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...mother Janet was steelier, both more conservative and more ambitious. Black Jack was an exuberant but careless investor; the Wall Street crash of 1929 finished his market ride. His marriage began to falter then, and it ended when Jackie was nine. Janet then married into one of the richer branches of the vast Auchincloss clan...
Many of the drivers on the Grand Prix circuit blamed a spate of crashes this season on an effort by the International Federation of Automobiles (FIA), Formula One's Paris-based governing body, to sharpen competition by banning the use of high-tech devices thought to give the richer racing teams an unfair advantage. In doing so, the drivers charged, the federation had made the sport far more dangerous. Senna himself had expressed misgivings even before the start of the season. "It's a great error to remove the electronics from the cars," he said. "The cars are very fast...
Photography: Julia Richer (Associate Editor); Eleanor Taylor, Karen Zakrison (Assistant Editors...
Photography: Julia Richer (Associate Editor); Eleanor Taylor, Karen Zakrison (Assistant Editors...
Photography: Julia Richer (Associate Editor); Eleanor Taylor, Karen Zakrison (Assistant Editors...