Yep, Sid Watkins said it was already stained with Senna's blood, now if that doesn't sum up how horrendously grim Imola '94 was I don't know what does.
Impressionante essa atitude de Senna isso a imprensa não divulgou que ele havia guardado essa bandeira caso ganhasse a corrida. Fiquei chocado com esse episódio que ocorreu em 94. Aqui no Brasil foi luto geral. Jamais o Brasil terá um piloto igual a Ayrton Senna ele é insubstituível.
I watched this race live in 1994, it is still heartbreaking to see this ...seeing this uncut version really makes me relive the feelings I had on that day ....
I saw live too. Probably this exact footage as BBC was Murray Walker. I remember them saying he moved his head, and seeing that, knew he was dead unfortunately.
Thank you to the persons who posted this full uncut version as shown live, before all the b.s conspiracy theorists threw in their agenda-filled biased views. Sadly made it far easier courtesy of the #FIA and Italian politics' inability to throw a pee up in a brewery! They distrastley got involved to the point of taking the Sadly destroyed #Williams and Still to this day have it in their custody further muddied both @Senna and @Williams top management reputations,I.e; broken steering Columb which if there was an independent full access to team and fia/fom footage. Even if they'd allowed independent investors access to the wreckage, but that's not what happened. Senna himself requested the 18mm cut off his steering column and it had nothing to fo with this tragic Accident. Your original footage from onboard the car right behind, the Benaton B194 of @MichaelShumacher clearly shows the reason, with Senna taking #Tamburello normally that's why you see the first spark of the titanium floor skidplates(the car starts bottoming out)followed shortly after during Senna's turn by that clear shot of that second titanium spark of the car's undertray (which is responsible for at least 50% of an f1 cars total downforce)which meant for that vital moment while turning left the car became unstable and Senna just a passenger. Anyone still thinking Senna made a mistake or the Williams steering Columb snapped are idiots. The Accident happens the same instant of second undertray sparking ,only then going from a left turn to steering straight on at over 300km.
I remember hearing about this when I was 7 years old but it only now that uncut video came about where other source edited it. The sad thing about the crash Senna attempts to slow down the car as he was going 190mph toward that corner and pretty much hit the wall head on at 145mph give or take. My logical thinking tells me something on the front end of the car had to break. But other rumours stated the steering rod rack was modified to give extra length to the steering wheel as the weld broke as well William team took the black box from the car as we never going to know the real source of why Senna's F1 car took a strange turn. Sad day for the whole world to witness the death of Senna
What a cursed GP that was. Barrichelo nearly died, Ratzenberger died, then you have the crash at the start with wheels flying into the grandstand and then, finally Senna's fatal death. And the race was not stopped. Unfathomable. What would it have taken for this race to be stopped? I get the impression anything short of a fully fueled car flying into a crowd of people and exploding wouldn't have clued in the marshalls that this race was simply not safe.
So true. F1 has seen many sad days, but this was really one of the worst Grand Prix ever and a low point in F1 history. At least they massively improved safety after this.
Even though I was 8 years old when it happened, I still remember this moment like it was yesterday. I also remember my mother begging me to stop crying saying: ''We don't know what happened, all we saw was a crash'', ''just wait until the next race and you will see him back on the grid'' she said. This was the first of two occasions when I cried myself to sleep in 38 years so far. I loved him with all my heart, I still do and I miss him so much... Senna Sempre!
Você também e um guerreiro amigo não te conheço mais às suas palavras me emocional falando do nosso melhor piloto que o mundo já teve eu moro à 20 minutos do cemitério onde o Airton Senna está sepultado dia 1 de maio é lotado de visitantes ele sempre será o eterno está com deus na gloria 😪🙏🌟✨
And, the tragedy that was 1994 in Motorsports as 4 months earlier, NASCAR drivers Neil Bonnett and Rodney Orr were killed at Daytona, a month after this tragedy, the Isle of Man TT claimed 3 lives in its already bloody reputation. Earlier that year, the Dakar Rally claimed another life in January 1994. What a year it was in motorsports. 8 tragic fatalities, many more injuries in all of these events. Rest easy Roland Ratzenberger, Ayrton Senna, the 3 folks at the Isle of Man TT and the one at Dakar Rally. ❤
This may seem strange, but dealing with an unfolding tragedy often shows the quality of a commentator. Murray Walker handled this situation really well I feel. Naturally, he was surprised and shocked when the accident unfolded, but afterwards he struck the delicate balance between not overstating the drama that was unfolding before his eyes and at the same time not understating it as well. For all the times he was giving badly timed or even wrong comments, he handled this situation really well, hence part of the reason he was so well respected
I agree and I’d like to point out another commentator, Paul Page. He’s had to call many tragedies and always did it with respect and dignity. His Greg Moore call was a tough one.
@crazydrummer181 yeah, probably another tough day for Paul Page was his personal friend, Jeff Krosnoff's, fatal accident at Toronto in 1996. It's one thing to have to talk about the death of a driver, another when it's someone universally liked, but when it's a personal friend of the commentator, it must be extremely tough
@@SiVlog1989 And it's especially sad when they also died in such a brutal way. Both Moore's and Kronsonff' fatal accidents were some of the most brutal crashes in racing history.
A true legend. My parents were neighbours of his when he lived in Tilehurst, Reading in the 80s. They remember him fondly and said he was a kind, funny and always happy to help.
He Senna wouldn't survive. The massive blood pool after removing Senna's helmet showed this. To think we would have to wait until late 2016 for the Halo yet drivers like Lewis Hamilton was still against them being introduced...
@@GabrielaTiborova I believe the reference is to Lewis Hamilton being against the Halo, not a helmet. A Halo is the circular structure above the driver's head in today's cars. Many drivers were opposed to it when it was introduced because it looked ugly, but it has arguably saved many lives since then.
@@GabrielaTiborova they mean the halo that’s on modern F1 cars. Most drivers, not just LH, were against it because they felt it went against the DNA of F1. However they all changed their mind when the halo prevented (I think Alonso’s) car from landing on LeClerc’s head at Spa.
Despite the (BBC) live broadcast not showing any graphic details, Murray Walker's very sombre mood was chilling, as it was obivious from his tone that Senna had died.
I have NEVER watched another F1 race since that day. I adored Ayrton, and my heart was forever turned from enjoying car racing after seeing him leave the world. He was adorable in every way. A man of integrity, class, style, and talent. Every fan adored him, and the world of F1 was never to same again, at least to me.
Quando ele morreu eu tinha 6 anos me lembro como se fosse hoje aquele dia trágico e triste!Senna não foi só um ídolo,Ele levou a bandeira do Brasil para o mundo com a amor e garra....
Imagine a 63 year old Senna in the sport today. Id imagine he wouldve done Indy and probably sportscars. He wouldve been a perfect fit in the early 2000s Audis
I actually saw a video a while back here on CZcams where a guy was filming on his camcorder just a few yards from where Senna lay in his car after the crash. It showed a woman shouting at Senna in his car from behind a fence. Senna actually momentarily looked at her. It was so sad. czcams.com/video/GnZ_VvzeJQI/video.htmlsi=n1tSeQhOlx2RfdVU
On our national TV we've had completely uninterrupted footage with no commercials and no change in camera angles. They were showing Senna's crash area throughout the entire time doctors were extracting him from the car and trying to save him on the ground. I'll never forget the large pool of blood once they moved him onto the stretcher, before taking him to the helicopter...
I watched live in the BBC which I guess is this footage. In UK was also being shown on cable (Eurosport?). Eurosport I was told showed more than the BBC.
