F1 - 1992 Ayrton Senna Spa

[TheReppy]

"and i'll bet my cotton socks"

[Morthelion]

I like the end of the race where the best driver of all times stands on the top of the podium! :)

[Stimor]

is ayrton senna on the balcony over the podiums or something?

[theeviltwaz]

I was at the Bus Stop chicane in the trees during this race - the first GP I went to. It turned out, Senna went in for wets exactly at the wrong moment - 2 laps later, the rain abated, but it wasn't until lap 24-25 when the first guy (Boutsen) went in for slicks.

Great driving though - it took a lot of work for the first 5 to pass him on their wet tyres.

[Heechely]

yeah, Senna best and fastest

[AlberRatman]

I'm on this vid!! Take a look at the Union Flag with Mansells Williams on it as Senna exits the Bus Stop and pits.. That was mine! The gizzer smoking under the brolly was my Brother..

[leemyster2]

nice. i know my bro was also waving a williams flag at spa years back lol but i think it was a damon hill one

[WeDieYoung1083]

what the hell is a gizzer and brolly? Damn english-talk. Speak real english dammit!

[tylerama]

@WeDieYoung1083 Gizzer means geezer - ie a man or a male. Brolly means umbrella.

[AlejjSi]

Aha

[AlejjSi]

@shoeme69 Yes, but I havent written that,you wrote that Schumacher was faster than Barichallo at 99%..it was not always like that

[AlejjSi]

So thah Schumacher was not always faster than Barichello

[AlejjSi]

I was replying to your comment where you wrote that Barichello was far off Schumacher at Imola 2005....and I wrote that in Australia 2005 Schumacher was nowhere Barichello aswell as in malaysia

[AlejjSi]

????

[mickeynismocat]

and thats whats called taking a gamble!

[AlejjSi]

But as you say 2005,where was Schumacher in Australia?And indeed until new car came,Barichello was faster than Schumi

[WASPTexas]

because he was on SLICKS

Schumacher had rain tyres

[NationOfMasturbation]

the rain master and fastest f1 driver of all time. says it all

[TheIceman47]

Great sportsman, Great Driver, a true Champion

We love you Senna

[StijnSpitaels]

eau rouge most beautiful bent ever :)

[djbuffy]

this guy is a god we all have to bow below.Even james hunt could not sum him up

[SynthieAl]

senna's great, but senna failed to gain any points in the first two races of 1994 season. his retirement at interlagos was his own fault. it was dry, and he spun and stalled the car.

[athensbroadsword]

Indeed but that happened due to his win-or-nothing attitude. And he was competing against a car which was illegal. Benetton was secretly using a traction control which was forbidden for 1994.

[sonny115]

Oh, and unlike Schumacher, Senna actually had traction control in his car that race, making his performance much better than schu...oops!

[dicipulo10]

Ronaldo

[TeamMercedesMcLaren]

Ayrton Senna el mejor.

[dj7oya]

Totally !!! Ford sucked at 92. benetton and schu are both cheaters.

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[McLarenMercedes]

Benetton used illegal devices in 1994 and got punished, though not severely enough. You can blame that cheating scum Flavio Briatore, and now it seems he ordered Nelson Piquet to crash last year in Singapore to bring out the safetycar after which Alonso magically happened to pit at the same time and later won the race for Renault (Flavio Briatore)

[dj7oya]

yeah, i don't doubt about it... but SCUMacher cheated too. it was just pathetic the way he "spun" in monaco...

ow... spa has a very long lap. it means that when it's raining, some places are wet, while others are dry. so, we can't say it was harder driving the car in slicks or not... but Senna's skills in wet conditions are indisputable.

[Foxx1981]

Monaco '85: deliberateley blocked driver's qualifying time to stop them from getting pole.

Estoril '88: tried to push Prost into the pit wall.

Estoril '89: closed the door in an extremely aggresive manner, trying to intimidate Mansell from trying to overtake. They both crashed out, but Mansell for was disqualified for no reason.

[Foxx1981]

Suzuka '89: wrecklessly tried to overtake Prost. He then asked the marshalls for an illegal push-start when he saw Alain had retired. Would have wrongfully won the championship if he hadn´t been disqualified.

Suzuka '90: rammed Prost off the track at over 160mph, secured the championship that way. Even admitted it was revenge, in case you miss the point: mediated foul!

[pillaylee]

@ Foxx1981...

1stly it was by no means a wreckless overtaking move. Prost turned in way too early for the car. 2ndly, Senna asked for his car to be pushed into the escape road (rightly)!!! He managed to get it started in the escape road, therefore he could have never been DSQ from that.

