Id love to knwo what happened but sadly we never will.. iv read many things and 'reports' from various places and the all contradict eachother.. iv read all this 'data willimas got from the car' and then iv also read that the italians investigating took 2 years to get the black box back to williams, and when they got it back it was smashed to pieces so no data could be gathered from it, with williams people saying they know whats gone on but fear for their life if they speak out.
Watch "Ayrton Senna:Final seconds onboard" in slow motion. You'll see the nose go slightly left, indicating losing the back end, accompanied by disruption in the recording. You can also see the bumps during and immediately after. If you watch the far wall, you'll see it suddenly stops drifting right (left turn) and comes straight at him. Right before going off you can see his car attempt to follow the turn for another moment. NOT steering failure, but NOT a RIGHT turn either. Just watch the wall
Did the Steering Column break first, causing the crash? Or was it broken as a result of the crash? In hind sight, Ayrton should never have gone to Williams, altho that was his dream job. He was the best driver I've ever seen. I will go to see the Movie, "Senna," this Saturday. RIP Ayrton.
i'm looking for a documentary that shows seconds before the crash something small flying at senna's helmet which pierced his visor above the right eye knocking him unconscious possibly fracturing his skull and then he hits the wall where the suspension column then also hits him? as anyone seen this documentary.
that there was a trial regarding negligence in his death is ridiculous. This is racing. I wonder if this accident is before corners had tethers to prevent that type of damage / injury?
anyone know what happens when a flat floor bottoms on the road? your car turns into a sled it goes in a staight line no matter what you do so all of you people going on and on about steering failure get a life already this is why the fia introduced a minimum ride height
How can people say "he didnt try and turn watch video footage" he tried to stop the crash 0.15 seconds after the car hit a bump? you cant see that in a video i dont think its possible.
I saw the crash live on tv watching it with my father during school holidays! and I was gobsmacked when I saw what happened! and I still do over 15 years later..
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Good things dont last he was one Good driver. i wonder who said he was a bad driver. the person should stop watching F1. Doesnt seem to be able to understand how F1 is..
anyone who thinks senna's williams turned right is blind. Whatch the vids. he went straight...HE WENT STRAIGHT!!!... dont take my word for it watch the actual footage.
the back wheels of his car never lost traction when he entered the corner.And allso it was common for f2 cars to touch the ground in racing but if you look at lap 6 (the lap before senna's crash) the car touched the ground much more than when he crashes so according to this video why did he not crash a lap before? Allso if you have a look you will never see in the footage any evidence that his car lost traction or that senna tried to counter steer his car at that corner..........
@theadizo the car straightlined because the the floor actually bottomed out and when the floor hits the ground the front wheels dont turn its that simple
how can u say you're here after Top Gear? If takes 3 idiotic blokes to tell you about this guy, then you seriously have no idea how good this guy was and still is and forever will be. go back to top gear kiddies. u will never know the real F1, just all pretenders and act like they know and care just to be a part of something. idiots
I'm still surprised why he wouldn't have tried to steer the back of the car into the wall instead of the front... I had seen a crash by Berger a few years earlier and he had hit the wall with the back of the car and only had burns to his hands... Senna is still the best regardless of Schumacher's record...
If you watch the video of the accident you can clearly see NO STEERING INPUT was given as if the car's steering broke... Indeed the manslaughter trial after determined that the steering column (which was modified the day before) failed. The team covered this up.
That was asked by Senna, to be a little more comfy on the driving. Indeed, it was cutted and joined again a day before, it breaks earlier on the very course of race baceuse of the extra g-forces, and was not covered by the team, actually it was presented on law trials to find responsables of his death.
If he would have been alive and kept his performance going the way he did Michael Schumacher wouldn't be as famous today since Senna kept on kicking his ass on a regular basis.
Ayrton Senna was a god-like driver. What i believe happened is that the car bottommed on the rough entrance to the turn, as many drivers had said about the williams that weekend, causing the downforce required to make the turn at 190mph to be instantly lost. The rear of the car began to slide, and Senna showed his amazing skill by reacting in 0.1 of a second. However, at 190mph there is little that can be done to recover a slide. Anyone who says it was driver error has no idea.
lot more should have been done safety wise as there were many warnings. patrese alboreto and berger all had bad crashes there prior to senna.
just looking at the car photo. the red an white thing beside the car. is that an austrian flag? he had planned to wave it if he won as a tribute to roland ratzenberger
Only just seen this. Very interesting. Those who don't believe this are those who don't want to believe it. Clearly, it all started with a driver error. Why? He was being hounded by Michael Schumacher, who had already won the first two races of the season.
I agree with DBD Motorsports on this, the Williams clearly had a steering failure. Just look at the on board footage from Schumachers Benetton, the Williams wiggled from side to side, indicating that Senna was fighting the steering of the car and then the steering failed. If the steering hadn't failed why did the Williams go straight on, and Senna hadn't turned the car going over the sand traps causing the car to hit the wall more side on. No loss of down force here, this was steering failure..
@ferrariman11 you are a tool. shut up. first of all, if you weren't alive when he was born, that makes you at the most, 15 or 16. go back to school little boy.
The steering wheel broke. How can a car go from turning to suddenly straight? Thats no loss of down force. if he had lost down force in the car he would have spun and would have survived
SkinnPlum you are wrong. Not only because of the river. But because we don't know what caused the crash. We can't say what lack of safety measure caused his death. It's all an unkown. It will never be known. The crash was all Senna no one else. Otherwise some sort of comparison could be reached. A lot of the data from the Williams computer couldn't be recovered either.
@bannistergary , the data supports that he was braking until impact. plus he was still alive when they put him in the helicopter. footage showed he also moved in the car briefly some while after impact.
