The Crash That Changed Formula 1 Forever..
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- A race etched in incredible tragedy on the blistering asphalt that witnessed the heart-wrenching loss of 2 racing icons, forcing Formula 1 to change for the better.
This is the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix and the story of the crash that changed F1 forever..
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things that we got from senna's crash:
- better barriers
- better crash tests
- skid planks
- new tires
- higher sidewalls of the cockpit
- mandated and supervised wheel tethers
- standardized safety car and medical car
- every track got simulation tests for runoff areas and impacts
- revised and standardized helmet design
And don't forget the most crucial thing:
BETTER WELDING JOBS, LENGTHENING STEERING COLUMNS!
@@SuperWhiteBarryThat was probably banned after that. But Senna didn’t die because the steering column broke. It might have broken later on if he hadn’t crashed but that’s not what caused it. What caused it is a lot more complex and harder to understand than a simple steering column failure.
@@hmdwgfNo It was not bottoming out, or loss of down force because of aero, or to low tire pressure etc., it was a steering column failure... A bad welding job by a local Italian welder that weekend. Newey drew up the plans to reposition the steering column and reduce its diameter at one point. He described the changes as “two very bad pieces of engineering”. “The honest truth is that no one will ever know exactly what happened. There’s no doubt that the steering column failed and the big question was whether it failed in the accident or did it cause the accident? It had fatigue cracks in it and it would have failed at some point. There is no question that its design was very poor.” His own words not mine.
It's mind boggling that you even question that with all the information available. The way the car behaved, lack of control and especially lack of input from Senna except for braking, says it all... Also the onboard view of the steering wheel and its buttons. The whole accident screams steering column! I'm sorry, you have to be blind, stupid or both not to see it!
@@hmdwgf Also check what one of the investigators had to say about it: Professor Enrico Lorenzini said that the "steering was not working properly". However, he goes on to state that he is certain that the steering column broke before the crash, and was due to the column being "badly welded together".
"The rod joining the steering wheel to the wheels was virtually sliced in half. It had been badly welded together about a third of the way down and couldn't stand the strain of the race. We discovered scratches on the crack in the rod. It seemed like the job had been done in a hurry, but I can't say how long before the race. Someone had tried to smooth over the join following the welding. I have never seen anything like it".
"The two parts were of different diameters and I have heard that the job was done so that the steering whell could be lowered for comfort. But this is the first time I have ever seen such a job. Generally, these simple steel rods - around 70cm long - are always in one piece. This one had been welded together at the 23cm mark. I believe that the rod was faulty, probably cracked, even during the warm-up. And moments before the crash only a tiny piece was left connected and therefore the car didn't respond in the bend".
It didn‘t bottom out??? You must be either blind or stupid, or what do you think the sparks were?
And Schumacher reported the car oversteered out of the corner… but why trust a 7-times world champion when a moronic dipshit thinks he knows anything about engineering
I read somewhere once that Ayrton isn't dead. He's just one lap ahead of the rest of us. What a legend he was
That might be one of the best things I’ve ever heard
❤
I wish he isnt one lap ahead and still with us
Ok but he like 15 year olds
I really like this
The fact that so many people (like me) who were born after his death and know him and his stories says how great a driver he was
I am old enough to see him race, and contrary to most, I always detested him as a driver.
De mortis nil nisi bonum 🤷♀️
I only knew him after I replayed Gran Turismo 6, but when I played as a child, I was playing Version 1.0. This year, I had fully updated the game. Then there was the Ayrton Senna Tribute. I played it through, read the stories about him, and furthermore, learned about him on YT. After these I can definitely say: If Muhammad Ali is the Goat of Boxing, if Michael Jackson is the Goat in pop, Ayrton Senna is the Goat of Formula 1
@@LathropLdST He was a racer who raced for himself. But in private he was a caring man. He is one of the greatest drivers ever. In the car he only wanted to do one thing, Win!. That is a racer everything is irrelevant.
The Greatest Ever. This is what Senna is.
@@thatguyuk1Not one of the Greatest,The Greatest ever.😎
After Senna's death, there were no fatalities in F1 grand prix for 20 years. They said it was because Senna's soul was guarding F1. That was until Bianchi's crash in 2014 during the Japanese Grand Prix.
