“Time, unfortunately… I should have had, and thought I was going to have, plenty of time in the car, but it was very, very clear that Miami was going to be my final race, so my fate was sort of decided. I was always on borrowed time, I guess, and it’s difficult to maximise things when you know what’s to come.
“To be honest, it was a big shame, but I’m trying to put that behind me, to start fresh, and it would obviously be a dream to be able to have the opportunity [to race in F1] again, in an environment that is much more… I think it should always be ruthless, but more welcoming and on an even playing field.”
Doohan has, at least, taken plenty of valuable lessons from the experience.
“Certainly… I don’t think it can get… well, maybe, maybe not, but I don’t think, at least in normal circumstances, that the situation, environment, atmosphere, could probably get much worse than it was,” he comments.
“I’m grateful to have experienced that now, to have been through that process, to have learned an awful lot of how to cope with that going forward, and how to ensure that I make the most of those situations if I ever am faced with them, and with that environment, again.”
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