It's understandable that people want someone to blame for the death Senna. And it is true the courts have spoken. What is also true is that Senna was a brillant combination of aggression, intelligence and techical skill. Like a fighter test pilot-what he did was incredibly dangerous... especially with his aggression. Senna lived at the very edge each time he raced. There was always a chance living on that razor edge would consume him. And so it did. RIP Senna...the greatest driver ever.
I also just wanna say well done to the uploader for the video description, absolutely spot on mate! And if Patrick Head wasnt such a fucking coward he would have just admitted what happened, prolly only a suspended sentence, gets kicked out of F1, and everyone knows the truth straight away what happened. He did it all to save his own career which is less than nothing to millions of Senna fans. I'm glad he is finally gone from Williams and F1 this year.
Considering the conditions, cold tyres and brakes, unsettled and unbalanced car, this last lap of Ayrton's is not only another amazing example of his sublime ability, it is maybe the best clear lap ever done in a racecar, ever. It is well beyond what should have been the limit. Despite everything else happening that weekend, Senna was at his magnificent best to show us perhaps the brightest and most dazzling display of all. Like a supernova as it erupts in light, and then gone. R.I.P champion.
I've only recently discovered Senna and after watching all the videos, documentaries and reviewing his case in Italy and still blows my mind how irresponsible the Williams Team was. Something so simple. If there is one thing I could change in history it would be this. RIP. This is elite auto racing. Accidents do happen, but because of shotty welding? C'mon. Where's that elite level of engineering? Where's the QC? This is the pinnacle of racing. A backyard racer checks his car before a race.
You need accidents to happen to get things changed, I don't get why people point the blame... it's not like people woke up that day thinking "I want to kill Senna today" :\ It can happen to anyone.
there is no need to have anger at the mechanics or anyone for this death. their own conscience will teach those that had any part in this. there is no need for anything more.
@MrLowkeynz I Agree 100%, All of we have the possibility to fail, to do a mistake. I loved seen Senna racing, I´m brasilian, but I think the death of Ayrton Senna is already a punish to those minds who made that mistake
you have to think since his death f1 was looked at closely and regulated and to this day there still has not been a death TO THIS DAY. So at least his death was not a waste.
They need to put that circuit back to the way it was in 1994. It was not the corner that was the problem, it was bad Welding that caused that crash. R.I.P. Senna
Having played various versions of Need For Speed, every time I watch Ayrton Senna race I think, "Holy shit, I've been here, I know this track." God Bless Ayrton Senna, a great human being and the very best F1 driver of all time.
There's something so wrong about a team spending so much time tuning up the car to get the maximum possible speed out of it, yet only doing a half-job welding together the steering components. In my opinion the steering is the LAST component you want failing on you, and well, a steering failure at warp speed it's always going to be The End Of You. Ayrton Senna really had some talent, and it's a real shame to lose such a guy in racing. R.I.P.
does it matter arguing about all this, a man died from racing and thats sad, extremely sad, and if racing can be improved from looking at this incident and others then good. R.I.P Ayrton Senna...
@gevirtual1 To me the only explanation is that they feel they still owe something to the Senna family for what happened in Imola so they want to give Bruno the opportunity to do something in F1. In Williams know they screwed up Ayrton's life by their own fault so they want to pay tribute to the Senna name with this.
@gevirtual1 - Frank Williams of course is still at Williams idiot! It is called Williams for a reason! F1 then was not like today with all the safety regulations of car and tracks. An error was made but to blame people directly is wrong. Many teams, drivers and team owners have made mistakes in the past that cost many more lives than just Senna's. Tragic of course but to blame one or two people is absurd.
It's a tough legal call though, coz the guys in charge of the steering column are obviously the most qualified to say if it's drivable or not. The mechanics would have more knowledge about the case than anyone trying to prosecute or defend.
is ridiculous, the camera operates at all times, except in the last seconds? Senna's head tilts to the left ready for tamburello curve but your car keeps going straight
everyone knows that the steering column broke, it was welded to increase the distance by Senna's own request, but Willians madea bad service
I used to to think the steering column broke until a friend of mine who was an ex-race marshal said the amount of strength needed to break the column would only come in the actual impact. What I think really happened was Senna died trying to outrun an illegal car in Schumacher's Benetton B-194 which had traction control even though it was banned. Benetton were a bunch of cheaters along with Schumacher.
@dangerouskSNK this is definitely not true. Williams welded different steel grades at different diameters together (both was/is poor engineering). the result was a notch effect which caused higher stresses in thr steering coloumn. This can cause a incipient crack in the material. the crack increases from load cycle to load cycle, and a fatigue failure will be the consequence. I doubt your ex-race-marshal has a degree in metallurgy, correct me if I'm wrong.
@TheColinChapman The steel barrel on certain shotguns isn't welded or directly screwed to steel magazine pipe below, it it attached with a screw, while the connecting element is hard soldered to it on approx less than 1/2 square inch area.If it can withstand tens or hundreds thousands of shots with instant rapid and stressful forces, How can anyone think that a welded steering wheel steel pipe could snap from some silly vibrations or turning done by driver's hands is amazing.
@dangerouskSNK ever heard of natural frequency or resonance - if any of the vibrations from the car matched the natural frequency of the column - bingo - it will break
@TheColinChapman It was always easier to blame Williams for the Senna crash than the race organizers at Imola. Keep in mind, 7 years before Senna crashed at Tamburello...Piquet crashed there in 1987. They did nothing. Gerhard Berger hit the wall in 1989 and almost burned to death. They did nothing. Michele Alboreto crashed in 1991. Riccardo Patrese crashed in 1992. They never even bothered to put up tire barriers at a minimum.
@TheColinChapman Here's the problem also. People seem to think Senna was stupid. If he thought something was wrong with the steering column, he would have pulled out of the race. The metal fatigue was a load of crap to deflect the issue from the Italian failures of increasing safety at Tamburello. It was the fastest corner in F1 history, and they never bothered to do anything about the wall in spite of what had happened there already.
nope, that was live footage that Williams has no control over. Williams definitely were at fault though using a faulty steering column and shoddy last minute welding.
@airtec87 I never bought that version... too much of a coincidence... and either way... Williams removed the black box from the car BEFORE handing it to the Italian authorities... if that's not trying to hide facts, I don't know what it is.
i have left the F1 now,there is no fun anymore.they looks like a buch of followers thats all.
i dont feel the passion like we used too see and feel with Shumi,JV,Senna in his time,,,
i am still wonder,looking at some today's driver how JV would perform but dont dream in color.Some of the boss of F1 just want robot to drive their? cars,,there is no place for feelings anymore.
i am sad for F1 and all those great engineer behind the scene.
I personally believe the steering column broke, I believe this because of the stabilized video of the onboard, at the point he straightlines, the yellow button on the steering wheel disappears from view, which i think is unusual because it dissapears downwards rather than to the right which would suggest he corrected the car, the wheels didnt turn into a slide either, and also as soon as the car straightlines his head slumps to the left because there is no G force forcing his head to the right.
watch the wheels, they are turning left and then they just go straight and there is no change of direction of the wheels whilst heading straight for the wall, in a normal road car if your turning left and then let go of the steering the car goes straight on and i would imagine its the same in a f1 car, because of this i believe the steering column broke before impact and there was no way ayrton senna could steer the car.
