Formula One’s 75th season kicks off this weekend in Bahrain, a location which couldn’t have been further from the minds of the sport’s calendar organizers in 1994. Sky Sports paid one billion – with a B – for five-year rights in 2019, with £200m per season rumoured to be on the table for contract extensions from next season. But this seemed to have preordained the season for Senna, going into the season with a constructor that had started on pole for 30 of the last 32 races. A second season into having not one but three US-based races on the calendar, it seems curious that just three decades ago, there was no space for a trip to the States. But the changes brought in ahead of the 1995 season had a seismic impact on the safety of the sport.

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