Ayrton Senna - Life - 1993/1994 - part 18 - (Prost X Senna)
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- Alain Prost talks about Senna´s death.
He remembers when Senna said: "Alain, we all miss you". Famous interview.
Ayrton Senna´s life - 1993/1994 - part 18 (Prost X Senna)
Ayrton Senna. Monaco. Alain Prost.
Formula 1.
hate or friendship? - Sport
you know the sad part what Alain said is "The day ARYTON died it was the end of my F1" that shows how much both men needed each other.
It's nice that there was a form of reconciliation between Senna and Prost before he died. There's something just really quite...nice about that they would speak on the phone for hours
to our good friend in Heaven, Ayrton, we all miss you Ayrton.
Senna was so badass he needed his nemesis to be motivated, thats why he seemed empty and fragile as Alain says, just an incredible story, most people dont know this specially young people that are into racing
Im brazilian and I never saw an atlete having so much prestige in a country or in the world. Incredible really. The 180 milion people in brazil used to wake up at 9 in the morning on a sunday to see this guy, in a country were number one sport is soccer , number 2 soccer and number 3 soccer. I never saw so much love and prestige by fans not even in soccer by any atlete. Senna rest in peace brother, you made a whole contry happy so many times.
Tears in my eyes. F1 never be the same.
How sad that Ayrton was despressed just before he died. But thanks for a great video.
I don't hate Prost and I am a fan of Senna. They both had high expectations of each other no matter where they were or what team they were in. I play soccer and I am from Argentina. We have always said we hate Brasil and things like that. But our rivalry has made the two countries what they are. Same with Senna and Prost. Remarkable and the best of the best, surpassing their limits to beat each other. Formula 1 does not have this nowadays.
Alain is a gentleman, you can see those 2 guys needed each other, they pushed each other
Prost and senna needed each other to reach that level of competition.
the sister of senna said so in one of the old documentaries.
Wow!!.. wat a sad story!.. Alain great driver & Cheers to Ayrton the king of F1!!!!.. RIP.....
The most beautiful story and drama in F1 goes to AYRTON and ALAIN.. its like the story of MICHAEL JORDAN that will never be fade Forever!!
him complaining a lot and being buddies with the French F1 president does throw him in a bad light. When one finds out more of what really happened with Senna and Prost, you find out that Prost was a gentleman. Those 2 pushed each other.
Anyone who races in F1 are very talented, its sad to see them die doing what they love, Villeneuve also also a true racer.
GOD said u must learn to forgive..what a day! FOREVER LEGEND ARYTON n ALAIN!!
epic... the best two drivers ever
I've always been a Alain Prost's fan, but Ayrton Senna's death made me really sad. As today, I still don't know what to think about that day, and Senna saying "Alain I miss you". R.I.P Ayrton, in no doubt you were one of the greatest!
I think Alain Prost & Ayrton Senna were the best ot all time. I like Michael Schumacher, but except Mikka Hakkinen he had no other driver to fight against while Prost, Senna, Piquet, Mansell had to battle with each others. The races were way more difficult to win.
truly great athletes need great challenges and great challengers. Senna had Prost and Prost had Senna. they were huge because they had each other. Schumacher didn't want any challenges,he wanted people to give him wins on the finish line,victories passing the finish line on the pit lane. he was competing with himself. he is a nobody because by the time he became truly dominant there was nobody to compare him with.
Ils formaient un beau duel!
Comme A Prost, j'ai compris A Senna peu de temps avant sa mort tragique..
Ils étaient des vrais pilotes!!!
Beautiful tribute!
Actually you see Prost as a pallbearer when it shows his funeral and states at the end of the film how he is on the board for the charity set up in Senna's name.
Wonderful! Two legends of the sport - for me there will never be anyone like them. Fascinating insights into their relationship in 1994. Prost is very dignified in this video.
Great Video, thanks for posting.
Alain Prost has always been a true gentlement and Senna and himself became seriusly good friend.
why do people have to continue Ayrton's and Prost's rivalry here on their behalf? i see comments like this in every prost or senna video i see on youtube. the rivalry was between them, and it ended after Prost retired. Maybe they didn't feel this as it was going on, but both later said that the rivalry was a good thing and after Prost's retirement Senna missed competing with Prost. it made Senna a better driver.
objectively they are both human and neither was perfect in any way. they were both great great drivers with their strength's and weakness' and im glad both are who they were no matter what.
Couldn't have said it better. Thank you.
we miss u senna
Wow this is incredible, best feud of all time & its better have friends then enemy. I respect Alain Prost much much more than Michael Schumacher although he won a lot more championship but that is just STATISTIC, its only written. Ayrton Senna & Alain Prost makes the best history...
Great posting -
on the track they hated eachother but off it they were good friends
I love senna and i admire prost....
Fantastic video,massive lump in my throat,and I wasn't actually a senna or prost fan
Alain prost a gentleman and one of the greatest and complete drivers from the great days of F1
If only more people knew this side of the story. It's nice to see that they got along well in the last days. I think Prost is a more respectable man than many people acknowledge. He was not as charasmatic as Senna, and didn't die a hero's death, but he is a very intelligent person, a real thinker, almost philosopher of the sport. his sense of realism and approach to problems is something that is a role model to me, i'd say.
