"Deathtraps" don't tend to win Constructors' chsmpionships or come within a point of drivers' championships. Anything could have killed Ayrton: dreadful track surface, JJ Lehto's unattended bodywork, uncharacteristic error (with the greatest of respect, he'd already made a few that season), thought of mortality for the first time (not my words, those of his friends, family and those who were with him that weekend), all of the above. Hill, Coulthard and Mansell didn't die...it was NOT the FW16.
@azapro911 I don't think it was a bad car overall because Damon Hill did come close to winning the World Championship in it, and I also think there was a fair bit of cheating going off in the Benneton team, but I do think it was negligence from that weekend by the team contributed towards his death (I mean by extending the steering column in the way which they did).
@Scaura90 A fair, logical point, all credit to you. Infinitely more rational than the old "WILLIAMS MURDERED SENNA!" garbage that people usually trot out. I'll certainly accept the steering column theory. My point has always been that there's a difference between something breaking on a car that leads to the unfortunate death of a driver and a car killing a driver like there was never any doubt about it happening. If that had been the case, Williams really should have been behind bars.
@azapro911 I think Williams are to blame as far as the steering column breaking but 99 times out of 100 he would have walked away from that crash had the tyre and suspension not hit his helmet. I think the only thing that could be blamed is the safety of the sport at the time, and since then it has been pretty much sorted out to the best it can anyway (in F1 at least). I don't think you can pin his death on anyone specifically though. Its a shame he didn't win his 4th world championship tho :(
@Scaura90 I know this is Senna heresy, but I'm not sure he would have won his fourth World title that year. Ayrton had made a couple of basic errors under pressure from Schumacher in previous races and illegal Benetton or not, the young German had rattled him a little. He seemed a little lost without his great rival Alain Prost - a bit like the Motorcycle legend Kevin Scwantz when he lost Wayne Rainey. Once their main nemesis is gone, they can sometimes feel a little demotivated.
@azapro911 And this is a common thing in motorsport and in F1. A younger generation always sets new standards. Senna fans simply cant accept this. Same happened to Schumacher when Alonso rose to the challenge.
Berger crashed in Tamburello in 1989. He was very lucky he wasn't seriously injured. Accident.
Alboreto crashed in Tamburello in 1991. Accident.
Patrese crashed in Tamburello in 1992. Accident
Barrichello had a serious crash in practice in Tamburello in 1994. Accident
Senna crashed in Tamburello while driving his wheels off to challenge Schumacher who by now had a 20 point lead in the championship. NOT an accident???
Yes, all the other had accidents there, but Senna not.
WHY did the steering column break in Tamburello out of all places??
And get this. A steering column breaking hasn't happened in F1 in decades and never prior to a serious crash. A professional team like Williams that walked over glass to sign Senna would never have done some amateur mistake.
Sorry but that broken steering column argument holds as much water as the people claiming the World Trade Center clearly collapsed in a way that indicated they were rigged with explosives.
@McLarenMercedes there was a race last season that petrovs car did a sketchy manover off track and when he got out i saw the thing moving around before he got it "off" ........ . i think it was the one he caught mad air...... the wheel looked dodgy to say the least . and a driver of his ranking would not cause a scene .. they are not in the position
@McLarenMercedes The italian court concluded that the steering coloumn broke as cause of the crash, not as the result of the crash. The conclusion was based on an expert's report written by a commission to which also Emmanuele Pirro belonged. The lawsuit was ceased due to statutory limitation. To compare this case with the conspiracy theories about nine-eleven is - forgive me vor being rude - nothing but BS.
I had the chance to live 1 year and half in Brasil, mainly in SAO PAULO, I lived there in the same district that SENNA used to live - pure coincidence -, '' in the barrio de SANTANA '' at about 20 minutes by foot from his own house,I met friends and brasilian people who know him and his family, I was on his own grave in the famous MURUMBI cimetary located in the south of SAO PAULO CITY But anyway, out of the fact that he was the best F1 pilot of all times, HE WAS A VERY HUMANISTIC, SPIRITUAL MAN
Joining Williams was a big mistake, he should've given Indycar a shot like Mansell did (except join Penske if possible), he probably would've had a championship with them under his belt and could've maybe won the Indy 500 himself, he would've still been around today and probably would've driven for Ferrari and then retired.
@MagicAyrtonforever Yeah, it wasnt the same as last season's williams, that why i felt he should've went for Indycar and Penske for at least a year instead of Williams
has any1 noticed that his head soesnt move to the left much as tamburello, but in the crash footage it almost looks like his head slumps to the left at tamburello. I think there is something weird about that crash, bloody williams car.
@thylegion Wow, another moron who is so blinded with affection for ayrton that he thinks the car failed on him. No mate there is proof that i am right. He went into that corner in fifth when he usually went in fourth. This meant the aero on his car pushed him further to the ground, this made his floor hit the track when it normally wouldn't. Don't get me wrong I really liked ayrton but that was partly his fault. Who knows if he ran with a higher ride height he mightstill be here today.
Damon Hill had the same weld done to his car and it lasted all season. There is an interview with Damon before Ayrtons death where he stated Williams were having trouble with ride height at the back of his car.
Keep playing the section at 01:13 and you will see Ayrton having trouble with stability as he comes out of the corner, he nearly lost it. The rear of the car wiggled a little.
@billyposter he died because the on that fatal lap he went in a bit faster than usual he hit the bump with such force the tyres werent touching the ground. He countersteered the resulting oversteer but noone could have saved him his fate was decided when he turned in. He died as he lived pushing the limits
@marcus6291 So because of all of these bumps and cracks, his poorly welded steering column could have failed/snapped/fractured or whatever you would like to call it too..??? This is what I think happened.
@marcus6291 Wow, another moron saying Senna died because he was pushing it... If you're so omniscient, why don't you tell me fresh lottery numbers, huh? :/
@thylegion ,Marcus6291=ass ole ,it was a combination of tyre pressure lowering due to low speeds cos of the accident on 1st lap,the car bottomed out thru tamberello ,ill always feel a place in my heart for ayrton he was a true hero...,just ask any brazilian!!. "marcus" do the research watch all of the documentarys on senna then come back with somthing good you clearly no nothing about the guy,look for tamberello crashes too,all in the f1 theres quite a few
@00Mancsfinest00 if that was the case he should have crashed a lap previous. The telemetry says he turned the wheels away from the wall but you can clearly see in the onbored footage the wheels do not change direction.
@lostwill86 ,there was no telemetry for last the 1 and a half seconds .if the back end of the car bottomed out the front would have been raised higher of the ground poss no steering and just sliding on the cars arse ,he was doomed,no one will ever get the full story ,but a legend died that day.....,and Ratzenberger the day before
@00Mancsfinest00 There was telemetry for the whole incident, Williams destroyed it, as they didnt fancy spending millions........................................also why Senna perished......... he
@jonomutiny ,trust me the last 1 and a half seconds there is no telemetry or video ,and the car was destroyed by williams ,after the court hearings,the real truth may never be known
@00Mancsfinest00 The black box was intact when it came out of the car, so there was telemetry until Williams trashed it. There was footage from Senna's camera also, until this "disappeared" . Williams covered a lot up. The Imola circuit owners did too, the race should never have run after Ratzenberger's death. The race should never have re-started after Senna's death. Sid Watkins stated that Senna spirit left his body right there on the side of the track.