And then there was Anthoine Hubert in 2019 and Dilano van't hoff this year.
@@Missile_Guidance_System482Those were F2
@@dutchthespitfire3204yeah but dilano was in formula regional
@@driftaerwhat’s that
This is biggest crap I have ever heard.
Ratzenbergers deaths is often overlooked by Senna's death. Both equally tragic deaths, RIP Senna and Ratzenberger.
Both died at age 34 as well,tragic coincidence!
@@betoborrela i was about to say that.
I was twelve, watching the grand prix live. When the crash happened, I felt I couldn't keep on watching this race, not knowing whether he would survive. So I played Super Mario Kart, to still be connected to him and hoping to send him strength.
Then finally at around 19:00, I turned on the radio.
The next day at school, the atmosphere was somber. To us French kids, Senna had been for all those years this menacing presence, the threat to our national pride Alain. We were all unusually silent that day. So much so, in fact, that without any of us mentioning anything about Senna, a sports teacher said to us something like 'Come on, it' s sad but it's just one guy, the world won't stop turining! ' No one answered, silence remaining the only fitting attitude. We were all so sad.
Love to our Brazilian brothers.
Well that's a callous and inappropriate comment if ever I heard one, and from a teacher no less, who should know better. Disgusting.
I didn’t know the French kids were as much into F1 as we Brazilian kids. Or that Alain Prost was so idolized.
Senna was a guest commentator on a French TV broadcast of the race during the 1st lap of the warm-up, then he got off script and said
"This goes to my dear friend Allain, we, miss you, I miss you Allain".
They were fierce rivals but never enemies
I vividly remember watching this race at University when I was 19. Senna's and Ratzenberger's deaths were both equally tragic. It must have been very difficult for Ratzenberger's family after the events of that weekend, as his death was totally overshadowed by Senna's.
Didn't Rubens Barrichello have a bad accident as well on the Friday practice ?
@@norfolkhall yes, it's mentioned in the video
I was still quite young in 94 and didn’t know anything about F1. I had just started watching NASCAR, but Senna was enough of a legend that I learned of him, and his death because Dale Earnhardt dedicated his win the next day (I think) to Ayrton Senna. That should speak volumes of just HOW legendary he was. Grizzled-ass NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt dedicated his win to a fallen F1 driver.
@@albeback5234Sit down and shut ya mouth
As a Brazilian F1 fan who was 21yo at the time and watched the whole thing unfold before my eyes I thank you for your kind words. RIP Senna
@@albeback5234 Bro why can't you show some respect to 2 drivers that both died on track.
same
It was the same day. I loved watching Senna and Michael. I knew when he hit it was that bad. I still remember his race in Europe the year before when he went from fifth to first the first lap. I still miss him
The Brazilian people never really got over that. Still hurts a lot. Senna was a great human being and a phenomenal driver.
He left an institute to help poor children in Brazil. He will forever be missed.
It was indeed a huge loss for the Brazilian nation. Senna inspired many of his fellow Brazilians....a very sad day for F1 and Brazil
Im not sure any of us have gotten over it
Brazil gets everything handed to it on a silver platter, the soft and fluffy creatures of the sporting world.
It wasn't just Ayrton crashing that changed F1 forever, it was the whole race weekend. Ayrtons crash was the straw that broke the camels back. I still have the Qualy & the race on Video from '94 and it's aftermath. I was sat at home watching the whole weekend and I'd never seen anything like it before or after that weekend. It will stay with me until the day I die. If you ever get the chance, watch the whole Qualifying and whole Race day footage. it will blow your mind.
Just as a bit of History - - - -
A total of 50 drivers have died as a result of such accidents until 2023: 28 during Formula One Grand Prix events, 7 during the Indianapolis 500 (during the time it was still part of the F1 World Championship), 9 during test sessions and 6 during events not related to a world championship.
15 drivers died in the 1950s, 14 in the 1960s, 13 in the 1970s, 4 in the 1980s, 2 in the 1990s and 2 in the 21st century as well. The largest number of deceased drivers came from the United Kingdom. Twelve British drivers died in a Formula One car. The track where the most accidents occurred was the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where seven drivers died during the Indianapolis 500, which was still part of the world championship in the 1950s. Only one driver became world champion posthumously: Jochen Rindt in 1970, who died during a qualifying session. One former world champion died during a race: Ayrton Senna in 1994.