Senna would've surpassed 51 wins if it weren't for his passing. This is not an assumption. He had the talent.
If i had only one wish in life, I'd go back to Imola May 1st 1994 and prevent one of the saddest days of my life. Rest in peace Ayrton.
@TheMauvetys Comme tous les brésiliens, je dois avouer que je n'aimais pas du tout A.Prost... Eh bien, mais je n'avais jamais vu ce documentaire, MPPP ! Eh je ne connaissais même cet émouvant détail entre les deux... Merci très beaucoup de m'avoir presenté cet extrait, FDMV. Je verrai tous les autres extraits, après, bien sûr.
These two fed off of each other. They were Yin and Yang. One could not find the motivation without the challenge of beating the other.
agreed...They said that he suffered 3 potentially fatal injuries that if any of the one of the 3 didn't kill him, the other would. 1. The Wheel well hit his head and slamming it back against the back of the car...2..the suspension pierced his visor..3 his head snapp very violetly at impact.. It was no minor accident. The only thing that could have saved his life would have been what is now called a soft wall that is used in the US at ovals..possibly a tire barrier....
@MCK35 That's one of the most sensible, thought out , empathic comments I've ever read on CZcams. Too many idiots trying to prove THEY KNOW MORE about such and such. Prost was a fantastic driver too. Calm and calculating. They didn't call him 'The Professor' for nothing!
It's nice to see people trying to get the whole story. Cudos to you...
Everyone goes on about 'what Senna would have done', but Prost here makes one wonder if Senna wasn't considering retirement at the end of that season anyway. Sadly, we'll never know.
On the contrary, he lived his life to the fullest, not wasting it. As Colin McRae used to say better be in for a good time, not a long time.
Alain prost could never admit that Senna was a better driver than him. Japan 1989 for example, also he said he wouldnt sign for Williams if Senna was his teammate. Also in Japan i think it was when the FIA (who were french) changed the position of the pole driver to the dirty side of the track. SENNA will always be the greatest driver to have lived, regardless of Schumacher's success
Craig McMillan Prost was the No1 of that era.
grande jo ramirez!
Almost 110,000 views and just 2 dislikes. Classy gesture guys. I am Senna's fan and Prost is my second fav.
prost and senna... the best drivers ever.
None of them made the other one big. That comes with personal skills, hard work and a bit luck. But they indeed needed each other. You always try to be better if you have someone to compete with. Rivalry is something good, it makes you go to your limits. Senna-Prost fans hate the one or the other for no reason, since Senna and Prost did not hate each other, no matter their rivalry and situations through the years ...
Ayrton is the best of the best but the guys in late 80's and early90's they are legeds all of them is super talented guys because they in ultimate challange and fighting with turbo 1000+hp cars with nearly no downforce manual gearboxes and in mclaren no electronics till regulations set mansell senna prost piquet hill berger schumacher and all others we miss you all we want old formula 1 back
Prost was working as commentator for a french TV channel... they listen to the radio of the teams
Aryton .. u always said that "when u drive .. God is ur co-driver" .. I think the day u died god had some work to do .. and he much have definately told u about the same .. thats y prost is saying .. u looked Fragile before the race .. is it true ??
I swear to God I was writing this post before watching the actual video. otherwise I would have just stated the obvious after watching it...
all f1 drivers were POLITICALLY CORRECT after senna's death, said all the right things, etc etc
Williams and NatGeo have blamed it on loss of down force from bottoming out and use the sparks as evidence. Impossible. F1 cars of the time had wooden bottoms and ground effect downforce was banned. The sparks were from the front wing and rear diffuser edges hitting the track. The bottoms of F1 cars created almost no downforce then and now. It was indeed the steering that failed.
There is a famous interview with Senna (I believe it was after a famous qualyfing lap in Monaco 88) in which he said that during the lap he went outside the car then went back and drove to perfection...well I've looked all over the youtube and apparentely no one has ever posted it, do you happen do have it?
I have watched a bunch of clips of this on youtube for some time now. What is the name of this movie ? And can I buy it in the USA ?? Thanks in advance !
I'm sure he didn't say "Give me a longer column made from less quality that the original one and please, screw up the welding of it as much as you can"....
is there a place where i can find this entire video ?
It's more like his state of mind led to the whole chain of bad events in those fractions of a second that took his life. He wasn't consciously trying to kill himself though, it took him by surprise and he did all he could to stop the car from hitting the wall, it's obvious from the videos and telemetry.
Prost was a great driver Senna also, The greatest was Fangio, you should check out the stats on F1. Senna was not the greatest driver who ever lived at least on paper, maybe if he lived but he died so have lots of others, he was going nowhere with williams that season, he was pushing to hard thats what killed him,
also the cars were way more comparable. today the car makes the driver,in those days the driver was making the car.
and Piquet loved him too
@Whateverpeepssayiam Interesting viewpoint. Seems believable after hearing this interview.