Interesting watching him take tamberello and and comparing with the crash, he goes in tight and then runs quite wide out of the corner. There is def a bump right at the point where he lost control.. but did that combine with the force on the column to brake it or was it because Senna had the car set so low that the bump made the car oversteer? If so why did it go straight off? Would lack of downforce render the steering inactive?
I am a Senna fan and I'm sure he did "just lose it"! It's not like Ayrton had never made mistakes before. He was a similar driver to Colin McRae in that they both drove over the limit and doing that all the time is going to result in mistakes. I think that the pressure of the Championship with Schumacher taking the 1st 2 victories of the year and being hot on his tail and the accidents of the weekend had put him under immense stress.
Damon Hill said that only 2 people knew what it was like dri
@SchumiSutil ok, but still a big gap... in qualyfing Senna was the best ever... nobody was faster than him... I´ve watched F1 for over 30 years and nobody could match his speed... ok, maybe Schumy was a better strategist and race driver overall, but Senna was sinonymous of speed for me....
and all including schumi himself claimed that ayrton is the ultimate driver¨s driver,see the top gear special with the last 20 minutes dedicated to Ayrton Senna
Facts:benetton cheated the first 4 races,with TC on board,that was later discovered by the FIA,on the 1.5. on the sunday race schumacher was on a 3 pit stop strategy,senna was on 2,so senna had a much heavier car...
Senna lost his life,so have some respect for the man,an last thing,the voting for the best driver of them all was back this year,
Senna and Schumi were both equally the best - but Senna was much more charismatic and he drove in much more difficult circumstances with much less technology in the car. I believe Senna was just a bit more brave than anybody else... and just the most sensitive driver ever - Schumi stays though the most successful ever.
Senna's 94 car was unstable, he crashed the first two races and was killed in the third while Schumacher won all those 3 races, a funny coincident if you ask me.
You all are stupid! alway compare Senna and Schumi. No more Senna How do you know Senna or schumi would be Champ? Dudes.... Don't you have something else to do? If before 1994 Senna is better but You never who's better after 1994 Because He's death~!!
@Taikamya Benetton Ford 747HP, Williams Renault 782HP. And dont tell me Benetton had more downforce or what so ever. They are both fantastic drivers. Each in their way
You can't compare Senna with Schumacher. Senna was the best and fastest Qualifyer of all time. Schumacher can't reach him by far in this case, but Schumacher has been the best in the race. Senna earn much more Poles then wins, Schumacher much more wins. They are different types of drivers.
And I can't understand why there ist so many blood here between the pro Sennas and pro Schumachers. Formula 1 is a gentlemenssport, the drivers respect each other, why not the fans?
Schumacher ...what a looser!!...he won his first pole position after Senna's death...and now Rosberg kicks his butt every week.....a looser who signed contracts to keep his teamates behind.
@OreillyORLY oh yeah. Schumacher was so fast that he was HALF SECOND slower than Senna, IN A FASTER CAR and with TC. Oh yeah, SO FAST, he NEVER SCORED A POLE POSITION while Senna was alive... your argument was completely true. /irony
Problems with the car and ross brawn too, If Schumi go by redbull or maclaren car, he destroy all the drivers ... look in the past, what a carnage with Ferrari, O M G
Such a shame that Senna had to die, when he had 4 straight poles in his last 4 races. Ask Damon Hill, and he'll tell you that the early version of the 1994 Williams was very difficult to drive and had poor balance. Senna agreed with Hill on this, but through his share skill he put that car on pole anyway for the 3 first races of 1994.
Such a shame Schumacher only got 3 more poles due to a way longer career. The fools only look at the final numbers, not how many races those were achieved in.
michael schumacher is the best. i dont know why so much people think ayrton is the best. ayrton was at the top af his car career when he died. he would have won no more World Cup than michael schumacker was always better.
@maurizio864 Wrong. Schumacher never managed pole when Senna was alive. Senna was faster. Fact. If Williams had a better car in 1994 Schumacher wouldnt have won the first two GP's. Senna retired in both races. If Senna had lived Schumacher would have won less titles because Senna would have won more. Even with a car with horrific handling probs Senna got pole. Fact. Also Senna was an amazing ambassador for F1, Schumacher is an arsehole! He almost killed Rubens Barrachello this year.
@maurizio864 You must not have been alive when Ayrton was racing. No one before or after has put a car on the razors edge like Ayrton did. Just look at the numbers at the end of this video, Ayrton .5 seconds quicker than Michael in an inferior car and over a second and a half quicker than his team mate in an identical car.
Senna was the fastest and the most carismatic man in F1. But Schumacher and Prost were the more comlete racingdrivers. And Senna made more mistakes. R.I.P. Ayrton.
Whenever I watch these onboard shots of Senna at Imola, I always look for his steering wheel to "flex" like the Coulthard demo at Senna's trial claimed it did. I have yet to see his steering wheel "flex".
half a second faster than schumacher in a slower car...Hills time proves it...he was going for 2 stops while schumacher for 3 thats why the "passenger" (liked the expression) was able to follow during the race
Taikamya and hristoitchov are right. Bottoming out was normal for the time, sparks were normal, crappy welded steering columns were not. The documentary that keeps getting mentioned is from 1999, and Williams, the defendants, contributed. There is absolutely no sign of oversteer or slide, and if Senna supposedly corrected it in a 10th of a sec, how come he kept going straight for the wall for 1.4 secs? The court ruled in 05 that steering failure it was, but conveniently more than 10 years after
The Car bottomed out through the bend due to the safety car leaving the cars with cold tires, when the race resumed Senna`s ride height was to low for the 2X tarmac replacements, whether the steering column snapped is irrelevent, He`s car was going off road whatever.
Get over your oversteer theories because you don't know anything about aerodynamics or tire physics. You don't oversteer at 310 km/h, the car is stuck to the ground and no matter if bumps unsettle it for a fraction of a second, it keeps going. You'd have to lose the contact on all 4 tires simultaneously and have the whole underbody of the car skid to lose control for such reasons. Cars of previous era kept bottoming and skidding a lot more, it's common. As for Mexico, that corner wasn't flat out
"His brain could simulate his all operations on the track such as RPM of engine, gear position, braking point, steering or so with the error by less than a hundredth second. He could adjust himself perfectly in line with his analysis so that he actually ran in 0.6 second faster if he said that he was able to run faster by 0.6 second. Besides, he could memorize all data for the process and condition of his machine. His memory was perfectly same as the telemetry data!" - Yoshitoshi Sakura, Honda.
Ayrton Senna a genius, with his unbalanced Williams put away .467s the outstanding Benetton driven for excellent driver as Michael Schumacher. Senna was fastest in all free practices and did the pole in all 3 races this infamous year, showing why he was the quickest with pure talent. For this reason and more he was selected by 218 pilots of F1 since 1950 to 2009 has the greatest of all the times. The real expert emit their opinion in motorsport maganzine. The fans are agree too. The best ever
@joseavs Senna is on, I guess came with the internal force, schummy After his death, was the leader, Senna and Schumacher went to see the leader,,, All this was the absence of Ayrton, Senna race until the year 2004 could lead, and Michael would have been 3 times world champion, but Senna I could be 10 times world champion
Senna puts 1.6 seconds in Hill, with same car....Schumacher defeted Hill in 94 cheating.....Hill world champion f1 in 94 (for justice)....who is better...Senna or Schumacher???...... if Senna not dead, he wins championship of 94,95,96,97....
