done was ban active aero and active suspension, due to Newey designing a car, were it not for reliability, that was capable of winning everything it entered. Without the active suspension, it was not a match for the B194 of Schumacher (which also didn't have these driver aids). Senna wanted to drive for Williams as he'd seen what the FW14 and FW14b were like and he thought the FW15 would be a shoe in for the title that year. It wasn't, and he was over driving it.
Two things killed him: his belief he wasn't mortal in some kind of way, and his belief that his skill transcended the ability of the car. That's my view.
Jim Clark proved you can win the WDC and be a nice guy. As did many others.
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