“I’m lost for words, I don’t know what to say,” stuttered five-time Grand Prix winner John Watson in commentary for Eurosport, watching Alex Caffi’s damaged Dallara being craned away. “I cannot believe what [Andrea] de Cesaris has done. It’s criminal.”
The famous altercation between the Scuderia Italia team-mates at the 1989 US Grand Prix in Phoenix, when de Cesaris was several laps down and turned in on his younger compatriot, is as blatant a violation of motor racing’s golden rule as they come.