@@darrenporter1850 Eurosport had the world feed like other broadcasters, the BBC had other cameras at the track hence why they could cut away from what the rest of the world was seeing on the world feed
Here in Brazil too, friend. This country stoped with this tragic accident that kills our brother and idol. I don't like cars, but the Senna's spirit live in me and all dreamers, all around the world! ✊🇧🇷
I was 16 watching this race with my Dad. Something at that time we enjoyed doing together. Then this, oh how quiet that Sunday afternoon was, we never really spoke much after this. A very sad day and a sad memory loosing on of the best drivers ever. Wish he went on his instincts and never took part of this race. E. Senna GOAT
@@ninab.4540they are great but stays arent everything when it comes to drivers driving style is also there senna has the best driving style out of all 3
I remember watching this, must have been around 8yrs old, me and mom used to watch together on Sundays, I remember thinking a t the time, he’s ok he moved his head but was devastated to hear later he’d died, was so shocked I never watched for years after wards, I don’t watch anymore neither
No Brasil Ayrton Senna ele é insubstituível. Senna era também uma pessoa humilde ajudava muitas pessoas carentes ele sempre deu apoio a casa de caridade pessoas mais necessitadas neste Brasil. Infelizmente perdemos um grande ídolo do esporte brasileiro. Mas a vida é isso mesmo devemos entender que : nós não somos deste mundo. Nós somos sim é de outro lugar e tudo que é vivo morre ninguém não está para ficar nesta terra. Esperamos um dia encontrar o Ayrton na glória do senhor Deus
I feel honoured to have witnessed the flash of that yellow helmet like a blur past many times in Adelaide in those years in real life. He was just much faster than the others consistently...Always totally committed. I remember this race...Haunting still. That 2010 'Senna' documentary that came out is outstanding. It covers this race very well. Iincredibly touching....esp the almost 3hr version :)
I went to Saturday qualifying for the Australian GP in '90 and '92. I was quite young and don’t remember a lot, but can vividly remember every time the Marlboro McLaren with the yellow helmet flashed by.
famous footage showed that day on French TV was Prost (commenting the race) holding his head with both hands in disbelief knowing it was very bad...they had just spoken through the radio on the formation lap ,Senna telling Prost he & the other pilots missed him on the grid that Sunday...
Hard to believe that 30 years is coming up since this tragic weekend occured. I recall in Dr. Sid's book him saying that although he was not a religious man, he felt the moment when Senna's soul left his body.
@@cerneuffington2656 I’ll take the emoji as a sign you were likely joking… BUT if you assumed the original commenter was American, with you also being American too - I would call you supremely out of touch with modern day wages v. housing costs.
@@TitaniumTurbine Three people on wages all renting together. That's pretty achievable even with higher rent these days. Problem is, Gen Z (especially) are so precious they want to live on their own.
Wow, the huge pile of blood at 12:56 on the ground says all you need to know about how severe the situation was. I believe the racer Roland Ratzenberger was also killed that weekend, too. It's amazing how far technology has come in the design of car safety in f1, but even with todays technology I don't think anyone could survive that crash. RIP Ayrton Senna 🇧🇷🏎🏁🏆🐐
@@giuliorobertoful Where did you hear that his head was impaled? Fractured skull yea, but his head being impaled like a shish kabob sounds inaccurate. I saw in the video and even the announcer said that he was moving after the accident and you can see his helmet still on with nothing penetrating it, but more than likely it was his body naturally reacting to his nervous system even though he was killed on impact. I don't think he was impaled, but i'm sure he was definitely hemorrhaged from the severe impact like Dale Earnhardt because Ayrton wasn't wearing a head restraint like a hans device or any safety device like it. I looked up the report on his cause of death and it didn't say anything about him being impaled by the car but it did say debris hit his helmet causing a fracture in his skull and stated the force of the impact caused such severe hemorrhaging that it ruptured his temporal artery in his brain. Either way, it's a tragedy.
@@eldiablo3794his temporal artery was ruptured and he lost nearly 5 litres of blood and the upright in the steering penetrated his helmet and damaged his forehead
@@eldiablo3794 it's know here in Brazil, Senna is our national hero, his former girlfriend a brazilian pilots and journalists confirm this, i have the interviews but they are in portuguese, i can show you
Is 29 years and a half since that day and I still remember this race... I was with my cousin watching the broadcasting early in the morning and I wanted Senna to win since the 1994 season started (I have Ayrton photos taken by Ercole Colombo )... I was very excited and I remembered the night before my cousin told me... hey a formula 1 driver from Austria died in the Imola circuit... it was horrible... and that Sunday May 1st watching me so excited to see Senna win and hearing from me several times saying I want Senna to win and be champion again, he came to me, he hugged me and said " no worries Sennita is going to win, have faith Sennita will win ". Then the race started and another accident happened on the grid starting... the race should have been stopped to get a 2nd start as used to be before however and suddenly we had to see the safety car in the front for a few more laps... we were watching ESPN as always and we saw the accident of Senna in lap 7 at Tamburello curve and I remember when Bob Varsha said " Where the hell are the tires barrier " , he was angry and we couldn't believe there wasn't tires barrier in front of the concrete wall to absorb the impact of any possible accident... terrible mistake from Imola circuit authorities because there was accidents before in the same curve where the top speed is 300 km / hour. We saw Senna moving his neck a little bit inside the cockpit and the helicopter landing to pick him up to go to Bologna hospital, later during the race Bob Varsha said " Ayrton Senna is fighting for his life ". The race was over and we felt that would be difficult for him to survive, the broadcast finished and watching Italian soccer in Rai we heard the news that he died.. We knew was a failure of the Williams car and not Ayrton mistake. Since the beginning of the season he wasn't feeling the car competitive and the cockpit was not comfortable as his McLaren was... reason he asked Williams team to modify his steering column... steering column that wasn't weld properly and broke down just exactly in Tamburello and probably was getting cracked before because of the bumpy circuit. Is true that Ayrton asked to get modified the steering column in the meanwhile Williams was waiting for the new cockpit... however that wasn't an excuse to not have the properly steering column for that race, specially when we were talking about of one of the best Formula 1 teams. Frank Williams wanted Senna to be a World champion of formula 1 again but at the same time I feel his team brought him to die. Since that day the formula 1 wasn't the same and I lost the interest in the next couple of years and I was angry seeing Schumacher winning races not having real drivers in front of him... he wasn't skillful on the rain and not fast as Senna on the dangerous gaps and no real competitors against him, easy to win like that. Just remember how he lost the control of his Benetton in Adelaide circuit and hit Hill to not let him win the championship. If Hill slammed on the breaks a little bit he would have avoid that accident and win. I always remember Senna and is sad not seeing him alive, he could have been 4 or 5 times formula 1 champion. He didn't feel to race that day, it was touching for him seeing the accidents of Friday and Saturday at Imola. I wish he didn't race because he would have won at Monaco as he did 6 times and driving a new Williams. Probably if there was a 2nd start instead of having the safety car in the front, the steering column could have been broken in a slow part of the circuit. The 2nd Start was after Ayrton accident... too late and very bad management of the authorities at Imola. GRAZIE AYRTON ❤
I remember my father mentioned this incident as he was following the race, at that time me i was too young to understand the gravity of the situation. Till date Imolar is one of my favourite circuits. RIP Sennar.
well yeah of course they will be shocked, imagine seeing your favorite F1 racer dying in front of your eyes. you won't be "oh wow, he died, okay whatever".@@user-qp5or5cp9t
I've not seen this in full, (Start to Senna Crash) since it aired live on BBC1. Back when it happened you were jaw to the floor and on the edge of your seat with hope and all fingers crossed praying he would be ok, you had time to get used to the idea he might not make it. But today that sinking feeling hits you harder as you know the moment it happens. 🙁 Senna was a champion of champions and then some! 🇧🇷
It's a shame that James Hunt died from a heart attack in 15 june 1993. If he was still alive in 1994 and in the commentary booth he would definitely say things like, they should cancel the race. And for a reason..
Useless piece of information. I was filling up my car, on just on the way back from Exeter to Midlands in 1992, and James Hunt was filling up his Jag. Was White with Green Livery, like the old Jag from The Saint TV show. Must have been less than a year before he passed
I have the live footage from Swedish TV recorded on VHS, they didn't cut away from the helicopter footage when they realised it was bad so it shows them removing Senna from the car and trying to resuscitate him etc and then taking him to the helicopter ambulance. History but very sad 😢
Well, later in the race, after the final nasty incident of the weekend (where Michele Alboreto had his right rear wheel come off after his final pit stop, knocking down and injuring several mechanics from Ferrari and Lotus), Murray Walker said that in his view, given the chaos in the pit lane, that race should just be stopped. At the time it had passed the mandatory 75% and everyone up and down the pit lane had had enough of all the incidents that had resulted in people being injured or killed that weekend. Steve Matchett, who worked at the Benetton team at the time, echoed that feeling 10 years later as part of Speed Channel's F1 Decade show: "That was really, the final straw that broke the Camel's back. Everyone was like 'for God's sake, let this race stop. This is a living nightmare, stop it now!'"
