The scene: Eddie Irvine is sitting alone on a table in the Jordan cabin. Jordan's commercial manager, Rubens Barichello and several other people, mostly Team members, are also present. Suzuka was Irvine's first ever F1 race and everyone is watching a re-run of the Senna-Hill-Irvine incident.
 
Suddenly the door opens and in walks Ayrton Senna accompanied by Norman Howell, director of communications for McLaren and Giorgio Ascanelli, Senna's engineer.
 
Senna is looking for Irvine, but either he doesn't see him or he doesn't recognise him. Eddie Irvine raises his hand and Senna walks over to him ...
 
 
 
Irvine : Here!
 
Senna : What the **** do you think you were doing?
 
Irvine : I was racing!
 
Senna : You were racing? Do you know the rule that you're supposed to let the leaders come by when you're a back marker?
 
Irvine : If you were going fast enough, it was no problem.
 
Senna : I overtook you! And you went three times off the road in front of me, at the same place, like ****ing idiot, where there was oil. And you were throwing stones and all things in front of me for three laps. When I took you, you realised I was ahead of you. And when I came up behind Hill, because he was on slicks and in difficulties, you should have stayed behind me. You took a very big risk to put me out of the race.
 
(...)
 
Irvine : Hey, I'm out there to do the best for me.
 
Senna : This is not correct. You want to do well. I understand, because I've been there I understand. But it's very unprofessional. If you are a back marker, because you happen to be lapped ...
 
Irvine : But I would have followed you if you'd overtaken Hill!
 
Senna : You should let the leader go by ...
 
Irvine : I understand that fully!
 
Senna : ... and not come by and do the things you did. You nearly hit Hill in front of me three times, because I saw, and I could of collected you and him as a result, and that's not the way to do that.
 
Irvine : But I'm racing! I'm racing! You just happened to ...
 
Senna : You're not racing! You're driving like a ****ing idiot. You're not a racing driver, you're a ****ing idiot!
 
Irvine: You talk, you talk. You were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
 
Senna : I was in the wrong place at the wrong time?
 
Irvine : Yes. I was battling with Hill.
 
Senna : Really? Really? Just tell me one thing. Who is supposed to have the call? You, or the leader of the race who comes through to lap you?
 
Irvine : The leader of the race.
 
Senna : So what have you done?
 
Irvine : You, you were too slow, and I had to overtake you to try to get at Hill.
 
Senna : Really? How did I lap you if I was too slow?
 
Irvine : Rain. Because on slicks you were quicker than me, on wets you weren't.
 
Senna : Really? Really? How did I come and overtake you on wets?
 
Irvine : Huh?
 
Senna : How come I overtook you on wets?
 
Irvine : I can't remember that. I don't actually remember the race.
 
Senna : Exactly. Because you are not competent enough to remember. That's how it goes you know.
 

The Top 100 Formula 1 drivers of all time.
 
 
1 Ayrton Senna  
2 Juan Manuel Fangio  
3 Jim Clark  
4 Alain Prost  
5 Michael Schumacher  
6 Jackie Stewart  
7 Stirling Moss  
8 Niki Lauda  
9 Nelson Piquet  
10 Nigel Mansel  
11 Gilles Villeneuve  
12 Alberto Ascari

Voted on in 2000 by the following F1 insiders: Ron Dennis, Ken Tyrrell, Eddie Jordan, Peter Sauber, Giancarlo Minardi, Harvey Postlethwaite, Gordon Murray, Jochen Neerpasch, Jody Scheckter, Stirling Moss, Marc Surer, Murray Walker, Simon Taylor, Tony Jardine, James Allen, Louise Goodman, Jabby Crombac, Heinz Prueller, Nigel Roebuck, Maurice Hamilton, Alan Henry, David Tremayne, Christopher Hilton, Gerlad Donaldson, Richard Williams, Mike Doodson, Elmar Brummer, Tony Dodgins, Peter Windsor, Matt Bishop, Ian Bond, Caroline O'Connor, Nick Bagot, Tom Clarkson, Darren Heath, Paul-Henri Cahier, Rainer Schlegelmilch, Martyn Elford, Jeff Bloxham, Katja Heim, Willi Weber, Ortwin Podlech, Chris Rea.