Take a look through the history of Formula One, at the icons and favoured personnel of yesteryear, and you soon begin to realise that most, if not all, of those we admire so deeply are in some way flawed. It’s almost as though, in order to achieve greatness in a sport that could quite easily take their lives, a selection of personality and character traits simply had to be sacrificed, allowing the devil to take residence in the cracks that the light of their majesty just could not quite reach. Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna are the names that immediately spring to mind when you look for the red mist of motor-racing, of course, with the pair’s wholly unnecessary yet oh-so dramatic...
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