David Rosenthal: belief

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…Changed the rules as soon as he gets there and says, "Hey, you can't have all these electronic driving aids. I mean, I know it makes the car really desirable, but no, this is not the same sport anymore because it actually decreases the amount that the driver matters so much that we aren't really willing to go there." Senna is then left on a new team with a car that's just on par or quite possibly behind the quality of the whole rest of the grid when they had to take out all these electronic innovations. And sadly, early in that 1994 season, the racing world would witness its most infamous and fatal crash in that Williams car. Yeah, which is obviously Senna's death in 1994, which becomes this global moment. I believe still to this day, Ayrton Senna's funeral in Brazil is the largest attended public funeral in history. I think three million people showed up in the streets for his funeral. It's this horrible tragedy. He had just sort of gone from rising star to clearly the best race car driver in the world, just this natural talent. There's a beautiful documentary released in 2010 for anybody who's interested to go learn about his life and this crash.…

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