differ in that Damon isn't a fraud.
I don't think you can fairly call a multiple IndyCar champion and an F1 world champion a "fraud", regardless of what you think of him as a person.
Jacques is a bit of a pillock but so was his dad, really.
Because Balestre knowingly screwed him out of the title the year so had to eat humble pie. That or Senna blagged his way out of it.
Different rules back then. Nowadays Senna would have been disqualified in 89 for having marshalls' assistance in getting going again. And nobody had really deliberately and blatantly did what Senna did in 90 before, so they didn't react well. Jackie Stewart, who interviewed him after the race, was not impressed with Senna's BS quote about "going for a gap".
But having let Senna away in 90, it led to Schumacher getting away with it in 94 too. It would have been interesting to see if he'd have got away with it in 97 if it had worked, but because it didn't work it was easier to give him a nothing punishment. By then he was a known cheat though, his ex-teammate Brundle calling it as a cheat in commentary in the race ("that didn't work Michael, you hit the wrong bit of him my friend!")
These days races are won in the pits, IMO there's way too much technology involved.
Races have been won in the pits for at least the last 25 years, it's nothing new. It's better than it was 94-08 when we had refuelling. But strategy has always been important in F1, even in the 80s with the monster turbos strategy was important in making sure the engine didn't explode or run out of petrol.
As for technology, the modern cars don't have ABS or traction control. In terms of driver aids, the 93 Williams was probably more advanced.