@rutherford1009 Wrong.he had 3 head injuries.Any one of which would of killed him. 1. The right front wheel hit his head forcing his head back into the headrest at high speed this cause the back of his skull to fracture. 2.A piece of metal attached to the wheel penetrated his helmet and caused trauma to the right front of his skull. 3.A metal strip entered his helmet just above his right eye causing further damage.
Most documentaries dramatise, do some real research for the truth
At point car stopped stearing, car was at highest speed according data from rear wheels, car and components under huge stress. same point when last spark seen, same point as bump, sending vibration through column, breaking column, Senna not able to point car at exit of corner. Poor weld is very easy to break under stress(bumps and force on column) 99% of my thinking is poor weld. 1% thinking car simply lost traction on bump as racing cars do at times but does not explain wheels not turning.
From Schu's car you can see spark exact moment when Senna's car stopped turning corner.
You can see vibration through steering wheel as car passes over bumps. I think these bumps, combined with low ride, weakend steering column weld during weekend of racing and caused at least partial breaking of column before wall and at least partial loss of stearing, otherwise you would see wheels turn sharp left or right as Senna tried to gain controll of car as he had done in previous spins during caree.
To me it looks like combination of things. At very point of change in track surface you can see first strange movement of Senna's head. In qualy lap, car look fairly smooth and no strange head movements at all but the car does bottom out at point where it started to go off in race, only part of track i can see sparks during qualifying lap. I can not see to much difference between qualy line and race line except for exit of corner.
Aside from the death of Gilles Villeneuve, the accident that killed the great Ayrton Senna was perhaps the saddest day EVER in motorsports history. They will both be remembered ALWAYS in our hearts!!!
you can see on las frame how his head is tilted to the left, that is a reflex of the force that he was doing with his arms, he never does that before. He only did it there because the car was not reacting to his commands.
@FPSyorkshire yea, it is a very good film. but i don't like the picture you get about prost after watching this film. yes, they were rivals. yes, during there time with mc laren they didn't like eachother very much and so on.
but they didn't hate each other. senna wouldn't have been that good without prost! those two drivers pushed each other so hard... got an other nice video here: watch?v=pT07BWIBYcY
Vai se fuder o mecânico que soldou aquela barra de direção. Vai se fuder Patrick Head que não observou a merda que o mecânico fez. O mecânico sabia que estava colocando a vida do piloto em risco fazendo uma merda de solda na barra de direção. Vai se fuder leis italianas que não são muito diferentes das brasileiras. Impunidade impera! Ricos e poderosos não vão presos. R.I.P. Senna. Morto aos 34 por uma absurda irresponsabilidade de um homem: o mecânico! Obrigado Patrick, obrigado Williams.
Fuck you that the mechanic who welded bar direction. Patrick Head Fuck that shit did not notice that the mechanic did. The mechanic knew he was putting the pilot's life at risk doing a hell of solder on the bar direction. Fuck you that Italian laws are not very different from Brazil. Impunity reigns! Rich and powerful are not going to jail. R.I.P. Senna. Dead at 34 by an absurd irresponsibility of one man, the mechanic! Thank you Patrick, thank Williams.
@medonhoblu I am pretty sure that, even though it was technically his fault, sending him to jail would do nothing. Surely, that man carries Senna's death with him, and will continue to carry it for the rest of his life. That, in and of itself, even without people publicly sneering at him, is torture enough.
@tactilecacti Sorry but I do not agree. Ratsemberg died for fatality and Senna died for irresponsibility, in both cases along with the lack of track safety. A hypothesis: Briatore was corrupt and cheater. And if he had bribed some mechanical Williams? Maybe not to kill but only Senna remove him from the race. Briatore knew Senna at Williams would be unbeatable. Without Senna, the Benetton certainly be champions. (ONLY HYPOTHESIS, but it could be true) Carries Senna's death it's not enough.
@medonhoblu It wasn't glued. It was welded together. Senna requested that the steering column be lengthened, but Williams cut the current one, and welded it again, lengthening it. Senna drove it himself, and gave it the green light to race with.
@medonhoblu Seems to be easier to blame everybody else for Senna's crash rather than the obvious: Senna made a mistake and was responsible for killing himself accidentally. These men are on the edge for the entire race, driving as fast as possible for as long as possible - does it not seem conceivable that Senna simply succumbed by his own hand? He was just a man - and therefore capable of error. Wake up.
@medonhoblu Christ, I know everything - Senna's been dead for almost 18 years. What else is there to know (except the latest conspiracy theory)? Get some rest, for Chrissake!
the thing that killed Senna was the wheel of his car hitting him the side of the head causing massive hemoriging. He was probably dead before the car had stopped moving, it was the steering collum that broke causing him to hit a concrete wall travelling at 140 miles an hour at the exact angle that the front right pull rod was set at. If it had gone 6 inches higher or lower he would have survived that crash, R.I.P Ayrton, you were the best!
Somebody should have gone to jail for removing the frames from the video. It would not have changed the outcome here...but that was information that could have benefited other drivers and teams. If the steering broke, then that's an unfortunate accident in a sport where accidents can and do occur. Doctoring the footage to hide that fact is criminal.
He was probably looking to see where Schumacher was. On a seperate point, does anyone consider how unlucky the crash was? If that steering column broke a tenth or so earlier or later, Senna could very well be alive today.
Is it just me...or does Ayrton seem preoccupied with something in his mirror just before the car turns right? You can clearly see him take a look at something towards the rear of the car just prior to it starting to turn right. Maybe something broke at the back.
I never knew what corner of track he crashed (being not explicit interested enough), but now as I see that it happened only at this light left-hander corner directly after the finish line (it's normally almost a straight there with no danger !) and the fact that he was almost through the corner and steering well up to this particular point of suddenly going straight toward to the wall makes me think also quite clear that the steering axis broke at the last meters of the corner.
(addition): He even immediately realises it (the lose of steering) and instinctively moves to the corner-direction with his head (against the g-forces !, so he never might lost his conscious or s.th. like that there, like some rumors / thesis say) -to the left as you see in the last frames- (like most F1 drivers do when preparing in mind for an upcoming cornering), but of course that didn't "help" anything anymore with a broken steering-axis to get someway better (still) through the corner.
Just watched the senna dvd and I can't believe that with so many questions to be asked that the end frames have been hidden. The camera would have stopped on the impact, if someone messed up the welding he made a mistake it doesn't have to mean he did it on purpose, but to not show it means that someone wanted something covered up. They must have asked the white house for advice and yet still managed not to invade any countries
@Sammyy46 From the released trial conclusions of the Italian judge. Better than the official trial conclusion you won¡t get it. Read the Senna files on the internet (google it) OR read the description OF THIS VIDEO!!! I put it right there for you: under "source". Of course, the FIA had every interest to lie because they should have stopped the race on the Saturday and they didn't.
Just see how the Wheels stand in zero position instantly.
You all know the principe of that if you take off the hands off the wheel in a car its moving to the middle.
At 300 km/h that happens that fast.
