A true legend. My parents were neighbours of his when he lived in Tilehurst, Reading in the 80s. They remember him fondly and said he was a kind, funny and always happy to help.
I watched this race live in 1994, it is still heartbreaking to see this ...seeing this uncut version really makes me relive the feelings I had on that day ....
I saw live too. Probably this exact footage as BBC was Murray Walker. I remember them saying he moved his head, and seeing that, knew he was dead unfortunately.
Thank you to the persons who posted this full uncut version as shown live, before all the b.s conspiracy theorists threw in their agenda-filled biased views. Sadly made it far easier courtesy of the #FIA and Italian politics' inability to throw a pee up in a brewery! They distrastley got involved to the point of taking the Sadly destroyed #Williams and Still to this day have it in their custody further muddied both @Senna and @Williams top management reputations,I.e; broken steering Columb which if there was an independent full access to team and fia/fom footage. Even if they'd allowed independent investors access to the wreckage, but that's not what happened. Senna himself requested the 18mm cut off his steering column and it had nothing to fo with this tragic Accident. Your original footage from onboard the car right behind, the Benaton B194 of @MichaelShumacher clearly shows the reason, with Senna taking #Tamburello normally that's why you see the first spark of the titanium floor skidplates(the car starts bottoming out)followed shortly after during Senna's turn by that clear shot of that second titanium spark of the car's undertray (which is responsible for at least 50% of an f1 cars total downforce)which meant for that vital moment while turning left the car became unstable and Senna just a passenger. Anyone still thinking Senna made a mistake or the Williams steering Columb snapped are idiots. The Accident happens the same instant of second undertray sparking ,only then going from a left turn to steering straight on at over 300km.
I remember hearing about this when I was 7 years old but it only now that uncut video came about where other source edited it. The sad thing about the crash Senna attempts to slow down the car as he was going 190mph toward that corner and pretty much hit the wall head on at 145mph give or take. My logical thinking tells me something on the front end of the car had to break. But other rumours stated the steering rod rack was modified to give extra length to the steering wheel as the weld broke as well William team took the black box from the car as we never going to know the real source of why Senna's F1 car took a strange turn. Sad day for the whole world to witness the death of Senna
Despite the (BBC) live broadcast not showing any graphic details, Murray Walker's very sombre mood was chilling, as it was obivious from his tone that Senna had died.
I have NEVER watched another F1 race since that day. I adored Ayrton, and my heart was forever turned from enjoying car racing after seeing him leave the world. He was adorable in every way. A man of integrity, class, style, and talent. Every fan adored him, and the world of F1 was never to same again, at least to me.
Quando ele morreu eu tinha 6 anos me lembro como se fosse hoje aquele dia trágico e triste!Senna não foi só um ídolo,Ele levou a bandeira do Brasil para o mundo com a amor e garra....
At 12:57, it's possible to see a large pool of blood right in the middle of the image. There, it already showed that Senna was no longer with us. Rest in peace, Ayrton Senna da Silva, a true legend!
I see what youre talking about, but where would it have come from. It looks like they were still trying to get him out of the car. How could the blood get to that spot, the views above doesnt show anything at that spot on the ground.
On our national TV we've had completely uninterrupted footage with no commercials and no change in camera angles. They were showing Senna's crash area throughout the entire time doctors were extracting him from the car and trying to save him on the ground. I'll never forget the large pool of blood once they moved him onto the stretcher, before taking him to the helicopter...
I watched live in the BBC which I guess is this footage. In UK was also being shown on cable (Eurosport?). Eurosport I was told showed more than the BBC.
@@darrenporter1850 Eurosport had the world feed like other broadcasters, the BBC had other cameras at the track hence why they could cut away from what the rest of the world was seeing on the world feed
Here in Brazil too, friend. This country stoped with this tragic accident that kills our brother and idol. I don't like cars, but the Senna's spirit live in me and all dreamers, all around the world! ✊🇧🇷
Tragic day for millions of people. It was my birthday weekend when I was 9 years old and i wrote about this in my book. I was alone on the couch watching the live coverage and never knew the drivers were risking their lives - I also had critical head injuries in 2007 and spend many years healing my brain and body. I remember crying and feeling so powerless, my mum just hugging me and saying ‘sometimes there is nothing that can be done Damien’ RIP Senna - you were an inspiration to so many ❤
I will never forget this horrible weekend starting with Barrichello's ugly looking incident and finishing with Senna's untimely passing. Every time I see a video about the accident I remember what it was like watching it live on television. I relive that feeling of dread that kept growing exponentially inside me as each minute passed and it became clear before it was announced that Senna was not going to make it.
@@cerneuffington2656 I’ll take the emoji as a sign you were likely joking… BUT if you assumed the original commenter was American, with you also being American too - I would call you supremely out of touch with modern day wages v. housing costs.