@S0ld1erH3lly Senna was the last DRIVER to be killed in F1. Is is not however the last recorded death, that occured in the 2001 season. When a track marshel was killed after being hit by flying debries from a car despite new safety measures being introduced after a fire marshel was killed during the 2000 season
@olivia2275 I too would love to believe that Senna died because of some oversight involving his steering wheel. But just go with me for a second. Senna's engineer at lotus has stated numerous times that Ayrton's usual reaction to an underperforming car was to lower the ride height right to the point of insanity and go drive the wheels off it. And heres another thing don't look at what the FIA say to find the cause look at what they do. (cont)
@olivia2275 In '95 there weren't any regulations added about how the steering columns were to be welded from them on. We saw the introduction of legality planks to monitor the ride heights. Regardless of what the FIA say it seems to me that on the inside they were convinced that ride height was what killed senna.
died the year i was born, seen some of his races and he is simply the best, sad that died like that, but he died doing something he loved, R.I.P Ayrton Senna- The Best
Ayrton for me you were the best in the race and in the life., you have helped many brazilian children to live and to study.You are forever in my heart R.I.P great Ayrton
How ironic, there is a video of him with some FIA officials walking around Tamburelo (the corner he crashed) and Senna explaining to them why it was unsafe.
Ayrton RIP.. I love the way he was praying at 0:30 seconds... He was a very religious man and a great human being, also one of the best F1 drivers of all time...
its ashamed how this unlucky, fatal catastrophe happened. too bad that corner was too fast, i wouldve liked to see him and schumy go at it while schumy was on his champion streak, those would be races worth watching.
@themagicayrtonsenna They could probably cut the high speed straight shorter to allow for an earlier turn. That way the gravel could be wider.... Please correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks for the great work. It's tough not to let emotions distort the facts but you mastered the presentation. I'm a Senna fan, for the record.
@SkinNplum I'm not going to say you are wrong, but at the time all a tire wall would have done was to have stuck him hard in to the wall... and had the tire not came off and hit him in the head then he would have been shaken up, nothing more...
@SkinNplum other drivers were able to handle it well and if a legendary driver like this couldnt take it something was obviously wrong with his car but you never know it could of been human error too i mean he got into some pretty bad crashes
@SkinNplum his death was less as a result of the wall and more asa a result of the design of the suspension on his front tyres. a rod broke off and punctured his helmet, killing him...they redesigned f1 cars to prevent this from happening
@robjonesf1fan To be fair you could say that sport is dangerous. Senna's crash was an unfortunate incident and F1 has learnt, but drivers, fans, teams, administrators, marshals are all aware of the dangerous of open cockpitt racing. RIP Senna.
@themagicayrtonsenna the greatest driver to sit in an F1 car. not bad driver. he hand tweaked his car before every race. he had too much downforce coming down the hill causing him to lose traction.
@themagicayrtonsenna if senna is considered a bad driver, then everyone else must be completely rubbish. Even the guy who finishes last place has more driving talent in one hand than most people have combined. All F1 drives have super human reaction time.
Not to be insensitive here, but isn't it dumb to have a fucking concrete wall as a barrier just outside of a turn where cars are coming around at almost 200mph? The gravel in between the track and the wall is nowhere near wide enough to do anything significant. I mean maybe a tire wall just outside the line and put about two feet of foam in front of that wall. Jesus.
He did touch the limit and try to push a lil further more (as he used to say), but this time everything was against him, the road, the car and this damn corner right after a long straight high speed open road, and without any protection but hard cement!
So this theory is saying, in a roundabout sort of way that Senna simply lost it over the bumps. I cannot remember any driver just losing control through that turn in the past. The only crashes i can remember at that spot have been through car failure.
he lost grip on the back tire which threw him off which is where senna lost it and when he realised he could not recover he attempted to throw the car sideways on but hit the wall on an angle which put the suspension arm through the helmet but ordanarily if he haddnt of been unlucky he would have walked away from the crash
A slight oversteer situation would make it easier to turn through the corner, Not that it is much of a corner. If the steering remained straight after the slide that would undoutably surrport the theory that the steering shaft detached from the steering column. Any driver of skill would contuine to steer to make the impact a shallower impact. But you have two chances of getting Williams to release that information. None and buckleys. the fact remains he was the greatest driver I have ever seen.
Tire Pressures shold have been up to Pressure. The telemetery would be have shown that. What telemetry cannot tell you is that steering defection was due to a opposite lock reaction by the driver or by a break in the steering column. Ever since the car bottomed out as seen from Schumachers car. Senna's car drove straight as through there is no steering input. There does not seem to be any kick from the rear wheels as in a normal oversteer situation.
Low tire pressures (cold tires due to safety car situation) and very low ride heights (close to 1 cm) caused the skip to hit the bumps. I think Ayrton's dead is also caused by himself for pushing too hard at a moment when it was not possible. But I still remember him as the best F1 driver ever.
lol yea when its cold tires have less pressure, but I am SURE a Formula 1 team would check the tires...let alone the motor of the car before any track time.....
The real cause of this accident has already been found....
He's a driver, all drivers try to push the limit of the Car behound it's limit, some succeed most fail, sometimes good results and others bad, anyone who says they ain't going to be pushing the limit ain't cut out to be F1 drivers
Everytime I see a crash in F1 or any motorsport, whether it has an outcome like Sennas or Massas. I cannot help but think of all the people on the roads in their basic production cars who speed and think that they will be fine. These drivers have the best safety equipment in the world, have medical services only a few mintues away and have trained for this for years.
How are you meant to survive when sometimes they don't?
