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Post-race
The top three finishers appeared in Prince Albert II of Monaco's Royal box to collect their trophies and in the subsequent press conference with Tony Jardine asking the questions. Senna admitted he knew the Williams car was [size=18pt]"several seconds faster"[/size] than him in the last few laps and his tyres were like [size=18pt]"driving on ice" due to having completed the whole race on the same set.[/size]
Mansell expressed his “disappointment” at not winning the race, but still described the result[size=18pt] as the most important second place in his life and complimented Senna for his fair defensive driving[/size]:
I must compliment Ayrton because he pretty well second guessed every move I tried to do and [size=18pt]he was very fair and he is entitled to do what he did and I think he drove fantastic and that’s why he won the race I came a close second.[/size]
Mansell also described the sequence of events as a result of the suspected puncture on lap 71:
Coming into the tunnel I almost lost it, the back end just went down and I knew immediately I had picked up an instant puncture. The problem was I was halfway from the pits. So I had to drive so slowly to get to the pits. The car’s brakes weren’t working because I was only on three wheels. I think I lost 10-15 seconds just getting it back to the pits. We then had a longer pitstop than normal and as I came out of the pit I saw Ayrton go by, and I knew then that the race was probably, but as you can see from the last 10 laps we gave it everything we could and more and his car was just too wide to get past.
Despite initial reports that Mansell incurred a puncture in the tunnel on lap 71[size=18pt] Goodyear later denied this was the case. [/size]Williams engineer Adrian Newey later speculated the problem had "perhaps" been caused by a "loose wheel nut".
Post-race
The top three finishers appeared in Prince Albert II of Monaco's Royal box to collect their trophies and in the subsequent press conference with Tony Jardine asking the questions. Senna admitted he knew the Williams car was [size=18pt]"several seconds faster"[/size] than him in the last few laps and his tyres were like [size=18pt]"driving on ice" due to having completed the whole race on the same set.[/size]
Mansell expressed his “disappointment” at not winning the race, but still described the result[size=18pt] as the most important second place in his life and complimented Senna for his fair defensive driving[/size]:
I must compliment Ayrton because he pretty well second guessed every move I tried to do and [size=18pt]he was very fair and he is entitled to do what he did and I think he drove fantastic and that’s why he won the race I came a close second.[/size]
Mansell also described the sequence of events as a result of the suspected puncture on lap 71:
Coming into the tunnel I almost lost it, the back end just went down and I knew immediately I had picked up an instant puncture. The problem was I was halfway from the pits. So I had to drive so slowly to get to the pits. The car’s brakes weren’t working because I was only on three wheels. I think I lost 10-15 seconds just getting it back to the pits. We then had a longer pitstop than normal and as I came out of the pit I saw Ayrton go by, and I knew then that the race was probably, but as you can see from the last 10 laps we gave it everything we could and more and his car was just too wide to get past.
Despite initial reports that Mansell incurred a puncture in the tunnel on lap 71[size=18pt] Goodyear later denied this was the case. [/size]Williams engineer Adrian Newey later speculated the problem had "perhaps" been caused by a "loose wheel nut".