On the point of "history" ... it should be noted, that the most drastic changes were about to be introduced and enforced long before Imola '94. Once Bernie (whatever one may think of him) held the "purse strings" and Formula 1 in his "iron grip", he went on a restless crusade to really "turn the tide" and lessons were learned from pretty much every crash ever since. Of course, him turning F1 into the multi-billion dollar spectacle we know today, only made a great many safety improvements possible in the first place... back in the "good old days" there simply wasn't enough money to go around.
You need to digitise that video and share it, there simply isn't any way folk can watch it unless they have it recorded on video like you.
It’s impossible to fibd
There is something eery about that whole weekend, like there was just something bad in the air you can feel it watching it back even all these years later.
Where can I find the video?
I was watching this race with a friend live on BBC and about 20 minutes after the crash we heard Murray Walker start to cry and he went off air only for someone else to take over the commentary. My friend said, he's just heard that Senna has died. Even more tragic because Senna didn't really want to race, especially after what happened on Saturday.
Be glad that you watched the BBC coverage which cut away from the accident aftermath. The RAI coverage stayed with it and to those of us watching it (on video tape for me as I was at the race itself) it was obvious that he was gone.
Tears came from reading that
Murray never went off air he commentated bravely right til the end of the race it was an awful day and weekend
Whilst all the grandees went to Brazil for his funeral, Max Mosley chose to attend Roland's funeral.
Respect to Mosley for that. Roland deserved somone there.
Thank you for a very heartfelt telling of this tragedy.
What is your most cherished memory of Ayrton Senna? 🤔
1993 the last race
Sadly, I'm too young to have seen Senna live... But, I believe he was the greatest... Owing to the fact that when it comes to racing, he was ruthless. But, when it comes to being human, he'd get out of his car to help a fellow racer. Or that he'd give millions to the poor....
Rest in Peace, Ayrton.
I hope there's an afterlife, because I'd like a meetup
Him winning his first Brazilian GP. What he had to do with that car...that day? Unbelievable.
I have a couple of happy memories like watching Ayrton win his home grand prix in Brazil on his birthday in 1991, watching Ayrton save Erik comas by stopping his car engine, letting Gerhard Berger his current team-mate win the race and his concern for the well being of the children in Brazil. He was a great man and I haven't seen any other formula one driver do any of these things since. Rip Ayrton ❤
On the track his 88 Monaco everything expect the crash. Off the track calling Prost a coward in a press conference
Incredible video. Goosebumps are real. Senna is and always will be my biggest inspiration. Senna was an Incredible man in every aspect of life
I remember exactly where I was. I was 9 years old. And I cried like the child I was because this great man was lost to us. I still do when I remember it. What a legend Ayrton was.
I remember hearing someone say that that year at Imola the race seemed cursed. Two drivers passed away that weekend. It was because of their passing that safety features were improved.
I sadly remember watching the racing that weekend and just how tragic the events were. When the Senna film came out and we got to Imola 94 all the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end. I am a F1 fan and as skilled as the drivers are today I have never seen anyone as impressive as Senna. Watch the in car footage of him wrestling a car round Suzuka changing gear with his right hand. The work rate required for those cars was phenomenal! RIP Aryton, racing legend!
He was a different breed and outstandingly talented….many people still grieve his loss, me included! 😞
Watch Donnington 1993.🙏🙏🙏
@@ricardagottschalk_duran2677 I remember watching that live….god like driving that’s not been repeated since! 😊😎
Senna ranks among Jackie Stewart and Stirling Moss.
Forget the year, but watching Senna in the wet pass countless cars on the first lap at Donnington showed me what he was capable of.
What a driver. Live forever Ayrton Senna. 🇧🇷🥇
Maybe for F1 but the blackest day in Motorsport is certainly the 11th June 1955, 1 driver, 83 spectators lost their lives at the 1955 24 hours of Le Mans
After Ratzenberger`s tragic accident the race should`ve been canceled from the calendar that year. It`s incredible how the sport was back then. It was tragedy after tragedy and they went on racing with a shrug.
money talks
My father said this was the saddest day in Brazil, Ayrton was the face of Brazil in the 90s and maybe even impacted the nation more than Pelé did. R.I.P Ayrton Senna one of the best
Pelé died in peace, after achieving everything he could. Senna died at his best career moment.
