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That's unreal. I remember watching the Senna documentary and at the end of one of the races they had to pry him out of his car, starting with his fingers. His teammates were giving him pats on the back and he just screamed out not to touch him.

Insane.

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Forearm and leg pump battling lateral G forces, current day Fernando Alonso/Ferrari describes this during his race season if you following him.

During the Senna video above, he takes his hand off the steering wheel with 2+ lateral G’s to shift which is insane also. Today’s drivers paddle shift with both hands on the wheel.

And back in Senna's day relatively little attention was paid to the physical performance of the driver — nowadays all the drivers spend far, far more time on their fitness.

That was most probably in Brazil where in treacherous wet conditions his gear-box got jammed at 6th gear. And he drove his car in 6th gear for several laps towards the end.

Yes those were the details I was missing, thank you.

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