Senna e o Soco em Eddie Irvine

SENNA X IRVINE

PART 1

Suzuka 1993

In qualifying Senna finally got the place on the grid he had always coveted - second, which he regarded as pole. He beat Hakkinen in qualifying by 0.042 seconds, second place to third. It was an uncomfortably close margin at a track considered to be one of Senna's best, but was a relief all the same. Eddie Irvine qualified eighth in his jordan.
Senna won the race ahead of Prost with Hakkinen in third, but there was trouble for Senna with another young driver - Eddie Irvine. Senna, Suzuka and controversy seemed to go hand-in-hand.
Senna had been holding off Prost for the lead on a damp track when they came up to lap the battle for fifth between Hill and recently-acquired Jordan Hart driver Eddie Irvine. Senna picked off Irvine with some difficulty, but was not so quick to catch the Williams of Prost, and Irvine decided to unlap himself. Senna eventually won the race but was furious and had not calmed down by the time of the post-race press conference. Once the interviews were over he met up with Gerhard Berger, who encourage him to drink a few glasses of schnapps. Several drinks later he set off to the Jordan hospitality area to give Irvine a piece of his mind. Realising his frame of mind and sesing trouble, McLaren's PR chief Norman Howell and Senna's race engineer, Giorgio Ascanelli, followed him.