Nearly 30 years on and you still get a Sad and Worrying Feeling as I too watched this Race Live but reliving the disaster today I cannot believe there was no safety tyres on the Tamburello Corner. I know you cannot put Safety Tyres everywhere but at least on the corners and bends there should be some protection from the Concrete Walls. So much for the Work Health and Safety Committee in those days after so many crashes at the Imola Track makes you think it’s been jinxed. I was Blessed to see Ayrton Senna win the Australian Grand Prix at Adelaide in 1991 but the two times I visited Adelaide for the GP it Rained. 1989 Thierry Bousten in a Williams and 1991 Ayrton Senna in a McLaren with Nigel Mansel and Gerhard Berger in the the placing. I must see if I can Relive and watch that race as they had heavy rain and a lot of stoppages. Prays for the Senna Family especially his girl friend Adriane Galisteu who they only met the previous year before his death. At age 34 makes you think what could of been and how far Senna could have reached as he already had 3 Championships to his name and we know what Micheal Schumacher achieved in Formula 1 so there would have been some great battles unlike today’s Racing Winner Max Verstappen and previously Lewis Hamilton. The old days of Formula 1 were great and exciting as there was a lot of Talented Drivers and the Races were Competitive. Today you support someone to beat Max or Lewis as their not as close or exciting but at least the cars and tracks are much more safer and the F1 Committee are more strict Thank God for the Driver’s. 😺😸😹😻😼😽🙀😿😾🇦🇺🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️ He did also have a Nephew but not sure if he had his Uncle’s Talent at Formula 1.
I will never forget this horrible weekend starting with Barrichello's ugly looking incident and finishing with Senna's untimely passing. Every time I see a video about the accident I remember what it was like watching it live on television. I relive that feeling of dread that kept growing exponentially inside me as each minute passed and it became clear before it was announced that Senna was not going to make it.
The fact that marshalls weren't getting stuck in immediately told me at the time that Senna was already dead. Declaring him dead during the ongoing race was deemed to risky with over 100,000 fans at the track, Italian authorities insisted on waiting until fans had dispersed before announcing the terrible news.
10:04 is so shocking to see, the close-up shot after the crash happened and the concern around his health. Thank you for uploading this video to capture this moment in history. Such a sad, harrowing day...
I was 22 when the greatest Formula 1 driver of all time! Was lost 😢 and the 1st of May 2024 which is a month or so away it will be 30 years ago that we lost the God of Legends Ayrton Senna, Rest in Peace Ayrton as you will never be forgotten ❤
I have tears in my eyes right now after all this time and I'm romanian. Can't imagine how it must've been for the brazilians who admired him back then!
To those criticising the people nearby for not helping, firstly they are not Medic’s, they are Safety Marshall’s - you can even see one with a fire extinguisher. They could conceivably have made matters worse by getting involved, however well intentioned they may have been. At 9.30 one does get close to Senna but recoils. At 10.05, you can possibly see the reason for this as it appears to me that there is a large blood stain on Senna’s overalls. I shudder to think on how horrifying it was for the Medic’s a few seconds later when they removed his helmet, particularly for Professor Sid Watkins who was a close friend of Senna. RIP Ayrton and Sid
@@fabianbrown2021 Exactly. Remember Barrichello’s car being flipped back over after his crash as though it was a pancake. If his spine had already been injured, that move could have been catastrophic.
I agree 100%. They could cause more damage than good by trying to do anything. Good intentions don’t necessarily save lives. Senna turned off Eric Comas car to prevent a fire, but he didn’t dare trying to remove him from the car.
Even the commentary immediately after the accident reflects a steering failure. Both mention about Senna going straight to the wall. Their voices clearly possess surprise and shock.
30 years ago today this... The weekend of the 1994 San Marino GP 🇸🇲 is probably the darkest in modern #F1 history. Barrichello - crashed & missed race Ratzenburger - died Crowd - hurt at start Senna - died Pit member - hurt by flying wheel. RIP Roland & Ayrton 🇦🇹🇧🇷
How could we know that? We Knie his condition cant be Food, but maybe good enough for a worthy life? I have a family member that fell one floor deep in his own house under construction on his head, massive brain injuries, not able to speak, hardly mobile. He lost his wife a few years later, he could not let her give up the life sehe could have had with him before the accident. His plans for his life were gone, he is still not close to live without help, but he is able to write and to make decisions. And he is glad to be alive dispite his contition. Maybe Michaels Situation is comparable, maybe he is glad to be alive, too. We cant know
@@MetalJaska Well things must be bad for Michael if the family have released zero details. They wouldn't do that if he was fully lucid and able to communicate and make decisions, Michael is the type of person that would want people to know how he was, and he would want to communicate with his fans and the F1 community if he was actually able to do so. The fact there is a stone wall around him with absolutely no information suggests that he is basically alive, but not living (unable to do anything for himself).
@@wetsox278I read an interview with him where he said that in case of a major accident he would prefer to "leave in one go" rather than live with physical limitations.
I watched this live on the BBC. An awful weekend. I came back from Anfield on the Saturday, Liverpool's last ever home game before the kop was taken down and replaced with seating. Heard in the morning about Ratenzberger but thought that was a one off, then the accident at the start and then seeing Senna go straight off the track. Remember so vividly 30 years on. Senna was the greatest racing driver I have ever seen. I wonder how many more world championships he would have won. RIP Never forgotten.
It’s obvious from the first responders (track side) lack of urgency to help the driver that when they assessed the damage to his helmet and visible blood > that they waited for EMS to arrive. 😢
From everything that's been said afterwards, i think that he knew something might happen to him. He knew that the car was hard to drive, and wouldn't get better until halfway through the season. I have so much respect for Damon Hill, driving a car like that.
Newey fixed it just 2 GPs after Imola and it immediately reflected in Hill's performance. The crash wasn't caused by the car being difficult to drive though.
That is true, Senna told a few people that were close to him that he had a bad feeling about this race. They also said they had never heard him say anything like that before. When you look at all the terrible things that happened at this race weekend...he was right...sadly.
@@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1 Yes, lessons were learned and incidents since then have moved the industry to be much safer overall. It almost feels like this entire event was a safety experiment considering they opted to continue to letting it all play out instead of calling it a day at the first death.
God have mercy on his soul. My idol... I was only 2 months old when he crashed, my dad told me nobody expected him to die, we was thinking he will go out of the car, stop the dust from his suit and walk away. But he never went out, he stayed forever there... Thing is, that after all these years still no one took responsibility for this. I admire him so much, hope he is in better place. Rest in peace.
Remember it like yesterday,he was an incredible Driver,he also helped engineer the Honda NSX into the amazing car that it was.Gone but not ever forgotten.
At 12:57, it's possible to see a large pool of blood right in the middle of the image. There, it already showed that Senna was no longer with us. Rest in peace, Ayrton Senna da Silva, a true legend!
Yeah in terms of impact Berger and Piquet crash was much worse than Senna but he got hit by his suspension unfortunately and the wheel as well IIRC He had no broken bones I think in the high cockpit side cars he would have walked away
Massa fortunately survived a suspension spring hitting him in 2008. It remains an extremely dangerous sport. I recall the horror in the office in 1994 the next day (monday) when I caught up with my F1 fan colleagues, it was a very depressing day given all the events of that terrible weekend. In the UK Murray Walker, Steve Rider and Jon Palmer remained very professional paying tribute to a legend. Senna at that time totally dominated F1 with a young Schu chasing him down, some of his great rivals had moved on, in his mind he had finally landed a Williams seat and it should have been his year. So sad.