Even is senna dossnt win 7 championship it is very good for him to get what he get because of many legends of formula 1 he is race with in his career. Michael is by himself for years. Senna also has many great drives you can see him pushing and so focusd. You feel him and he is so smooth with driving. One of the best for ever :D
After watching this, it's very hard for me to believe that after qualifing, when the car is at it's lightest, LOWEST, fastest, and how many times he went through the parabolica, bottoming out was the best excuse they could come up with that caused his accident. Steering broke. Simple as that.
it's not that simple though, they could tell you that from looking at teh car afterwards. The steering WAS the problem, but it wasn't the link between the wheel and tires. It's believed part of the wing broke and got lodged under that car, lifting the tires off the ground, removing his ability to steer the car. At least that was my understanding of the post accdient stuff
His car speed went from 193 to an impact speed of around 135mph. No way he could do that with a peice of wing wedged under the car lifting the tires. Stering column broke leaving him only brakes to control the car.
Michael Schumacher is ugly mother fucker he is a bitch he will never be like senna
Michael is sick person and he had nazi orgy with max mosley he is a cheater mother fucker he is nothing without perfect car and you all know it,he will never be like gilles,senna clark...Barneveld you mother bfucker rott in hell
@SeinSchatten ´´ i noticed that he was going faster than the car..the car was sliding backways on tamburello... than...... he lost it´´ michael schumacher about senna´s accident. 1994
@rdtli Translating- "M-S: Fuck, How the fuck can someone drive THAT car with THAT pace?!" Senna was indeed the most awesome driver, concerning puting an F1 car to its limits, and behond.
You cant take the corner too fast. Even a full fuel load on cold tires (Which they weren't). The corner is flat out, and had been for years.
The steering colomn was re-welded, so the best bet is; when he went around during the race the welds broke under the extra G's (As thats a massive G corner, and puts massive strain on the entire car). As ofcourse, when you re-weld something, it will never be as strong as it was; always becomes a little weaker.
I agree, the corner has always been flat, and both Piquet, Patrese and Berger has had roughly the same incident... I still think that it was just a tragic coincidence that it was Senna that was killed and not one of the others...
A simple analysis of elementary physics explain the dominant forces in this accident. Was a sudden correction of Senna [ as usual, for every f1 pilot that cross his steering] that break the steering, and without any connection with the wheels, the car goes directly where the dominant force goes: directly to the right. If not, Senna did the correction, and nothing happens. He never has one kind of incident. In 1991 has a puncture in Imola, and see how he drive his McLaren.
It was not the same, of course. Senna commit a rare mistake, in this curve [in a saturday's practice] go spun off. All the team and Denis was bad because he one friend in Brazil crash against him and hit his head, causing his helmed does not fit at all and of course he has pain. The accident in Mexico is not by far the same as Imola, where Senna never commit a mistake in his previous 10 races.
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As Senna went around tamberello, the poor handling williams car had a slight oversteer moment. Senna adjusts the steering wheel within 0.1s to correct the oversteer. He then tries to bring the steering wheel back, to complete the corner. THATS when the steering colomn broke.
After the colomn breaks - he has no way of turning the car, and all he can do is brake.
Thats how it happened - NOT some driver error excuse, saying that was driver error is an absolute insult.
dude that is not true, he had raced one flat out lap already and therefore the tyres are up to temperature. We will never be 100% sure of the reason because it was covered up
And that one race lap he completed was the 3rd quickest of the entire race. No way he lost downforce. All the years I have watched racing, I have NEVER seen an accident where the steering column broke. EVER. Has anyone?
mayituck in his last interview [here in YouTube] in Italian, Senna express his doubt about the car, the circuit and he said that he is not sure if the car could be capable to be stable in all the race. Senna was a highly sensitive driver with the tiny details of performance. And of course, the steering column killed him. It was soldered previously for the pole this saturday.
@mayituck No - he just lost it. If you listen to the people in the know from the time (the drivers) they would agree. The steering column broke on impact.
@JRRacing85 Nonsense. This video itself is just another solid proof of the failure of the steering wheel prior to the car going off. Notice how the steering wheel on the in-car shots here doesn't move at all compared to the severe degree it moves on the in-car footage a lap before the impact. Only someone without any understanding for racing single seaters would claim that Senna lost control over such a simple bend as Tamburello. And there isn't a driver who claimed it was Senna's fault...
@airtongarbin i know he didnt lose it- my comment was aimed at jrracing, he was the 1 who said he lost it,and the stuff abt ppl in the know at the time sayin he lost it, which is bollox....
@rossiwilton apologize man ,so we know what happened forget about this guy hes just another hater who dont know nothing about motorracing tamburello wasnt aproblem for any one in this time they made this turn at full speed all times no matter how fast they are comeing thru.
Seeing the on board video it's clear that he didn't loose the control. If the car had touch the track we would saw him fighting a little more with the car to avoid the car. As I said, seeing the on board video it's clear because you see that the car just stop turning left...
After what happened with Rubens Barrichello on Friday, joining with the death of Roland Hatzemberg in practice on Saturday is unfitting that happened at the race Sunday.
Unfortunately, the greed for shady deals, money spoke louder and killed Senna.
Bernie Ecclestone was responsible for this tragedy.
@proyectoamazo And the funny thing is that Schumacher never got a Pole Position when Senna was on the track. He got his first in his career after Imola. That says everything. Senna was the fastest.
Much good all those "records" makes Schumacher now when he is driving for Mercedes. If you blame the car, how come Nico Rosberg does way better in the same car?
Btw, Jack Brabham nearly won the 1970 title aged 44. A few out-of-fuel on the last lap while leading, and stupid errors from the mechanics (like not tightening some bolt) meant he missed a possible 4'th title. Nigel Mansell won his final race aged 41. So no age excuse please.
@thesissou123 WAKE UP YOU! YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME! The FW16 was a HORRIBLE CAR, and Senna pole that car by MORE THAN HALF A SECOND faster than Schumacher, wich have a FASTER CAR and TC !!! The Model FW16B(half season) was the real deal. That's why Hill overpowered Schumacher. If Senna were alive, he would've won 1994 EASILY.
Can't you see the insanity of what are you talking about? The difference in cars were incredible. But also the difference in drivers.
@thesissou123 schuey may be the best statistically-did he have sissou? i think not. look how many poles senna claimed in his 10 yrs,compared to how many in m.s first 10 yrs. your entitled to your opinion,BUT, its wrong. m.s vs senna in the same car= senna -winner , m.s - loser
And you are talking about 1993,Senna's McLaren Ford sucked big time!
Anyway Schumacher was still a rookie then,so please do not compare the Master with a rookie,instead see his wins in 1993 against Prost's all mighty Williams!
yes it's what i've been saying! Senna was a genius! Schumacher is just a nice driver! BTW check my profile! I have a tribute video to Ayrton Senna, may he rest in peace!
