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    Quote Originally Posted by jens View Post
    I wonder, what do these 66 incidents include. Because looking at races (I don't know about practices!) Senna wasn't THAT crash-prone, even if he had some incidents. He had lots of DNF-s, but mostly due to unreliable cars. The Lotus of 1985-87 was prone to running out of fuel before the chequered flag. And Senna had a pretty bad reliability in seasons like 1989 or 1992.

    But that was a different era. Era in which cars were far more unreliable than today and could blow up regularly.
    Exactly, that's why I said it would be more accurate if you could eliminate mechanical "issues" from the count. That could probably be done, but I'm not race wonk enough to spend the time and effort to do it.

    I'll agree he was very fast. I do not agree that he was "great", which, IMO, would include the drivers who I mentioned above
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