@@audiomixexpert3175same here. I would say that Piquet, Berger, Alboreto and Patrese all had as bad crashes at Tamburello as Senna, yet they all managed to walk away from the car. Even Berger, who's Ferrari caught fire after crashing, only suffered burns to his hands. In fact, in my opinion, Berger possibly had a worse crash than Senna.
@@mrkipling2201 Yeah I totally agree. I watched the accident involving Berger and it looked far worse especially with the fire. Also bearing in mind the safety of the cars would have improved in the 5 years that passed since that accident. Just makes you wonder why Senna couldn't have got out alive. It should have been a wakeup call by the FIA to improve the safety of Tamburello after those close calls. If only they'd made the modifications to that corner before 1994 we'd still have Ayrton Senna.
Thanks for sharing 😢.I remember this fatal day has long has I live. Due to it been a Bank Holiday me and my partner at the time were rushing home to watch senna/me been a big fan.❤I remember telling him to drive faster or we will mis the race. Walking in the house I put kettle on while he put tv on I remember him saying omg no. Then shouting me .I walked in just has he was laid on the track.I cried and cried has we all know he didn't look good.. I still have all my memorabilia on senna and will treasure them. R I p ❤❤x
I woke that morning , in Australia, knowing somehow that Senna had died. I couldn’t have heard it , no radio, no TV, no social media, no laptop. Spooks me to think of it to this day.
Funny how people tell people they thought something has happened before it happened, after it's happened.if you said the day before I knew he was going to die the next day on the actual day before like wrote it down or told someone for prove.
Notice what you don’t see when senna’s head twitches at 10:04? His steering wheel. I’ve read several times that they cut and lengthened his steering shaft. This turn was no match for his skill as a driver and yet his wheels didn’t turn and he drove right into the wall. Guess after 30 yrs on( hard to believe) we will never know the truth. What a cursed 3 day race if ever there was such a thing
This race should've never been held. After the fatal accident of Roland Ratzenberger the day before, who died on the racetrack, just out of respect they should've never held the race. It's still out of my mind why they carried on like nothing happened?
Murray & Jonathan were very very professional whilst everything was unfolding at Imola. "And SENNA, MY GOODNESS" Was such a terribly tragic weekend. Not just Ayrton Senna dying but Roland Ratzenburger too.
30 years ago to the day!…I was 12 yrs old watching this at my parents home. I dreamt the night before that Senna crashed and was killed during the race and when it happened the following day, I was in utter shock, it actually left me traumatised as I idolised Senna. I had an awful feeling about the race that weekend, even before Roland had his fatal accident on the Saturday I had the feeling something awful was going to happen. 30 years have gone literally in the blink of an eye, that day is still as vivid in my mind as if it were yesterday
Other very heartbreaking fact. There was a folded Austrian flag inside of Senna's car. He wanted to honor Ratzenberger who died one day earlier.
Tadinho😢😢😢😭
30 years has gone so fast. God bless both these martyrs
Yep, Sid Watkins said it was already stained with Senna's blood, now if that doesn't sum up how horrendously grim Imola '94 was I don't know what does.
That is so very sad and indicative of the fine man Senna was!
Impressionante essa atitude de Senna isso a imprensa não divulgou que ele havia guardado essa bandeira caso ganhasse a corrida. Fiquei chocado com esse episódio que ocorreu em 94. Aqui no Brasil foi luto geral. Jamais o Brasil terá um piloto igual a Ayrton Senna ele é insubstituível.
I watched this race live in 1994, it is still heartbreaking to see this ...seeing this uncut version really makes me relive the feelings I had on that day ....
I saw live too. Probably this exact footage as BBC was Murray Walker. I remember them saying he moved his head, and seeing that, knew he was dead unfortunately.
Me too and then again and again. Same bud feelings 🇬🇷😓
Thank you to the persons who posted this full uncut version as shown live, before all the b.s conspiracy theorists threw in their agenda-filled biased views. Sadly made it far easier courtesy of the #FIA and Italian politics' inability to throw a pee up in a brewery! They distrastley got involved to the point of taking the Sadly destroyed #Williams and Still to this day have it in their custody further muddied both @Senna and @Williams top management reputations,I.e; broken steering Columb which if there was an independent full access to team and fia/fom footage. Even if they'd allowed
independent investors access to the wreckage, but that's not what happened. Senna himself requested the 18mm cut off his steering column and it had nothing to fo with this tragic Accident. Your original footage from onboard the car right behind, the Benaton B194 of @MichaelShumacher clearly shows the reason, with Senna taking #Tamburello normally that's why you see the first spark of the titanium floor skidplates(the car starts bottoming out)followed shortly after during Senna's turn by that clear shot of that second titanium spark of the car's undertray (which is responsible for at least 50% of an f1 cars total downforce)which meant for that vital moment while turning left the car became unstable and Senna just a passenger. Anyone still thinking Senna made a mistake or the Williams steering Columb snapped are idiots. The Accident happens the same instant of second undertray sparking ,only then going from a left turn to steering straight on at over 300km.
Same here, this is heartbreaking
I remember hearing about this when I was 7 years old but it only now that uncut video came about where other source edited it. The sad thing about the crash Senna attempts to slow down the car as he was going 190mph toward that corner and pretty much hit the wall head on at 145mph give or take. My logical thinking tells me something on the front end of the car had to break. But other rumours stated the steering rod rack was modified to give extra length to the steering wheel as the weld broke as well William team took the black box from the car as we never going to know the real source of why Senna's F1 car took a strange turn. Sad day for the whole world to witness the death of Senna
What a cursed GP that was.
Barrichelo nearly died, Ratzenberger died, then you have the crash at the start with wheels flying into the grandstand and then, finally Senna's fatal death.
And the race was not stopped. Unfathomable. What would it have taken for this race to be stopped? I get the impression anything short of a fully fueled car flying into a crowd of people and exploding wouldn't have clued in the marshalls that this race was simply not safe.
Money 👹
So true. F1 has seen many sad days, but this was really one of the worst Grand Prix ever and a low point in F1 history. At least they massively improved safety after this.
So a Le Mans 1955
And a pit stop went wrong resulting in 6 injured mechanics.
Wait all that was during this one race?
Senna was so good. It still hurts to see the images 30 years later on. So sad.
You knew when he jumped out of his car to help the other driver, that he was someone that should be valued in this life, I forget what race that was
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he jumped out to save comas before his car could explode
@@SFbayArea94121Spa 1992, Eric Comas. 🙏❤🇧🇷
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Even though I was 8 years old when it happened, I still remember this moment like it was yesterday. I also remember my mother begging me to stop crying saying: ''We don't know what happened, all we saw was a crash'', ''just wait until the next race and you will see him back on the grid'' she said. This was the first of two occasions when I cried myself to sleep in 38 years so far. I loved him with all my heart, I still do and I miss him so much... Senna Sempre!
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Você também e um guerreiro amigo não te conheço mais às suas palavras me emocional falando do nosso melhor piloto que o mundo já teve eu moro à 20 minutos do cemitério onde o Airton Senna está sepultado dia 1 de maio é lotado de visitantes ele sempre será o eterno está com deus na gloria 😪🙏🌟✨
What was he your dad or something?
@@Sheriff_GrimLawI think he's Brazilian.
A very unfortunate end to the greatest racing driver in history and the darkest weekend in F1 history. Descanse em paz Ayrton. Godspeed.
And, the tragedy that was 1994 in Motorsports as 4 months earlier, NASCAR drivers Neil Bonnett and Rodney Orr were killed at Daytona, a month after this tragedy, the Isle of Man TT claimed 3 lives in its already bloody reputation. Earlier that year, the Dakar Rally claimed another life in January 1994. What a year it was in motorsports. 8 tragic fatalities, many more injuries in all of these events. Rest easy Roland Ratzenberger, Ayrton Senna, the 3 folks at the Isle of Man TT and the one at Dakar Rally. ❤
@@CycloneSakurayes. Nothing but the utmost for those guys, literally putting their lives on the line for our entertainment
whatever happened to Alain Prost ? I thought he was the best -
Oh well - none of them are as good as AJ Foyt was - just ask Mario - he knows
In F1, he was the greatest. Dale Earnhardt was the best driver in NASCAR. Now, sadly, they're together...