Senna wanted a more comfortable Seat Position. So Head and Newey welded a small metal bar in the steering axle and that broke as it couldnt handle the force in the Tamburello
No matter what way you cut it, his head moving forward like that is not normal, because his head never goes that far forward even when braking for the hairpins. He could've had a brain issue and they'd never know because of that damn suspension causing so much trauma to his head. But the whole idea that he was shot is fucking ridiculous. In every way, it's simply too unrealistic. If someone wanted him dead they would've poisoned him and he would've never even raced that day.
@xilix What the heck are you talking about, his head goes left because the car suddenly starts to go straight, without him expecting it. Push your head from left to right with your left hand, to emulate g-forces in a left corner, then suddenly remove your hand - your head will fall leftward. It's perfectly natural...
Think the movement of the head towards the camera was indication of his frantic effort to keep the car on the track due to the steering column failure.
If the bar had actually fractured, it could have still been connected but he would not have got any response from the wheel.
@LazerDuck96 Please read the description of the video before posting your own mere and simple personal opinions about what you THINK it happened. It was found and proved by a judge that the steering column broke, and any other speculations only dirty the memory of Ayrton Senna LOL
@InSaNeNuKeBoY i agree the film makes him to be such a loving and onist and realy badly treated man (regarding formula 1) and then to see how un happy he was in the car and the fact that he really didn't want to race that race
Williams team and drivers Hill and Coulthard say the steering wheel flexing was normal, in the trial Michele Alboreto said it was not normal it moved so much (but he never drove the FW16). I haven't seen any footage from earlier 2 GPs of the 1994, where Senna's or Hill's steering flexed as much as Senna's in Imola. But the Williams cars had lots of modifications after Pacific GP.
If the steering wheel flexing that much WASN'T normal why didn't Senna do anything about it in early laps?
@RedPhroggz The steering wheel began flexing more and more on the very last lap and Senna was already under a lot of pressure from outside to score a result against Schumacher after the bad 2 races he had. Stopping or quitting was not an option for him, sadly. And I suggest you watch onboard footage from Qualifying of Imola, you'll see there's no flexing whatsoever. Likewise from the Warm Up session on Sunday prior to the race. Williams and Hill were making things up...
@Rogerbradly The court determined the accident was caused by a steering column failure, and the engineer was found guilty and natgeos documentary proves it! It's a joke because his accident didn't happen like that. He didn't steer into a slide, or have lighting fast reactions. There is TONS of proof that it was a steering column failure throughout the internet.
@Rogerbradly The capabilities of the fw16 car was as much as a go-kart. The car sucked big time! And williams made a shit weld on his steering column that failed in the middle of the corner. That's why he crashed. Senna could drive a shit car and be still fight for the win.
@Rogerbradly Yes they did! This accident was 2 laps after the safety car left the track and Senna did a flat out lap before this one so according to what you said he should have died the lap before. even if the car bottomed out he wouldn't go head on into the wall!
Now for anyone who is in doubt how Senna was killed - the facts are that if you watch the in car footage of Senna driving the FW15 in Brasil and the Pacific Grand Prix (the races prior to the San Marino GP) and in Qualifying at the San Marino Grand prix you will note that the steering wheel does not move as much as it does during the last few corners before he crashed this is because it was partially broken.
Tests performed by an independent analysis of the column concluded that it had suffered from 70% metal fatigue. You see when metal snaps during an impact and when it snaps because of metal fatigue the place where it snapped will look different under a microscope.
U see the point people don' realize is that it was partially broken and slowly over the course of his final lap it began to give way more and more to the point it broke enough that the input from the driver could not be converted to enough movement to the wheels. A lot of people think that his tyres were cold and he lost down force but this is not true. He drove flat out and set one of the fastest laps of the race, 1 lap prior to the lap he crashed on so his tryes were well up to temperature..
@raul1976lips People think that his tyres where OVERheated. Others think that something with the steering wasn't correct or broke. You can blame it on anything, but you will never know the real problem
@raul1976lips absolutely spot on, there was more chance of an accident happening on the previous lap and nothing happened, the thing is why did the crash happen at possibly the worst place to have a crash? if jj lehto didnt stall on the grid, the steering may have failed elsewhere, no pace car out, senna would of been somewhere else on the track, sounds like the film final destination doesnt it
Williams did not kill him - but certainly I would say the Newey had a responsibility to Senna to ensure that the Steering column with the newly welded extension should have been manufactured properly or not at all despite Senna's request
Why does it seem that the the video cuts off prematurely ? I have a feeling the video may have been tampered with coz the last frame should have been when the car's nose/right side touches the concrete wall before impact.
Take for example Kovaleinen's crash at Barcelona 2008, the last frame from onboard is when the cars nose touches the tyre barrier, after that the video cuts off. That is because in the next frame the transmitter aboard the car was damaged.
my question is why does video always cut out with at least a second left until he actually hits the wall...i'm not saying i believe in the conspiracies, but are they trying to hide him hitting the wall because its gruesome and out of respect, or something else
@ElAreira83 And he felt like going straight into the wall? He turned the wheel to finish the corner but he went straight ahead and he tried to slow down but it was too late. That 3d clip explaining his death looks like a joke
If he would have created the downforce, steering wheel would had not been useless in the last second, and it would broke later on and cause Ratzenberger's crash, but he didn't created enough, but nothing but that steering wheel yellow button and tires show how straight it were and won't tell us how much crack the column was, and what lacked to made it steering really, very unlikely we would know the former, just WF1 said it didn't affect the steering, but then that's the NatGeo hypothesis says
Why would the car bottom out on lap 7?! The tires would have been up to temperature by then, even after the safety car. It is widely known that Ayrton asked for the steering column to be lengthened as he didn't like the driving position relative to the wheel. A new steering column could not be manufactured due to time constraints and a piece of metal was spliced into the column to lengthen it. It makes sense that it would break at the fastest corner, where the wheel is under the most stress.
I believe the steering column did fail prior to the incident as you can see here the wheel goes straight. A loss of downforce would neither cause the wheels to go straight or cause the car to move in a completely straight trajectory as some turning grip would still be available. As for calling the team murderers, I strongly disagree. Racecars are designed to cope with the stresses they will see over a race but failures do still happen and every racing driver knows this. RIP Ayrton.
PLAYSTATIONBLOKE The car turned right as the suspension geometry on a car will always try to self centre the steering , try and turn a corner in your own car and let go of the steering see what happens!!
I think the car pulled off right because of his front right wheel coming off the track at the very same moment the rod came off. Or a fraction of a second later.
Si miras el punto amarillo del volante en cada curva se ve más bajo de lo usual y cuando llega a tamburrello ya es casi inminente que esta abajo de todo apunto de caerse, yo creo que Senna no se dio cuenta de eso o fue algo de que el equipo le dijo "no te preocupes por eso" son cosas que realmente JAMAS se sabran creo yo.
Te extrañamos Ayrton, toda la F1 se ha ido con vos. Que descanses en paz mi querido amigo.
You can tell that there just was no steering, just look at his helmet. He is fighting the g-forces that are pushing his head to the right, thus he is pushing to the left. His head snaps to the left as soon as the car goes straight, due to no more forces pushing his head to the right. Obviously the steering just gave up.