AngelH91 ............i got to hand it to you ! that is one of the most profound comments.....ever! this should be plastered in every DMV of every country of the world ! so very true of every letter you combined into words to formulate a comprehensible paragraph of incredible resolve ! thanks for your insight !
would anyone be able to tell me where this information is from..... like an official citation(s) source? I am doing this engineering failure report on Ayrton Senna's crash so I need offificial citations..... some bibliography... anything.... any source that can be traced and is legible....if anyone can help please lemme know....
is it just me or did the crash all seem a bit like a 'final destination' type of death, I mean what were the chances of all of that happening, with the wheel and suspension piece hitting Senna in an exact place to kill him. Greatest driver of all time (hard to admit being a schumacher fan!) he could get the best out of any piece of crap car, Lewis Hamilton is not fit to wear the Helmet.
Well Senna was hit by 2 items at the same place, why not tell Massa that too? He got hit in the face by the bouncing spring. He has lots of chance to miss it but why did it go towards HIS direction? Hmm... somethings are never certain.
How the hell can you say Lewis isn't fit to wear the helmet, most succesful rookie year and world champion in his second... fastest man on the track with the worst car out there at one point in this years season... you dont know what your on about. And final destination is just not factual anyway so your argument is flawed.
f1 supporters mourn to this day for the incredible loss of a legendary f1 pilot-driver Ayrton Senna, hopefully the new regulations and protection systems will deter such severe accidents from happening, as they are more driver-centred rather than spectacle-centred. as far as I' m concerned, the currently FIA president seems to aim for the ratings instead of actual technological improvement of the teams. The latter are sadly confirmed by the new regulations concerning those single-seaters...
@guruofracing would you mind point out for me where I can research those new regulations about the ones you wrote in the sentence, "The latter are sadly confirmed by the new regulations concerning those single-seaters..."
I am very interested in racing but I don't have much sources in my country. thanks.
Just cant belive that cold tiers was at fault for the loss of control. If the tiers was at fault then why did not Damon Hill have the same problem he was driving the same car. Somthing else had to be at fault.
We may never know what happened on that day 15 years ago, but it'll never be forgotten. One of the worlds best is dead, and he'll be remembered as such. I'd put him in the top 5 of the worlds best drivers.
i have my own theory that puts things in this order. 1st. senna enters tamburello( you must be watching the head on shot (the next camera that wouldve filmed senna going by) 2nd the wind gusts, causing a negative pressure zone on the front wing, causing massive undrsteer.(if you watch closely the trees as well as a feather in the screen the wind is blowing INTO the corner.3rd senna never makes a steering correction in hopes that the aero will regain its effect and re-yaw the car.
4th as the car hits the grass the difference in surface causes a hard jolt thus breaking the steering column BEFORE impact. the rest is history. the only other thing that could have happened was the steering failure as the courts have found. however so much tampering was speculated around the investigation and the evidence ie black boxes and such, its hard to take even the ITALIAN authorities word at face value here.
just watch from 6:49 on in the video responses post here to see what i mean. look very closely at the top of the screen as sennas car comes into view the feather-like object is moving from left to rigth and all the trees look to be ruffling from a decent sized wind gust as his car de-yaws and heads straight into the wall. RIP Ayrton Senna. the USA misses you too!!!
Actually both. And add to that the force of the impact of the tire in Senna's helmet crashed his cranium against the headrest. He never had a chance to survive to all that :´(
it was absolutely an element of the suspension. I live not far from Imola and one of the helicopter medic team is my friend. He described me very well what he saw, and Senna died because of a metal bar entered in his skull just above the head ( sorry if my english is not that well, I'm italian)
Traquai, you are correct. Autosport magazine published a photo of his helmet and it showed the r/h front damaged airvent as a large hole. This made people think that this was the entrance hole but in fact the top of the visor, that was missing on the photo, had not been able to stop the incoming suspension piece that pierced just above his right eyebrow.
prem246 senna races and wins against prost,mansell,piquet,lauda in the same time,schumi against who?!?!only hakkinen and villeneuve was a great driver and schumi lose,after against who?!barrichello?!montoya?!coulthard?!who is the great driver the schumy beat?!schumy was a great pilot but ayrton IS a legend!!!!
Senna never built a team...Schumi did.Period.Schumi made a ragged team like Ferrari into a team of world beaters.Senna always chose teams which was the quickest.
....he and Ross Brawn, Jean Todt, Rory Byrne(all of them, legends in F1) and millions of €uros comming from Scuderia Ferrari. By the way, Brawn alone "made a ragged team" like Honda "into a team of world beaters": Brawn GP. And Senna achieved podiums with Toleman, and won six races with Lotus, in that team neither Piquet or Mansell were able to win a single race....
jraybay: In Celtic mythology, this is known as geas - a combination of super-human gifts and a terrible price that must be paid for them. Even in our more rational, logical, modern world, we are sometimes left with having to believe something similar. It is sometimes the only way the compassionate side of ourselves can face tragedy. For myself, I'd rather have my feelings and the occasional crazy explanation than feel nothing. Your comment suggests you feel similarly. Stay with it.
I saw that crash live on TV, yes I am old...Look close he is having truble with stearing wheel...
21daytona502 1 month ago
the best.