Schumacher fans may have something to say about this. Tragic for all 3 of them now. @@tenngirl4trump
RIP Roland. 😢
RIP Ayrton. 😢
With other racers and Murray Walker narrating their race.
This may seem strange, but dealing with an unfolding tragedy often shows the quality of a commentator. Murray Walker handled this situation really well I feel. Naturally, he was surprised and shocked when the accident unfolded, but afterwards he struck the delicate balance between not overstating the drama that was unfolding before his eyes and at the same time not understating it as well.
For all the times he was giving badly timed or even wrong comments, he handled this situation really well, hence part of the reason he was so well respected
Murray said it was the hardest commentary in his career.
I agree and I’d like to point out another commentator, Paul Page. He’s had to call many tragedies and always did it with respect and dignity. His Greg Moore call was a tough one.
@crazydrummer181 yeah, probably another tough day for Paul Page was his personal friend, Jeff Krosnoff's, fatal accident at Toronto in 1996. It's one thing to have to talk about the death of a driver, another when it's someone universally liked, but when it's a personal friend of the commentator, it must be extremely tough
@@SiVlog1989 damn, I didn’t realize they were friends. That one was rough too
@@SiVlog1989 And it's especially sad when they also died in such a brutal way. Both Moore's and Kronsonff' fatal accidents were some of the most brutal crashes in racing history.
A true legend. My parents were neighbours of his when he lived in Tilehurst, Reading in the 80s. They remember him fondly and said he was a kind, funny and always happy to help.
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Yeah he seemed like a really great and genuinely kind person. One that you enjoy being in their company
Jonathan Palmer is a qualified doctor. He must have immediately realised how much trouble Senna was in and just couldn’t say it on air…
He Senna wouldn't survive. The massive blood pool after removing Senna's helmet showed this. To think we would have to wait until late 2016 for the Halo yet drivers like Lewis Hamilton was still against them being introduced...
Can you explain what exactly are you referring to with the helmet and why was LH against it?
@@GabrielaTiborova I believe the reference is to Lewis Hamilton being against the Halo, not a helmet. A Halo is the circular structure above the driver's head in today's cars. Many drivers were opposed to it when it was introduced because it looked ugly, but it has arguably saved many lives since then.
@@GabrielaTiborova they mean the halo that’s on modern F1 cars. Most drivers, not just LH, were against it because they felt it went against the DNA of F1.
However they all changed their mind when the halo prevented (I think Alonso’s) car from landing on LeClerc’s head at Spa.
Yes. A qualified dentist.
Despite the (BBC) live broadcast not showing any graphic details, Murray Walker's very sombre mood was chilling, as it was obivious from his tone that Senna had died.
I have NEVER watched another F1 race since that day. I adored Ayrton, and my heart was forever turned from enjoying car racing after seeing him leave the world. He was adorable in every way. A man of integrity, class, style, and talent. Every fan adored him, and the world of F1 was never to same again, at least to me.
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Eu fico emocionado por ser brasileiro e ver um comentário tão satisfatório a respeito do nosso herói senna😢
@@jeanpaulo5943 Nunca haverá ninguém tão especial quanto Ayrton, ele era único, insubstituível. Meu coração se partiu.😞😞😞😞
Quando ele morreu eu tinha 6 anos me lembro como se fosse hoje aquele dia trágico e triste!Senna não foi só um ídolo,Ele levou a bandeira do Brasil para o mundo com a amor e garra....
He was good ! But integrity and class when he was 25 and dating a 15 yo ?
Imagine a 63 year old Senna in the sport today. Id imagine he wouldve done Indy and probably sportscars. He wouldve been a perfect fit in the early 2000s Audis
I imagine he might have done motorbikes like Schumacher did.
@@toddventura7191 That wouldve been cool what if he had a kid that kid would probably be in f1 as we speak
@@MrGoombasticveryFantasticI’d say in f2 rn but yeah
@@frozenuruguayball6436 No, F1 already cause Schumi's son already reached F1 in 2021, and Senna's son should've been slightly older.
He would have become President of Brazil
I remember that head move, i was like "yay!" he is alive. But it was just twitch...
I actually saw a video a while back here on CZcams where a guy was filming on his camcorder just a few yards from where Senna lay in his car after the crash. It showed a woman shouting at Senna in his car from behind a fence. Senna actually momentarily looked at her. It was so sad.
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it was him dying, your body actually twitches once death occurs,like a final exhale
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@@landonleean8353Yeah he said he twitched, can you read?
Still painfull to see, my childhood idol
Ayrton Senna was genius, charismatic, controversial, aggressive, kind and humane who died doing what he loved the most, racing in his car
I’m noticing a trend with race driver where if your controversial, your some of the best racing driver in a racing sport
On our national TV we've had completely uninterrupted footage with no commercials and no change in camera angles. They were showing Senna's crash area throughout the entire time doctors were extracting him from the car and trying to save him on the ground. I'll never forget the large pool of blood once they moved him onto the stretcher, before taking him to the helicopter...
I watched live in the BBC which I guess is this footage. In UK was also being shown on cable (Eurosport?). Eurosport I was told showed more than the BBC.
@@darrenporter1850 Eurosport had the world feed like other broadcasters, the BBC had other cameras at the track hence why they could cut away from what the rest of the world was seeing on the world feed
Here in Brazil too, friend. This country stoped with this tragic accident that kills our brother and idol. I don't like cars, but the Senna's spirit live in me and all dreamers, all around the world! ✊🇧🇷
yeah, unfortunately you can see it in 12:56. Senna era o melhor, amaria tê-lo visto correr pessoalmente
Aqui no Brasil acreditamos wue ele morreu na pista, e isso não foi declarado pq a corrida teria que acabar neste momento muito triste
I was 16 watching this race with my Dad. Something at that time we enjoyed doing together.
Then this, oh how quiet that Sunday afternoon was, we never really spoke much after this. A very sad day and a sad memory loosing on of the best drivers ever. Wish he went on his instincts and never took part of this race. E. Senna GOAT
I stopped watching F1 for 20 years after this. The love for racing at the highest level was shattered.
No offense but Sir Hamilton and Schumacher are the real GOATS. They have more titles and Schumi has raced against Senna in his prime.
@@ninab.4540they are great but stays arent everything when it comes to drivers driving style is also there senna has the best driving style out of all 3
I remember watching this, must have been around 8yrs old, me and mom used to watch together on Sundays, I remember thinking a t the time, he’s ok he moved his head but was devastated to hear later he’d died, was so shocked I never watched for years after wards, I don’t watch anymore neither
@@wscottwalters74Sadly you missed then Prime F1 time from late 90's to 2012, except a few dominant seasons
Thirty years ago today. Hopefully there will never be another F1 like this ever again. RIP both Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna. 😞😞
No Brasil Ayrton Senna ele é insubstituível. Senna era também uma pessoa humilde ajudava muitas pessoas carentes ele sempre deu apoio a casa de caridade pessoas mais necessitadas neste Brasil. Infelizmente perdemos um grande ídolo do esporte brasileiro. Mas a vida é isso mesmo devemos entender que : nós não somos deste mundo. Nós somos sim é de outro lugar e tudo que é vivo morre ninguém não está para ficar nesta terra. Esperamos um dia encontrar o Ayrton na glória do senhor Deus
My idol in life. We all could learn a lot from Senna.
Love the channel 9 f1 stuff
This is the first time I have watched this footage since watching it live. Still hurts. I didn’t watch F1 again until four years ago.
So you sadly missed Prime F1 which was from 1997 to 2012 except 3 or 4 seasons that were dominant
@@emilekaram6094Definitely not prime era 😂
@@diehard21000I will never agree with you
Prime was 86-95 ❤
@@jackworsley2562 Got watch Golf, I only agree on 1988-91
Thank you for sharing and preserving history.
Quase 3 décadas depois e ainda dói lembrar que perdemos tão cedo o maior piloto de todos os tempos.
Sinto o mesmo!!!
É impressão minha,ou a ajudar médica demorou muito tempo a chegar? Agora já é tarde...😢
I feel honoured to have witnessed the flash of that yellow helmet like a blur past many times in Adelaide in those years in real life. He was just much faster than the others consistently...Always totally committed. I remember this race...Haunting still.
