“
I wanted to send Ayrton a message to say, 'You see, we were altar boys next to them'
”.
The emotion arises in the eyes and the voice of Alain Prost at the time of evoking the impossible exchange and to decipher, for Canal +, the epic battle fought by Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton in 2021. The years sometimes push to ripolining history, to warm the embers of the past.
"The Professor" and the late "Magic Senna" did not however wear a white alb when they scrapped on the circuits.
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In their devil-colored suit at McLaren or Ferrari, they were even anything but angels.
And it will take a few more clashes, on and off the track, for the rivalry between the Dutch crack and the seven-time British world champion to rise to the level of that written by the Franco-Brazilian duo.
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The history of Formula 1 is marked by fiery duels (Lauda-Hunt, Schumacher-Hill, Schumacher-Villeneuve, Hamilton-Rosberg).
But the antagonism ...
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