@@TitaniumTurbine Three people on wages all renting together. That's pretty achievable even with higher rent these days. Problem is, Gen Z (especially) are so precious they want to live on their own.
What took medics so long to get to Senna. And no one of the drivers stopped. Yet Senna stopped to help French driver Comas when he crashed in the 1992 Belgian grand prix...that the difference that made Senna such a caring and special human being.
In 1994 Tamburello was a 190+mph corner. The other drivers were all at full speed, and if one or more had stopped at that speed there could well have been more accidents, especially with the debris everywhere - I remember Berger getting back to the pits and his suspension had been hanging by a thread from contact with some of the debris. Comas was the one driver who came round to the accident site after the red flag. The commentators were very derogatory towards him but to this day I think he'd come to help his friend Senna. He was told there was nothing he could do but I do not believe he was told Senna was dead. He retired from F1 at the end of the season and I still believe this accident was why. The medics were there pretty instantly from behind the wall, but Professor Sid Watkins (main doctor) was stationed at the pit lane exit. He couldn't leave into the F1 cars still going full speed so had to wait for them to pass. He was there as soon as possible. Also bear in mind the cars used both for pace car and medical car was a shitty Vauxhall/Opel Cavalier. These were not fit for purpose and personally I think the slow speed of safety car was a factor in the accident. Unfortunately it didn't matter what car they were in Senna was gone the second he hit the wall. He'd managed to brake from 190mph to 160ish but the wheel coming back and the suspension piercing his helmet plus g force (albeit the car breaking up did dissipate some of that) he was brain dead instantly. The head movement was his muscles "shock" from losing signal from his brain. An awful weekend all round. Although I guess he got his wish - he once said if he would rather die in a crash rather than be disabled. I don't think he'd have coped if he'd survived like Schumacher (and I'm not knocking Michael either - that's a whole other tragedy).
I watched this live on the BBC. An awful weekend. I came back from Anfield on the Saturday, Liverpool's last ever home game before the kop was taken down and replaced with seating. Heard in the morning about Ratenzberger but thought that was a one off, then the accident at the start and then seeing Senna go straight off the track. Remember so vividly 30 years on. Senna was the greatest racing driver I have ever seen. I wonder how many more world championships he would have won. RIP Never forgotten.
Same here. I was 7. Grandad was round, he was having a roast dinner with us later which my ma was making in the kitchen. The 3 generations of lads were watching the F1. I actually remember it being a hot day and I remember thinking I wasn’t up for a roast with it being so warm. Senna crashed and I asked why nobody was helping him. Grandad said straight away he’s dead. I remember my dad checking teletext later on - Ayrton Senna brain dead.
well yeah of course they will be shocked, imagine seeing your favorite F1 racer dying in front of your eyes. you won't be "oh wow, he died, okay whatever".@@ChrisDunn-c9r
It's a shame that James Hunt died from a heart attack in 15 june 1993. If he was still alive in 1994 and in the commentary booth he would definitely say things like, they should cancel the race. And for a reason..
Useless piece of information. I was filling up my car, on just on the way back from Exeter to Midlands in 1992, and James Hunt was filling up his Jag. Was White with Green Livery, like the old Jag from The Saint TV show. Must have been less than a year before he passed
I have the live footage from Swedish TV recorded on VHS, they didn't cut away from the helicopter footage when they realised it was bad so it shows them removing Senna from the car and trying to resuscitate him etc and then taking him to the helicopter ambulance. History but very sad 😢
Well, later in the race, after the final nasty incident of the weekend (where Michele Alboreto had his right rear wheel come off after his final pit stop, knocking down and injuring several mechanics from Ferrari and Lotus), Murray Walker said that in his view, given the chaos in the pit lane, that race should just be stopped. At the time it had passed the mandatory 75% and everyone up and down the pit lane had had enough of all the incidents that had resulted in people being injured or killed that weekend. Steve Matchett, who worked at the Benetton team at the time, echoed that feeling 10 years later as part of Speed Channel's F1 Decade show: "That was really, the final straw that broke the Camel's back. Everyone was like 'for God's sake, let this race stop. This is a living nightmare, stop it now!'"
I woke that morning , in Australia, knowing somehow that Senna had died. I couldn’t have heard it , no radio, no TV, no social media, no laptop. Spooks me to think of it to this day.
Funny how people tell people they thought something has happened before it happened, after it's happened.if you said the day before I knew he was going to die the next day on the actual day before like wrote it down or told someone for prove.
