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Claire Williams: Ayrton was a God in our house

Ayrton Senna would have been 60 today, but at 34 on the Sunday of a horrific Grand Prix weekend in 1994, at Imola, the great Brazilian was killed when his car speared off the road at Tamburello and the rest is well-told history. In the wake of the crash witnessed live by millions at a time when the sport's popularity was booming, Williams – who Senna had joined at the start of that season – was under investigation after the fatal accident as bitterness prevailed over the circumstances of the legend's death. At the time Claire Williams, now deputy team principal of the team her father Sir Frank Williams built, was in her late teens at the time and recalls, “About a year later...
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