Senna's Death

May 1,1994 lap2 the restart of the race in San Marino GP. According to Williams F1 team the spark underneath Ayrton's car is due to an execessive downforce and low tire pressure that results unto an uncontrollable car. The car behind him is Schumacher. This Video is from CINECA.

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[nuspeipah]

A legend. It hurts everytime to see this accident. But the didn't die in vain, the security measures following this tragedy have saved so many lives.

ayrton senna, never forgotten.

[szecek]

It wasn't tragic accident. It was negligence of mechanics from Williams team. It's sad that no one ever pay for this.

[sinchampion]

i dont know much about f1 but at 2-3seconds the view from schumacer's car, u can see a flash underneath senna's car doesnt that confirm the tyres were lower thus the car was touching the ground etc so he lost traction and it was too late to turn

[poptate7]

RIP Ayrton

[ricko23232323]

It is pretty obvious his steering failed from watching this video with all the clips together. He just heads straight for the wall and you see his head tilt left just as the camera cuts off indicating he was wrestling the car to go left but it wouldnt turn. We deserve the truth on this matter..he did not make a mistake and the rest of the on board shot has to exist somewhere

[Thiago198753]

@szecek

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[pdrga]

Very sad 1 of the greatest drivers passed I think that is a bnch of crap car bottom out , ..the steering in that car was butchered, it broke in his hands , he cranking on the wheel to turn it , then wheels went staight , williams covered this mess up , giving the data tapes to the authorities months after ,wheres the rest of tape as there was few minutes missing of data? fucking sad williams fucken butchered that car, he paid the price ,

[VegetativeHorse]

At such a "flat out" curve even the worst f1 driver making a mistake would be unbelievable. Schumi cam (up middle) clearly shows the car on a normal course exiting the curve, then something sent it to a different direction, exactly when he passed from the new asphalt patch to the old one. Taking into account telemetry and videos, it seems that car bottomed out and lost grip coming to the patch, Senna corrected, then patch ended, grip suddenly came back and "spit" him out uncontrollably.

[VegetativeHorse]

94 showed that previous Williams were top thanks to sophisticated electronics, banning them along with less grippy tyres made most cars (except those with "hidden" electronics) more unstable and dangerous this year, it's just that Williams was affected more than most by it. I agree with what you consider to be factors that contributed to this, maybe in 20 years some will say poor decisions had been made by the top heads, but don't expect anything more specific than that.

[midnightflyer70]

we will never know the truth except the greatest driver ever died out of negligence

[FoxtonLOL]

and died