Ayrton predicted someone would die at the Tamburello corner one day but I doubt he realised at the time that he predicted his own death. It's clear that the Williams Renault he was driving needed to be taken back to the factory where the car had been built and not driven until everything that needed to be improved had been done so. Ayrton and all the great racing legends who were killed on the circuit will always be remembered but their deaths and how they occurred will always be mentioned first. Rip Ayrton, Roland, and all the other racing legends, you will always be in our hearts forever 😢❤
How could we know that? We Knie his condition cant be Food, but maybe good enough for a worthy life? I have a family member that fell one floor deep in his own house under construction on his head, massive brain injuries, not able to speak, hardly mobile. He lost his wife a few years later, he could not let her give up the life sehe could have had with him before the accident. His plans for his life were gone, he is still not close to live without help, but he is able to write and to make decisions. And he is glad to be alive dispite his contition. Maybe Michaels Situation is comparable, maybe he is glad to be alive, too. We cant know
@@MetalJaska Well things must be bad for Michael if the family have released zero details. They wouldn't do that if he was fully lucid and able to communicate and make decisions, Michael is the type of person that would want people to know how he was, and he would want to communicate with his fans and the F1 community if he was actually able to do so. The fact there is a stone wall around him with absolutely no information suggests that he is basically alive, but not living (unable to do anything for himself).
@@wetsox278I read an interview with him where he said that in case of a major accident he would prefer to "leave in one go" rather than live with physical limitations.
I’m still heartbroken by this. In the long version, you can see him take a breath and then nothing. The doctor confirmed later that he passed there, beside his car. I stopped watching F1 after that.
It seemed to take forever for the medics to get to him. To watch everyone standing around and not approaching the car is just so strange when you compare it to today’s F1. I guess in this instance, no immediate medical attention could have had much effect. An impact like that is obviously not survivable.
As a Senna fan and as a teenager, I watched this live. The way the safety crew was acting and the lack of movement from Senna, I knew he was gone. The day Senna died was the day I stopped watching F1. Only Lewis Hamilton got me back into watching it again. At 12:56, that blood soaked towel told you all you needed to know about how Senna was. There was no way he survived that wreck
Wow, actual Nine’s WWOS coverage of this race. I’ve been searching for the Australian telecast of this tragic race for ages. I wasn’t around at the time, but my dad saw it live. Thanks for sharing it. I’d like to see the full WWOS telecast myself, but I don’t know if you’re willing to share it. BTW, the other person accompanying Alan Jones in the studio was Darrell Eastlake, not Ken Sutcliffe.
hi!! thanks for the coments. I will share the whole race one day. i just have to get round to finding it and posting it. thx for the correction on Big Dazza Eastlake (appreciated)
@@techno302You’re welcome. I’m a fan of Channel Nine’s Motorsport telecasts, I’ve got most of their 500cc telecasts from 1992-96 (missing a few rounds from 1994 and 1996). Will be looking forward to seeing the actual telecast in full eventually, but I appreciate the clips you’ve posted so far.
Still sad that Senna passed away tragically that day. I watched that race live and I will never forget it. He will always be my greatest of all time. He's skills and abilities are unmatched. #SempreSenna
9:05 I remember watching that moment live and thinking it was just a trick of the camera angle that made it appear that Senna had just speared off to the right. But then we cut to the camera at Tamburello, and I saw that the camera had not deceived.
such a great and such a humble driver. I only became interested in Senna's F 1 estimate after his Netflix documentary. As easy as he is with a car, few drivers have that kind of inspiration.
Williams is to Blame for Senna death, They welded the steering linkage and it failed 😞 ( shocking how they got away with it ) Best F1 driver Ever R.I.P
Sou brasileiro, tinha 6 anos de idade , estava assistindo junto ao meu pai e meu irmão, perdemos uma grande pessoa, certamente o melhor de todos os tempos se não tivesse perdido a vida nesse tragico acidente.😢
*MISLEADING VIDEO TITLE* The pictures shown on the World Feed, supplied by Italian host broadcaster RAI, of Senna being treated were considered by the BBC, responsible for broadcasting the San Marino Grand Prix live to viewers in the UK as well as many other broadcasters who used the BBC’s broadcast, to be too upsetting for general viewing at the time (around 1:20 pm BST), and the BBC abandoned RAI's feed to focus on their own camera in the pit lane. Other broadcasters including ESPN and Nine Network took the BBC feed from the pit lane. Murray Walker frequently talked about how upsetting it was to have to talk to viewers whilst avoiding mentioning the graphic images of copious amounts of blood & CPR being performed on Senna by the medics being shown on RAI. Referring to the number of times the incident was replayed on the world feed, Ferrari team principal Jean Todt stated that "even if you didn't want to watch it, you could barely fail to". Waiting on pit lane, Martin Brundle reported that shortly after Senna's crash, televisions in garages were being switched off. Senna was lifted from the damaged Williams, and after approximately *fifteen minutes* of on-site medical attention, was airlifted directly to Maggiore Hospital, becoming the third and final driver to be admitted there during the weekend. Commentating for the Australian telecast Channel 9 Wide World of Sports, former world champion Alan Jones remarked "that the local hospital might think they're a ‘MASH’ unit because that helicopter has been coming in quite frequently". I appreciate the uploader has gone to the effort of converting a VHS tape to digital footage & also uploaded it, but (despite the TH-cam warning) this footage from Channel 9 is cut by many adverts, and Channel 9 were using the BBC’s footage, which cut away to their alternative pit lane feed (which Channel 9 & ESPN decided they would rather show that too). The *genuine* uncut footage shown by RAI is on TH-cam somewhere as I’ve seen it again recently. If people want to watch that, that’s up to them, but this cop, where Channel 9 took several long breaks which have been cut out of this, was itself taken from the BBC’s alternative/cut feed.
