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On This Day: Dennis drops Senna and other milestones

These are the notable Formula 1 happenings on 10 February over the years: In 1993, Ayrton Senna is alleged to have offered Frank Williams to be Alain Prost's teammate at Grove for free but when that did not pan out – apparently the Frenchman vetoing the idea – the Brazilian inked a deal said to be worth a million dollars per race with McLaren. Big bucks at the time. On this day 23-years-ago, in an intense game of who-blinks-first Ron Dennis played hardball and fired first by announcing that the team's protege Mika Hakkinen would step up to the team to fill in for Senna with Michael Andretti in the sister car. But Dennis relented and a deal for Senna to drive was struck on the...
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