Senna ran out of fuel close to the end of the race and was classified fourth. He thumbed a lift from Nigel during the victory lap, waving to spectators as he sat on the sidepod with one leg in the cockpit for the journey back to the pits. Nigel, in our internal post-race debrief, said he didn’t know what to do. ‘Did I just drive nicely, or accelerate and get rid of him?’ A joke of course, but then again a little broken leg would have been quite nice at that point in the season.