I think German Station RTL has the only uninterrupted footage that I've seen, I've never seen RAI Channel. And the title is not misleading. Obviously to avoid copyright the uploader has made certain edits. But your other comments are interesting.
@@hwd7 I presume you mean you have never seen RAI’s footage of this incident, as opposed to never having seen or heard of RAI as a TV channel? “UNCUT” in the title doesn’t really fit with (actually I have had to make some cuts). Do you see how that can trick someone into thinking they are going to see the *uncut* version, which this isn’t?
They should have given the first n gold medal to the fallen legend on this race...to respect him since he was leading the race... The best that ever drove an F1 car
What a cursed GP that was. Barrichelo nearly died, Ratzenberger died, then you have the crash at the start with wheels flying into the grandstand and then, finally Senna's fatal death. And the race was not stopped. Unfathomable. What would it have taken for this race to be stopped? I get the impression anything short of a fully fueled car flying into a crowd of people and exploding wouldn't have clued in the marshalls that this race was simply not safe.
So true. F1 has seen many sad days, but this was really one of the worst Grand Prix ever and a low point in F1 history. At least they massively improved safety after this.
He Senna wouldn't survive. The massive blood pool after removing Senna's helmet showed this. To think we would have to wait until late 2016 for the Halo yet drivers like Lewis Hamilton was still against them being introduced...
@@GabrielaTiborova I believe the reference is to Lewis Hamilton being against the Halo, not a helmet. A Halo is the circular structure above the driver's head in today's cars. Many drivers were opposed to it when it was introduced because it looked ugly, but it has arguably saved many lives since then.
@@GabrielaTiborova they mean the halo that’s on modern F1 cars. Most drivers, not just LH, were against it because they felt it went against the DNA of F1. However they all changed their mind when the halo prevented (I think Alonso’s) car from landing on LeClerc’s head at Spa.
I actually saw a video a while back here on TH-cam where a guy was filming on his camcorder just a few yards from where Senna lay in his car after the crash. It showed a woman shouting at Senna in his car from behind a fence. Senna actually momentarily looked at her. It was so sad. th-cam.com/video/GnZ_VvzeJQI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=n1tSeQhOlx2RfdVU
And, the tragedy that was 1994 in Motorsports as 4 months earlier, NASCAR drivers Neil Bonnett and Rodney Orr were killed at Daytona, a month after this tragedy, the Isle of Man TT claimed 3 lives in its already bloody reputation. Earlier that year, the Dakar Rally claimed another life in January 1994. What a year it was in motorsports. 8 tragic fatalities, many more injuries in all of these events. Rest easy Roland Ratzenberger, Ayrton Senna, the 3 folks at the Isle of Man TT and the one at Dakar Rally. ❤
This may seem strange, but dealing with an unfolding tragedy often shows the quality of a commentator. Murray Walker handled this situation really well I feel. Naturally, he was surprised and shocked when the accident unfolded, but afterwards he struck the delicate balance between not overstating the drama that was unfolding before his eyes and at the same time not understating it as well. For all the times he was giving badly timed or even wrong comments, he handled this situation really well, hence part of the reason he was so well respected
I agree and I’d like to point out another commentator, Paul Page. He’s had to call many tragedies and always did it with respect and dignity. His Greg Moore call was a tough one.
@crazydrummer181 yeah, probably another tough day for Paul Page was his personal friend, Jeff Krosnoff's, fatal accident at Toronto in 1996. It's one thing to have to talk about the death of a driver, another when it's someone universally liked, but when it's a personal friend of the commentator, it must be extremely tough
@@SiVlog1989 And it's especially sad when they also died in such a brutal way. Both Moore's and Kronsonff' fatal accidents were some of the most brutal crashes in racing history.
@@jasmins203 He was effectively dead or close to it. I’ve read the report and seen the documentary. I am capable of learning and assimilating information. That’s how I would know. Next question.
@@final_mile_music9713 „effectively dead“ what does that even mean? He wasn’t dead that is for sure,, he died in hospital so stop writing rubbish like „effectively dead“. We are all going to die at some point so according to your rubbish logic we are all „effectively dead“?
@@jasmins203so out of curiosity, why are you being an ass and even commented that to begin with?? It’s no secret he died so why respond like someone going through denial of death? There was literally no point in your comment on someone who just mentioned it is sad to see…..literally no purpose. Stop being a bully through a keyboard. Anything further you respond is being ignored so just like your previous comment, there is no point in responding. Move on.