Sports were hitting the big time. Interestingly espn was starting and didn't have money for big sports so they showed all kinds of other sports and racing. It caused a big growth in all motor sports. This crash ended formula 1 in America as a major interest.
This is the first time i witnessed a death in F1. Ayerton seemed immortal like he would live forever.
There was a very well done documentary done about Sennas crash. Using an onboard camera and plotting a arc from a yellow button on the steering wheel it follows the wheel the entire weekend. It shows the button followed the exact same arc until the milliseconds before the accident. The button jerks wildly from the smooth arc, all but proving the steering column broke in his hands. Some have argued the steering wheel could move similar the the DAS system Merc had, but it didn't deviate at all until that corner. Williams altered the steering column, by welding in piece of metal to make the column longer for Senna sometime before. Also Williams refused to let the car be examined until after their mechanics had and many allege it had been altered when it was brought back, which reeks even more of a cover up.
Yeap, and the car should have been siezed immediately just as in a criminal investigation. Even the other Williams drivers covered their own asses by saying that Senna was nervous and overly aggressive in his driving. Senna knew what he was doing, but the thing he should have done most of all, was listen to his gut instinct and not driven the car.
The jerking motion could just as easily have been the result of the front end breaking traction. But yeah, there's definitely something fishy about the way Williams acted
True story and the fact that Williams removed the black box and then ‘allegedly’ damaged it was very underhand, rather like their botched steering modification in which they used inferior steel.
I remember this like yesterday. An event like this changed NASCAR too. Dale SR and Senna are legends that left to soon
Wow - as a newly F1 follower I cant believe they still ran this race after the fatality on the Saturday.
People died a lot more back then especially in the 60s I think people were more desensitised to it than today
Oh man, I remember that day. As soon as Senna went off, I knew his time was up.
That whole weekend was crazy😢
It was a good video. As to why Senna's FW16 let go in the middle of Tamburello that day, the investigation showed a very poor welded modification was made to the steering column to make it longer, and because the modification was done improperly this cause a stress fracture and sudden failure as the car bounced through Tamburello on Lap 7. There was solid physical evidence of this as you would expect. I always felt it was a shame they made up another story to protect Williams and F1 from the legal consequences of the negligence of the poor steering column modification.
To be fair. It's not like it was done on purpose. They were just trying to fix the car. They didn't know what would happen. Or at least. That's what it seemed like to me. Please correct me if I'm wrong
@@chasegrant2817 Of course no one would say they deliberately made the modification to fail on purpose. It was however found that the team and specifically chief engineer Head were negligent due to the poorly designed and executed modification to such a vital component.
Ah. Thank you for the elaboration dude.
The Italian courts tried to charge Frank and Patrick Head with manslaughter, it was only when the teams threatened to boycott Italy they cancelled the charges.
Was this actually proven? Yes the steering column was welded and was found in two parts after the crash, but as to when it broke is a matter of speculation. The more logical explanation is that the cold tyres and low ground clearance led to the car losing traction and finding it again when it was pointed towards the wall.
I was a young boy back then and all I can understand about F1 is that Benetton cars looks good. Of course, I was already at an age that know what death means, when dad told me of Senna's passing from the news, but as F1 wasn't really under the spotlight in my country (even now), it wasn't until Brazil won the FIFA World Cup that year and their players and staff waving a banner about dedicating the win to Senna, that I began to see how much Senna means to the people of Brazil.
Oh man, I jast found miself watching your videos for almost an hour.
You're amazing!
And you keep a high pace with how you speek, love it. 👏👏👏
It is often forgotten that there were so many other major incidents at this race weekend. Indeed a tragic event weekend. I can sadly remember watching all of this on live TV at the time.
The weekend shold've been cancelled after Ratzenberger's death on track as per Italian law at the time. Obviously money won out and Senna unnecessary death was the outcome.
no no no … the whole thing must been cancelled because 👰🏿♂️🌈💍”it’s too dangerous, man”
@@albeback5234If they did that Senna would still be alive
I still remembered when my mom told me about his death, where I was, how sad I was. He such a legend that I will never forget.