The marshal's gave him a green flag to get back on track and he went on to win the race brilliantly...

Balestre needed any kind of excuse to DSQ Senna and give Prost the title.

[Felyestay]

aunque schumi tenga sus defectos igual para mi senna igual sera un gran piloto por siempre sera recordado por todos

la victoria de schumi fue quizas la demostracion de el que iba a tener una lucha tremenda despues lastima que en 1994 todo haya quedado en nada en imola :/

[SebVettel18]

Great driving by Senna!

[dj7oya]

schumacher won... btw, search senna cheating at youtube. then search schumacher cheating. give a super tricky benetton to dick dastardly. Ford sucked at 92. benetton and schu are both cheaters.

but... schumi was a great driver. he wasn't better than senna at wet. SENNA KICKED ASSES !!!

[McLarenMercedes]

Senna had champion team mates like Alain Prost,Damon Hill and Mika Hakkinen,and also proven winners like Gerhard Berger,who won several races before becoming his team mate

Schumacher had Martin Brundle(never won a race), Patrese(in his 17'th season and too old), Verstappen(never won a race), Herbert (didn't win before joining Benetton in 1995), Irvine (won nothing before joining Ferrari and nothing after leaving them), Barrichello (won his 124'th start)

average driver team-mates for Schum

[Funfisique]

Include Massa in that list.

[dj7oya]

senna with slicks did that...

schu with wet almost spined...

NO COMMENTS ABOUT WHO'S DA REAL RAIN MASTER...

[mikast11557]

SENNA, il più grande di tutti i tempi, nessuno più come lui. AYRTON THE BEST

[McLarenMercedesTeam]

Ayrton Senna: El mejor piloto de todos los tiempos.

[ppioli26]

Senna wasn't murdered. He certanly didn't know that the material of the piece that cracked was a different material than the other half because i don't think he would feel safe enough to carry on. It was an accident that was covered up just because it killed the BEST F1 driver that has ever set into a f1 car. I worship Senna. He has always been a person that i look up to for motivation, perseverence and strength.

Long live Senna.

[TuneViper]

WHY DID IT HAVE TO END WITH SUMTHIN LIKE THAT!!! i wanted to hear what he was gonna say lol

[FranceskoGiuiell]

SENNA RULES .

[hunterhalo2]

Yes you may think it was a mistake to drive on slicks in the rain. This is the nature of professionals, take risks. I think he could handle his traction.

[Jarnoparoni]

I am convinced that he made a mistake, but many people will never believe that he could. Why not? He made many mistakes in his career. I have listened to and read endless theories about why, or how, he could have crashed on such a 'simple' corner like Tamburello. No-one other than Ayrton Senna and me know what it was like to drive that car, through that corner, in that race, on that day, on cold tyres. Damon Hill

[kurblee]

I don't believe in so many coincidences...

-we saw the broken steering wheel

-we know that the steering wheel was modified before the race

-we saw that the car went sraight into the concrete wall (if the steering wheel wasnt broken, why didn't he made any corrections??)

-the last 2 seconds of the onboard camera is missing

too many coincidences...

[billyposter]

I agree- I always thought that scientific approach to 'prove' that the car lost traction from bottoming out was pure bull- the car would have spun, not gone straight on

[MaistoHelix]

When Senna died they became incomparible,does nobody see that?They were both great drivers

[paulojorgi80]

senna in this race give a lot of work to shummy senna in wet tire and shummy whith rain tires i have this race

[FranceskoGiuiell]

Schumacher is just a good driver...

SENNA...IS A CHAMPION.

DON'T FORGET IT, NEVER.

[conni70]

To say that "Schumacher is just a good driver", clearly illustrates your biased perspective... Any one racing in the F1 circuit is a "good driver"... Yes, Senna was a great champion, but so was Schumacher... Did the guy not win 7 championships? don't be stupid, FranceskoGiuiell...

[paulojorgi80]

yes 7 times whith a clause in a contract that ani other driver in is team can beat him and 6 more years

[stillceaser]

The difference was that Senna could extract so much more from far inferior equipment. His 1991 World Championship is testament to his extraordinary ability. Schumacher was great, he just didn't have that extra magic that Senna could produce. I doubt very much Schumacher would have won 7 titles had Senna lived on.

[RothmansRenaultF1]

Schumi: Best car + 0 competition = many titles

Senna: Drove in inferior car

Senna: Beat Prost in the same car ('88) Beat Prost's powerful Ferrari ('93) Beat Mansell who had a powerful Williams (1991) Won 5 races and finished 2nd in the '93 World Championship with a crappy Mclaren Ford V8.