Adrian Newey has suggested that what actually happened was a puncture on the rear of the car cause by debris from the start line crash and a reduction in tyre pressures as a result of the following safety car period (that was noted to be driving slowly, senna gestures to it to hurry up at one point, you can see that in the senna film). Newey says this is becase, to him, it appears Senna has some oversteer in the split second before he goes off the track, and in correcting it, he veers off right
RIP Senna.Tho I must say this is the 1St time I watched this.On 1st play through, just watching @1:04 I honestly thought that he went to drive towards the right, thinking for a split second, maybe lost in a thought he thought " Oops I'm meant to go this way,Towards that sign.The sign I THOUGHT looked to me,1st time like a TUNNEL,but he would've realised "Nope its not " trying to correct position. But things didn't work out for him. Only takes a Split second for things to go wrong.Like I said RIP
I thought it was the fact that his car was running too low to the ground and at one point in the corner the car was resting on the metal skids at the bottom, this caused the back end to come out, he corrected the slide within like a 10th of a second of it happening then the car gripped when he corrected him which is the reason he left the track and crashed? the steering column had a lot of flex in it? or so that documentary said anyway
fkin duh quit havin concrete walls just opposite of all fast corners - are they trying to kill these guys? - i recall seeing those letters in white SENNA - always in 1rst( i was 4).Me and my brothers would laugh -whenever we randomly watched racing on tv SENNA was always WINNING .
the cars of the time depended heavly on areo dynamics. a piece of debris from the earlier crash was swept underneath the car and resulted in loss of downforce. the strighting of the wheels was senna trying to corect the slide in vain.
It's understandable that people want someone to blame for the death Senna. And it is true the courts have spoken. What is also true is that Senna was a brillant combination of aggression, intelligence and techical skill. Like a fighter test pilot-what he did was incredibly dangerous... especially with his aggression. Senna lived at the very edge each time he raced. There was always a chance living on that razor edge would consume him. And so it did. RIP Senna...the greatest driver ever.
cirvine11 22 hours ago
I also just wanna say well done to the uploader for the video description, absolutely spot on mate! And if Patrick Head wasnt such a fucking coward he would have just admitted what happened, prolly only a suspended sentence, gets kicked out of F1, and everyone knows the truth straight away what happened. He did it all to save his own career which is less than nothing to millions of Senna fans. I'm glad he is finally gone from Williams and F1 this year.
IAVDortmunder 1 day ago
Considering the conditions, cold tyres and brakes, unsettled and unbalanced car, this last lap of Ayrton's is not only another amazing example of his sublime ability, it is maybe the best clear lap ever done in a racecar, ever. It is well beyond what should have been the limit. Despite everything else happening that weekend, Senna was at his magnificent best to show us perhaps the brightest and most dazzling display of all. Like a supernova as it erupts in light, and then gone. R.I.P champion.
IAVDortmunder 1 day ago
@IAVDortmunder Oh dear... I've just cried after I read your beautiful words. Ayrton was poetry,and so are your thoughts about him. Thank you...
nickie2011 1 day ago
I've only recently discovered Senna and after watching all the videos, documentaries and reviewing his case in Italy and still blows my mind how irresponsible the Williams Team was. Something so simple. If there is one thing I could change in history it would be this. RIP. This is elite auto racing. Accidents do happen, but because of shotty welding? C'mon. Where's that elite level of engineering? Where's the QC? This is the pinnacle of racing. A backyard racer checks his car before a race.
JFernandoC1982 3 days ago
You need accidents to happen to get things changed, I don't get why people point the blame... it's not like people woke up that day thinking "I want to kill Senna today" :\ It can happen to anyone.
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rich130569 1 week ago
R.I.P Ayrton Senna
Jarno688 1 week ago
there is no need to have anger at the mechanics or anyone for this death. their own conscience will teach those that had any part in this. there is no need for anything more.
MrLowkeynz 1 week ago
@MrLowkeynz I Agree 100%, All of we have the possibility to fail, to do a mistake. I loved seen Senna racing, I´m brasilian, but I think the death of Ayrton Senna is already a punish to those minds who made that mistake
zmp2000 1 week ago
@medonhoblu stupid, was mechanical problem, it is clear that the car did not respond on the curve. Senna will be the best pilot we've ever had.
nonamemsn 1 week ago 2
@nonamemsn Mother Of God. When I said the opposite? ¬¬
medonhoblu 1 week ago
you have to think since his death f1 was looked at closely and regulated and to this day there still has not been a death TO THIS DAY. So at least his death was not a waste.
silverfdturbo6port 2 weeks ago
They need to put that circuit back to the way it was in 1994. It was not the corner that was the problem, it was bad Welding that caused that crash. R.I.P. Senna
spieler440 2 weeks ago
Watching the documentary, you can see an abnormal vertical movement in the steering. Absolutely sure, that the column collapsed at Tamburello.
DonCorsa 2 weeks ago
Having played various versions of Need For Speed, every time I watch Ayrton Senna race I think, "Holy shit, I've been here, I know this track." God Bless Ayrton Senna, a great human being and the very best F1 driver of all time.
Of all time.
Elidoransgar 2 weeks ago
R.I.P. Ayrton Senna :(((
Ricsimassa 3 weeks ago
There's something so wrong about a team spending so much time tuning up the car to get the maximum possible speed out of it, yet only doing a half-job welding together the steering components. In my opinion the steering is the LAST component you want failing on you, and well, a steering failure at warp speed it's always going to be The End Of You. Ayrton Senna really had some talent, and it's a real shame to lose such a guy in racing. R.I.P.
FordV8Supercar 1 month ago
haunting just haunting
theracingguru21 1 month ago
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does it matter arguing about all this, a man died from racing and thats sad, extremely sad, and if racing can be improved from looking at this incident and others then good. R.I.P Ayrton Senna...
jaydeebassman 1 month ago
the star that shines twice as bright lives just half as long..... senna, you are my shining light R.I.P
ittzzijamieee 1 month ago
Do you realize how absurd is Bruno Senna driving for Williams in 2012? Frank Williams and Patrick Head are still there...
Life isn´t ironic?...Or the Senna family got ice in their veins...???
gevirtual1 1 month ago
@gevirtual1 To me the only explanation is that they feel they still owe something to the Senna family for what happened in Imola so they want to give Bruno the opportunity to do something in F1. In Williams know they screwed up Ayrton's life by their own fault so they want to pay tribute to the Senna name with this.
Youtubax 1 month ago
@gevirtual1 - Frank Williams of course is still at Williams idiot! It is called Williams for a reason! F1 then was not like today with all the safety regulations of car and tracks. An error was made but to blame people directly is wrong. Many teams, drivers and team owners have made mistakes in the past that cost many more lives than just Senna's. Tragic of course but to blame one or two people is absurd.
maidenslayer 3 weeks ago
It's a tough legal call though, coz the guys in charge of the steering column are obviously the most qualified to say if it's drivable or not. The mechanics would have more knowledge about the case than anyone trying to prosecute or defend.