I don't really understand why people insist in comparing them! Actually there is no comparisson possible! You ear the experts when they say that shumacher would be crushed by Senna! Schumacher is an average driver! Senna was a genius! Get your facts right whn you say stupid things like Schumacher being superior to the mighty Sena! RIP Magic Ayrton Senna.
SENNA EL MEJOR DEL MUNDO ,NO SE DEFINA NADA MAS SOLO ES EL MEJOR THE BETS
charles16ist 1 month ago
Some people deny that Senna was much better than other Europians racer , that`s all...
alexandre0p 2 months ago
"Deathtraps" don't tend to win Constructors' chsmpionships or come within a point of drivers' championships. Anything could have killed Ayrton: dreadful track surface, JJ Lehto's unattended bodywork, uncharacteristic error (with the greatest of respect, he'd already made a few that season), thought of mortality for the first time (not my words, those of his friends, family and those who were with him that weekend), all of the above. Hill, Coulthard and Mansell didn't die...it was NOT the FW16.
azapro911 3 months ago
@azapro911 I don't think it was a bad car overall because Damon Hill did come close to winning the World Championship in it, and I also think there was a fair bit of cheating going off in the Benneton team, but I do think it was negligence from that weekend by the team contributed towards his death (I mean by extending the steering column in the way which they did).
Scaura90 2 months ago
@Scaura90 A fair, logical point, all credit to you. Infinitely more rational than the old "WILLIAMS MURDERED SENNA!" garbage that people usually trot out. I'll certainly accept the steering column theory. My point has always been that there's a difference between something breaking on a car that leads to the unfortunate death of a driver and a car killing a driver like there was never any doubt about it happening. If that had been the case, Williams really should have been behind bars.
azapro911 2 months ago
@azapro911 I think Williams are to blame as far as the steering column breaking but 99 times out of 100 he would have walked away from that crash had the tyre and suspension not hit his helmet. I think the only thing that could be blamed is the safety of the sport at the time, and since then it has been pretty much sorted out to the best it can anyway (in F1 at least). I don't think you can pin his death on anyone specifically though. Its a shame he didn't win his 4th world championship tho :(
Scaura90 2 months ago
@Scaura90 I know this is Senna heresy, but I'm not sure he would have won his fourth World title that year. Ayrton had made a couple of basic errors under pressure from Schumacher in previous races and illegal Benetton or not, the young German had rattled him a little. He seemed a little lost without his great rival Alain Prost - a bit like the Motorcycle legend Kevin Scwantz when he lost Wayne Rainey. Once their main nemesis is gone, they can sometimes feel a little demotivated.
azapro911 2 months ago
@azapro911 its a shame we never got to find out
Scaura90 2 months ago
@azapro911 And this is a common thing in motorsport and in F1. A younger generation always sets new standards. Senna fans simply cant accept this. Same happened to Schumacher when Alonso rose to the challenge.
beqa16v 3 days ago
@Scaura90
Berger crashed in Tamburello in 1989. He was very lucky he wasn't seriously injured. Accident.
Alboreto crashed in Tamburello in 1991. Accident.
Patrese crashed in Tamburello in 1992. Accident
Barrichello had a serious crash in practice in Tamburello in 1994. Accident
Senna crashed in Tamburello while driving his wheels off to challenge Schumacher who by now had a 20 point lead in the championship. NOT an accident???
Yes, all the other had accidents there, but Senna not.
Bullshit
McLarenMercedes 2 months ago
@McLarenMercedes I believe the steering column broke which is why senna crashed, the evidence points towards that
Scaura90 2 months ago 2
@Scaura90
WHY did the steering column break in Tamburello out of all places??
And get this. A steering column breaking hasn't happened in F1 in decades and never prior to a serious crash. A professional team like Williams that walked over glass to sign Senna would never have done some amateur mistake.
Sorry but that broken steering column argument holds as much water as the people claiming the World Trade Center clearly collapsed in a way that indicated they were rigged with explosives.
McLarenMercedes 2 months ago
@McLarenMercedes well you have you opinion of it and I'll have mine we will never find out what actually happened
Scaura90 2 months ago
@McLarenMercedes there was a race last season that petrovs car did a sketchy manover off track and when he got out i saw the thing moving around before he got it "off" ........ . i think it was the one he caught mad air...... the wheel looked dodgy to say the least . and a driver of his ranking would not cause a scene .. they are not in the position
mushrume 3 weeks ago
@McLarenMercedes The italian court concluded that the steering coloumn broke as cause of the crash, not as the result of the crash. The conclusion was based on an expert's report written by a commission to which also Emmanuele Pirro belonged. The lawsuit was ceased due to statutory limitation. To compare this case with the conspiracy theories about nine-eleven is - forgive me vor being rude - nothing but BS.
TheColinChapman 1 week ago
I had the chance to live 1 year and half in Brasil, mainly in SAO PAULO, I lived there in the same district that SENNA used to live - pure coincidence -, '' in the barrio de SANTANA '' at about 20 minutes by foot from his own house,I met friends and brasilian people who know him and his family, I was on his own grave in the famous MURUMBI cimetary located in the south of SAO PAULO CITY But anyway, out of the fact that he was the best F1 pilot of all times, HE WAS A VERY HUMANISTIC, SPIRITUAL MAN
corcovado33 5 months ago in playlist Ayrton Senna
Still poling laps right to the end. A true great. Senna was AWESOME.
thehitchrules 5 months ago
Worst car ever. I hate it.
NOXXism 5 months ago 17
The best? We'll never knows. But certainly, THE FASTEST EVER.
niteowl2345 6 months ago 5
Joining Williams was a big mistake, he should've given Indycar a shot like Mansell did (except join Penske if possible), he probably would've had a championship with them under his belt and could've maybe won the Indy 500 himself, he would've still been around today and probably would've driven for Ferrari and then retired.
slimv29 6 months ago
@slimv29 Anyone can say what is a mistake after the event...
MagicAyrtonforever 6 months ago
@MagicAyrtonforever Even before then, it was said that the car was shite. That's why I said that.
slimv29 6 months ago
@slimv29 ah ok.. I don't know why he wanted to drive for williams, having said that the fw14 came good after mid season...
MagicAyrtonforever 6 months ago
@MagicAyrtonforever Yeah, it wasnt the same as last season's williams, that why i felt he should've went for Indycar and Penske for at least a year instead of Williams
slimv29 6 months ago
impresiona verlo pasar por el tamburello y salir uindemne de la curva
kaisercrack07 6 months ago
has any1 noticed that his head soesnt move to the left much as tamburello, but in the crash footage it almost looks like his head slumps to the left at tamburello. I think there is something weird about that crash, bloody williams car.
MrGene321 6 months ago
@MrGene321 Thats just simple g-force as the steering broke man, thats why his head slumped left.
jonomutiny 5 months ago
Fuckin Tamburello Curve .
myautomobilefunk 7 months ago
@myautomobilefunk yeah its weard isnt it? that on board clip funny he exits tamburello
MrGuitarplayer1990 7 months ago
@thylegion Wow, another moron who is so blinded with affection for ayrton that he thinks the car failed on him. No mate there is proof that i am right. He went into that corner in fifth when he usually went in fourth. This meant the aero on his car pushed him further to the ground, this made his floor hit the track when it normally wouldn't. Don't get me wrong I really liked ayrton but that was partly his fault. Who knows if he ran with a higher ride height he mightstill be here today.
marcus6291 7 months ago
Damon Hill had the same weld done to his car and it lasted all season. There is an interview with Damon before Ayrtons death where he stated Williams were having trouble with ride height at the back of his car.