That 2010 'Senna' documentary that came out is outstanding. It covers this race very well. Iincredibly touching....esp the almost 3hr version :)
I went to Saturday qualifying for the Australian GP in '90 and '92. I was quite young and don’t remember a lot, but can vividly remember every time the Marlboro McLaren with the yellow helmet flashed by.
Thanks for posting this. I was watching this very telecast (Ch. 9 in Aus) live…That image at 12:56 is one I will never forget…
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famous footage showed that day on French TV was Prost (commenting the race) holding his head with both hands in disbelief knowing it was very bad...they had just spoken through the radio on the formation lap ,Senna telling Prost he & the other pilots missed him on the grid that Sunday...
Hard to believe that 30 years is coming up since this tragic weekend occured. I recall in Dr. Sid's book him saying that although he was not a religious man, he felt the moment when Senna's soul left his body.
I just can’t believe they didn’t Stop it! Thanks for the upload
I'm just watching this video in my parents house, exactly the same place I watched it live in 94. Haunting and still emotional all these years later.
Ain't it about time you moved out? 😆
Just visiting for a few weeks@@cerneuffington2656
@@cerneuffington2656He most likely has a wonderful relationship with his parents, unlike you.
@@cerneuffington2656 I’ll take the emoji as a sign you were likely joking… BUT if you assumed the original commenter was American, with you also being American too - I would call you supremely out of touch with modern day wages v. housing costs.
@@TitaniumTurbine Three people on wages all renting together. That's pretty achievable even with higher rent these days. Problem is, Gen Z (especially) are so precious they want to live on their own.
At the 12:57 mark, you can see how bad it was. One if not the best ever and gone way to early. Thanks for this video.
Is that blood?
@@tehidiotboys3010 Yup.
@@tehidiotboys3010he lost about 90% of the blood in his body
Its Hard to think this Accident happened nearly 30 years ago
Wow, the huge pile of blood at 12:56 on the ground says all you need to know about how severe the situation was. I believe the racer Roland Ratzenberger was also killed that weekend, too. It's amazing how far technology has come in the design of car safety in f1, but even with todays technology I don't think anyone could survive that crash. RIP Ayrton Senna 🇧🇷🏎🏁🏆🐐
His Brain was impaled by a piece of the car, it was a fatality
@@giuliorobertoful Where did you hear that his head was impaled? Fractured skull yea, but his head being impaled like a shish kabob sounds inaccurate. I saw in the video and even the announcer said that he was moving after the accident and you can see his helmet still on with nothing penetrating it, but more than likely it was his body naturally reacting to his nervous system even though he was killed on impact. I don't think he was impaled, but i'm sure he was definitely hemorrhaged from the severe impact like Dale Earnhardt because Ayrton wasn't wearing a head restraint like a hans device or any safety device like it. I looked up the report on his cause of death and it didn't say anything about him being impaled by the car but it did say debris hit his helmet causing a fracture in his skull and stated the force of the impact caused such severe hemorrhaging that it ruptured his temporal artery in his brain. Either way, it's a tragedy.
@@eldiablo3794his temporal artery was ruptured and he lost nearly 5 litres of blood and the upright in the steering penetrated his helmet and damaged his forehead
@@eldiablo3794 it's know here in Brazil, Senna is our national hero, his former girlfriend a brazilian pilots and journalists confirm this, i have the interviews but they are in portuguese, i can show you
He may have had a chance of surviving if there was tyre cushioning at the barrier.
Is 29 years and a half since that day and I still remember this race... I was with my cousin watching the broadcasting early in the morning and I wanted Senna to win since the 1994 season started (I have Ayrton photos taken by Ercole Colombo )... I was very excited and I remembered the night before my cousin told me... hey a formula 1 driver from Austria died in the Imola circuit... it was horrible... and that Sunday May 1st watching me so excited to see Senna win and hearing from me several times saying I want Senna to win and be champion again, he came to me, he hugged me and said " no worries Sennita is going to win, have faith Sennita will win ". Then the race started and another accident happened on the grid starting... the race should have been stopped to get a 2nd start as used to be before however and suddenly we had to see the safety car in the front for a few more laps... we were watching ESPN as always and we saw the accident of Senna in lap 7 at Tamburello curve and I remember when Bob Varsha said " Where the hell are the tires barrier " , he was angry and we couldn't believe there wasn't tires barrier in front of the concrete wall to absorb the impact of any possible accident... terrible mistake from Imola circuit authorities because there was accidents before in the same curve where the top speed is 300 km / hour. We saw Senna moving his neck a little bit inside the cockpit and the helicopter landing to pick him up to go to Bologna hospital, later during the race Bob Varsha said " Ayrton Senna is fighting for his life ". The race was over and we felt that would be difficult for him to survive, the broadcast finished and watching Italian soccer in Rai we heard the news that he died.. We knew was a failure of the Williams car and not Ayrton mistake. Since the beginning of the season he wasn't feeling the car competitive and the cockpit was not comfortable as his McLaren was... reason he asked Williams team to modify his steering column... steering column that wasn't weld properly and broke down just exactly in Tamburello and probably was getting cracked before because of the bumpy circuit. Is true that Ayrton asked to get modified the steering column in the meanwhile Williams was waiting for the new cockpit... however that wasn't an excuse to not have the properly steering column for that race, specially when we were talking about of one of the best Formula 1 teams. Frank Williams wanted Senna to be a World champion of formula 1 again but at the same time I feel his team brought him to die. Since that day the formula 1 wasn't the same and I lost the interest in the next couple of years and I was angry seeing Schumacher winning races not having real drivers in front of him... he wasn't skillful on the rain and not fast as Senna on the dangerous gaps and no real competitors against him, easy to win like that. Just remember how he lost the control of his Benetton in Adelaide circuit and hit Hill to not let him win the championship. If Hill slammed on the breaks a little bit he would have avoid that accident and win. I always remember Senna and is sad not seeing him alive, he could have been 4 or 5 times formula 1 champion. He didn't feel to race that day, it was touching for him seeing the accidents of Friday and Saturday at Imola. I wish he didn't race because he would have won at Monaco as he did 6 times and driving a new Williams. Probably if there was a 2nd start instead of having the safety car in the front, the steering column could have been broken in a slow part of the circuit. The 2nd Start was after Ayrton accident... too late and very bad management of the authorities at Imola. GRAZIE AYRTON ❤
Williams literally killed him , so sad and traumatising to this day!
I was born about 2 and a half years later, but watching this, with the context of the day prior, and his career, this is a true tragedy
No one cares
@@Brock-Lesnar-WWE and I didn't ask YOU
@@didgereemedia194 nobody cares
The GOAT. Forever in our hearts Ayrton. ❤
I remember my father mentioned this incident as he was following the race, at that time me i was too young to understand the gravity of the situation. Till date Imolar is one of my favourite circuits.
RIP Sennar.
How old where you?
Will never forget this day. An awful day, the whole event seemed cursed
It was a lot of eerie happenings
The most dangerous past time and people still shocked when people die doing it .
well yeah of course they will be shocked, imagine seeing your favorite F1 racer dying in front of your eyes. you won't be "oh wow, he died, okay whatever".@@user-qp5or5cp9t
@@user-qp5or5cp9tyou are never invited to parties.
It's been foreshadowed from the beginning
His last moments were spent with his true love, RIP.
I've not seen this in full, (Start to Senna Crash) since it aired live on BBC1. Back when it happened you were jaw to the floor and on the edge of your seat with hope and all fingers crossed praying he would be ok, you had time to get used to the idea he might not make it. But today that sinking feeling hits you harder as you know the moment it happens. 🙁
Senna was a champion of champions and then some! 🇧🇷
It's a shame that James Hunt died from a heart attack in 15 june 1993. If he was still alive in 1994 and in the commentary booth he would definitely say things like, they should cancel the race. And for a reason..