Argentum702 1 month ago
One of the saddest crashes ever
NerfHerder52 1 month ago
Id love to knwo what happened but sadly we never will.. iv read many things and 'reports' from various places and the all contradict eachother.. iv read all this 'data willimas got from the car' and then iv also read that the italians investigating took 2 years to get the black box back to williams, and when they got it back it was smashed to pieces so no data could be gathered from it, with williams people saying they know whats gone on but fear for their life if they speak out.
wo0dy1 1 month ago
only ayrton knew what happened.
vprmn 2 months ago
Watch "Ayrton Senna:Final seconds onboard" in slow motion. You'll see the nose go slightly left, indicating losing the back end, accompanied by disruption in the recording. You can also see the bumps during and immediately after. If you watch the far wall, you'll see it suddenly stops drifting right (left turn) and comes straight at him. Right before going off you can see his car attempt to follow the turn for another moment. NOT steering failure, but NOT a RIGHT turn either. Just watch the wall
fastfiddler1625 4 months ago
Q_Q
rushone2010 4 months ago
Did the Steering Column break first, causing the crash? Or was it broken as a result of the crash? In hind sight, Ayrton should never have gone to Williams, altho that was his dream job. He was the best driver I've ever seen. I will go to see the Movie, "Senna," this Saturday. RIP Ayrton.
HailBee 5 months ago
i'm looking for a documentary that shows seconds before the crash something small flying at senna's helmet which pierced his visor above the right eye knocking him unconscious possibly fracturing his skull and then he hits the wall where the suspension column then also hits him? as anyone seen this documentary.
harli13 5 months ago
ise palavos
aelistas90 5 months ago
Crash analysis is at 2:00 -__-
TheThingyThings 8 months ago
How about this theory. He was driving very fast, lost control and crashed!!
homegrownpa 8 months ago
that there was a trial regarding negligence in his death is ridiculous. This is racing. I wonder if this accident is before corners had tethers to prevent that type of damage / injury?
motoriousracing 9 months ago
The best sportsman and driver to have ever lived.
GibbonzUK 11 months ago
anyone know what happens when a flat floor bottoms on the road? your car turns into a sled it goes in a staight line no matter what you do so all of you people going on and on about steering failure get a life already this is why the fia introduced a minimum ride height
MrDannyboyhall 1 year ago
be advised genius at wheel GET OUT OF HIS WAY
superkryp13 1 year ago
How can people say "he didnt try and turn watch video footage" he tried to stop the crash 0.15 seconds after the car hit a bump? you cant see that in a video i dont think its possible.
footydan2k10 1 year ago
I saw the crash live on tv watching it with my father during school holidays! and I was gobsmacked when I saw what happened! and I still do over 15 years later..
Terrilliser 1 year ago
One of the saddest day of my life
being a Brazilian, I was in London
that day and it was easy to recognize
any Brazilian on the street we were
all crying.
vellotrol 1 year ago
R.I.P.
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hungarylnnjsd 1 year ago
Good things dont last he was one Good driver. i wonder who said he was a bad driver. the person should stop watching F1. Doesnt seem to be able to understand how F1 is..
andyjk10 1 year ago
@andyjk10 agree, if u get into f1 racing, no one is a bad driver
HeRmItDaShE 1 year ago
anyone who thinks senna's williams turned right is blind. Whatch the vids. he went straight...HE WENT STRAIGHT!!!... dont take my word for it watch the actual footage.
biggetjeknor 1 year ago
the back wheels of his car never lost traction when he entered the corner.And allso it was common for f2 cars to touch the ground in racing but if you look at lap 6 (the lap before senna's crash) the car touched the ground much more than when he crashes so according to this video why did he not crash a lap before? Allso if you have a look you will never see in the footage any evidence that his car lost traction or that senna tried to counter steer his car at that corner..........
theadizo 1 year ago
@theadizo the car straightlined because the the floor actually bottomed out and when the floor hits the ground the front wheels dont turn its that simple
MrDannyboyhall 1 year ago
how can u say you're here after Top Gear? If takes 3 idiotic blokes to tell you about this guy, then you seriously have no idea how good this guy was and still is and forever will be. go back to top gear kiddies. u will never know the real F1, just all pretenders and act like they know and care just to be a part of something. idiots
homicidalsoldier2006 1 year ago
I knew it was a bad crash but, to get a control arm through the face is really too much. so sad
Wambonater 1 year ago
thumbs up if you miss ayrton!
TheDJALEX95 1 year ago 13
@TheDJALEX95 thumbs up if youre begging for pointless likes....
cozza1991 1 month ago
I'm still surprised why he wouldn't have tried to steer the back of the car into the wall instead of the front... I had seen a crash by Berger a few years earlier and he had hit the wall with the back of the car and only had burns to his hands... Senna is still the best regardless of Schumacher's record...
senna1990 1 year ago
See this video:
watch?v=1NjSIZfG5rk
If you watch the video of the accident you can clearly see NO STEERING INPUT was given as if the car's steering broke... Indeed the manslaughter trial after determined that the steering column (which was modified the day before) failed. The team covered this up.
gmcjetpilot 1 year ago
@gmcjetpilot
That was asked by Senna, to be a little more comfy on the driving. Indeed, it was cutted and joined again a day before, it breaks earlier on the very course of race baceuse of the extra g-forces, and was not covered by the team, actually it was presented on law trials to find responsables of his death.
Great and spectacular pilot but still a human.
Greetings Sir.
l34l 1 year ago
just forward to 1:30
andrewdabbo 1 year ago
If he would have been alive and kept his performance going the way he did Michael Schumacher wouldn't be as famous today since Senna kept on kicking his ass on a regular basis.
Fussinated 1 year ago
TOP UL.....
RAJSTA81 1 year ago
great drive ever!
ruT910 1 year ago
Senna was a greatest driver... and a greatest man...
hadabenz 1 year ago
this is one of the most tragic deaths i have heard of... the suspension arm peircing his helmet... R.I.P senna
mjt9595 1 year ago
@mjt9595 I agree. This is tragic, rather disturbing. R.I.P. Senna. :(
nopstnz8 1 year ago
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Dimbleby 1 year ago
is there anything more tragic?
ivanlai0225 1 year ago
THUMBS UP IF YOUR HERE AFTER TOPGEAR :)
jacko900000 1 year ago 118
@jacko900000 After watching TOPGEAR, it never showed the crash and now i know how...