Even though I was 8 years old when it happened, I still remember this moment like it was yesterday. I also remember my mother begging me to stop crying saying: ''We don't know what happened, all we saw was a crash'', ''just wait until the next race and you will see him back on the grid'' she said. This was the first of two occasions when I cried myself to sleep in 38 years so far. I loved him with all my heart, I still do and I miss him so much... Senna Sempre!
Você também e um guerreiro amigo não te conheço mais às suas palavras me emocional falando do nosso melhor piloto que o mundo já teve eu moro à 20 minutos do cemitério onde o Airton Senna está sepultado dia 1 de maio é lotado de visitantes ele sempre será o eterno está com deus na gloria 😪🙏🌟✨
Imagine a 63 year old Senna in the sport today. Id imagine he wouldve done Indy and probably sportscars. He wouldve been a perfect fit in the early 2000s Audis
Wow, the huge pile of blood at 12:56 on the ground says all you need to know about how severe the situation was. I believe the racer Roland Ratzenberger was also killed that weekend, too. It's amazing how far technology has come in the design of car safety in f1, but even with todays technology I don't think anyone could survive that crash. RIP Ayrton Senna 🇧🇷🏎🏁🏆🐐
@@giuliorobertoful Where did you hear that his head was impaled? Fractured skull yea, but his head being impaled like a shish kabob sounds inaccurate. I saw in the video and even the announcer said that he was moving after the accident and you can see his helmet still on with nothing penetrating it, but more than likely it was his body naturally reacting to his nervous system even though he was killed on impact. I don't think he was impaled, but i'm sure he was definitely hemorrhaged from the severe impact like Dale Earnhardt because Ayrton wasn't wearing a head restraint like a hans device or any safety device like it. I looked up the report on his cause of death and it didn't say anything about him being impaled by the car but it did say debris hit his helmet causing a fracture in his skull and stated the force of the impact caused such severe hemorrhaging that it ruptured his temporal artery in his brain. Either way, it's a tragedy.
@@eldiablo3794his temporal artery was ruptured and he lost nearly 5 litres of blood and the upright in the steering penetrated his helmet and damaged his forehead
@@eldiablo3794 it's know here in Brazil, Senna is our national hero, his former girlfriend a brazilian pilots and journalists confirm this, i have the interviews but they are in portuguese, i can show you
I was 16 watching this race with my Dad. Something at that time we enjoyed doing together. Then this, oh how quiet that Sunday afternoon was, we never really spoke much after this. A very sad day and a sad memory loosing on of the best drivers ever. Wish he went on his instincts and never took part of this race. E. Senna GOAT
@@falconeshieldthey are great but stays arent everything when it comes to drivers driving style is also there senna has the best driving style out of all 3
I remember watching this, must have been around 8yrs old, me and mom used to watch together on Sundays, I remember thinking a t the time, he’s ok he moved his head but was devastated to hear later he’d died, was so shocked I never watched for years after wards, I don’t watch anymore neither
No Brasil Ayrton Senna ele é insubstituível. Senna era também uma pessoa humilde ajudava muitas pessoas carentes ele sempre deu apoio a casa de caridade pessoas mais necessitadas neste Brasil. Infelizmente perdemos um grande ídolo do esporte brasileiro. Mas a vida é isso mesmo devemos entender que : nós não somos deste mundo. Nós somos sim é de outro lugar e tudo que é vivo morre ninguém não está para ficar nesta terra. Esperamos um dia encontrar o Ayrton na glória do senhor Deus
Never has there ever been a more high profile example of money and the power of it over-riding the actual law of the country. This weekend should’ve been abandoned straight after Roland’s accident. Even Senna’s death was reported as ‘after the race had finished’ purely for legal reasons. Anyone watching on live TV knew he died the second he hit the wall. Absolute corrupt organisation, and it’s 2024 and they still are. No sport should be owned by a company. It ceases being a sport and becomes a ‘product’. Nothing changes 😢
To those criticising the people nearby for not helping, firstly they are not Medic’s, they are Safety Marshall’s - you can even see one with a fire extinguisher. They could conceivably have made matters worse by getting involved, however well intentioned they may have been. At 9.30 one does get close to Senna but recoils. At 10.05, you can possibly see the reason for this as it appears to me that there is a large blood stain on Senna’s overalls. I shudder to think on how horrifying it was for the Medic’s a few seconds later when they removed his helmet, particularly for Professor Sid Watkins who was a close friend of Senna. RIP Ayrton and Sid
@@fabianbrown2021 Exactly. Remember Barrichello’s car being flipped back over after his crash as though it was a pancake. If his spine had already been injured, that move could have been catastrophic.
