41 years ago, Ayrton Senna made his F1 debut with Toleman

Pat Symonds didn't want to believe it. Couldn't believe it. A moving wall, and what else? Let's be serious for 2 minutes. It sounded like a lame excuse to explain a frustrating retirement from the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix. Because the Hart-powered Toleman TG184 was in the running on the extremely bumpy streets and pitiful asphalt of the big Texan city. But this rookie was definitely not like the others. He kept pushing and pushing. The wall moved, Pat, I swear. " The race engineer finally gave in. After the race, he accompanied his driver onto the track. The circuit was delimited by concrete blocks, Symonds still remembers. I didn't believe Ayrton at first because I couldn't imagine that one of the blocks could have moved. I hadn't realized the extreme precision with which he drove. At the point where he hit, he was used to letting the car slide out of the corner and brush the wall, but really only by a few millimeters. The lap before his touch, another car had hit the row of blocks and rotated the end by a small centimeter. When Ayrton took his usual line, the