The configuration of the pallbearers at Ayrton Senna's fabled funeral was changed at the last minute, the F1 legend's former personal assistant has revealed. Betise Assumpcao, now married to Williams co-founder Patrick Head, told Brazil's Agencia Estado that when she arrived for the 1994 funeral, she discovered that Jackie Stewart and Alain Prost were scheduled to be the lead pallbearers. Triple world champion Stewart had fallen out badly with Senna when he accused him of deliberately running arch-rival Prost off the track for the 1990 title. "I am never going to speak to you again," Senna had told Stewart, according to the Scot in an article for the Daily Mail newspaper last...
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