Keep playing the section at 01:13 and you will see Ayrton having trouble with stability as he comes out of the corner, he nearly lost it. The rear of the car wiggled a little.
ssssroryssss 8 months ago
@MagicAyrtonforever no there is a video on here somewhere that analysed his death. i am pretty sure there was no mention of a broken steering column
marcus6291 8 months ago
@billyposter he died because the on that fatal lap he went in a bit faster than usual he hit the bump with such force the tyres werent touching the ground. He countersteered the resulting oversteer but noone could have saved him his fate was decided when he turned in. He died as he lived pushing the limits
marcus6291 8 months ago
@marcus6291 So because of all of these bumps and cracks, his poorly welded steering column could have failed/snapped/fractured or whatever you would like to call it too..??? This is what I think happened.
MagicAyrtonforever 8 months ago
@marcus6291 Wow, another moron saying Senna died because he was pushing it... If you're so omniscient, why don't you tell me fresh lottery numbers, huh? :/
thylegion 7 months ago
@thylegion ,Marcus6291=ass ole ,it was a combination of tyre pressure lowering due to low speeds cos of the accident on 1st lap,the car bottomed out thru tamberello ,ill always feel a place in my heart for ayrton he was a true hero...,just ask any brazilian!!. "marcus" do the research watch all of the documentarys on senna then come back with somthing good you clearly no nothing about the guy,look for tamberello crashes too,all in the f1 theres quite a few
00Mancsfinest00 6 months ago
@00Mancsfinest00 if that was the case he should have crashed a lap previous. The telemetry says he turned the wheels away from the wall but you can clearly see in the onbored footage the wheels do not change direction.
lostwill86 6 months ago
@lostwill86 ,there was no telemetry for last the 1 and a half seconds .if the back end of the car bottomed out the front would have been raised higher of the ground poss no steering and just sliding on the cars arse ,he was doomed,no one will ever get the full story ,but a legend died that day.....,and Ratzenberger the day before
00Mancsfinest00 6 months ago
@00Mancsfinest00 There was telemetry for the whole incident, Williams destroyed it, as they didnt fancy spending millions........................................also why Senna perished......... he
had driven this circuit hundreds of times.
jonomutiny 5 months ago 4
@jonomutiny ,trust me the last 1 and a half seconds there is no telemetry or video ,and the car was destroyed by williams ,after the court hearings,the real truth may never be known
00Mancsfinest00 2 months ago 2
@00Mancsfinest00 The black box was intact when it came out of the car, so there was telemetry until Williams trashed it. There was footage from Senna's camera also, until this "disappeared" . Williams covered a lot up. The Imola circuit owners did too, the race should never have run after Ratzenberger's death. The race should never have re-started after Senna's death. Sid Watkins stated that Senna spirit left his body right there on the side of the track.
jonomutiny 2 months ago
Imola always was a "SHIT" track with many bumps and cracks.
GKOBE 9 months ago
WE'll never know. But we do know he was amazing and a genius . Gutted he's gone. R.I.P Ayrton.
oneinamillion232 9 months ago
@oneinamillion232 we know how is dead if you mean thiss
RedhotIta1 9 months ago
@RedhotIta1 What ? Try making sense !!
oneinamillion232 8 months ago
@oneinamillion232 :| i thinked you was talking about his dead i saw a comment down here says no one will know how is dead
RedhotIta1 8 months ago
Interesting watching him take tamberello and and comparing with the crash, he goes in tight and then runs quite wide out of the corner. There is def a bump right at the point where he lost control.. but did that combine with the force on the column to brake it or was it because Senna had the car set so low that the bump made the car oversteer? If so why did it go straight off? Would lack of downforce render the steering inactive?
billyposter 9 months ago
Senna also floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee.
JONACAN 10 months ago
Senna also floated like a butterfly and stinged like a bee.
JONACAN 10 months ago
2:32 - 2:37 So clear it had to be on the 6th lap of the race.
elkyf1 10 months ago
@elkyf1
2:32 ~ 2:37 should have been lap 7 of the race.
WeLWets 9 months ago 2
I am a Senna fan and I'm sure he did "just lose it"! It's not like Ayrton had never made mistakes before. He was a similar driver to Colin McRae in that they both drove over the limit and doing that all the time is going to result in mistakes. I think that the pressure of the Championship with Schumacher taking the 1st 2 victories of the year and being hot on his tail and the accidents of the weekend had put him under immense stress.
Damon Hill said that only 2 people knew what it was like dri
bojmobile 11 months ago
@bojmobile he didn't lose it. tamburello was like curva grande in monza, you just can't lose it.
Lumin0u 10 months ago 4
i can't believe i just watched the deathplaces of two incredible racing drivers in just 10 seconds! I wish Senna hadn't died
Zobzon69 1 year ago
It's kind of strange to see how Senna drives through Tamburello, knowing what happened to him the next day. Still sad...
Gryphon1984 1 year ago
the best driver ever!!
marzinoti 1 year ago
1,651 s ahead of Hill in the same car. FACT.
andrebenacchio 1 year ago 2
@andrebenacchio
Hill improved after this and was only 0.6s behind Senna.
SchumiSutil 1 year ago
@SchumiSutil ok, but still a big gap... in qualyfing Senna was the best ever... nobody was faster than him... I´ve watched F1 for over 30 years and nobody could match his speed... ok, maybe Schumy was a better strategist and race driver overall, but Senna was sinonymous of speed for me....
andrebenacchio 1 year ago
and all including schumi himself claimed that ayrton is the ultimate driver¨s driver,see the top gear special with the last 20 minutes dedicated to Ayrton Senna
mtenzera 1 year ago
Facts:benetton cheated the first 4 races,with TC on board,that was later discovered by the FIA,on the 1.5. on the sunday race schumacher was on a 3 pit stop strategy,senna was on 2,so senna had a much heavier car...
Senna lost his life,so have some respect for the man,an last thing,the voting for the best driver of them all was back this year,
mtenzera 1 year ago
Senna and Schumi were both equally the best - but Senna was much more charismatic and he drove in much more difficult circumstances with much less technology in the car. I believe Senna was just a bit more brave than anybody else... and just the most sensitive driver ever - Schumi stays though the most successful ever.
ematur 1 year ago
Senna's 94 car was unstable, he crashed the first two races and was killed in the third while Schumacher won all those 3 races, a funny coincident if you ask me.
sookster54 1 year ago
0.5 sec over the 2nd place. The best driver we'll never know, but no doubt about who was the fastest in one lap.
niteowl2345 1 year ago 2
You all are stupid! alway compare Senna and Schumi. No more Senna How do you know Senna or schumi would be Champ? Dudes.... Don't you have something else to do? If before 1994 Senna is better but You never who's better after 1994 Because He's death~!!
view1983 1 year ago
@Taikamya Benetton Ford 747HP, Williams Renault 782HP. And dont tell me Benetton had more downforce or what so ever. They are both fantastic drivers. Each in their way
vonPelger 1 year ago
You can't compare Senna with Schumacher. Senna was the best and fastest Qualifyer of all time. Schumacher can't reach him by far in this case, but Schumacher has been the best in the race. Senna earn much more Poles then wins, Schumacher much more wins. They are different types of drivers.