AgentShill 1 month ago
is ridiculous, the camera operates at all times, except in the last seconds? Senna's head tilts to the left ready for tamburello curve but your car keeps going straight
everyone knows that the steering column broke, it was welded to increase the distance by Senna's own request, but Willians madea bad service
NoxRio 1 month ago
I used to to think the steering column broke until a friend of mine who was an ex-race marshal said the amount of strength needed to break the column would only come in the actual impact. What I think really happened was Senna died trying to outrun an illegal car in Schumacher's Benetton B-194 which had traction control even though it was banned. Benetton were a bunch of cheaters along with Schumacher.
dangerouskSNK 1 month ago
@dangerouskSNK this is definitely not true. Williams welded different steel grades at different diameters together (both was/is poor engineering). the result was a notch effect which caused higher stresses in thr steering coloumn. This can cause a incipient crack in the material. the crack increases from load cycle to load cycle, and a fatigue failure will be the consequence. I doubt your ex-race-marshal has a degree in metallurgy, correct me if I'm wrong.
TheColinChapman 1 month ago
@TheColinChapman The steel barrel on certain shotguns isn't welded or directly screwed to steel magazine pipe below, it it attached with a screw, while the connecting element is hard soldered to it on approx less than 1/2 square inch area.If it can withstand tens or hundreds thousands of shots with instant rapid and stressful forces, How can anyone think that a welded steering wheel steel pipe could snap from some silly vibrations or turning done by driver's hands is amazing.
dangerouskSNK 1 month ago
@dangerouskSNK ever heard of natural frequency or resonance - if any of the vibrations from the car matched the natural frequency of the column - bingo - it will break
trooscot 3 weeks ago
@TheColinChapman It was always easier to blame Williams for the Senna crash than the race organizers at Imola. Keep in mind, 7 years before Senna crashed at Tamburello...Piquet crashed there in 1987. They did nothing. Gerhard Berger hit the wall in 1989 and almost burned to death. They did nothing. Michele Alboreto crashed in 1991. Riccardo Patrese crashed in 1992. They never even bothered to put up tire barriers at a minimum.
dangerouskSNK 1 month ago 7
@TheColinChapman Here's the problem also. People seem to think Senna was stupid. If he thought something was wrong with the steering column, he would have pulled out of the race. The metal fatigue was a load of crap to deflect the issue from the Italian failures of increasing safety at Tamburello. It was the fastest corner in F1 history, and they never bothered to do anything about the wall in spite of what had happened there already.
dangerouskSNK 1 month ago
@TheColinChapman We can all agree that it simply failed, doesn't really matter how it happened...
FordV8Supercar 1 month ago
nope, that was live footage that Williams has no control over. Williams definitely were at fault though using a faulty steering column and shoddy last minute welding.
airtec87 1 month ago
@airtec87 I never bought that version... too much of a coincidence... and either way... Williams removed the black box from the car BEFORE handing it to the Italian authorities... if that's not trying to hide facts, I don't know what it is.
nickie2011 1 month ago
Why did his helmet fall to the left hand side going around a left hand corner just at the end?
workshop77777 1 month ago
i have left the F1 now,there is no fun anymore.they looks like a buch of followers thats all.
i dont feel the passion like we used too see and feel with Shumi,JV,Senna in his time,,,
i am still wonder,looking at some today's driver how JV would perform but dont dream in color.Some of the boss of F1 just want robot to drive their? cars,,there is no place for feelings anymore.
i am sad for F1 and all those great engineer behind the scene.
1226myrcea 1 month ago
i always wanted to say this : fuck renault and fuck stupid small french cars and french people, in other words 'je vous emmerde'
redfireblast57 1 month ago
if u look at the last frame, his neck muscle wasnt working, almost as if he wasnt unconstious?
MrXTHJB 1 month ago
I personally believe the steering column broke, I believe this because of the stabilized video of the onboard, at the point he straightlines, the yellow button on the steering wheel disappears from view, which i think is unusual because it dissapears downwards rather than to the right which would suggest he corrected the car, the wheels didnt turn into a slide either, and also as soon as the car straightlines his head slumps to the left because there is no G force forcing his head to the right.
MrTrophyNuts 1 month ago
how is it that it was the last frame meters befor he hit the wall...??
yuri250333 1 month ago
Senna's car had been complaining since the beginning of the season.
And he had reasons for this.
to be at peace the best driver of all time.
Nostalgia for Senna.
heltonbona1 1 month ago
The Senna documentary is awesome. I don't follow F1 and didn't know his story, but what a story. Tragic when the best in the world leaves early.
SMMAB 1 month ago
watch the wheels, they are turning left and then they just go straight and there is no change of direction of the wheels whilst heading straight for the wall, in a normal road car if your turning left and then let go of the steering the car goes straight on and i would imagine its the same in a f1 car, because of this i believe the steering column broke before impact and there was no way ayrton senna could steer the car.
cocacolaholic 1 month ago
What film are you talking about? R.I.P Ayrton Senna!
MarshallATV 1 month ago
@MarshallATV
Its called "Senna" a documentary on him. You can stream it on Netflix.
missgearhead 1 month ago
@missgearhead Thanks!
MarshallATV 1 month ago
@rutherford1009 Wrong.he had 3 head injuries.Any one of which would of killed him. 1. The right front wheel hit his head forcing his head back into the headrest at high speed this cause the back of his skull to fracture. 2.A piece of metal attached to the wheel penetrated his helmet and caused trauma to the right front of his skull. 3.A metal strip entered his helmet just above his right eye causing further damage.
Most documentaries dramatise, do some real research for the truth
jichaelmackson1958 1 month ago
At point car stopped stearing, car was at highest speed according data from rear wheels, car and components under huge stress. same point when last spark seen, same point as bump, sending vibration through column, breaking column, Senna not able to point car at exit of corner. Poor weld is very easy to break under stress(bumps and force on column) 99% of my thinking is poor weld. 1% thinking car simply lost traction on bump as racing cars do at times but does not explain wheels not turning.
animalz2006 1 month ago
From Schu's car you can see spark exact moment when Senna's car stopped turning corner.
You can see vibration through steering wheel as car passes over bumps. I think these bumps, combined with low ride, weakend steering column weld during weekend of racing and caused at least partial breaking of column before wall and at least partial loss of stearing, otherwise you would see wheels turn sharp left or right as Senna tried to gain controll of car as he had done in previous spins during caree.
animalz2006 1 month ago
To me it looks like combination of things. At very point of change in track surface you can see first strange movement of Senna's head. In qualy lap, car look fairly smooth and no strange head movements at all but the car does bottom out at point where it started to go off in race, only part of track i can see sparks during qualifying lap. I can not see to much difference between qualy line and race line except for exit of corner.
animalz2006 1 month ago
Aside from the death of Gilles Villeneuve, the accident that killed the great Ayrton Senna was perhaps the saddest day EVER in motorsports history. They will both be remembered ALWAYS in our hearts!!!
couragio235 1 month ago
you can see on las frame how his head is tilted to the left, that is a reflex of the force that he was doing with his arms, he never does that before. He only did it there because the car was not reacting to his commands.
elmaxidelsur 1 month ago
@rutherford1009 so you watched the film, too? .........
stotheimon1 2 months ago
@stotheimon1 the film was amazing in my opinion. very emotional and good timeline of the best driver in f1 long live senna
FPSyorkshire 1 month ago
@FPSyorkshire yea, it is a very good film. but i don't like the picture you get about prost after watching this film. yes, they were rivals. yes, during there time with mc laren they didn't like eachother very much and so on.
