Senna should have to gain an understanding of turboengines, qualifying tires and things like that. Schumacher is the child of an era of telemetry. What time is harder? "The level of difficulty has remained same. Only an approach became another. The car changes from the first session on Friday to the race not so hardly today. And as it is, everyone can work on setup of the car. Look on the starting grid of our times and 10 years ago. You will see that cars are differs from each other very much. Today's driver has to squeeze out a maximum of possible from all the components if he wants to achieve a high place in qualifying. In turbo-times there were special qualifying tires and drivers have to just increase a turbine pressure receive short-lived useful increase of power. But this, in turn, demanded of the drivers an unusual skill to change their driving style under broken behavior of a bolid in the shortest time . And if you'll look on the qualifying times you'll see how hard it was to make your job on 100 percents. Maybe no one could do that or, at least, is very rare. Any way if you've done it with 80-percentage "hit" you can be sure to take 3rd or 4th place on the starting grid. Today all you can think of if you've done your work for a 80 percents it's just a 15th place ot worse."

And on whom would stoke Rory Burn - on Senna or on Schumacher? "It is impossible to compare the drivers from different decades. It is maybe possible just to compare races in which have take part both of the drivers and if we'll make it we'll see that in 1993 Senna certainly surpassed Schumacher, but in 1994 up to Imola Schumacher didn't succumb to Senna. It is impossible to say anything else. As to another skills both of them perfectly possessed an ability to concentrate on the many other things apart of the control of a bolid. I would never be able to control the car and to discuss the weather forecast at the same time, tactics of pit-stops, and how worn are the tires of my rivals. I always was amazed that they can do that. When I recall a World Champions with which I worked it is that point which distinguishes Senna and Schumacher from all others".

Nigel Stepney has had an opportunity to work with Senna in Lotus and he works today with Schumacher in Ferrari. "Some drivers suppose that they are something especial  only because they are sit in the Formula 1 car. You can just forget about such driers. Ayrton and Michael is just another. When Ayrton has come in Lotus all of us have experienced something especial, mysterious. On one hand they are a normal people as you and I, but something unusual surrounds them. I don't know what is it but it real. They always keep calmness and diffuse around them the sense of a confidence. They are great in their business but they don't give other people to experience their superiority.  

Ayrton Senna in Monaco'88	Michael Schumacher in Belgium'98

And one more thing distinguishes them from all others. When a customary driver speaks about a bolid you can hear permanently: "It is bad, it doesn't work". When you hear such words from the really good driver you can believe it. I rememberl one test session with Ayrton in Brasil. After couple of laps he has changed braking balance unexpectedly, having considered that the machine behaves not good, and it was rather exotic because we haven't changed anything. We haven't find any deviations of what should be but Ayrton continued to said that something is not in order. And only a lot of time after we have found out incidentally what was the cause Ayrton's words. So, Ayrton did not make a mistake, he has feel something. And if Michael speaks that something not in the order you can be on 99 % sure that it is so.

Ayrton has one more great skill: he drove in the times when it was necessary to keep an eye on the consumption of gasoline. And he always exactly knew where he can save a pair of drips. It is necessary to realize it - he bears with a mad speed, and in two - three places looks on a flow transducer of gasoline. Ayrton exactly knew on what place of the indication of the sensor will change and whether he has overexpenditure of the fuel.

In Detroit, he has driven on a cover of a manhole. During the pit-stop he has asked me to have a look under the car. At inspection was straightened out that he has torn off the eyes of an oil tank of a gearbox. As an oil stains wasn't visible one of our mechanics has said to me: "Don't tell him anything. Say that it's all right". After the race Ayrton has asked me: "Well, what have you seen under the car? " I've explained to him a situation. Ayrton was disappointed: "You should have said it to me. I wouldn't drive over it any more. I would select another pathway". Suddenly I've felt an improbable respect to him. It was impossible to hide anything from him. As well as from Michael. They always find the eligible people which speaks truth to them in any situations.".

"I remember one case, when Ayrton in Monaco'88 has broke the car only because he has slow down and, naturally, his concentration has decreased too. Formula 1 drivers are always on the limit and only some of them can slow down on his own wish. It is possible only when the driver will find a way psychologically to show 100% of his abilities even in the situations when the engine is loaded only on 90%. Michael has expirienced this last year in Spa and I think, he has made the same conclusions as Ayrton in Monaco'88. I don't think that this will happen to him once again.

With drivers like Michael or Ayrton we always went to the Grand Prix with firm reliance that we can achieve good result. Since I have once experienced this feeling I won't  work in a team which has no such wish to win. Both of them has so great desire to win that all team appears picked up by this gust. "

And who is the best of them - Ayrton or Michael?

"I obligatory have to answer?" Silence... " I can't..."

Comparison of the statistics of 30 years old Senna and 30 years old Schumacher

* - Without points for a 1997 season.