Theunknown9977 1 year ago
@Theunknown9977 That's why I came here, But I think Top Gear did that.
They wanted YOU/US to search him (You're probably young and don't know him, Like me)
So they made him search him to see how good he actually was.... And he was one hell of a driver !
Drifting around another driver in the rain... WOW !
jacko900000 1 year ago
@jacko900000 EXACTLY! HE WAS ONE HELL OF A DRIVER! To bad he died 8(
Theunknown9977 1 year ago
@jacko900000 unlike you, some people actually know F1 drivers lol
dubmywub 1 year ago
@dubmywub LOL who said I didn't know my F1 drivers?
jacko900000 1 year ago
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@jacko900000 "THUMBS UP IF YOUR HERE AFTER TOPGEAR" seems you only heard of him after top gear
dubmywub 1 year ago
@jacko900000 lol.i actually havent even finished watching Top Gear as we dont see it live here in Africa. but it is what made me watch this..
andyjk10 1 year ago
@jacko900000 NICE PREDICTION
back to topic, senna and his lightning speed reactions have not saved him this time... feels sad
HeRmItDaShE 1 year ago
Ayrton Senna was the best driver to ever live, his death was a tragedy and its an example of y things had to change in the safety for drivers, rip
mrcru1664 1 year ago 2
Ayrton Senna was a god-like driver. What i believe happened is that the car bottommed on the rough entrance to the turn, as many drivers had said about the williams that weekend, causing the downforce required to make the turn at 190mph to be instantly lost. The rear of the car began to slide, and Senna showed his amazing skill by reacting in 0.1 of a second. However, at 190mph there is little that can be done to recover a slide. Anyone who says it was driver error has no idea.
hazy301 1 year ago
lot more should have been done safety wise as there were many warnings. patrese alboreto and berger all had bad crashes there prior to senna.
just looking at the car photo. the red an white thing beside the car. is that an austrian flag? he had planned to wave it if he won as a tribute to roland ratzenberger
driller007 1 year ago
Thank you for the input regarding this fatal accident, now it makes perfect sense.
RIP Senna :(
leo232727 1 year ago
its odd. you read this and for some reason you still hope that he manages to slow down enough even though you know he is gonna crash...
gurusomb 1 year ago
Only just seen this. Very interesting. Those who don't believe this are those who don't want to believe it. Clearly, it all started with a driver error. Why? He was being hounded by Michael Schumacher, who had already won the first two races of the season.
kathitis 1 year ago
I agree with DBD Motorsports on this, the Williams clearly had a steering failure. Just look at the on board footage from Schumachers Benetton, the Williams wiggled from side to side, indicating that Senna was fighting the steering of the car and then the steering failed. If the steering hadn't failed why did the Williams go straight on, and Senna hadn't turned the car going over the sand traps causing the car to hit the wall more side on. No loss of down force here, this was steering failure..
GOLFERDRIVE1 1 year ago
wow this is so weard i wasnt alive at his death but i reakon that he is still alive and faking being dead
i think he is hidding under the name of his nefuew
ferrariman11 1 year ago
@ferrariman11 Thats stupid. Also he is a legend- his nephew is not! He would be 50 now- too old to endure such forces and heat for so long.
Squareybee 1 year ago
@Squareybee well it could be true
schumacher is still racing and was then mind if your right and his 50 his ten years older than schumacher
ferrariman11 1 year ago
@ferrariman11 you can't be serious, can u?
gurusomb 1 year ago
@ferrariman11 you are a tool. shut up. first of all, if you weren't alive when he was born, that makes you at the most, 15 or 16. go back to school little boy.
iamorion4026 1 year ago
The steering wheel broke. How can a car go from turning to suddenly straight? Thats no loss of down force. if he had lost down force in the car he would have spun and would have survived
DBDMotorsports 1 year ago
@DBDMotorsports no. just no. you obviously know nothing. NO!
HazzdaMan 1 year ago
@HazzdaMan lol
gurusomb 1 year ago
Prost was behind him and said "The wing broke off the back,"
mfp508 1 year ago
SkinnPlum you are wrong. Not only because of the river. But because we don't know what caused the crash. We can't say what lack of safety measure caused his death. It's all an unkown. It will never be known. The crash was all Senna no one else. Otherwise some sort of comparison could be reached. A lot of the data from the Williams computer couldn't be recovered either.
mydiybox 1 year ago
how could he die before he hit the wall?
are you thick
mahfuzur777 1 year ago
he was dead before he hit the wall
bannistergary 1 year ago
@bannistergary , the data supports that he was braking until impact. plus he was still alive when they put him in the helicopter. footage showed he also moved in the car briefly some while after impact.
gtvdtm 1 year ago
As far as I'm aware, there's never been a fatality since Senna died.