but they didn't hate each other. senna wouldn't have been that good without prost! those two drivers pushed each other so hard... got an other nice video here: watch?v=pT07BWIBYcY
it's german, i hope you understand... ;)
stotheimon1 1 month ago
Vai se fuder o mecânico que soldou aquela barra de direção. Vai se fuder Patrick Head que não observou a merda que o mecânico fez. O mecânico sabia que estava colocando a vida do piloto em risco fazendo uma merda de solda na barra de direção. Vai se fuder leis italianas que não são muito diferentes das brasileiras. Impunidade impera! Ricos e poderosos não vão presos. R.I.P. Senna. Morto aos 34 por uma absurda irresponsabilidade de um homem: o mecânico! Obrigado Patrick, obrigado Williams.
medonhoblu 2 months ago
Fuck you that the mechanic who welded bar direction. Patrick Head Fuck that shit did not notice that the mechanic did. The mechanic knew he was putting the pilot's life at risk doing a hell of solder on the bar direction. Fuck you that Italian laws are not very different from Brazil. Impunity reigns! Rich and powerful are not going to jail. R.I.P. Senna. Dead at 34 by an absurd irresponsibility of one man, the mechanic! Thank you Patrick, thank Williams.
medonhoblu 2 months ago 16
@medonhoblu It was a terrible accident, everyone loved Senna, come'on man, lets not spread the hatred.
Addicted2OILau 3 weeks ago
@medonhoblu I am pretty sure that, even though it was technically his fault, sending him to jail would do nothing. Surely, that man carries Senna's death with him, and will continue to carry it for the rest of his life. That, in and of itself, even without people publicly sneering at him, is torture enough.
tactilecacti 3 weeks ago
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medonhoblu 3 weeks ago
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@tactilecacti Sorry but I do not agree. Ratsemberg died for fatality and Senna died for irresponsibility, in both cases along with the lack of track safety. A hypothesis: Briatore was corrupt and cheater. And if he had bribed some mechanical Williams? Maybe not to kill but only Senna remove him from the race. Briatore knew Senna at Williams would be unbeatable. Without Senna, the Benetton certainly be champions. (ONLY HYPOTHESIS, but it could be true) Carries Senna's death it's not enough.
medonhoblu 3 weeks ago
@medonhoblu Ignoring the fact that Senna himself requested that the steering column be adjusted, and tested and approved of it himself.
PJ2436 3 weeks ago
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medonhoblu 3 weeks ago
@PJ2436 But it should never be "glued". ¬¬
And where did you read that Senna examined the steering column?
medonhoblu 3 weeks ago
@medonhoblu It wasn't glued. It was welded together. Senna requested that the steering column be lengthened, but Williams cut the current one, and welded it again, lengthening it. Senna drove it himself, and gave it the green light to race with.
PJ2436 2 weeks ago
@PJ2436 I was ironic ¬¬
medonhoblu 2 weeks ago
@medonhoblu Seems to be easier to blame everybody else for Senna's crash rather than the obvious: Senna made a mistake and was responsible for killing himself accidentally. These men are on the edge for the entire race, driving as fast as possible for as long as possible - does it not seem conceivable that Senna simply succumbed by his own hand? He was just a man - and therefore capable of error. Wake up.
beeroosterm 2 weeks ago
@beeroosterm Sorry, but "wake up" you! You know nothing about the accident......
medonhoblu 2 weeks ago
@medonhoblu Christ, I know everything - Senna's been dead for almost 18 years. What else is there to know (except the latest conspiracy theory)? Get some rest, for Chrissake!
beeroosterm 2 weeks ago
@beeroosterm Ok Williams fanboy
medonhoblu 2 weeks ago
@AliB649
WRONG, WRONG AND WRONG...
valentino46mgp 2 months ago
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I stopped watching at F1 races after that 1st of may in 94. RIP Ayrton.
EllinonEnosis 2 months ago
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EllinonEnosis 2 months ago
the thing that killed Senna was the wheel of his car hitting him the side of the head causing massive hemoriging. He was probably dead before the car had stopped moving, it was the steering collum that broke causing him to hit a concrete wall travelling at 140 miles an hour at the exact angle that the front right pull rod was set at. If it had gone 6 inches higher or lower he would have survived that crash, R.I.P Ayrton, you were the best!
AliB649 2 months ago
@AliB649 Wasn't it a part of the suspension which hit his helmet and caused the head injuries?
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DHernandez71car 2 months ago
@DHernandez71car sure he has what do you think?
TheFelix1703 2 months ago
i'm gonna delete my commentary... i mistake :(
DHernandez71car 2 months ago
Somebody should have gone to jail for removing the frames from the video. It would not have changed the outcome here...but that was information that could have benefited other drivers and teams. If the steering broke, then that's an unfortunate accident in a sport where accidents can and do occur. Doctoring the footage to hide that fact is criminal.
Saabjock 2 months ago
@Saabjock
He was probably looking to see where Schumacher was. On a seperate point, does anyone consider how unlucky the crash was? If that steering column broke a tenth or so earlier or later, Senna could very well be alive today.
55DJL 2 months ago
Is it just me...or does Ayrton seem preoccupied with something in his mirror just before the car turns right? You can clearly see him take a look at something towards the rear of the car just prior to it starting to turn right. Maybe something broke at the back.
Saabjock 2 months ago
@Saabjock He probably was just struggling to turn the car left. Who knows now what happened... This is sad.
pOpCoRn0531 2 months ago
衝撃的だった(･_･､)
moca7771 2 months ago
I never knew what corner of track he crashed (being not explicit interested enough), but now as I see that it happened only at this light left-hander corner directly after the finish line (it's normally almost a straight there with no danger !) and the fact that he was almost through the corner and steering well up to this particular point of suddenly going straight toward to the wall makes me think also quite clear that the steering axis broke at the last meters of the corner.
cannyfocus 2 months ago
(addition): He even immediately realises it (the lose of steering) and instinctively moves to the corner-direction with his head (against the g-forces !, so he never might lost his conscious or s.th. like that there, like some rumors / thesis say) -to the left as you see in the last frames- (like most F1 drivers do when preparing in mind for an upcoming cornering), but of course that didn't "help" anything anymore with a broken steering-axis to get someway better (still) through the corner.
cannyfocus 2 months ago
..very sad for me to watch the / such kind of an end. :\
cannyfocus 2 months ago
Just watched the senna dvd and I can't believe that with so many questions to be asked that the end frames have been hidden. The camera would have stopped on the impact, if someone messed up the welding he made a mistake it doesn't have to mean he did it on purpose, but to not show it means that someone wanted something covered up. They must have asked the white house for advice and yet still managed not to invade any countries
jprhughes 2 months ago
me agarro como un escalofrio cuando se termino el video
REDBULLMAN2006 2 months ago
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Ich bin ein sehr großer Fan von Senna. Ich finde es sehr toll sich alte Rennen von ihm anzusehen.
Ich verkaufe alle Formel 1 Rennen seit 1985 auf DVD.
Bei Interesse: motorsportarchiv@gmx.net
Beneda9722 2 months ago
@nickie2011 Where did you get this info from? I got mine from a TV show and an article by the FIA.
Sammyy46 2 months ago
@Sammyy46 From the released trial conclusions of the Italian judge. Better than the official trial conclusion you won¡t get it. Read the Senna files on the internet (google it) OR read the description OF THIS VIDEO!!! I put it right there for you: under "source". Of course, the FIA had every interest to lie because they should have stopped the race on the Saturday and they didn't.
nickie2011 2 months ago
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Ich bin ein sehr großer Fan von Senna. Ich finde es sehr toll sich alte Rennen von ihm anzusehen.