And I can't understand why there ist so many blood here between the pro Sennas and pro Schumachers. Formula 1 is a gentlemenssport, the drivers respect each other, why not the fans?
divrotequalto0 1 year ago 2
Schumacher ...what a looser!!...he won his first pole position after Senna's death...and now Rosberg kicks his butt every week.....a looser who signed contracts to keep his teamates behind.
xpandia 1 year ago
@xpandia
SCHUMACHER = 7 times world champion
W A K E U P !!!
The real driver does not the wall :O
thesissou123 1 year ago
Hey guy's, i repeat, schumacher has all the records ! facts are there, and for senna, he's dead, no chance, no record for him ...
thesissou123 1 year ago
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Schumacher was simply to fast... Senna died because of this fact.
SCHUMACHER #1 Fuck all Brazilians and Spanish Cunts.
OreillyORLY 1 year ago
@OreillyORLY oh yeah. Schumacher was so fast that he was HALF SECOND slower than Senna, IN A FASTER CAR and with TC. Oh yeah, SO FAST, he NEVER SCORED A POLE POSITION while Senna was alive... your argument was completely true. /irony
Taikamya 1 year ago
So Shumi guys, where is he? Shadowing by Rosberg?
sergiopiresbr 1 year ago
S C H U M A C H E R IS THE REAL GOD OF F1 !!!!!!
Problems with the car and ross brawn too, If Schumi go by redbull or maclaren car, he destroy all the drivers ... look in the past, what a carnage with Ferrari, O M G
thesissou123 1 year ago
senna the best, montoya ,alonso . fuck schu...
67agg 1 year ago 2
Such a shame that Senna had to die, when he had 4 straight poles in his last 4 races. Ask Damon Hill, and he'll tell you that the early version of the 1994 Williams was very difficult to drive and had poor balance. Senna agreed with Hill on this, but through his share skill he put that car on pole anyway for the 3 first races of 1994.
Such a shame Schumacher only got 3 more poles due to a way longer career. The fools only look at the final numbers, not how many races those were achieved in.
McLarenMercedes 1 year ago
la ultima pole de Senna volando en Imola 1994.
blasterfica 1 year ago
How I miss those days... F1 weekend where more exciting with pilots like Senna with real personality.
alphafloor71 1 year ago 2
michael schumacher is the best. i dont know why so much people think ayrton is the best. ayrton was at the top af his car career when he died. he would have won no more World Cup than michael schumacker was always better.
maurizio864 1 year ago
@maurizio864 Wrong. Schumacher never managed pole when Senna was alive. Senna was faster. Fact. If Williams had a better car in 1994 Schumacher wouldnt have won the first two GP's. Senna retired in both races. If Senna had lived Schumacher would have won less titles because Senna would have won more. Even with a car with horrific handling probs Senna got pole. Fact. Also Senna was an amazing ambassador for F1, Schumacher is an arsehole! He almost killed Rubens Barrachello this year.
jonomutiny 1 year ago 2
@maurizio864 You must not have been alive when Ayrton was racing. No one before or after has put a car on the razors edge like Ayrton did. Just look at the numbers at the end of this video, Ayrton .5 seconds quicker than Michael in an inferior car and over a second and a half quicker than his team mate in an identical car.
Godznrg4u 1 year ago 13
This is San Marino.
hutch430 1 year ago
1.6 seconds faster than his team mate
Forzascuderiaf1 1 year ago
Hands down he was the greatest of them all! Ayrton Senna forever!!!! R.I.P. We lost a legend that day, but we will never forget............
swistral1 1 year ago
Senna was the fastest and the most carismatic man in F1. But Schumacher and Prost were the more comlete racingdrivers. And Senna made more mistakes. R.I.P. Ayrton.
olske1981 1 year ago
@olske1981
excuse me but if Schumacher is the most complete driver why is Nico Rosberg faster?
xpandia 1 year ago 2
@xpandia
Excuse me! Why is Schumacher 7 times Worldchampion an Rosberg not.
olske1981 1 year ago
@olske1981
because Rosberg doesn't want to be world champion, all he wants is to beat Schumacher's ass
xpandia 1 year ago
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Senna simply the best!!!!!!!!!!!!
RICARDOFAZPENTE2010 1 year ago
schumi 1 POSTO THE BEST VIGARISTA for EVEEEEEEEER
RICARDOFAZPENTE2010 1 year ago
0.467 gap, wich Senna And 2ªnd place, today, we have 0.500 gap, ten pilots, this is the diference
nmarracho 1 year ago
@Apoic123 You are noob for life!
HeyMarkedOne8 1 year ago 2
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i dont like senna , he an asshole.
Apoic123 1 year ago
The master Senna show his superb skills..
77skelter 1 year ago
Whenever I watch these onboard shots of Senna at Imola, I always look for his steering wheel to "flex" like the Coulthard demo at Senna's trial claimed it did. I have yet to see his steering wheel "flex".
xgrod 1 year ago
Senna more than a whole second in front of his teammate! Very impressive!
adrct 1 year ago
@adrct as a matter of fact he was faster than Prost with the FW15...the exact same car with all the electronic aids of the 1993 season
check the pole times of the 2 seasons
xpandia 1 year ago
The outcome of this race was fair, I thought:
First, the worst,
Senna the best...
Anything2DoWithFilm 1 year ago
A genius in a world where the word is over used.
vadershelmet 1 year ago
half a second faster than schumacher in a slower car...Hills time proves it...he was going for 2 stops while schumacher for 3 thats why the "passenger" (liked the expression) was able to follow during the race
xpandia 1 year ago 10
Ayrton Senna brought Formula One onto a new never-before-seen level...
OMDSouvenir 1 year ago 3
Taikamya and hristoitchov are right. Bottoming out was normal for the time, sparks were normal, crappy welded steering columns were not. The documentary that keeps getting mentioned is from 1999, and Williams, the defendants, contributed. There is absolutely no sign of oversteer or slide, and if Senna supposedly corrected it in a 10th of a sec, how come he kept going straight for the wall for 1.4 secs? The court ruled in 05 that steering failure it was, but conveniently more than 10 years after
VWaudiRULEs 1 year ago 2
grande ayrton! es duro ver esa curva,pero no te olvidaremos jamas....sos y seras para siempre el mejor
fastfistfer 1 year ago
MENOTYOUism
No, this has been confirmed as false. It was from documentary, and it's completely false.
If that was true, all the drives had to been dead already. That race, Safety Car stopped all cars, not only Senna's.
If the tires were cold enough in Senna's car, had to be cold in others cars also, so NO. False.
That documentary only came out to prove Williams innocence. Wich of course, is also false.
Taikamya 1 year ago 8
The Car bottomed out through the bend due to the safety car leaving the cars with cold tires, when the race resumed Senna`s ride height was to low for the 2X tarmac replacements, whether the steering column snapped is irrelevent, He`s car was going off road whatever.
