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Red Mist: What if Ayrton had walked away from it?

The image above is nothing new — I have seen it before and it always made me think. What if? Being a pragmatist I will always tell you ‘if grandma had balls, I would not be here’. There should be no if, but today on what should have been Ayrton's sixtieth birthday, bugger it, let’s consider what would have happened… Imola was red-flagged, Ayrton spent an hour in the medical centre and went straight home. He’d put it on pole and drive away from Michael Schumacher at the next race at Monaco, in Spain, end second to Schumacher in Canada and take French and British GPs too, but retired on the first race in the FW16’s B specification in Germany. But from there, Senna mastered...
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