Ich verkaufe alle Formel 1 Rennen seit 1985 auf DVD.
Bei Interesse: motorsportarchiv@gmx.net
Beneda9722 2 months ago
Fuck Patrick Head.
AyrtonSennaFan97 3 months ago
@AyrtonSennaFan97 fuck you
vprmn 2 months ago
Just see how the Wheels stand in zero position instantly.
You all know the principe of that if you take off the hands off the wheel in a car its moving to the middle.
At 300 km/h that happens that fast.
Senna wanted a more comfortable Seat Position. So Head and Newey welded a small metal bar in the steering axle and that broke as it couldnt handle the force in the Tamburello
Chicagoracer2 3 months ago
Chissà come mai mancano gli ultimi fotogrammi del video.. Non vorrei spararla, ma penso che la Williams non abbia la coscenza pulita.
TheRailworldD443 3 months ago
to have ur steering wheel come off in ur fucking hands mid-way through a high speed turn is the stuff of nightmares, poor Ayrton, RIP
exomorphe 3 months ago 5
@exomorphe His steering wheel didnt come off..... ?
ThatGlitcherGuy 4 weeks ago
If only Ayrton had a gearbox/engine failure and retired before the column broke. Such a shame. RIP Ayrton "The Best" Senna.
SoloRedDevil 3 months ago
@SoloRedDevil column broken could be broken after crash. !!! only ayrton knew, what happened.
vprmn 2 months ago
Schumacher: scientific textbook
Senna: epic poetry
22astonmartin 3 months ago
No matter what way you cut it, his head moving forward like that is not normal, because his head never goes that far forward even when braking for the hairpins. He could've had a brain issue and they'd never know because of that damn suspension causing so much trauma to his head. But the whole idea that he was shot is fucking ridiculous. In every way, it's simply too unrealistic. If someone wanted him dead they would've poisoned him and he would've never even raced that day.
xilix 3 months ago
@xilix What the heck are you talking about, his head goes left because the car suddenly starts to go straight, without him expecting it. Push your head from left to right with your left hand, to emulate g-forces in a left corner, then suddenly remove your hand - your head will fall leftward. It's perfectly natural...
hristoitchov 3 months ago
Think the movement of the head towards the camera was indication of his frantic effort to keep the car on the track due to the steering column failure.
If the bar had actually fractured, it could have still been connected but he would not have got any response from the wheel.
markyboy1704 3 months ago
The movie is nice. you see he's life and than, the end he's last lap and than, bam.
I cryed at the end
cclm1 3 months ago
Senna ajoi mutkan selvästi äärirajoilla ja auton perä lähtee kiistatta luistamaankin. Mutta ei se seinään noin olisi menny ilman ohjauksen vikaa.
tero977 3 months ago
RESPECT for that man =endless r.i.p Senna
LazerDuck96 3 months ago 24
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@LazerDuck96 Please read the description of the video before posting your own mere and simple personal opinions about what you THINK it happened. It was found and proved by a judge that the steering column broke, and any other speculations only dirty the memory of Ayrton Senna LOL
Funknicity 2 months ago
I watched the movie and burst into tears at the end. What a trajic death
InSaNeNuKeBoY 3 months ago
@InSaNeNuKeBoY i agree the film makes him to be such a loving and onist and realy badly treated man (regarding formula 1) and then to see how un happy he was in the car and the fact that he really didn't want to race that race
mrHDpredator 3 months ago
Williams team and drivers Hill and Coulthard say the steering wheel flexing was normal, in the trial Michele Alboreto said it was not normal it moved so much (but he never drove the FW16). I haven't seen any footage from earlier 2 GPs of the 1994, where Senna's or Hill's steering flexed as much as Senna's in Imola. But the Williams cars had lots of modifications after Pacific GP.
If the steering wheel flexing that much WASN'T normal why didn't Senna do anything about it in early laps?
RedPhroggz 3 months ago
@RedPhroggz The steering wheel began flexing more and more on the very last lap and Senna was already under a lot of pressure from outside to score a result against Schumacher after the bad 2 races he had. Stopping or quitting was not an option for him, sadly. And I suggest you watch onboard footage from Qualifying of Imola, you'll see there's no flexing whatsoever. Likewise from the Warm Up session on Sunday prior to the race. Williams and Hill were making things up...
hristoitchov 3 months ago
@Rogerbradly The court determined the accident was caused by a steering column failure, and the engineer was found guilty and natgeos documentary proves it! It's a joke because his accident didn't happen like that. He didn't steer into a slide, or have lighting fast reactions. There is TONS of proof that it was a steering column failure throughout the internet.
NOXXism 3 months ago
@Rogerbradly The capabilities of the fw16 car was as much as a go-kart. The car sucked big time! And williams made a shit weld on his steering column that failed in the middle of the corner. That's why he crashed. Senna could drive a shit car and be still fight for the win.
NOXXism 4 months ago
@Rogerbradly Yes they did! This accident was 2 laps after the safety car left the track and Senna did a flat out lap before this one so according to what you said he should have died the lap before. even if the car bottomed out he wouldn't go head on into the wall!
NOXXism 4 months ago
@NOXXism ratzenberger death during qualifying
ghurghust 4 months ago
@ghurghust what?
NOXXism 4 months ago
why last frames missing?? because producer is son of bitch
motherfucker!!!
Toni112007 4 months ago
And why are the last frames missing?
Sokra01 4 months ago
Now for anyone who is in doubt how Senna was killed - the facts are that if you watch the in car footage of Senna driving the FW15 in Brasil and the Pacific Grand Prix (the races prior to the San Marino GP) and in Qualifying at the San Marino Grand prix you will note that the steering wheel does not move as much as it does during the last few corners before he crashed this is because it was partially broken.
raul1976lips 4 months ago
Tests performed by an independent analysis of the column concluded that it had suffered from 70% metal fatigue. You see when metal snaps during an impact and when it snaps because of metal fatigue the place where it snapped will look different under a microscope.
raul1976lips 4 months ago
U see the point people don' realize is that it was partially broken and slowly over the course of his final lap it began to give way more and more to the point it broke enough that the input from the driver could not be converted to enough movement to the wheels. A lot of people think that his tyres were cold and he lost down force but this is not true. He drove flat out and set one of the fastest laps of the race, 1 lap prior to the lap he crashed on so his tryes were well up to temperature..
raul1976lips 4 months ago 16
@raul1976lips People think that his tyres where OVERheated. Others think that something with the steering wasn't correct or broke. You can blame it on anything, but you will never know the real problem
mAximUm123451 3 months ago
@raul1976lips
Are you ENGINEER of Goodyear? The bar of Steering wheel was broken and no more. Rip Senna
mukiribu 2 months ago
@raul1976lips he didn't like the new car for a reason
Leo240sx 1 month ago
@raul1976lips absolutely spot on, there was more chance of an accident happening on the previous lap and nothing happened, the thing is why did the crash happen at possibly the worst place to have a crash? if jj lehto didnt stall on the grid, the steering may have failed elsewhere, no pace car out, senna would of been somewhere else on the track, sounds like the film final destination doesnt it
cocacolaholic 1 month ago
Williams did not kill him - but certainly I would say the Newey had a responsibility to Senna to ensure that the Steering column with the newly welded extension should have been manufactured properly or not at all despite Senna's request
raul1976lips 4 months ago
watch?v=8O_mk1J5NgA&feature=related
This is the video I'm talking about, check the last few secs of the video.