WHAT MORE DO YOU FUCKIN NEED?

[RothmansRenaultF1]

excuse me... He beat Prost's Ferrari in 1990.

[ImmortalSenna]

prost was in the williams

[RothmansRenaultF1]

haha yeah he was. I meant to say Prost was in the Ferrari in 1990. Thanks!

[Erkal2006]

What about finishing 3rd at Portugal 84 in 'the tank' i.e The Toleman 184 Hart.

[AlexDeLarge90]

how about that he average drivers as team mates too?

it also was in their contracts they were number 2's, and whenever they did race him like Barrichello did in Austria in 2002, he was forced to let his super skilled team mate win....

Senna beat Prost in the same car in 1988. Prost was the must successful driver of all time in 1988 with 28 wins.

[dombou70]

Can you 12 year olds stop bickering and just enjoy these two people for what they are. Schumacher is the most successful F1 driver of all time... no questions asked. It's fact... cold fact.

But Senna was the fastest driver of all time bar none (not Jimmy Clark, not Schumacher, not Fangio, no one), and would perhaps beaten Schumacher had he lived.

Quit acting like fools and realise comparisons are futile and don't solve a thing. Senna is a man of the heart, Schumacher a man of the brain :)

[ougal84]

i think Jimmy would have given Senna a serious serious run for his money.. I was brought up on the legend of Clark, being dragged round a gravbeyard in Dunnes for ages before finding his grave in a remote corner... and you know what it said.., "Jim Clark - Farmer"...

[AlejjSi]

How you can say,who was fastest?Clark never drove Sennas Mclaren,nor Schumacher or Fangio,nor Senna and Schumacher drove the old cars of Fangio and Clark competitivly in their racing years...you cant say that,they were in defferent eras

[Michaelingolfhansen]

For a million dollars, I would not go into Eau Rouge with slicks on a damp track!

I think even Senna must have been biting his teeth together...but thats also whats called GUTS!!!

[mcglonester]

balls of steel

[Welshmonster87]

Murray

[ringmeister2]

The 1992 Williams was head and shoulders above anything else in the field. It was like David and Goliath when Senna tried to keep with the Williams. Just when you thought no team other than Willams will win a race, along came the best Monaco battle ever and Senna victorious!!

[Anime998877]

Only because Nigel Mansell had a puncture.

[backdoorlion]

ayrton we miss you

[Bleifuss88]

Awesome V12 sound!

At 1:45...is that a traction control?

[theultimateforce]

yes it is, it was in 1992 that the car started to have eletronic driving aids

[andriusssska]

it was first MS win ...no one has one more races in the wet like Michael

[dalebshelton]

Where was michael's at Donnington in 93....nowhwere to be found close to Senna,,Michael was a good wet driver, because the rest of the field was so bad it made him look better. Senna would have blown him away just like he did when they did race in the wet together

[sonny115]

More importantly, where was Michael's traction control at Donnington in 93? That's right, not there, because his car didn't get TC until later on in the season. Therefore I would say that Senna had a slight advantage in that race.

[dalebshelton]

I can agree with you on that point, but, tracktion control doesn't prevent you from going into a corner too fast and sliding riding off the road. AndB) Senna is my hero and he made plenty of mistakes ok? I miss him as much as anyone, Bump or broken this or that, Yes it was an easy corner. He was trying to take on a lot, for that car to be fast he had to be on an edge that no one else can understand in that car not even Damon Hill. Let the man rest in Peace

[sonny115]

Please, I have nothing but respect for Senna, however I just felt the need to point out that it was not possible to compare Senna and Schumacher at Donnington 93 due to the traction control element.

[ImmortalSenna]

lol ok man you know senna owned donnington 93. senna was always at his best in the wet.

[gerryff]

How cud Senna have an advantage at Donington? Benetton had the proper Ford engine

[Michaelingolfhansen]

MS first win was Spa 1992!

[LDis1]

This is why Senna is the greatest of all time.....

[Twin540i]

2:43, The V-12 screams with wheelspin in the pit lane.

[hillbillieman]

only the great master himself could drive slicks on a wet track! thanks for a video of him that wasnt on here before keep em' coming!

[Anime998877]

Schumacher drove slicks on a wet track in 1995 spa after starting 16th on the grid. He won the race and destroyed Hill.

[McLarenMercedes]

Raikkonen won from 17'th on the grid on a DRY Suzuka in 2005 with no pace car packing of the grids or rain which made some front runners pit at the wrong time. Hill pitted 5 times in Spa 1995.

He didn't destroy Hill since Hill won the title in 1996, aged 36. Schumacher got beaten by Alonso and Raikkonen, when he was 36.