Useless piece of information. I was filling up my car, on just on the way back from Exeter to Midlands in 1992, and James Hunt was filling up his Jag. Was White with Green Livery, like the old Jag from The Saint TV show. Must have been less than a year before he passed
I have the live footage from Swedish TV recorded on VHS, they didn't cut away from the helicopter footage when they realised it was bad so it shows them removing Senna from the car and trying to resuscitate him etc and then taking him to the helicopter ambulance. History but very sad 😢
Well, later in the race, after the final nasty incident of the weekend (where Michele Alboreto had his right rear wheel come off after his final pit stop, knocking down and injuring several mechanics from Ferrari and Lotus), Murray Walker said that in his view, given the chaos in the pit lane, that race should just be stopped. At the time it had passed the mandatory 75% and everyone up and down the pit lane had had enough of all the incidents that had resulted in people being injured or killed that weekend. Steve Matchett, who worked at the Benetton team at the time, echoed that feeling 10 years later as part of Speed Channel's F1 Decade show:
"That was really, the final straw that broke the Camel's back. Everyone was like 'for God's sake, let this race stop. This is a living nightmare, stop it now!'"
maybe he would have even had the live broadcast interrupted
@@julianhoskins5158 Man is there anyway you can get me these images? Please
That was the very last F1 Grand Prix I watched in my life. F1 died for me on May 1st 1994. You can't imagine what Senna meant for us brazilians. 🇧🇷 😢.
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There were other Brazilian drivers though. I'm sure they would have loved your support also.
Nearly 30 years on and you still get a Sad and Worrying Feeling as I too watched this Race Live but reliving the disaster today I cannot believe there was no safety tyres on the Tamburello Corner.
I know you cannot put Safety Tyres everywhere but at least on the corners and bends there should be some protection from the Concrete Walls.
So much for the Work Health and Safety Committee in those days after so many crashes at the Imola Track makes you think it’s been jinxed.
I was Blessed to see Ayrton Senna win the Australian Grand Prix at Adelaide in 1991 but the two times I visited Adelaide for the GP it Rained. 1989 Thierry Bousten in a Williams and 1991 Ayrton Senna in a McLaren with Nigel Mansel and Gerhard Berger in the the placing. I must see if I can Relive and watch that race as they had heavy rain and a lot of stoppages.
Prays for the Senna Family especially his girl friend Adriane Galisteu who they only met the previous year before his death.
At age 34 makes you think what could of been and how far Senna could have reached as he already had 3 Championships to his name and we know what Micheal Schumacher achieved in Formula 1 so there would have been some great battles unlike today’s Racing Winner Max Verstappen and previously Lewis Hamilton.
The old days of Formula 1 were great and exciting as there was a lot of Talented Drivers and the Races were Competitive.
Today you support someone to beat Max or Lewis as their not as close or exciting but at least the cars and tracks are much more safer and the F1 Committee are more strict Thank God for the Driver’s.
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He did also have a Nephew but not sure if he had his Uncle’s Talent at Formula 1.
RIP ROLAND RATZENBEGER 💐🙏
RIP AYRTON SENNA FLOWER 💐🙏
He lives in our memory and his legacy. Simply the best of all.
I will never forget this horrible weekend starting with Barrichello's ugly looking incident and finishing with Senna's untimely passing. Every time I see a video about the accident I remember what it was like watching it live on television. I relive that feeling of dread that kept growing exponentially inside me as each minute passed and it became clear before it was announced that Senna was not going to make it.
And Ratzenberger's death Saturday in time
The fact that marshalls weren't getting stuck in immediately told me at the time that Senna was already dead. Declaring him dead during the ongoing race was deemed to risky with over 100,000 fans at the track, Italian authorities insisted on waiting until fans had dispersed before announcing the terrible news.
It's more than that. Italian law dictated the race would have to stop.
It's still upsetting as I sit here wiping away tears.
10:04 is so shocking to see, the close-up shot after the crash happened and the concern around his health. Thank you for uploading this video to capture this moment in history. Such a sad, harrowing day...
Absolutely horrific weekend, ending with this... My 13 year old self cried every tear he had that day 😢
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I was 22 when the greatest Formula 1 driver of all time! Was lost 😢 and the 1st of May 2024 which is a month or so away it will be 30 years ago that we lost the God of Legends Ayrton Senna, Rest in Peace Ayrton as you will never be forgotten ❤
I was also 22. I watched this exact footage live in Australia. It was a surreal then, and it's still surreal now...
I too watched this live at the time and really don’t want to be reminded of it.
As a guy with a Brazilian mom, I remember she said to me that the entire Brazil cried over Senna's dead, and I can imagine
Edit: I am spanish :)
Choramos mesmo. Até hoje nos lembramos de Senna com muita saudade.
Quem lembra fica triste até hoje. O país parou e chorou . Grande perda ... Como ser humano e para o esporte 😔🖤
Se nao me engano deve ter sido o maior funeral do Brasil
I have tears in my eyes right now after all this time and I'm romanian. Can't imagine how it must've been for the brazilians who admired him back then!
@@LuciTulceawhen I visited my girlfriend in Brasil we drove on the Ayrton Senna highway from the airport in São Paulo to Santos.
12:57 that’s all blood, holy shit
We all miss you Ayrton.
To those criticising the people nearby for not helping, firstly they are not Medic’s, they are Safety Marshall’s - you can even see one with a fire extinguisher. They could conceivably have made matters worse by getting involved, however well intentioned they may have been. At 9.30 one does get close to Senna but recoils. At 10.05, you can possibly see the reason for this as it appears to me that there is a large blood stain on Senna’s overalls. I shudder to think on how horrifying it was for the Medic’s a few seconds later when they removed his helmet, particularly for Professor Sid Watkins who was a close friend of Senna. RIP Ayrton and Sid
also a spine injury could have been possible so moving him would have been dangerous without knowing
@@fabianbrown2021 Exactly. Remember Barrichello’s car being flipped back over after his crash as though it was a pancake. If his spine had already been injured, that move could have been catastrophic.
I agree 100%. They could cause more damage than good by trying to do anything. Good intentions don’t necessarily save lives. Senna turned off Eric Comas car to prevent a fire, but he didn’t dare trying to remove him from the car.
I remember watching this live. Devastating. Hearing Murray’s voice was like a warm hug. I miss his commentary.
Even the commentary immediately after the accident reflects a steering failure. Both mention about Senna going straight to the wall. Their voices clearly possess surprise and shock.
Race in peace brave soul.
Such a tremendous, sad and tragic loss!
Watched this live . Still haunts me now
30 years ago today this...
The weekend of the 1994 San Marino GP 🇸🇲 is probably the darkest in modern #F1 history.
Barrichello - crashed & missed race
Ratzenburger - died
Crowd - hurt at start
Senna - died
Pit member - hurt by flying wheel.
RIP Roland & Ayrton 🇦🇹🇧🇷
It's sad to say but now in retrospect, Senna got the better end of the deal compared to Michael.
How could we know that? We Knie his condition cant be Food, but maybe good enough for a worthy life? I have a family member that fell one floor deep in his own house under construction on his head, massive brain injuries, not able to speak, hardly mobile. He lost his wife a few years later, he could not let her give up the life sehe could have had with him before the accident. His plans for his life were gone, he is still not close to live without help, but he is able to write and to make decisions. And he is glad to be alive dispite his contition. Maybe Michaels Situation is comparable, maybe he is glad to be alive, too. We cant know
or Christopher Reeve
@@MetalJaska Well things must be bad for Michael if the family have released zero details. They wouldn't do that if he was fully lucid and able to communicate and make decisions, Michael is the type of person that would want people to know how he was, and he would want to communicate with his fans and the F1 community if he was actually able to do so. The fact there is a stone wall around him with absolutely no information suggests that he is basically alive, but not living (unable to do anything for himself).
Kind of a morbid way of looking at things, but I am inclined to agree. I think Senna would prefer to be dead than to suffer Michael's fate.
@@wetsox278I read an interview with him where he said that in case of a major accident he would prefer to "leave in one go" rather than live with physical limitations.
I was watching live with my dad. We used to watch formula 1on Sundays. My mom was a Senna fan, and my dad always went with Schumacher. Such a sad day
After his passing it took me 10 years to see another race
Same I lost interest for many years after Sennas death
I admire that you went back to it.
