You’d be upset if someone stole and threw away the keys of the hire car you’re driving in the middle of Milan rush hour, right? Or if you’d found a live frog in your suitcase, or discovered a picture of a male member had replaced your passport photo?

Aytron Senna was always suffering from lanky Gerhard Berger’s practical jokes, but then the Austrian does have a large photo of one of his enormous F1 shunts on the wall of his mountain lair. Mad? Maybe. Dangerous? For sure. For that reason, Ayrton should have known not to leave his briefcase unattended in a helicopter…

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