From: lms@rle-vlsi.mit.edu (Luis Miguel Silveira)
Subject: Re: Mansell left because of Prost?
Reply-To: lms@rle-vlsi.mit.edu
Organization: Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of
	Technology
	<Sep29.210620.21641@engr.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 04:29:46 GMT



In article <Sep29.210620.21641@engr.washington.edu>
eliot@stalfos.engr.washington.edu (eliot) writes:

   In article <BvCp3p.9GM@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tvp53202@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
   (Toby Vaughn Padfield) writes:
   >	Senna is an unbelievable hypocrite!!!!!!!! He has said that if he
   >doesn't have a chance to win, he won't drive next year. He has a right to
   >refuse to drive what he believes will be an inferior car (in the
   > '93 McLaren MP4/8), but to cry about Prost and his supposed
   > no-Senna clause is outrageous!
   >All of this from the man who vetoed Warwick from Lotus!!!!!!!!

   I feel that Prost is justified in vetoing Senna.  After all, didn't he
   tell the world that he deliberately crashed Prost out in Japan 2 years
   ago?


I completely agree with this assesment!  From past experience Prost
knows that being on the same team as Senna is not healthy, period.  I
am not putting the blame on either, just looking at things
objectively.  Anytime two drivers on the same team become too
competitive with eachother, the relation degrades and usually that
ends up badly (Mansell-Piquet in 86, Senna-Prost in 88, 89, even
Pironi-Villeneuve in their days at Ferrari, etc, etc).  It just does
not work!!

Make no mistake.  Prost is no better nor worse than Senna.  Do you
think that if he could (have thougth of that) Senna would not have
such a clause ?  Believe me he would...

Prost plays his hand.  So does Senna.  My only hope ?  None gets a
drive (will not happen, I know... too bad).

Senna is driving the second best car in the circus (maybe third).  How
many drivers throughout history have ever had that chance ?  Many
times drivers have won with the second best car (Prost, 86, Piquet 81,
etc, etc), so he would no doubt have a chance (besides nest year is
next year, who knows).  Saying he will give up unless he can have a
Williams is at the very least a lack of respect for his colleagues
(all the other F1 drivers) who cannot drive a Williams themselves.

As for Prost, he is no better, except at playing the politics.  Do I
like it ?  No.  Can I blame him ?  No!

Finally, the great Nige himself (I am getting fed up with this ESPN
coverage of the Nigel Mansell races!  Will Andrew Mariott move to Indy
Car's next year to follow his beloved Nige ?  Gimme a break, I do not
need to know what he has for breakfast).  Nigel was just not too
smart!  And he was fucked up!  Yes, Frankie did him in, but he should
have seen it coming.  He should have guessed Prost was coming, stayed
with the team, win next year's championship and then force Prost into
retirement.  Maybe he did not believe he could do it (or simply saw
that with him and Prost together he would get the wrong end of the
stick, which is very likely).  In any case he played his cards badly!
Do I feel sorry for him ?  Not really.

So next year Prost and Senna go at eachother all year and pretty much
eliminate eachother everywhere.  This will provide for a more
competitive championshipo!

Go Herbert, go Boutsen, go Lammers!!

-Miguel


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