S0ld1erH3lly 1 year ago 2
@S0ld1erH3lly Senna was the last DRIVER to be killed in F1. Is is not however the last recorded death, that occured in the 2001 season. When a track marshel was killed after being hit by flying debries from a car despite new safety measures being introduced after a fire marshel was killed during the 2000 season
AranelEnMirkwood 1 year ago
I think they are still hiding the truth,it was not his fault.
olivia2275 1 year ago
@olivia2275 I too would love to believe that Senna died because of some oversight involving his steering wheel. But just go with me for a second. Senna's engineer at lotus has stated numerous times that Ayrton's usual reaction to an underperforming car was to lower the ride height right to the point of insanity and go drive the wheels off it. And heres another thing don't look at what the FIA say to find the cause look at what they do. (cont)
quasiphatpaul 1 year ago
@olivia2275 In '95 there weren't any regulations added about how the steering columns were to be welded from them on. We saw the introduction of legality planks to monitor the ride heights. Regardless of what the FIA say it seems to me that on the inside they were convinced that ride height was what killed senna.
quasiphatpaul 1 year ago
died the year i was born, seen some of his races and he is simply the best, sad that died like that, but he died doing something he loved, R.I.P Ayrton Senna- The Best
wogslife2easy 1 year ago
Ayrton for me you were the best in the race and in the life., you have helped many brazilian children to live and to study.You are forever in my heart R.I.P great Ayrton
pier
pvf1957 1 year ago
muy buena la foto 0:35
loma455 1 year ago
i think it was Williams fault. I think.
imaginep79 1 year ago
the worst thing about being born after the crash was never being able to see him race =(
R.I.P
MrCian23 1 year ago 3
Yeah, I was 3 when it happened. I wish I could remember him.
I respect him more and more. Senna FTW!
CroweDharma 1 year ago
How ironic, there is a video of him with some FIA officials walking around Tamburelo (the corner he crashed) and Senna explaining to them why it was unsafe.
R.I.P
ranqed100000 1 year ago 11
@ranqed100000
Has anyone ever thought he drove into that wall to make a point? it is in his character to do that sought of thing!
Waratahoftroy 1 year ago
@Waratahoftroy is this a fuckin joke??? you think he would have a crash at that speed on purpose??
You are an absolute idiot of the highest order!
cassin16 1 year ago
Ayrton RIP.. I love the way he was praying at 0:30 seconds... He was a very religious man and a great human being, also one of the best F1 drivers of all time...
Robervv12345 1 year ago 4
its ashamed how this unlucky, fatal catastrophe happened. too bad that corner was too fast, i wouldve liked to see him and schumy go at it while schumy was on his champion streak, those would be races worth watching.
RCACsurvivorman 1 year ago
poorly designed corner. there should have been a double or quad thick tyre wall after a high speed straight!!! + longer gravel trap... Am i wrong???
SkinNplum 1 year ago 27
The gravel trap is short in length because there is a river on the other side of the wall...
themagicayrtonsenna 1 year ago 32
@themagicayrtonsenna They could probably cut the high speed straight shorter to allow for an earlier turn. That way the gravel could be wider.... Please correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks for the great work. It's tough not to let emotions distort the facts but you mastered the presentation. I'm a Senna fan, for the record.
immortalperser 1 year ago
@themagicayrtonsenna than that corner should not be there.
wagemobile 10 months ago
@themagicayrtonsenna The river on the otherside would be the more reason why it was a poorly designed track
EVLGTR 5 months ago
@EVLGTR Yes, and that's why they changed the Tamburello curve to "S" curves.
themagicayrtonsenna 5 months ago
@SkinNplum what about the steering bar , that broked????
aquario05 1 year ago
@SkinNplum I'm not going to say you are wrong, but at the time all a tire wall would have done was to have stuck him hard in to the wall... and had the tire not came off and hit him in the head then he would have been shaken up, nothing more...
Bryan2799 1 year ago
@SkinNplum other drivers were able to handle it well and if a legendary driver like this couldnt take it something was obviously wrong with his car but you never know it could of been human error too i mean he got into some pretty bad crashes
uberhaxor69 1 year ago
@SkinNplum his death was less as a result of the wall and more asa a result of the design of the suspension on his front tyres. a rod broke off and punctured his helmet, killing him...they redesigned f1 cars to prevent this from happening
bronze5420 11 months ago
@SkinNplum to be fair the whole circuit was dangerous
robjonesf1fan 4 months ago
@robjonesf1fan To be fair you could say that sport is dangerous. Senna's crash was an unfortunate incident and F1 has learnt, but drivers, fans, teams, administrators, marshals are all aware of the dangerous of open cockpitt racing. RIP Senna.
mydiybox 1 month ago
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@SkinNplum to be fair the whole circuit was dangerous
robjonesf1fan 4 months ago
2009jimmy2009 is an idiot
quarzs73 1 year ago 5
2009jimmy2009 he was not a bad driver
he was my idol. i've cryed when i saw and now i cry.Jesus
freestyleskillz1 1 year ago 5
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just a bad driver i'd say!
2009jimmy2009 1 year ago
Bad driver???
Seems like you know nothing about F1...
themagicayrtonsenna 1 year ago 61
@themagicayrtonsenna the greatest driver to sit in an F1 car. not bad driver. he hand tweaked his car before every race. he had too much downforce coming down the hill causing him to lose traction.
c8muells 1 year ago
@themagicayrtonsenna if senna is considered a bad driver, then everyone else must be completely rubbish. Even the guy who finishes last place has more driving talent in one hand than most people have combined. All F1 drives have super human reaction time.
donwonjon420 1 year ago 2
@themagicayrtonsenna omg who said that he was a bad driver?? im sure that if he were still alive, he would be the best driver in the world!
arthangell 1 year ago
@themagicayrtonsenna Who said he was a bad driver? I want to punch that person's dick.
rushone2010 4 months ago 2
childish motherfucker.
imaginep79 1 year ago
@imaginep79 pasandaja
neniraasable 1 year ago
wtf u mean
imaginep79 1 year ago
Not to be insensitive here, but isn't it dumb to have a fucking concrete wall as a barrier just outside of a turn where cars are coming around at almost 200mph? The gravel in between the track and the wall is nowhere near wide enough to do anything significant. I mean maybe a tire wall just outside the line and put about two feet of foam in front of that wall. Jesus.
tpaladino 1 year ago 3
it's part of racing.
naboba 1 year ago
he was decapitated by the tire
banhedda 1 year ago 2
a suspention bit hitting ur eye!!! HOLY CRAP!!!
goholden12345 2 years ago 3
F1 is all about pushing limits.