This year marks 30 years since that tragic day
Ironically it is also my Birthday 😞
I first became aware of Ayrton Senna daSilva when he was racing in Formula 3. He was an astonishing driver, and the best I've ever seen!! He had it all stats notwithstanding. I watched his final race at 4am in the morning and knew after his crash, I had just watched my hero die. Thankfully, I met him at the 1987 USGP in Detroit just after he put his Lotus on the front row. He won that race as his legendary career was just beginning. Rest in peace, Champ!! ❤
RIP Ayrton 😢😢. Gone but not forgotten
If only Ayrton were here today. Not a day goes by where I don’t think about him rest in peace legend 🇧🇷😔
It is infuriatingly sad to think of how many F1 drivers may have died in the years following had Senna not crashed and died as a result. There’s no way to know exactly how many lives Senna has saved.
can say the same about the late Dale Sr
The sad part is, that it always has to claim lives before improvements are made. That's just wrong to me on any level.
@@SuperMoofie totally agree
@@SuperMoofie true. What I’ve always felt was more sad though was in the past it didn’t just take deaths to instigate change. It took the deaths of legends, icons, THE guy you think of when you think of the sport. But across the timeline of Motorsport even that is fairly new. Because there was a time when not even that forced safety changes. Ayrton Senna’s death was seemingly a tipping point. But not everywhere. Because as somebody else pointed out NASCAR didn’t change until Dale Earnhardt sr died 7 years after Senna.
I think you're fooling yourself if you think Ayrton survived the crash at all. The impact separated the base of his skull from his spine (Basilar skull fracture), Dr Sid Watkins confirmed this many years later. They kept Ayrton 'alive' as there was an unwritten rule that drivers don't die at the circuit plus Italian Law would mean the race could not restart!
Pah. A man was dying. And one died the day before. Such disrespect from Italy.
Great video. Thank you.
Happy you liked the video mate ❤️
I think you will love the next one 😆
man I was gonna cry because of you and I am not born in the 90s to watch F1 at that time
I watched many videos about senna story and death but this one was gonna put me in tears
F1 has always had races, usually lethal ones, that have changed the sport going on. And many involving the drivers considered the best of their generation.
The big difference with the Senna crash was down to the cars in that season. Those things were more complex than a spacecraft, and as Mansell said;- the cars were incredibly fast, pushing the technology to the limits and more, but anyone of them was like riding a tiger.
The cars were quicker than 2023's cars, full of all kinds of fancy tech driven by prehistoric computers, and crash protection negligible. And when those cars were on track they were constantly fighting the driver, when they stepped out or lost grip, or a small part breaking in them they didn't ever have a small accident, but huge violent ones.
Before Sennas death fatal or life changing crashes were extremely common. After Senna the new rules and crash structures made fatal crashes extremely rare. We forget that now, but watching f1 in the 70's and 80's were full of horrendous accidents.
Senna basically died on the impact but of course they couldn't declare that he has died on the track, too much severe repercussions for the officials. The steering column broke before the impact and it was eventually proved by court. Rest in peace, Legend.
It was proved to the court but no-one went to jail
@@CelicaSainz yes, exactly.
I remember watching a British made documentary once that speculated that the tires on Ayrton Senna's car had constricted after becoming too cold from following the Safety Car that came out after the opening lap crash. The cars back then were extremely close to the ground to get the centre of gravity as low as possible. The documentary speculated that the car bottomed out because the cold tires reduced the ride height beyond a safe level and that it caused the car to pitch to the right and crash into the wall.
We may never know if there is any truth to this but it's worth noting that there was an immediate regulation change where a wooden plank had to be inserted on the underside of the cars to lift the ride height and stop them bottoming out. I believe the current ground aero effect cars are the first since then to not have the wooden plank underneath.
I've seen that documentary too, and it is a valid theory, so is the steering column, so is outright driver error. I don't think the public will ever know for sure the true cause.
The current ground effect cars still have the plank
I doubt the tires were cold though had he crashed straight after the SC i would agree but Senna literally set the fastest lap of the race the lap before he died i doubt the tires were still cold/underpressured after that lap if they were clearly the tires at the time wouldnt have been fit for f1
@@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1 it was known that the Williams team cut and welded an extended piece onto the steering column and many people believe that it broke under the pressure it was put under. It has been denied that the steering column breaking caused the accident and instead it was claimed that it broke on impact with the concrete barrier.