MENOTYOUism 1 year ago
I don't talk about his death, his LIFE was what mattered, not his DEATH.
ForeverAyrtonSenna 1 year ago 27
AMEN - BRILLIANT COMMENT!
mallamoozoo 1 year ago
Get over your oversteer theories because you don't know anything about aerodynamics or tire physics. You don't oversteer at 310 km/h, the car is stuck to the ground and no matter if bumps unsettle it for a fraction of a second, it keeps going. You'd have to lose the contact on all 4 tires simultaneously and have the whole underbody of the car skid to lose control for such reasons. Cars of previous era kept bottoming and skidding a lot more, it's common. As for Mexico, that corner wasn't flat out
hristoitchov 1 year ago
THe besst driver of the F1 history, period, Shumasher is the worst fiasco. Senna the best. LONG LIVE TO THE KING!
casser24 1 year ago 5
joseavs...not one of the best...THE BEST!Senna forever!...there is no oversteer in Tamburello...end of story!
arhavlisj 2 years ago
@arhavlisj the car visibly steps out/oversteers - for whatever reason-there is a large spark under the car from schumis camera.. the bump perhaps?
billyposter 1 year ago
@billyposter bump for sure...especially there cause it was a place that was full of them...there was an effort to cover bumps but some stayed.
arhavlisj 1 year ago
"His brain could simulate his all operations on the track such as RPM of engine, gear position, braking point, steering or so with the error by less than a hundredth second. He could adjust himself perfectly in line with his analysis so that he actually ran in 0.6 second faster if he said that he was able to run faster by 0.6 second. Besides, he could memorize all data for the process and condition of his machine. His memory was perfectly same as the telemetry data!" - Yoshitoshi Sakura, Honda.
joseavs 2 years ago 6
Ayrton Senna a genius, with his unbalanced Williams put away .467s the outstanding Benetton driven for excellent driver as Michael Schumacher. Senna was fastest in all free practices and did the pole in all 3 races this infamous year, showing why he was the quickest with pure talent. For this reason and more he was selected by 218 pilots of F1 since 1950 to 2009 has the greatest of all the times. The real expert emit their opinion in motorsport maganzine. The fans are agree too. The best ever
joseavs 2 years ago 28
@joseavs Senna is on, I guess came with the internal force, schummy After his death, was the leader, Senna and Schumacher went to see the leader,,, All this was the absence of Ayrton, Senna race until the year 2004 could lead, and Michael would have been 3 times world champion, but Senna I could be 10 times world champion
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Top 15 drivers in F1, 217 Drivers of history F1 voted for english magazine "autosport"
1 - Ayrton Senna (BRA),2 - Michael Schumacher (ALE) ,3 - Juan Manuel Fangio (ARG) ,4 - Alain Prost (FRA),5 - Jim Clark (ING),6 - Jackie Stewart (ESC)
7 - Niki Lauda (AUT) ,8 - Stirling Moss (ING) ,9 - Fernando Alonso (ESP) ,10 - Gilles Villeneuve (CAN) ,11 - Nigel Mansell (ING) ,12 - Emerson Fittipaldi (BRA) ,13 - Nelson Piquet (BRA)
14 - Jochen Rindt (AUT) ,15 - Mika Hakkinen (FIN).
guigo00018 2 years ago
Senna puts 1.6 seconds in Hill, with same car....Schumacher defeted Hill in 94 cheating.....Hill world champion f1 in 94 (for justice)....who is better...Senna or Schumacher???...... if Senna not dead, he wins championship of 94,95,96,97....
guigo00018 2 years ago 6
Even is senna dossnt win 7 championship it is very good for him to get what he get because of many legends of formula 1 he is race with in his career. Michael is by himself for years. Senna also has many great drives you can see him pushing and so focusd. You feel him and he is so smooth with driving. One of the best for ever :D
jraybay 2 years ago 2
After watching this, it's very hard for me to believe that after qualifing, when the car is at it's lightest, LOWEST, fastest, and how many times he went through the parabolica, bottoming out was the best excuse they could come up with that caused his accident. Steering broke. Simple as that.
xgrod 2 years ago
it's not that simple though, they could tell you that from looking at teh car afterwards. The steering WAS the problem, but it wasn't the link between the wheel and tires. It's believed part of the wing broke and got lodged under that car, lifting the tires off the ground, removing his ability to steer the car. At least that was my understanding of the post accdient stuff
stuligan 2 years ago
His car speed went from 193 to an impact speed of around 135mph. No way he could do that with a peice of wing wedged under the car lifting the tires. Stering column broke leaving him only brakes to control the car.
xgrod 2 years ago 2
Sorry, I meant tambuerello. Not parabolica.
xgrod 2 years ago
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Michael Schumacher is ugly mother fucker he is a bitch he will never be like senna
Michael is sick person and he had nazi orgy with max mosley he is a cheater mother fucker he is nothing without perfect car and you all know it,he will never be like gilles,senna clark...Barneveld you mother bfucker rott in hell
MrMikecambelo 2 years ago
The williams was really not good in the beginning of the 94 season, but Senna still beats everyone by 0,5 seconds there, simply awesome
SeinSchatten 2 years ago 14
True, Damon Hill found the car almost undrivable.
McLarenMercedes 2 years ago
@SeinSchatten ´´ i noticed that he was going faster than the car..the car was sliding backways on tamburello... than...... he lost it´´ michael schumacher about senna´s accident. 1994
rdtli 1 year ago
@rdtli Translating- "M-S: Fuck, How the fuck can someone drive THAT car with THAT pace?!" Senna was indeed the most awesome driver, concerning puting an F1 car to its limits, and behond.
Tuscopa 1 year ago 3
You cant take the corner too fast. Even a full fuel load on cold tires (Which they weren't). The corner is flat out, and had been for years.
The steering colomn was re-welded, so the best bet is; when he went around during the race the welds broke under the extra G's (As thats a massive G corner, and puts massive strain on the entire car). As ofcourse, when you re-weld something, it will never be as strong as it was; always becomes a little weaker.
Playtechy 2 years ago 6
I agree, the corner has always been flat, and both Piquet, Patrese and Berger has had roughly the same incident... I still think that it was just a tragic coincidence that it was Senna that was killed and not one of the others...
skynet0912 2 years ago
A simple analysis of elementary physics explain the dominant forces in this accident. Was a sudden correction of Senna [ as usual, for every f1 pilot that cross his steering] that break the steering, and without any connection with the wheels, the car goes directly where the dominant force goes: directly to the right. If not, Senna did the correction, and nothing happens. He never has one kind of incident. In 1991 has a puncture in Imola, and see how he drive his McLaren.
joseavs 2 years ago
look at his accident in Mexico, oversteer, over correction and off at the corner.
billyposter 2 years ago
It was not the same, of course. Senna commit a rare mistake, in this curve [in a saturday's practice] go spun off. All the team and Denis was bad because he one friend in Brazil crash against him and hit his head, causing his helmed does not fit at all and of course he has pain. The accident in Mexico is not by far the same as Imola, where Senna never commit a mistake in his previous 10 races.
joseavs 2 years ago
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As Senna went around tamberello, the poor handling williams car had a slight oversteer moment. Senna adjusts the steering wheel within 0.1s to correct the oversteer. He then tries to bring the steering wheel back, to complete the corner. THATS when the steering colomn broke.
