He Crossed the Line First and Lost: Senna vs Prost

Same team, same car, and by 1989 Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost had stopped speaking to each other. Twice their fight for the world championship was settled by a crash between them at the same Japanese track. This is their story from 1988 to 1993. A handshake deal at Imola fell apart on the restart. At the Suzuka chicane in 1989 the two McLarens locked wheels, and Senna crossed the line first only to be disqualified. A year later, at the first corner of the same circuit, he didn't lift at over 130 mph. Prost went to Ferrari and was fired, spent a year out of a race seat, and came back with Williams on a contract that kept Senna off the team. Then, at Prost's last race in Adelaide in November 1993, the two of them stood together on the top step. Chapters: 0:00 Cold Open 0:45 The Professor and the Kid 2:53 The Broken Promise 4:39 The Chicane 6:17 Revenge at 130 mph 7:59 The Truck and the Veto 10:27 The Last Podium 11:42 Epilogue: We All Miss You, Alain Details marked "reportedly" in the video come from press reports and were never officially confirmed. Some quotes are paraphrased or translated and may not be word-for-word, due to time and translation. Narration is AI-generated. Research sources include the Formula 1 Wiki (https://f1.fandom.com), text licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.... Contributors: https://f1.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Li... Based in part on "Ayrton Senna", Formula 1 Wiki, https://f1.fandom.com/wiki/Ayrton_Senna (CC BY-SA 3.0), "Alain Prost", https://f1.fandom.com/wiki/Alain_Prost (CC BY-SA 3.0), "1989 Japanese Grand Prix", https://f1.fandom.com/wiki/1989_Japan... (CC BY-SA 3.0), "1990 Japanese Grand Prix", https://f1.fandom.com/wiki/1990_Japan... (CC BY-SA 3.0), and "1993 Australian Grand Prix", https://f1.fandom.com/wiki/1993_Austr... (CC BY-SA 3.0). This channel is not affiliated with Formula 1, the FIA, Formula One Management, McLaren, Ferrari, Williams or Fandom. "Formula 1" and "F1" are trademarks of Formula One Licensing B.V. #F1 #Senna #Prost #F1History #Formula1