I was watching the live telecast when it happened. I had no doubt at the time that something broke in the steering at the time and to this day I have seen nothing to change my mind. I’m not one to blame the team because they are all working their best for the driver, but I have no doubt that a mechanical fault caused the crash. He was the greatest driver I have witness in my lifetime and I still think it’s sad.
His car bottomed out. You can see the sparks even in the insert in this video. I suspect the issue was low tyre pressures after the SC combined with heavy fuel load. Rear bottomed, front rose enough to mess up the aero, and the car was a bullet at that point.
@@samiraperi467 yes, it sparked the whole way around the track and this corner on this occasion was no different. What was notable is that the car didn’t do any sort of shimmy or movement, it just straighten up and went straight ahead like a dart. Plus, look at the slow motion, the front wheels never turned the whole way into the wall. So either Senna kept the wheels straight the whole way into the wall or something broke meaning he couldn’t turn.
@@samiraperi467the issue with the low tires pressure theory is that Senna literally set the fastest lap of the race the lap before he was killed the tires werent cold or had a puncture they were fine
Either the car servely bottomed out due to the bumps causing it to step out and Senna became a passenger
Or something in the steering failed
@@peterj5751 yeap, that's it, a broken steering column. Yet another problem with the car that Williams shouldn't have allowed on the track, yet they were willing to risk a driver's life for glory and money. That's about as low as it gets.
@@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1 The wheels never turned, meaning, they couldn't, or logically he would have turned them obviously, due to a failure.
I was watching this race live in 1994. I remember Senna lying motionless and how long it took to get him into the helicopter. There was little doubt about what had happened. I also was watching the 1999 CART race at Fontana when Greg Moore flipped straight into the wall and died. It was so shocking.
Legends never die! They learn to fly! This man could fly while he was alive! R.I.P.
B.S, Clearly Senna's steering column failed before hitting the wall
Im always a bit surprised and shoked, that in every single documentation about this day, the death of another driver (ratzenberger) is just a 10 second sidenote, like its nothing special...
Ex nascar fan longing for good racing have stumbled into f1. Its crazy to see f1 has their own Earnhardt.
So when three-time champion Ayrton Senna dies from his crash, investigations are launched, people are brought to court, someone should be responsible, someone needs to go to jail...! The day before, Roland Ratzenberger crashed and died, a driver that most people never heard of, driving for a team that most people never heard of... I never heard of anyone being dragged to court for that...! Really disturbing how different the two accidents were treated.
Being a Brazilian it is safe to say that this crash and death eliminated the joy and excitement of so many people for high end racing sport, that many people still say: "I watched formula 1 until Senna died...". He was not only a pilot/driver, he was a national hero.
Some of us still have hope that some other genius could represent us in the sport, but it seems very difficult to happen in the short term. Too bad for this nation.. peace out!
I remember this day so well. The previous year, Mansell had won the championship with Williams and everyone thought with Senna in the Williams, he just needed to show to win 1994 world championship. Back then, it had been so long since a driver had been killed in F1, we'd got used to seeing crashes that looked far worst than Senna's crash, yet the drivers just walked away. Due to various issues, Senna hadn't scored any points by race 3 at Imola, so when he hit the wall, I just remember laughing, thinking "well, he's not scoring any today either". However, it quickly became obvious how serious it was and then later that day, the worst was confirmed. To this day, I still feel guilty for laughing. Although the changes that came in after this crash made F1 safer, it lost its appeal. The age of Senna, Prost, Mansell and Piquet was, IMHO, the golden age of F1, which tragically came to a sudden end at Tamburello that day.
I think you're mistaken... Prost won the Championship the previous year, Mansell was 1992
Nigel won the F1 title in 92 in the Williams-Renault FW14B, He won the IndiCar title the following year (93)
It's a real shame that today's F1 fans born after Senna's death know little about how great this man was. On and off the track. A few now have won more races. But not one comes close to his skill and talent. He started in one of the least competitive cars a Toleman. And overtook legends at Monaco to win the race. However the politics that followed his career started then when they stopped the race early to give Prost the win. This was the start of his amazing show of talents. My favourite was his first win in Brazil. With only one gear left working, he won his first home GP. Tears followed and always do when I think of this man.