I watched this live and remember it like it was yesterday. I have followed F1 since 1988. It was a dark day for the sport.
I watched this live on the BBC. An awful weekend. I came back from Anfield on the Saturday, Liverpool's last ever home game before the kop was taken down and replaced with seating. Heard in the morning about Ratenzberger but thought that was a one off, then the accident at the start and then seeing Senna go straight off the track. Remember so vividly 30 years on. Senna was the greatest racing driver I have ever seen. I wonder how many more world championships he would have won. RIP Never forgotten.
Non potrò mai dimenticare un campione come te,sei sempre nei nostri cuori 😢❤
It’s obvious from the first responders (track side) lack of urgency to help the driver that when they assessed the damage to his helmet and visible blood > that they waited for EMS to arrive. 😢
Brought back a lot of memories of watching this live at the time. RIP Senna
I remember it as it was yesterday. I saw it live in May 1st 1994.
Rip Senna.
So unfortunate… RIP 🤧💔
From everything that's been said afterwards, i think that he knew something might happen to him. He knew that the car was hard to drive, and wouldn't get better until halfway through the season. I have so much respect for Damon Hill, driving a car like that.
Dodgy welding on the steering column didn't help much either...
Newey fixed it just 2 GPs after Imola and it immediately reflected in Hill's performance. The crash wasn't caused by the car being difficult to drive though.
That is true, Senna told a few people that were close to him that he had a bad feeling about this race. They also said they had never heard him say anything like that before. When you look at all the terrible things that happened at this race weekend...he was right...sadly.
Such a shame that Damon has xenophobic views towards anyone that isn’t British.
The steering column weld broke causing the accident.
I don't remember an F1 weekend that had so many terrible accidents... Ratzenberger, Barichello, the start crash and ultimately, Senna
@@autogyro333nah but someone broke their leg due to an errant wheel
The worst weekend in formula 1 history but lessons were learnt that weekend
@@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1 Yes, lessons were learned and incidents since then have moved the industry to be much safer overall. It almost feels like this entire event was a safety experiment considering they opted to continue to letting it all play out instead of calling it a day at the first death.
God have mercy on his soul. My idol... I was only 2 months old when he crashed, my dad told me nobody expected him to die, we was thinking he will go out of the car, stop the dust from his suit and walk away. But he never went out, he stayed forever there... Thing is, that after all these years still no one took responsibility for this. I admire him so much, hope he is in better place. Rest in peace.
30 anos sem Airton
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Remember it like yesterday,he was an incredible Driver,he also helped engineer the Honda NSX into the amazing car that it was.Gone but not ever forgotten.
And Today, 30 Years Ago, Darkest Day in Formula 1.
3:36 Wow. 2 tyres flying into the Grandstand
At 12:57, it's possible to see a large pool of blood right in the middle of the image. There, it already showed that Senna was no longer with us. Rest in peace, Ayrton Senna da Silva, a true legend!
30 years after. No words. Heartbreaking. Miss you so much Magic Senna. 1er mai 2024.😢
Has anyone ever talked to the marshalls that were first on the scene? You'd think someone would track them down and ask them
They are not medical staff, they couldn't do anything by law
It's sadly ironic that the actual crash didn't kill him. The suspension arm breaking off was the culprit.
That's very true! I've seen worse accidents where the driver just simply got out the car with no injuries but Senna was so unlucky here.
Yeah in terms of impact Berger and Piquet crash was much worse than Senna but he got hit by his suspension unfortunately and the wheel as well IIRC
He had no broken bones I think in the high cockpit side cars he would have walked away
Massa fortunately survived a suspension spring hitting him in 2008. It remains an extremely dangerous sport. I recall the horror in the office in 1994 the next day (monday) when I caught up with my F1 fan colleagues, it was a very depressing day given all the events of that terrible weekend. In the UK Murray Walker, Steve Rider and Jon Palmer remained very professional paying tribute to a legend. Senna at that time totally dominated F1 with a young Schu chasing him down, some of his great rivals had moved on, in his mind he had finally landed a Williams seat and it should have been his year. So sad.
@@audiomixexpert3175same here. I would say that Piquet, Berger, Alboreto and Patrese all had as bad crashes at Tamburello as Senna, yet they all managed to walk away from the car. Even Berger, who's Ferrari caught fire after crashing, only suffered burns to his hands. In fact, in my opinion, Berger possibly had a worse crash than Senna.
@@mrkipling2201 Yeah I totally agree. I watched the accident involving Berger and it looked far worse especially with the fire. Also bearing in mind the safety of the cars would have improved in the 5 years that passed since that accident. Just makes you wonder why Senna couldn't have got out alive. It should have been a wakeup call by the FIA to improve the safety of Tamburello after those close calls. If only they'd made the modifications to that corner before 1994 we'd still have Ayrton Senna.
It's been 30 years. We haven't forgot you Ayrton
Thanks for sharing 😢.I remember this fatal day has long has I live. Due to it been a Bank Holiday me and my partner at the time were rushing home to watch senna/me been a big fan.❤I remember telling him to drive faster or we will mis the race.
Walking in the house I put kettle on while he put tv on I remember him saying omg no. Then shouting me .I walked in just has he was laid on the track.I cried and cried has we all know he didn't look good..
I still have all my memorabilia on senna and will treasure them.
R I p ❤❤x
The whole weekend was a tragedy from start to finish 2 deaths, Barrichello, wheel in the crowd plus so much more
Barrichello's crash looked a lot worse than Senna or Ratzenberger's. Yet he came out fine.
I'm from Brazil, I wasn't born in 1994, but the image of Senna's accident is shocking and sad.
OMGoodness, that is a lot of blood. 🥺 R.I.P. Senna ❤
I woke that morning , in Australia, knowing somehow that Senna had died.
I couldn’t have heard it , no radio, no TV, no social media, no laptop. Spooks me to think of it to this day.
Funny how people tell people they thought something has happened before it happened, after it's happened.if you said the day before I knew he was going to die the next day on the actual day before like wrote it down or told someone for prove.
you and mystic meg
Yeah sure
Notice what you don’t see when senna’s head twitches at 10:04? His steering wheel. I’ve read several times that they cut and lengthened his steering shaft. This turn was no match for his skill as a driver and yet his wheels didn’t turn and he drove right into the wall. Guess after 30 yrs on( hard to believe) we will never know the truth. What a cursed 3 day race if ever there was such a thing
Unbelievable. 30 years ago this year. Interesting to hear big Dazza and Alan Jones in commentary for Nine’s Wide World of Sport.
RIP great race driver. We remember you.
Senna would have become President of Brazil. His lost while tragic to the motorsport world was immeasurable in Brazil. They still are feeling it.
I will never forget this race, surely the blackest weekend in F1 history. The greatest taken too young. Tragic loss.
Still hurts to watch after all these years.
Ayrton Senna is the true GOAT!
Still have tears in my eyes watching it!
Rip legend. Can't believe it's been 30 years. ❤ always out senna
This race should've never been held. After the fatal accident of Roland Ratzenberger the day before, who died on the racetrack, just out of respect they should've never held the race. It's still out of my mind why they carried on like nothing happened?
There was something bout that race like you could see feel it wasn't right to many crashes deaths race should never have started
When money is more important than a human lives
Murray & Jonathan were very very professional whilst everything was unfolding at Imola.
"And SENNA, MY GOODNESS"
Was such a terribly tragic weekend. Not just Ayrton Senna dying but Roland Ratzenburger too.
Thirty years of that damn day
Senna Forever ❤
30 years ago to the day!…I was 12 yrs old watching this at my parents home. I dreamt the night before that Senna crashed and was killed during the race and when it happened the following day, I was in utter shock, it actually left me traumatised as I idolised Senna.
I had an awful feeling about the race that weekend, even before Roland had his fatal accident on the Saturday I had the feeling something awful was going to happen. 30 years have gone literally in the blink of an eye, that day is still as vivid in my mind as if it were yesterday
Everything says he died instantly. But his head moved at 10:06 in this video.
Involuntary movements are common with brain injuries.
He was dead. It was involuntary