1992 Portugese Grand Prix post-race press conference:
Interviewer: Ayrton, it was announced by Williams that Alian Prost had signed for them today, and there's mounting speculation that McLaren might get Renault engines. Would that help you change your mind about staying with McLaren next year?
Ayrton Senna: Well, I wouldn't be able to give you a short answer because everything's far too complicated. The one thing I would say is that this is supposed to be a World Drivers' Championship, we had two fantastic championships, sporting championships, last year and this year, and we had in my opinion two very bad championships in '89 and '90, and they were a consequence of unbelievable politics going on, and bad behaviour by some people, and now I think we are coming back to the same situation again. It's impossible to accept somebody coming in to a team, in February this year with a signed contract, veto myself and himself too [points to Mansell], and eventually change his [Mansell's] side but stay with the veto of myself, and I think if Prost wants to be called the
sole champion,
three times world champion, come back in a sporting way, maybe win another championship, he should be sporting. But the way he's doing things, he's behaving like a
coward, and if he wants to be sportive he must be prepared to race anybody at any condition on equal terms, and not the way he wants to win a championship. Everything has been laid down to him before you start. It's like if you go in a 100 metre sprint, and you want to have running shoes, and everybody else should have
lead shoes - that's the way he wants to race. This is not racing, and this is bad to all of us. That's it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-29zS0iSC4Jim Clark, Monza, one lap down...