The Bercy event was fraught with problems between sponsor Elf and the Shell oil company. Senna was contracted to appear in his McLaren overalls until 31st December. Elf, which wold sponsor him in 1994, did not like it; and Shell did not appreciate him carrying and Elf decal on his kart. Senna took a lot of trouble personally to smooth out the differences between the sponsors so that he could compete at Bercy. Finally the two oil giants agreed that he could drive in a neutral white kart.
During these two days in Paris, he was relaxed in a way that had rarely been seen in public. With Adriane always at his side, he laughed that he had one of the special karts they would be driving sent to Brasil so that he could practice. "But unfortunanately it arrived so late that I hardly had any time."
In the grand finale, he was dogged by bad luck: he was lying second and gunning for the lead when his kart developed a mechanical fault. He was out of the race. But he was able to joke about it: Better here than next year in the Williams”, he said.
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