Originally Posted by Jim_S:
“the only thing I didn't really like about the Senna/Prost rivarly was it was completely seen as one-sided with Prost basically the film's villian. They mentioned Senna taking him out to win the World Championship in 90 but it was sort of glossed over compared to Suzuka 89 where Senna was excluded from the race result for restarting the car and missing the chicane. I think most people would say running somebody off the road to make sure you can win the title (compare it to Schumacher with Hill in 94 or Villeneuve in 97) is worse than what Prost did with the 89 one”
I must say, I didn't think they really made Prost out to be the baddie in Senna.
I think that role was really reserved for Jean Marie Ballestre who, possibly because he wanted a fellow Frenchy to win, seemed to be doing everything in his power to sabotage Senna and McLaren's championship.
S'funny really, after watching Senna and Rush you start to realise why Ron Dennis might've thought the FIA was out to get McLaren.
In other news...
Was watching the Japan race and Ross Brawn made a comment about how next year's calender is taking things to the point where teams ARE going to need two race-teams to piggy-back each other from race to race so they can set up in time for each race.
It occurred to me, would there be any benefit in deliberately controlling the number of people in a race team?
I mean, would it make things more interesting if, say, each team was only allowed to bring 15 people to each event and, perhaps, only allow 3 people to service a car during a pitstop?
Seems like reducing the team numbers might force teams to build cars which were more straightforward so they could be maintained by a smaller team and if the cars were more straightforward that might improve the racing.