After the colomn breaks - he has no way of turning the car, and all he can do is brake.
Thats how it happened - NOT some driver error excuse, saying that was driver error is an absolute insult.
Playtechy 2 years ago
dude that is not true, he had raced one flat out lap already and therefore the tyres are up to temperature. We will never be 100% sure of the reason because it was covered up
scoregoals 2 years ago 3
And that one race lap he completed was the 3rd quickest of the entire race. No way he lost downforce. All the years I have watched racing, I have NEVER seen an accident where the steering column broke. EVER. Has anyone?
xgrod 2 years ago
I have a feeling Raikkonen's steering broke at Imola driving for Sauber in 2001 his debut year. It was only a low speed accident though...
DAH210774 2 years ago
No, nothing to do with tyres. Don't be driven by Discovery\National Geographic Channel. The steering column killed him.
mayituck 2 years ago 21
mayituck in his last interview [here in YouTube] in Italian, Senna express his doubt about the car, the circuit and he said that he is not sure if the car could be capable to be stable in all the race. Senna was a highly sensitive driver with the tiny details of performance. And of course, the steering column killed him. It was soldered previously for the pole this saturday.
joseavs 2 years ago
@mayituck You're right; this was confirmed by the court in 2007.
formulacountdown 1 year ago
@mayituck No - he just lost it. If you listen to the people in the know from the time (the drivers) they would agree. The steering column broke on impact.
JRRacing85 1 year ago
@JRRacing85 Nonsense. This video itself is just another solid proof of the failure of the steering wheel prior to the car going off. Notice how the steering wheel on the in-car shots here doesn't move at all compared to the severe degree it moves on the in-car footage a lap before the impact. Only someone without any understanding for racing single seaters would claim that Senna lost control over such a simple bend as Tamburello. And there isn't a driver who claimed it was Senna's fault...
hristoitchov 1 year ago
@JRRacing85 lmfao..... "he just lost it" ,you need to get in the "know" .
rossiwilton 1 year ago
@rossiwilton he never lost it !
airtongarbin 11 months ago 31
@airtongarbin i know he didnt lose it- my comment was aimed at jrracing, he was the 1 who said he lost it,and the stuff abt ppl in the know at the time sayin he lost it, which is bollox....
rossiwilton 11 months ago
@rossiwilton apologize man ,so we know what happened forget about this guy hes just another hater who dont know nothing about motorracing tamburello wasnt aproblem for any one in this time they made this turn at full speed all times no matter how fast they are comeing thru.
airtongarbin 11 months ago
Seeing the on board video it's clear that he didn't loose the control. If the car had touch the track we would saw him fighting a little more with the car to avoid the car. As I said, seeing the on board video it's clear because you see that the car just stop turning left...
jkf65 2 years ago 5
After what happened with Rubens Barrichello on Friday, joining with the death of Roland Hatzemberg in practice on Saturday is unfitting that happened at the race Sunday.
Unfortunately, the greed for shady deals, money spoke louder and killed Senna.
Bernie Ecclestone was responsible for this tragedy.
famq161180 2 years ago
great lap senna.
mackey12160204 2 years ago
Senna the best !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ferrari 5 times word champion
Schumi a passenger
proyectoamazo 2 years ago 61
@proyectoamazo And the funny thing is that Schumacher never got a Pole Position when Senna was on the track. He got his first in his career after Imola. That says everything. Senna was the fastest.
Saki2407 1 year ago
Senna simply the best!!!!!!!!!!!!
schumi 2nd for EVEEEEEEEER
proyectoamazo 2 years ago 71
@proyectoamazo actually senna is second forever because he is dead ;)
Merto6 1 year ago
@proyectoamazo
Men, please shut up, schumacher have all records ... championships, laps, pole position, etc etc ... so dont talk to the win
thesissou123 1 year ago
@thesissou123
Much good all those "records" makes Schumacher now when he is driving for Mercedes. If you blame the car, how come Nico Rosberg does way better in the same car?
Btw, Jack Brabham nearly won the 1970 title aged 44. A few out-of-fuel on the last lap while leading, and stupid errors from the mechanics (like not tightening some bolt) meant he missed a possible 4'th title. Nigel Mansell won his final race aged 41. So no age excuse please.
McLarenMercedes 1 year ago
@proyectoamazo
Schumi is still alive, he's the real driver ...
thesissou123 1 year ago
@thesissou123 WAKE UP YOU! YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME! The FW16 was a HORRIBLE CAR, and Senna pole that car by MORE THAN HALF A SECOND faster than Schumacher, wich have a FASTER CAR and TC !!! The Model FW16B(half season) was the real deal. That's why Hill overpowered Schumacher. If Senna were alive, he would've won 1994 EASILY.
Can't you see the insanity of what are you talking about? The difference in cars were incredible. But also the difference in drivers.
Taikamya 1 year ago
@Taikamya
I REPEAT, man you sleep, wake up one more time !!! SCHUMACHER IS THE BEST DRIVER OF THE UNIVERS
wait the next year with a new car omggg
I respect senna too but schumi is the really best
thesissou123 1 year ago
PIQUET É O MELHOR........
Antoniojr76 1 year ago
@thesissou123 schuey may be the best statistically-did he have sissou? i think not. look how many poles senna claimed in his 10 yrs,compared to how many in m.s first 10 yrs. your entitled to your opinion,BUT, its wrong. m.s vs senna in the same car= senna -winner , m.s - loser
rossiwilton 1 year ago
@rossiwilton Enough said!
Tuscopa 1 year ago
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senna always number 2,
Schumacher number 1
OreillyORLY 2 years ago
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arhavlisj 2 years ago
And you are talking about 1993,Senna's McLaren Ford sucked big time!
Anyway Schumacher was still a rookie then,so please do not compare the Master with a rookie,instead see his wins in 1993 against Prost's all mighty Williams!
arhavlisj 2 years ago 3
yes it's what i've been saying! Senna was a genius! Schumacher is just a nice driver! BTW check my profile! I have a tribute video to Ayrton Senna, may he rest in peace!
Aewire 2 years ago 13
2 years in F1 is rookie level! lol! and i did saw them... shumacher lost to senna! :P
Aewire 2 years ago 17
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superior my ass you dumbfuck, the williams was superior, get your facts straight dipshit.
Schumacher > Senna
OreillyORLY 2 years ago
I don't really understand why people insist in comparing them! Actually there is no comparisson possible! You ear the experts when they say that shumacher would be crushed by Senna! Schumacher is an average driver! Senna was a genius! Get your facts right whn you say stupid things like Schumacher being superior to the mighty Sena! RIP Magic Ayrton Senna.
Aewire 2 years ago 9
Couldn't have said it better!Aewire.
arhavlisj 2 years ago
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eat a d*ck!
hillbillieman 2 years ago
It's so haunting watching him glide through the Tamburello corner, knowing that the next day he'd be pummelling into the concrete wall.
RIP Ayrton
eldorrado57 2 years ago
its not the williams thats on pole-its senna!
fantomole 2 years ago
AND YOUR FACE IS SO UGLY, PERRO1357
Louivanamsterdam 2 years ago