Ayrton will still be the same guy whatever the accident he faced off. Ayrton will live forever. He was and remains a champion in F1 history.
Very very good video my friend. What is the song you used in 2:47 ? thanks
If is a big word ,but if the declared Ratzenburgers death on the track then the rest of the weekend would have to have been cancelled and maybe today the legend would still be with us.
Im 37y old brazilian guy that always fall in tears when I remember that day. To the world, Senna was a legend race driver. To us, he IS much much more than that!
Ayrton's steering column broke during the turn. Due to improvements in cleaning up video we can now see his hands and wheel snap to the side with the car and its wheels not following the sudden change. Ayrton was now in an uncontrolled car with 1/16 of a second to make a decision to nail the gas and spin the car. It was not enough time.
You need only watch the onboard from practice going into that corner & compare it to the final time he takes that corner, the steering wheel makes unnatural movements & the yellow button that is always visible on its 90 degree arc vanishes towards his lap just as his head goes forward as he realises what is happening. This was before the video was cleaned up too. An engineer did a 3D tracking model of the wheels movement from the start line until the car left the track which showed the flexing was at the weld point and under the load of the corner it broke.
Ironically about 6 months after the race I myself had a steering failure when karting, I was lucky that I had A) run off area & B) a chance to slow down being at a far lower speed. It put the wind up me and I never raced karts again. In fact it would be 25 years before I would get back behind the wheel of any vehicle because it got into my head that I could meet the same fate. Watching your hero die live on TV has a kid is something I hope no one should have to see. My interest in F1 ended that day too.
Williams tried to make a video that their steering wheel usually moves like that as well. Disgusting piece of video there
Just a horrific weekend. Great video by the way. Terribly sad story. The cars look so unsafe compared to today's cars.
Happy you enjoyed the video mate ❤️
I was 10 years old when this happened, I had watched formula 1 for 3 years. I didn't watch it again the rest of that season.
I have recorded every race, every year since 1991, I have the recorded VHS of this race, as the only VHS left in my collection, I've never watched it!
I was a Senna fan, I still am, and always will be!
11 years here and I was a major Senna fan already by that time after having watched my first race (Monza '92) and seeing him win. I stopped watching the race after he crashed thinking it would be ok, so went out to play outside with a friend instead. Then his older brother heard on the radio that he died by 6 in the evening. I couldn't believe it and cried my eyes out.
Next year it will have been 30 years, but it's the only day I can recall entirely from when I was that age.
I still cant believe it that senna died to this crash 😭
idk bro crashing into a wall at 190mph seems like itll kill most people. He got hit in the head by a stearing wheel he was dead on impact my guy. Sure there are crashes that look crazier now but the fact that he went from 190-0-130 mph in a split second is insane
2:24 But Rubens was really lucky in misfortune back then. In the accident he swallowed his tongue and became unconscious. With a little less luck, he could have been the first death this weekend.
Its odd i remember the exact moment and where i was when the news of this happened I was in the back of my radio van preparing to deploy overseas and happened to be listening to the BBC world news on the old HF set and it floored me.. Senna like Dale Earnhardt were a different breed of racer and are looked at differently. So sad they both passes away racing
Aryton Senna Saved Eric Coma's life but when Aryton Senna's crash happend, Eric Coma saw the aftermath and knew he couldn't do anything for the man and Eric Coma went into a deep depression later on.
R.I.P Roland Ratzenberger
R.I.P Aryton Senna
Man can believe it was 1994😢
It’s sad that the two biggest heroes in Motorsport from around the world had to die before people took safety as seriously as they do today
I still can remember watching on TV
Its amazing this GP went past the Quali session at all
I was Watching that race live when it happen and I Cryed for Days after I found out he had passed.
1:24 imagine being so skillful of a driver that instead of not having enough driver for the car, there isn't enough car for the driver. even crazier when it's an f1 car :o
Who went to Roland Ratsenbergers funeral. Max Mosley. I don’t like Mosley but respect he didn’t forget another human being also died that weekend.
Respect to Senna mind as he was a legend
Sid Watkins wrote two books and he goes into his personal feelings about this day. As he and senna were close friends. I recommend both of them as they are a great read. Life at the limit and beyond the limit. Also sid worked on rubens as he was trying to swallow his tongue and sid had to do a tracheostomy on him. Senna died at the track, they stated he died in the hospital because it would of cost them revenue from the race. In Sid's book he states senna took his last breath at the track.
