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385 00:33:17,077 --> 00:33:18,871 It may be in 20 minutes. 386 00:33:19,079 --> 00:33:20,414 Fucking hell. 387 00:33:20,623 --> 00:33:22,041 Want a cup of tea? 388 00:33:22,750 --> 00:33:26,170 <i>It was unheard of for the podium to be delayed.</i> 389 00:33:26,253 --> 00:33:30,716 N igel , N igel , he missed the chicane. 390 00:33:30,799 --> 00:33:33,427 He went through the slip road. 391 00:33:39,475 --> 00:33:45,064 <i>The longer we waited, the more we feared things were becoming political.</i> 392 00:34:04,124 --> 00:34:05,709 <i>The decision taken by the Stewards,</i> 393 00:34:05,793 --> 00:34:09,338 <i>by the Stewards at the Japanese Grand Prix.</i> 394 00:34:09,630 --> 00:34:12,967 <i>Excludes car number one and its driver Ayrton Senna</i> 395 00:34:13,467 --> 00:34:15,177 <i>from the final result of this race.</i> 396 00:34:15,302 --> 00:34:16,887 <i>Just after the race</i> 397 00:34:16,971 --> 00:34:18,722 <i>this Giant Screen</i> 398 00:34:18,806 --> 00:34:20,975 <i>repeatedly showed the accident</i> 399 00:34:21,100 --> 00:34:24,353 <i>and Senna rejoining the race.</i> 400 00:34:24,645 --> 00:34:28,649 <i>After reviewing these images, the stewards concluded</i> 401 00:34:28,774 --> 00:34:31,694 <i>that because Senna did not drive through the chicane</i> 402 00:34:31,819 --> 00:34:33,153 <i>to rejoin to the track,</i> 403 00:34:33,279 --> 00:34:36,991 <i>he infringed Article 56 of FIA regulations.</i> 404 00:34:38,325 --> 00:34:39,702 You're the World Champion , Alain? 405 00:34:39,827 --> 00:34:40,995 Apparently, yes. 406 00:34:42,371 --> 00:34:45,207 I was not 100% sure, I know the regulation , 407 00:34:45,332 --> 00:34:49,336 but you never know how it's going to be interpreted. 408 00:34:49,503 --> 00:34:54,174 But to be very honest, I mean , I'm quite happy to leave, 409 00:34:54,300 --> 00:34:58,178 because I think it becomes absolutely impossible to work with Ayrton , 410 00:34:58,304 --> 00:35:02,141 and that's a good end of championship. 411 00:35:21,869 --> 00:35:23,537 <i>What I'd like to do now</i> 412 00:35:24,246 --> 00:35:30,044 <i>is show you some footage which I think is quite relevant.</i> 413 00:35:30,711 --> 00:35:35,549 <i>Because we're told that you can't use escape roads to rejoin the race.</i> 414 00:35:36,008 --> 00:35:41,180 <i>Escape roads are not for escaping through, they're in fact for stopping in,</i> 415 00:35:41,263 --> 00:35:44,391 <i>turning round and going out of</i> 416 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:49,772 <i>Very important to remember, no exclusions,</i> 417 00:35:49,897 --> 00:35:53,400 <i>no penalties, no disqualifications.</i> 418 00:35:54,068 --> 00:35:57,696 <i>And for that he's excluded from the Japanese Grand Prix?</i> 419 00:35:57,780 --> 00:36:01,909 <i>Where's the consistency? It can't be right.</i> 420 00:36:07,247 --> 00:36:09,291 Alain , you said that you took a normal racing line. 421 00:36:09,416 --> 00:36:12,127 I would put it to you that from the aerial pictures, 422 00:36:12,252 --> 00:36:14,213 it looked as though you had turned in quite early. 423 00:36:14,296 --> 00:36:17,925 It wasn't a normal line at all. 424 00:36:18,258 --> 00:36:21,053 I won 39 races and now three championships, 425 00:36:21,136 --> 00:36:25,891 do you think that I would do something like this on purpose? 426 00:36:26,767 --> 00:36:29,770 <i>You know, you know, I had already turned for the corner,</i> 427 00:36:29,895 --> 00:36:33,774 <i>maybe a little bit earlier, if you want, but that was my corner.</i> 428 00:36:35,567 --> 00:36:39,655 <i>The Court of Appeal pronounces</i> 429 00:36:39,947 --> 00:36:44,118 <i>a six month suspended ban of Senna's license,</i> 430 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,163 <i>which is a warning not only for Ayrton Senna,</i> 431 00:36:48,288 --> 00:36:50,749 <i>but for all drivers,</i> 432 00:36:50,833 --> 00:36:53,919 <i>and also a $100, 000 fine.</i> 433 00:36:54,002 --> 00:36:57,339 <i>Even if you are one of the biggest drivers in the world,</i> 434 00:36:57,464 --> 00:37:01,802 <i>you don't have the right to cause a stupid accident.</i> 435 00:37:03,095 --> 00:37:05,931 The way the whole affair has been treated , 436 00:37:06,014 --> 00:37:11,061 it's like I have total responsibility for everything that took place there. 437 00:37:11,145 --> 00:37:16,024 I was blamed for everything and I was penalized for everything. 438 00:37:16,150 --> 00:37:18,277 I was treated like a criminal. 439 00:37:19,611 --> 00:37:21,280 And this is totally unacceptable. 440 00:37:29,329 --> 00:37:32,833 <i>That was a huge blow for Ayrton</i> 441 00:37:32,958 --> 00:37:37,337 <i>because Balestre's attitude was even worse than Prost's.</i> 442 00:37:37,671 --> 00:37:40,632 <i>He almost gave up racing in Formula One.</i> 443 00:37:45,387 --> 00:37:47,681 <i>Left him alone for...