I agree 100%. They could cause more damage than good by trying to do anything. Good intentions don’t necessarily save lives. Senna turned off Eric Comas car to prevent a fire, but he didn’t dare trying to remove him from the car.
I remember this moment as now, i was 14 years old at this time, watching our hero dead inside the cockpit, this day was the most sad day in our country, we were so proud about him, Senna has taken our country’s flag around the 18:13 World, after that i stoped to Watch F1.
Even the commentary immediately after the accident reflects a steering failure. Both mention about Senna going straight to the wall. Their voices clearly possess surprise and shock.
Hard to believe that 30 years is coming up since this tragic weekend occured. I recall in Dr. Sid's book him saying that although he was not a religious man, he felt the moment when Senna's soul left his body.
First thing - this race should have been cancelled after Ratzenberger died on Saturday. After Senna crashed and everyone realized its severity, the race should have been CANCELLED WITHOUT A DOUBT. Putting those drivers in a position to have to race after what happened was incredibly dangerous and unfeeling. Anyone responsible for these decisions has blood on their hands and it should weigh very heavily on their minds to this day.
It’s easy to judge in hindsight especially when we such high safety measures today. 2021 at Silverstone when Max hit the wall and went to hospital, the race continued still.
famous footage showed that day on French TV was Prost (commenting the race) holding his head with both hands in disbelief knowing it was very bad...they had just spoken through the radio on the formation lap ,Senna telling Prost he & the other pilots missed him on the grid that Sunday...
In the documentary, before the race he knew that he was going to be taken, or at least he felt something was off about everything. He saw it coming and he embraced the hand of god. Long live the legend of racing. 💛💚💙🇧🇷
Same thing here, I was born 1 year later so this is really poignant as i was told about it by my parents eventually but it was just a brief mention nothing more, and only brought up to point out that safety had come a long way and I’m growing up not really having to worry or consider that like they did when they were just getting into the sport… only to have that ‘luck’ run out with bianci 😢 before oh he’ll be fine… now I wait for at least a arm movement to breathe abit.
Need 2 minutes that the first paramedic came to help Senna, its long long time to rescue by such accident. by introduce halo that will survive senna . RIP Senna the best driver ever in f1
If low tyre temperatures were to blame then Senna would've gone off on lap 6 as soon as the safety car came in. And if so, why didnt Hill or any other drivers suffer the same fate? But Senna went off on the next lap which should've been enough time to bring the tyre pressures and temps up to speed. It was obviously a mechanical steering column failure. RIP Senna and Ratzenberger,😢 Gone but not forgotten.
Notice what you don’t see when senna’s head twitches at 10:04? His steering wheel. I’ve read several times that they cut and lengthened his steering shaft. This turn was no match for his skill as a driver and yet his wheels didn’t turn and he drove right into the wall. Guess after 30 yrs on( hard to believe) we will never know the truth. What a cursed 3 day race if ever there was such a thing
It’s obvious from the first responders (track side) lack of urgency to help the driver that when they assessed the damage to his helmet and visible blood > that they waited for EMS to arrive. 😢
Não havia o que fazer num acidente dessa magnitude,bater num muro de concreto a 207 kms por hora, não há ser humano que aguente, além do mais,por azar do SENNA,ao bater no muro,a roda dianteira direita que foi a primeira a se chocar,soltou- se e veio de encontro ao cockpit e ao bater no mesmo empurrou a cabeça do AYRTON contra o encosto do cokpit causando-lhe uma forte LESÃO NA BASE DO CÉREBRO,e ainda o braço da suspensão da roda dianteira direita passou pelo CAPACETE do AYRTON feito uma FLEXA,perfurando o mesmo e tbm a tempora direita do AYRTON,causando um corte de aproximadamente 6(seis) centrimentos provocando perda de MASSA CEREBRAL e muito, muito SANGUE,realmente foi fatal,a equipe médica ao chegar ao local do sinistro, após 1(um) minuto e 40( quarenta) segundos, já sabia que o AYRTON estava em processo de MORTE CEREBRAL AGUDA,e eles apenas fizeram manobras médicas para manter o CORAÇÃO do AYRTON ainda batendo,para alegarem que o AYRTON não morreu na pista, porém ele já estava morto,para que a corrida não fosse "INTERROMPIDA"por motivos financeiros,afinal a ganância está acima da vida humana,este foi o fim do MAIOR E MELHOR PILOTO DE FÓRMULA 1,um fim trágico,por erro colossal da equipe WILLIANS e tbm dos organizadores deste GRANDE PRÊMIO que não deveria ser corrido após a morte de um piloto no dia anterior tbm na PISTA.😮
