Formula One Features — April 2004

Motor racing was always - and remains - a sport for the rich. There are very few poor drivers in the sport, beyond a few dozen who by talent alone make it into the top drives across the world. The rest pay.

Lionel Froissart first met Ayrton Senna in 1978 when Senna left Brazil for the first time and came to Europe to race karts. The two remained close and moved up to Formula 1 in the same era, Froissart reporting on the F1 scene for the French daily newspaper Liberation.