P.S: Append this to the yotube url, wonder why youtube doesn't allow me to post video in the comments
viraj2k 4 months ago
Why does it seem that the the video cuts off prematurely ? I have a feeling the video may have been tampered with coz the last frame should have been when the car's nose/right side touches the concrete wall before impact.
Take for example Kovaleinen's crash at Barcelona 2008, the last frame from onboard is when the cars nose touches the tyre barrier, after that the video cuts off. That is because in the next frame the transmitter aboard the car was damaged.
viraj2k 4 months ago
the greatest driver the world will ever see
he's speed strength and power would of today beaten anyone, rest in piece a true great !!!
juanbollozzy 4 months ago
R.I.P
dergescheitepenner 4 months ago
he was the best driver ever. ... never forget you, great caracter, strong attitude...rip ayrton
pittipan1 4 months ago
my question is why does video always cut out with at least a second left until he actually hits the wall...i'm not saying i believe in the conspiracies, but are they trying to hide him hitting the wall because its gruesome and out of respect, or something else
dop3man518021 4 months ago
This appears to be my video.
ALEXSLINGSBY 4 months ago
@ElAreira83 And he felt like going straight into the wall? He turned the wheel to finish the corner but he went straight ahead and he tried to slow down but it was too late. That 3d clip explaining his death looks like a joke
NOXXism 4 months ago
If he would have created the downforce, steering wheel would had not been useless in the last second, and it would broke later on and cause Ratzenberger's crash, but he didn't created enough, but nothing but that steering wheel yellow button and tires show how straight it were and won't tell us how much crack the column was, and what lacked to made it steering really, very unlikely we would know the former, just WF1 said it didn't affect the steering, but then that's the NatGeo hypothesis says
modulaIII 4 months ago
Why would the car bottom out on lap 7?! The tires would have been up to temperature by then, even after the safety car. It is widely known that Ayrton asked for the steering column to be lengthened as he didn't like the driving position relative to the wheel. A new steering column could not be manufactured due to time constraints and a piece of metal was spliced into the column to lengthen it. It makes sense that it would break at the fastest corner, where the wheel is under the most stress.
tomasjames92 4 months ago
I believe the steering column did fail prior to the incident as you can see here the wheel goes straight. A loss of downforce would neither cause the wheels to go straight or cause the car to move in a completely straight trajectory as some turning grip would still be available. As for calling the team murderers, I strongly disagree. Racecars are designed to cope with the stresses they will see over a race but failures do still happen and every racing driver knows this. RIP Ayrton.
Cyclekid1500 4 months ago
PLAYSTATIONBLOKE The car turned right as the suspension geometry on a car will always try to self centre the steering , try and turn a corner in your own car and let go of the steering see what happens!!
deanoq 4 months ago
@PLAYSTATIONBLOKE
I think the car pulled off right because of his front right wheel coming off the track at the very same moment the rod came off. Or a fraction of a second later.
4JRimmer 4 months ago
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4JRimmer 4 months ago
My God! This video is terrible! It's like... we are seeing thru his eyes the last minute of his life. For a moment it felt like I died.
TheVideoARTStudios 4 months ago
the steering column DID NOT BREAK!!!!!! ITS BECOS THE CAR WAS RESTING ON THE METAL SKID BELOW IT AND THUS NO DOWNFORCE!!
radenlim 4 months ago
Si miras el punto amarillo del volante en cada curva se ve más bajo de lo usual y cuando llega a tamburrello ya es casi inminente que esta abajo de todo apunto de caerse, yo creo que Senna no se dio cuenta de eso o fue algo de que el equipo le dijo "no te preocupes por eso" son cosas que realmente JAMAS se sabran creo yo.
Te extrañamos Ayrton, toda la F1 se ha ido con vos. Que descanses en paz mi querido amigo.
mukiribu 4 months ago
You can tell that there just was no steering, just look at his helmet. He is fighting the g-forces that are pushing his head to the right, thus he is pushing to the left. His head snaps to the left as soon as the car goes straight, due to no more forces pushing his head to the right. Obviously the steering just gave up.
punanena2 4 months ago
@punanena2
You are right.
4JRimmer 4 months ago
R.I.P Ratzenberger and Legendary Ayrton Senna
crazygamer3D 5 months ago
Adrian Newey has suggested that what actually happened was a puncture on the rear of the car cause by debris from the start line crash and a reduction in tyre pressures as a result of the following safety car period (that was noted to be driving slowly, senna gestures to it to hurry up at one point, you can see that in the senna film). Newey says this is becase, to him, it appears Senna has some oversteer in the split second before he goes off the track, and in correcting it, he veers off right
JackDavis16 5 months ago
RIP Senna.Tho I must say this is the 1St time I watched this.On 1st play through, just watching @1:04 I honestly thought that he went to drive towards the right, thinking for a split second, maybe lost in a thought he thought " Oops I'm meant to go this way,Towards that sign.The sign I THOUGHT looked to me,1st time like a TUNNEL,but he would've realised "Nope its not " trying to correct position. But things didn't work out for him. Only takes a Split second for things to go wrong.Like I said RIP
VIPER534 5 months ago
he was the greatest
kiuhy8 5 months ago
if the wheel of the car didnt hit his face on impact he would of survived but goodbye hero
itzrichardz 5 months ago
R.I.P hero!
42HAMILTON 5 months ago
A Világ legrosszabb karambola...
DungeonSiegeFan 5 months ago
is he ok now?
1TWO3x 5 months ago
@1TWO3x u serious. its not funny
Lucienator 5 months ago
@Lucienator yeh im just sayin is he alright?
1TWO3x 5 months ago
@1TWO3x HES DEAD!
Lucienator 5 months ago
Maybe Senna was an angel of God teaching the humans how to be great
TheEdRock77 5 months ago 2
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PietjePennings 5 months ago
I thought it was the fact that his car was running too low to the ground and at one point in the corner the car was resting on the metal skids at the bottom, this caused the back end to come out, he corrected the slide within like a 10th of a second of it happening then the car gripped when he corrected him which is the reason he left the track and crashed? the steering column had a lot of flex in it? or so that documentary said anyway
Scaura90 5 months ago
fkin duh quit havin concrete walls just opposite of all fast corners - are they trying to kill these guys? - i recall seeing those letters in white SENNA - always in 1rst( i was 4).Me and my brothers would laugh -whenever we randomly watched racing on tv SENNA was always WINNING .
cardspell 5 months ago
the cars of the time depended heavly on areo dynamics. a piece of debris from the earlier crash was swept underneath the car and resulted in loss of downforce. the strighting of the wheels was senna trying to corect the slide in vain.
ballickmoyler 5 months ago
è un'emozione vedere le ultime manovre sapienti di questo mito della f1......grande ayrton resterai sempre il n°1
ale3061985 5 months ago
senna we miss you
iskenderzadeh 5 months ago