Probably when they saw him move.
@@Endless-River sid stated that senna was gone at the track, but they couldn't pronounce him dead on the scene, as that would have stopped the race.
Great books, and Sid said he died at the track. So sad.
@@michaelcarruthers7458 yeah, i believe sid over the track officials. as declaring him dead at the track would lead to cancelling the race.
thats right, greed, root of all thats wrong
ending with the green hell is just…
The ending really got me tearing up thinking about how absolutely broken Brazil was after Senna’s death. I never got to watch him but I miss him so much. I wish he was still with us. One lap ahead forever Aryton. Until all of us fans get to meet you one day.
I remember this race very well and am still moved to sadness about the loss of Senna. There was never a greater driver in F1, in my opinion.
I will never forget that day...
One thing that the video forgot to mention that weighed heavily on the drivers' minds: the crash at the start of the race between the Lotus and Benetton was quite brutal. Debris flew over the fencing, injuring several spectators. Truly one of the darkest days in modern motor sports. And it is still burned into my memories. I was watching the race live on my TV at home. I saw the first accident and then Senna's tragic death. And then the worst part was when Dr. Watkins announced that Senna had been declared dead, having never regained consciousness when they pulled him out of his car.
Well done!
How can a death, any death, be considered a "tragedy" when it happens to all of us? Death is part of life which has a 100% mortality rate.
I forgot JJ Lehto raced in F1. I think his time there was very brief though. Had no idea Pedro Lamy the retired Aston Martin and Ferrari GTS driver who won Le Mans a time or two in early 2000s before Corvette dominated the class. Nico Hulkenberg, Johnny Herbert, David Brabham, Fernando Alonso, Alex Wurz, all F1 drivers at some point who raced and won Le Mans
Marc Gene also on F1 list as a Le Mans winner. Beat the factory Peugot drivers with David Brabham and Alex Wurz. Brilliant trio. Real pros that group.
If you read the details there's a clear indication that Senna's car dropped suddenly at the rear, right before he lost control. This wouldn't be the steering column, a lot of experts suspect a puncture. At that speed, at that part of the course its a recipe for disaster, no matter the car or driver.
He knew that he was at risk that day. After the fatality the day before, the bad start the next day, the safety car. His unusual behaviour at the briefing and his numerous checks of the car he did not trust. A loss that is never forgotten. 💔🇦🇺
I remember it as it was yesterday 😢
I was 6 years old when Senna's accident happened. I didn't see it on television, but I did see Ratzenberger's accident. Only years later, when I was older, I understood, how Senna's death affected the entire Formula 1 as a whole. "Nada pode me separar do amor de Deus."
There is a foto, Ayrton on a ground, and steering wheel next to him "face" down, with over a foot of steering column in it pointing up. Its pretty clear that column broke before the crash.
That was outstanding.. I miss senna.
Legends live forever
I don't remember when but i saw some time ago here there's onboard footage of Senna's car and i think you can see when the steering column failed just before the video gets cut off
Man... I cried.
Ironically NASCAR also had one of its deadly starts of their season with 2 deaths before the Daytona 500 that same year 1994
I had a similar crash on a normal go kart, had the carbon fibre around the tire not buckled and due to the wheel being like this \ in shape the marshal said had it not being for the carbon fibre the wheel would have sheeted off due to no tethers and hit my head. My friend was three corners away and heard the impact. It scarred me and my friend shitless.
He managed to slow the car to 130mph by braking before impact.
I was at the race track packing my dads chutes when he told me. I was in and out of tears for a week because he was my idol 😇
It took the death one of the greatest drivers for F1 to sort safety out
Concrete Walls of Tamburello yielded itself to no one...not even to great Ayrton Senna. It stood still in collision, witnessing the destruction of our best engineering achievement in form FW16, and stood as a silent testament to futility of human endeavor.
I found the production of this video disrespectful. The death of drivers isn't something that calls for words flying at you in capital letters. Give things a bit more thought please.
this was a hard day for most, even after all this time, it still brings a Tear to my eye, we miss you.
Rip Senna 😭😭😭
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