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A wise man once said, if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.

Sadly, at the moment those words came out of that wise man's mouth, he was using them to justify what must surely be the worst example in F1 history of crashing into another driver on purpose.

Of course, I'm talking about Ayrton Senna and his flawed attempt to justify wiping out his nemesis, Alan Frost, at the start of the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix,

a race we are finally covering on Bring Back V-10s after years of being asked to.

I'm Glenn Freeman and joining me to go back over Senna's Day of Shame,

and much, much more from late 1990.

We have Ed Straw and Andrew Vanderbog.

Andy, welcome to your first appearance of season 12.

Straightforward question with what I assume is going to be a straightforward answer.

When you think of Suzuki, what's the first thing that comes to mind?

And it's happened immediately.

It's too easy. Ed, any advances on that? Well, I sort of compartmentalise the infamous collision sort of together, that and the previous years. So actually, Zazuka 90 always makes me think of the best podium ever. What a story? Every single one of those three drivers, a mega story which we'll get on to. But yeah, it is, I think, potentially my favourite F-1 podium.

That's because there's a LaRousse on it, isn't it? Well, that's a big part of it, yeah.

Right, we're going to start with a story that will eventually relate to that podium because the big

story heading into Suzuki was the terrible news about Benetton driver Alessandro Nannini,

who had the lower part of his

right arm severed in a helicopter accident. Nannini has said in interviews that he remembers

everything about the accident, which happened just outside his parents' house, where the pilot

tried to land on uneven ground and the tail rotor hit the ground. The pilot's attempts to get the

helicopter back up off the ground failed,

and when recalling the incident to Motorsport magazine in 2015,

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