2/5 The death of Ayrton Senna - what Natgeo did not say

[NollieFlipX]

What on earth is that thing 5:47

[NollieFlipX]

"He was killed" Hmm I thought we would normally use "He died"

[AndreaDatura]

The 2012 is almost upon us and Ayrton you have been dead for so many years now it is shocking, but you know what? After your steering column failed and you died Formula One has never been the same without you. We never forget and please keep those boys on the track safe this year xxx

[yafu123]

Senna was worth more than 6.5 million dollars... RIP mate

[deeveus1]

@yafu123 he was worth 100's of millions USD at the time of his death.

[Camerameister1]

This is bollocks. The teams would all want to know what happened so they could build their legal cases. Why has there never been a stipulation that F1 or any other racing car must be aerodynamically stable? If a yacht designer can go to jail because he failed to design a keel properly and 3 people died, why is it that F1 teams cannot be prosecuted for criminal negligence in this case or that of Graham Beveridge in 2001? Aeroplanes are stable (positively or neutrally). F1 cars should be too.

[xcruzrr6]

Williams got away with murder...and Natgeo (brits) doesn't want the world to see it that way.

[nadeau1064]

Just to confirm, is the clip at 05:36 video of the wing coming off Ratzenberger's car before his crash? I heard something about him suffering wing damage going through a chicane, but I've never seen video of debris coming off before impact.

[Thorpe741]

Sometimes the dragon wins.

[DAH210774]

I can see you've pieces of my Qualifying videos charrotest with Ratzenberger's accident. This is really well done - I'm enjoying this. I was always very unhappy with the Nat Geographic's version of events. Adrian Newey's latest explanation of a slow puncture is plausible. It does look like a steering column failure though also but it's fair to say that this could well have snapped on impact...

[220773]

Oh, poor Michele Alboreto, why did they show him still alive after his death??? :-(((((((

[tsharpmac420]

The few whistle blowers in nascar were labeled as fear mongers or coooks. Like all design flaws in airplanes and daily drives they are only fixed after 1 or more ppl are severly injured or killed bc of the flaw. Carl edwards wreck at dega a couple years ago shouldnt have even happened and dthat teenage girl shouldnt have a fat scar on her face that will be there for the rest of her life

[tsharpmac420]

I could never understand why nascars COT ( then car of tomorrow now car of today)had a wing in its original design especially with all we know about the aerodynamics of lift and downforce. I was against it from the get go, it dosnt take a genius to see that downforce on a car going forward turns to lift on the same car going backwards, Its pretty bad that nobody on the design team voiced thier opinion on the dangers of a wing, especially at a superspeedway

[iLBidone99]

At 3:25 it is clear that Senna is turning the steering wheel left, but the wheels are unaffected and still point straight forward. This may be a failure of a reconstruction, but if not, then we may assume the steering column to have been broken before the fatal impact...

[Bryan2799]

@iLBidone99 maybe... but if that was the case wouldn't the resistance in the wheel go away and wouldn't it look like Senna was turning a LOT more to the left?

These things took some force to turn the wheel especially at speed.

[xcruzrr6]

@Bryan2799 If he was just entering the corner to find his steering angle...yes. the problem is he was already mid-corner so he knew exactly where the wheel needed to be. To him he shouldn't have had to steer any further. Either way the steering wheel was still turned but the front wheels were straight. Something having to do with steering failed. The steering column is the most likely explanation.

[Bryan2799]

@xcruzrr6 yea but I'm pretty sure Senna does it by feel not looking where his hands should be... and I'm sure the car was messed up... he was clearly not happy with the way it was driving, but seeing what he did with his hands (from the Senna movie, they have REALLY good resolution of the onboard) it does not look the column just snapped... not saying it was in perfect working order mind you...

[twotoneify]

not to long after michele told everyone the the crash had started due to a mechanical falure he was suddenly killed in a crash and there is no video of this only a picture from afterwards that is pretty strange

[gp3runescape]

On the real video, you will see just before the video cuts off the wheel moves. o watch a real video of it and you will see.

[251108openyoureyes]

RATZENBERGER DIED ON THE VILLENEUVE CORNER OF THIS IMOLA TRACK. THE PREVIOUS DRIVER TO DIE ON A RACE TRACK WAS RICCARDO PALETTI AT THE CANADIAN GRAND PRIX. THAT CIRCUIT IS CALLED CIRCUIT GILLES VILLENEUVE. DO YOU THINK THIS IS A BIG COINCIDENCE???

[njitram00000]

@251108openyoureyes no, as there also is a Villeneuve chicane at the Circuit of Zolder (Bel)

[Ayrton4everrr]

At least at 4:14 they admit that they killed Ayrton and not that he died!!!

As Alboreto said, it had to be a mechanical failure!!! ... and not some other bozo stuff National geographic wants to tell us!!!

Thanks for this upload, it's been a while since I've seen it ;)

RIP Ayrton, we all miss you!!!

[charrotest]

Ayrton4everrr wrote: "we all miss you!!! "

I agree

[vprmn]

@Ayrton4everrr are you F1 engineer? you dont know

[Ayrton4everrr]

@vprmn areyou? who says I'm not. And what I said is true

[charrotest]

come on, if Ratzenberger was deadly hurt on tossa.... it did not demonstrate that imola was not safe?....according with the Italian Law was it not enoug to stop the grand prix?

after the accident, where they widened the zone of escape? on villeneuve curve or arround the hospital bed where Ratzenberger was declared dead?

where was the risk, on track or in the hospital?

[averybrandon100]

@charrotest Either two,depending on the situation.

[fantarule]

I have to point out. Ratzenberger may of been brain dead but as he was kept alive by the medics he didn't actually die at the race track. And the law states that the death has to take place at the track, not in a hospital for the event to be cancelled

[hicathcwm]

i would say that if u'r brain dead, u'r quite dead :) the heart or the lungs can be made to kinda work by using stuff, but i don't think that makes you alive. anyway, what happened, happened... what's annoying is that some ppl are trying to cover it up by spreading some unbelievable nonsense and many ppl who aren't really into racing and stuff may buy it just cuz it's a "documentary".