Is 29 years and a half since that day and I still remember this race... I was with my cousin watching the broadcasting early in the morning and I wanted Senna to win since the 1994 season started (I have Ayrton photos taken by Ercole Colombo )... I was very excited and I remembered the night before my cousin told me... hey a formula 1 driver from Austria died in the Imola circuit... it was horrible... and that Sunday May 1st watching me so excited to see Senna win and hearing from me several times saying I want Senna to win and be champion again, he came to me, he hugged me and said " no worries Sennita is going to win, have faith Sennita will win ". Then the race started and another accident happened on the grid starting... the race should have been stopped to get a 2nd start as used to be before however and suddenly we had to see the safety car in the front for a few more laps... we were watching ESPN as always and we saw the accident of Senna in lap 7 at Tamburello curve and I remember when Bob Varsha said " Where the hell are the tires barrier " , he was angry and we couldn't believe there wasn't tires barrier in front of the concrete wall to absorb the impact of any possible accident... terrible mistake from Imola circuit authorities because there was accidents before in the same curve where the top speed is 300 km / hour. We saw Senna moving his neck a little bit inside the cockpit and the helicopter landing to pick him up to go to Bologna hospital, later during the race Bob Varsha said " Ayrton Senna is fighting for his life ". The race was over and we felt that would be difficult for him to survive, the broadcast finished and watching Italian soccer in Rai we heard the news that he died.. We knew was a failure of the Williams car and not Ayrton mistake. Since the beginning of the season he wasn't feeling the car competitive and the cockpit was not comfortable as his McLaren was... reason he asked Williams team to modify his steering column... steering column that wasn't weld properly and broke down just exactly in Tamburello and probably was getting cracked before because of the bumpy circuit. Is true that Ayrton asked to get modified the steering column in the meanwhile Williams was waiting for the new cockpit... however that wasn't an excuse to not have the properly steering column for that race, specially when we were talking about of one of the best Formula 1 teams. Frank Williams wanted Senna to be a World champion of formula 1 again but at the same time I feel his team brought him to die. Since that day the formula 1 wasn't the same and I lost the interest in the next couple of years and I was angry seeing Schumacher winning races not having real drivers in front of him... he wasn't skillful on the rain and not fast as Senna on the dangerous gaps and no real competitors against him, easy to win like that. Just remember how he lost the control of his Benetton in Adelaide circuit and hit Hill to not let him win the championship. If Hill slammed on the breaks a little bit he would have avoid that accident and win. I always remember Senna and is sad not seeing him alive, he could have been 4 or 5 times formula 1 champion. He didn't feel to race that day, it was touching for him seeing the accidents of Friday and Saturday at Imola. I wish he didn't race because he would have won at Monaco as he did 6 times and driving a new Williams. Probably if there was a 2nd start instead of having the safety car in the front, the steering column could have been broken in a slow part of the circuit. The 2nd Start was after Ayrton accident... too late and very bad management of the authorities at Imola. GRAZIE AYRTON ❤
I have tears in my eyes right now after all this time and I'm romanian. Can't imagine how it must've been for the brazilians who admired him back then!
I feel honoured to have witnessed the flash of that yellow helmet like a blur past many times in Adelaide in those years in real life. He was just much faster than the others consistently...Always totally committed. I remember this race...Haunting still. That 2010 'Senna' documentary that came out is outstanding. It covers this race very well. Iincredibly touching....esp the almost 3hr version :)
I went to Saturday qualifying for the Australian GP in '90 and '92. I was quite young and don’t remember a lot, but can vividly remember every time the Marlboro McLaren with the yellow helmet flashed by.
I've not seen this in full, (Start to Senna Crash) since it aired live on BBC1. Back when it happened you were jaw to the floor and on the edge of your seat with hope and all fingers crossed praying he would be ok, you had time to get used to the idea he might not make it. But today that sinking feeling hits you harder as you know the moment it happens. 🙁 Senna was a champion of champions and then some! 🇧🇷
Senna was so good. It still hurts to see the images 30 years later on. So sad.
You knew when he jumped out of his car to help the other driver, that he was someone that should be valued in this life, I forget what race that was
@@SFbayArea94121Belgium
he jumped out to save comas before his car could explode
@@SFbayArea94121Spa 1992, Eric Comas. 🙏❤🇧🇷
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A true legend. My parents were neighbours of his when he lived in Tilehurst, Reading in the 80s. They remember him fondly and said he was a kind, funny and always happy to help.
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Yeah he seemed like a really great and genuinely kind person. One that you enjoy being in their company
Wow
damn.. rest in peace senna 🕊️
I never knew he lived there, I'm only half an hour from tilehurst
I watched this race live in 1994, it is still heartbreaking to see this ...seeing this uncut version really makes me relive the feelings I had on that day ....
I saw live too. Probably this exact footage as BBC was Murray Walker. I remember them saying he moved his head, and seeing that, knew he was dead unfortunately.