He did touch the limit and try to push a lil further more (as he used to say), but this time everything was against him, the road, the car and this damn corner right after a long straight high speed open road, and without any protection but hard cement!
comali2212 2 years ago
the contol are impaled his head. holy shit.
gordonisgay1234 2 years ago
So this theory is saying, in a roundabout sort of way that Senna simply lost it over the bumps. I cannot remember any driver just losing control through that turn in the past. The only crashes i can remember at that spot have been through car failure.
acr1978oj 2 years ago
he lost grip on the back tire which threw him off which is where senna lost it and when he realised he could not recover he attempted to throw the car sideways on but hit the wall on an angle which put the suspension arm through the helmet but ordanarily if he haddnt of been unlucky he would have walked away from the crash
boabomb 1 year ago
A slight oversteer situation would make it easier to turn through the corner, Not that it is much of a corner. If the steering remained straight after the slide that would undoutably surrport the theory that the steering shaft detached from the steering column. Any driver of skill would contuine to steer to make the impact a shallower impact. But you have two chances of getting Williams to release that information. None and buckleys. the fact remains he was the greatest driver I have ever seen.
smokincrater 2 years ago 4
Tire Pressures shold have been up to Pressure. The telemetery would be have shown that. What telemetry cannot tell you is that steering defection was due to a opposite lock reaction by the driver or by a break in the steering column. Ever since the car bottomed out as seen from Schumachers car. Senna's car drove straight as through there is no steering input. There does not seem to be any kick from the rear wheels as in a normal oversteer situation.
smokincrater 2 years ago 3
Low tire pressures (cold tires due to safety car situation) and very low ride heights (close to 1 cm) caused the skip to hit the bumps. I think Ayrton's dead is also caused by himself for pushing too hard at a moment when it was not possible. But I still remember him as the best F1 driver ever.
tweakradje 2 years ago 5
lol yea when its cold tires have less pressure, but I am SURE a Formula 1 team would check the tires...let alone the motor of the car before any track time.....
The real cause of this accident has already been found....
element774 2 years ago 2
He's a driver, all drivers try to push the limit of the Car behound it's limit, some succeed most fail, sometimes good results and others bad, anyone who says they ain't going to be pushing the limit ain't cut out to be F1 drivers
hypersaiyangoku 2 years ago 4
The music is the Top Gun Theme, by Joe Satriani
Dreadlordmaster 2 years ago 2
no its actually by steve stevens
riz44 2 years ago
Actually you are correct... I thought it was satriani because i had that song with his name on it.
Dreadlordmaster 2 years ago
lol yeah same here haha
riz44 2 years ago
I like this music.
ffmotorsports51 2 years ago
its from the film topgun
OdrikT800 2 years ago
Everytime I see a crash in F1 or any motorsport, whether it has an outcome like Sennas or Massas. I cannot help but think of all the people on the roads in their basic production cars who speed and think that they will be fine. These drivers have the best safety equipment in the world, have medical services only a few mintues away and have trained for this for years.
How are you meant to survive when sometimes they don't?
AngelH91 2 years ago 5
AngelH91 ............i got to hand it to you ! that is one of the most profound comments.....ever! this should be plastered in every DMV of every country of the world ! so very true of every letter you combined into words to formulate a comprehensible paragraph of incredible resolve ! thanks for your insight !
sbmrunning 2 years ago
A Legend to Remember for Ever SENNA you will be in our heart.
R.I.P
fromESSEN2LA 2 years ago
that brought teers from my eyes. . . nice video :D
I'LL NEVER FORGET HIM! ONLY 34 YEARS OLD!
R.I.P.
='(
ilovewc66 2 years ago
good adios ayrton!
TheMarco2299 2 years ago
nice song, sad for senna
ainojonai 2 years ago 2
which from song is this music?
va4s11 2 years ago
the movie 'top gun'
captainpegs07 2 years ago
He was the best - still cry now
sennadasliva1 2 years ago 3
RIP ayrton Senna
TheJohanbaeten 2 years ago 4
hi,
would anyone be able to tell me where this information is from..... like an official citation(s) source? I am doing this engineering failure report on Ayrton Senna's crash so I need offificial citations..... some bibliography... anything.... any source that can be traced and is legible....if anyone can help please lemme know....
peterpan545 2 years ago
is it just me or did the crash all seem a bit like a 'final destination' type of death, I mean what were the chances of all of that happening, with the wheel and suspension piece hitting Senna in an exact place to kill him. Greatest driver of all time (hard to admit being a schumacher fan!) he could get the best out of any piece of crap car, Lewis Hamilton is not fit to wear the Helmet.
Madracer1000 2 years ago
Well Senna was hit by 2 items at the same place, why not tell Massa that too? He got hit in the face by the bouncing spring. He has lots of chance to miss it but why did it go towards HIS direction? Hmm... somethings are never certain.
lfstweak420 2 years ago
How the hell can you say Lewis isn't fit to wear the helmet, most succesful rookie year and world champion in his second... fastest man on the track with the worst car out there at one point in this years season... you dont know what your on about. And final destination is just not factual anyway so your argument is flawed.
stjimmy008 2 years ago 2
Forever
GOGOGO29 2 years ago 3
f1 supporters mourn to this day for the incredible loss of a legendary f1 pilot-driver Ayrton Senna, hopefully the new regulations and protection systems will deter such severe accidents from happening, as they are more driver-centred rather than spectacle-centred. as far as I' m concerned, the currently FIA president seems to aim for the ratings instead of actual technological improvement of the teams. The latter are sadly confirmed by the new regulations concerning those single-seaters...
guruofracing 2 years ago
@guruofracing would you mind point out for me where I can research those new regulations about the ones you wrote in the sentence, "The latter are sadly confirmed by the new regulations concerning those single-seaters..."
