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Stewart and Prost removed from front of Senna's coffin

Stewart and Prost removed from front of Senna's coffin 7 May, 2014 The configuration of the pallbearers at Ayrton Senna's fabled funeral twenty years ago was changed at the last minute according to the Formula 1 legend's former personal assistant. Betise Assumpcao, now married to Williams co-founder Patrick Head, told Brazil's Agencia Estado that when she arrived for the 1994 funeral, she discovered that Jackie Stewart and Alain Prost were scheduled to be the lead pallbearers. Triple world champion Stewart had fallen out badly with Senna when he accused him of deliberately running arch-rival Prost off the track for the 1990 title. 'I am never going to speak to you again,' Senna had told...
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