Ayrton Senna was imho the greatest F1 driver. Still to this day I cannot bring myself to watch the '94 GP of Imola as I watched it live and have it taped. I remember the race like it was just yesterday but I cannot bring myself to relive that day ever again, I can still feel the tear's running down my face, I do not want to feel that kind of loss ever again
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Gerhard Berger, Senna's team mate at McLaren from 1990-1992 and a very close friend, expressed a memory of what it was like qualifying with Senna:
“ I remember one weekend in Imola where I went out, I set the time. He went out, he was a bit quicker. I went out, I was quicker than him. He went out, he was quicker than me, and then it goes forwards, backwards -- ping pong -- until close to the end of the qualifying and it was the last set of tyres, and he was sitting in the racing car, me in my one, and he got out of the racing car, walked over to my one and said, 'Listen, it's gonna get very dangerous now,' and I say 'So what? Let's go!' â€