I am very interested in racing but I don't have much sources in my country. thanks.
golferchin76 1 year ago
+R.I.P Senna+
DIEGO95PL 2 years ago
Just cant belive that cold tiers was at fault for the loss of control. If the tiers was at fault then why did not Damon Hill have the same problem he was driving the same car. Somthing else had to be at fault.
falmark187 2 years ago
RIP Senna, we'll never forget you...
One question; What's this beautiful sound in the background called?
BatCatherine 2 years ago 2
Dont remember the name of the song, but its from the Top Gun soundtrack.
Fitting song for a Top Gun racer
R.I.P Ayrton
falmark187 2 years ago
We may never know what happened on that day 15 years ago, but it'll never be forgotten. One of the worlds best is dead, and he'll be remembered as such. I'd put him in the top 5 of the worlds best drivers.
Hlover01 2 years ago 3
A concrete wall so close to a 191mph corner... unbelievable.
kingping189 2 years ago 5
What a great loss R I P
midnightflyer70 2 years ago 5
i have my own theory that puts things in this order. 1st. senna enters tamburello( you must be watching the head on shot (the next camera that wouldve filmed senna going by) 2nd the wind gusts, causing a negative pressure zone on the front wing, causing massive undrsteer.(if you watch closely the trees as well as a feather in the screen the wind is blowing INTO the corner.3rd senna never makes a steering correction in hopes that the aero will regain its effect and re-yaw the car.
cnycarnut 2 years ago
4th as the car hits the grass the difference in surface causes a hard jolt thus breaking the steering column BEFORE impact. the rest is history. the only other thing that could have happened was the steering failure as the courts have found. however so much tampering was speculated around the investigation and the evidence ie black boxes and such, its hard to take even the ITALIAN authorities word at face value here.
cnycarnut 2 years ago
just watch from 6:49 on in the video responses post here to see what i mean. look very closely at the top of the screen as sennas car comes into view the feather-like object is moving from left to rigth and all the trees look to be ruffling from a decent sized wind gust as his car de-yaws and heads straight into the wall. RIP Ayrton Senna. the USA misses you too!!!
cnycarnut 2 years ago
R.I.P
gianni18888 2 years ago
it was an suspension element or it was a tyre that killed Senna?? please response... because... i heard that was a tyre that hit him in the head.....
frena323 2 years ago
Actually both. And add to that the force of the impact of the tire in Senna's helmet crashed his cranium against the headrest. He never had a chance to survive to all that :´(
themagicayrtonsenna 2 years ago
ok, thanks
frena323 2 years ago
it was absolutely an element of the suspension. I live not far from Imola and one of the helicopter medic team is my friend. He described me very well what he saw, and Senna died because of a metal bar entered in his skull just above the head ( sorry if my english is not that well, I'm italian)
Traquai 2 years ago 4
ops ... not above head, but above his right eye
Traquai 2 years ago 3
but the bar did pierced his skull, or "just" did hit Senna´s head?
frena323 2 years ago
not pierced, but entered in the eyehole of the skull .... but we are going to be weird, don't we?
Traquai 2 years ago
no, the other guy said that the bar did hit above the eyebrow :s...
frena323 2 years ago
Traquai, you are correct. Autosport magazine published a photo of his helmet and it showed the r/h front damaged airvent as a large hole. This made people think that this was the entrance hole but in fact the top of the visor, that was missing on the photo, had not been able to stop the incoming suspension piece that pierced just above his right eyebrow.
rotterdam1953 2 years ago
i heard the accident was caused because there was so much downforce that the floor of the car touched the tarmac which lead to losing grip
jordanr1504 2 years ago
prem246 senna races and wins against prost,mansell,piquet,lauda in the same time,schumi against who?!?!only hakkinen and villeneuve was a great driver and schumi lose,after against who?!barrichello?!montoya?!coulthard?!who is the great driver the schumy beat?!schumy was a great pilot but ayrton IS a legend!!!!
fenomeno106 2 years ago
Exactly. And Villeneuve only won the championship thanks to the car. He came back later to F1, with BAR-Honda, and he sucked....
themagicayrtonsenna 2 years ago
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Senna never built a team...Schumi did.Period.Schumi made a ragged team like Ferrari into a team of world beaters.Senna always chose teams which was the quickest.
Prem2406 2 years ago
....he and Ross Brawn, Jean Todt, Rory Byrne(all of them, legends in F1) and millions of €uros comming from Scuderia Ferrari. By the way, Brawn alone "made a ragged team" like Honda "into a team of world beaters": Brawn GP. And Senna achieved podiums with Toleman, and won six races with Lotus, in that team neither Piquet or Mansell were able to win a single race....
themagicayrtonsenna 2 years ago
It was a suspension stabbed him that killed him? D: . That sucks...maybe he could not die if that never happen? very sad :(
jraybay 2 years ago
jraybay: In Celtic mythology, this is known as geas - a combination of super-human gifts and a terrible price that must be paid for them. Even in our more rational, logical, modern world, we are sometimes left with having to believe something similar. It is sometimes the only way the compassionate side of ourselves can face tragedy. For myself, I'd rather have my feelings and the occasional crazy explanation than feel nothing. Your comment suggests you feel similarly. Stay with it.
2206411411 2 years ago
god bless both drivers
royjones786 2 years ago 4
il migliore di sempre ayrton senna
8barrakuda2 2 years ago