I thought the team orders that was given in Ferarri(assuming you're talking about that) were made by the team itself and not shumacher?
he died because the steering column broke which sent him off the track at over 200MPH straight to the wall where his right suspension and tire shattered and a sharp object penetrated his visor above his right eye brow. also the tire smashed his head back towards his seat. The sad part was he knew he was gonna hit hard and bad. you could even see in the telemetry that he was trying to slow down the car. if only willams made a new steering column and not extended it with a piece of crap tube.
Yes, my God, I hate the Williams team.
Don't worry shazmeister, he made a new enemy, Nigel Mansell.
Prost set the benchmark for senna, prost was the yardstick.
Senna outshone Prost on and off the track. God bless Aryton ❤❤
Pushing the car didn't kill him. It was an unlucky object that pierced his helmet.
interesting
@joseavs I didn't say it was Willi8ams fault, I said it was Senna's fault. Williams thought the pit-side alteration to his steering column might be dangerous, as spot welding isn't good enough for the type of stresses associated with F1, but Senna didn't care he wanted to race (which is why we loved him). it wouldn't have happened at any other time as the alterations would have been made correctly after.
As to the Benetton, well, we all know how much of a cheat Flavio is.
He had not won a race that year, and the car was not good, he was pushing.
02:41 Who¡'s that guy? An engineer who worked with Senna? I don¡'t remember him
@MrPicky2009 shame on Williams? I guess you'd better look into it a bit more, Senna's death was caused by Senna's decision, Williams didn't want him to race like it was, Senna DEMANDED it.
What a terrible country France is! Prost always had a problems with France,his home country so it's understandable he was tougher than Senna in terms of dealing with Balestre and Renault. I don't think he liked Balestre, and trusted Renault in his soul. He just has enough capacity to live with that shit. And he walking alone the streets in Brazil? He is a man.
@fabiocsilvaks Jo Ramirz is considered Ayrton Senna's closet friend at Mclaren. If an
@Whateverpeepssayiam If he wanted to commit suicide, why did he slam on the brakes just as he lost control? Ontop of that, how could he have known that the crash would result in death?
Your wrong, the year before the pole was on the other side then the season after they changed it to the dirty side
@Whateverpeepssayiam @Whateverpeepssayiam suicide? woah, I've never heard anyone think that, until I saw your post just now.
1989 pole was on the Right. Check out "Suzuka 1989 Start" here on youtube
Anyway, my opinion put simply: Prost was great when he was in a great car, but Senna was great every time he got in a car. He drove against the odds and delivered consistently.
Even when he had the best car in F1 (the period 1988-90), he was either second driver or had Prost as equal, bar the 1990 season. By 1991, Williams had become dominant, but Senna still delivered
lol
its good that senna and prost made up before ayrton died, ayrton realised that without alain racing against him it wasnt the same and that he missed him, thats what drove senna - beating prost, i dont think he hated him in the true sense of the word but prost was the best driver and for senna to be the best prost was the guy he had to beat and i dont think senna ever lost that feeling
@seaniebwoy76 Explain?
Hes looking exactly like Ayrton
@Whateverpeepssayiam wtf?
@joseavs you hear from the press, I hear from a williams engineer who was there, I believe my story. Senna was uncomfortable with the steering position and so the column was modified, and it snapped where the modification was. It was Senna's decision to drive it as it was, ergo it was Senna's fault. shit happens. An accident is always someones fault.
Idiot, Patrick Head and Adrian Newey were condamned for involuntary homicide in Ayrton's death for butchering the steering column.
@blindcynic Well, Schumacher did have Hakkinen
@designandsketch wow you are very, very wrong
Senna won 1989 with 7 victorys against 3 of prost.. but the mother fucker fia presidente give d award for his friend prost in the worst corruption episode in history os sports.. when Senna get a competitive car he won 4 championships in the sequence.. in 92 and 93 willians get a car much better than anothers.. When people search about what happen discover the true..
"Alain was faster, but Ayrton reached his own limits more consistently. That's why in qualifying where you have few laps and have to produce Ayrton beat Alain both seasons, and over a whole race over many laps Alain's better pace meant he beat Ayrton both seasons" - Jo Ramírez, McLaren Team Director
Fact : Alain scored 41 fastest laps (thats a percentage of 20.60) - while Senna scored 19 (or 11.80 percent).
Keep searching.
dont matter.. u got to see when they have similar cars.. when Senna went to mclaren.. and not when prost come back f1 in willians cause that car was very better.. like that u can see who was the best
Tiago Alvarez
In 1989 during several races, the mclaren of Senna was better than the Prost one. Senna had a MP4/5 chassis designed for the race while prost had the one used during trial sessions.
why mclaren did that if was true? cause prost was better than Senna.. ? : )
Tiago Alvarez
I think the reason was that Senna driving style was more spectacular, especially during qualification and it pleased mclaren a lot. The sponsors were maybe also more interested in Senna.
So there is a lot of parameters and I think it's difficult, maybe impossible to say which one was the best. Each one of these drivers was the best in their own way.
@1.18 he looked outside of the car, even Senna was delusional, oh yes I had super powers. lmfao !! Look at Prosts expression. ha How could Senna say such a thing and think he would not be scrutinized by it. Was he on drugs ? hahahaha