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between one racer's car and the next was really enormous as was the case between Senna's car and Mansell's that season.

Regarding Senna I also did my homework; finding out that he was from Sao Paolo and that at the relatively young age of 31 was already a three time world champion in Formula One who had won a career total of 33 races which placed him in second only to Alain Prost's 44 on the all time list. Concerning his relationship with Alan Prost; this was far from being friendly as Prost had crashed in to Senna during the last race of the 89 season which be virtue of eliminating both drivers guaranteed Prost (who was slightly a head in the point standings) the driver's title. Senna however would not be outdone and it was the year that followed that he would return the favor by crashing in to Prost in another collision that would take both out of the final race however on that occasion it was Senna who was leading in the point standings.

By the time of the next Grand Prix without much room for doubt I had become a great fan of Senna's as I saw him being to his sport what Jordan was to basketball, or Maradona was to football, or Louganis to diving. Naturally if the issue by his fans this he had millions not only in his native Brazil where his popularity rose even above that of Pele (a football player whose greatness was almost equal to Maradona's) but all over South America where he was idolized.

The next race; the Canadian Grand Prix came with Senna managing to win pole position but this was a feat he would only do once that season and as for the rest of the season much to my disappointment I would only see Senna win two more races and finish in fourth place in the driver's championship behind Mansell in first, Patrese in second and Schumacher in third. Despite this however Senna did win three races that season; this number being second only to Mansell's nine races which broke the record for a single season which had been held by Senna with eight.

With the 92 season over with as well as the year I moved back to the States where I continued to watch F 1 in the 93 season that would see Senna's team McLaren change engines from Honda (who withdrew from Formula one) to Ford which not by chance was also being used by the Benetton team which Michael Schumacher was a driver for. The 93 season also brought along with it other changes such as Mansell leaving Williams to be replaced by Prost while Senna's teammate Berger was replaced by Michael Andretti ( Indy champion

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