Me too and then again and again. Same bud feelings 🇬🇷😓
Thank you to the persons who posted this full uncut version as shown live, before all the b.s conspiracy theorists threw in their agenda-filled biased views. Sadly made it far easier courtesy of the #FIA and Italian politics' inability to throw a pee up in a brewery! They distrastley got involved to the point of taking the Sadly destroyed #Williams and Still to this day have it in their custody further muddied both @Senna and @Williams top management reputations,I.e; broken steering Columb which if there was an independent full access to team and fia/fom footage. Even if they'd allowed
independent investors access to the wreckage, but that's not what happened. Senna himself requested the 18mm cut off his steering column and it had nothing to fo with this tragic Accident. Your original footage from onboard the car right behind, the Benaton B194 of @MichaelShumacher clearly shows the reason, with Senna taking #Tamburello normally that's why you see the first spark of the titanium floor skidplates(the car starts bottoming out)followed shortly after during Senna's turn by that clear shot of that second titanium spark of the car's undertray (which is responsible for at least 50% of an f1 cars total downforce)which meant for that vital moment while turning left the car became unstable and Senna just a passenger. Anyone still thinking Senna made a mistake or the Williams steering Columb snapped are idiots. The Accident happens the same instant of second undertray sparking ,only then going from a left turn to steering straight on at over 300km.
Same here, this is heartbreaking
I remember hearing about this when I was 7 years old but it only now that uncut video came about where other source edited it. The sad thing about the crash Senna attempts to slow down the car as he was going 190mph toward that corner and pretty much hit the wall head on at 145mph give or take. My logical thinking tells me something on the front end of the car had to break. But other rumours stated the steering rod rack was modified to give extra length to the steering wheel as the weld broke as well William team took the black box from the car as we never going to know the real source of why Senna's F1 car took a strange turn. Sad day for the whole world to witness the death of Senna
Despite the (BBC) live broadcast not showing any graphic details, Murray Walker's very sombre mood was chilling, as it was obivious from his tone that Senna had died.
I have NEVER watched another F1 race since that day. I adored Ayrton, and my heart was forever turned from enjoying car racing after seeing him leave the world. He was adorable in every way. A man of integrity, class, style, and talent. Every fan adored him, and the world of F1 was never to same again, at least to me.
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Eu fico emocionado por ser brasileiro e ver um comentário tão satisfatório a respeito do nosso herói senna😢
@@jeanpaulo5943 Nunca haverá ninguém tão especial quanto Ayrton, ele era único, insubstituível. Meu coração se partiu.😞😞😞😞
Quando ele morreu eu tinha 6 anos me lembro como se fosse hoje aquele dia trágico e triste!Senna não foi só um ídolo,Ele levou a bandeira do Brasil para o mundo com a amor e garra....
He was good ! But integrity and class when he was 25 and dating a 15 yo ?
At 12:57, it's possible to see a large pool of blood right in the middle of the image. There, it already showed that Senna was no longer with us. Rest in peace, Ayrton Senna da Silva, a true legend!
You referring to the middle at the bottom of the screen?? That's a lot of blood . Wonder why they moved him again after taken out of his car ?
I see what youre talking about, but where would it have come from. It looks like they were still trying to get him out of the car. How could the blood get to that spot, the views above doesnt show anything at that spot on the ground.
@@kipper7059possible they could’ve moved the car
@@TheWorldSpinsSlowly ...Very true
I wonder if his helmet was taken off at that point…
Still painfull to see, my childhood idol
This is the first time I have watched this footage since watching it live. Still hurts. I didn’t watch F1 again until four years ago.
So you sadly missed Prime F1 which was from 1997 to 2012 except 3 or 4 seasons that were dominant
@@emilekaram6094Definitely not prime era 😂
@@diehard21000I will never agree with you
Prime was 86-95 ❤
@@jackworsley2562 Got watch Golf, I only agree on 1988-91
On our national TV we've had completely uninterrupted footage with no commercials and no change in camera angles. They were showing Senna's crash area throughout the entire time doctors were extracting him from the car and trying to save him on the ground. I'll never forget the large pool of blood once they moved him onto the stretcher, before taking him to the helicopter...
I watched live in the BBC which I guess is this footage. In UK was also being shown on cable (Eurosport?). Eurosport I was told showed more than the BBC.
@@darrenporter1850 Eurosport had the world feed like other broadcasters, the BBC had other cameras at the track hence why they could cut away from what the rest of the world was seeing on the world feed
Here in Brazil too, friend. This country stoped with this tragic accident that kills our brother and idol. I don't like cars, but the Senna's spirit live in me and all dreamers, all around the world! ✊🇧🇷
yeah, unfortunately you can see it in 12:56. Senna era o melhor, amaria tê-lo visto correr pessoalmente
Aqui no Brasil acreditamos wue ele morreu na pista, e isso não foi declarado pq a corrida teria que acabar neste momento muito triste
He lives in our memory and his legacy. Simply the best of all.
The lack of medical response for a good 3 minutes is heartbreaking. His final head movement took all the life out of my heart watching this again
Tragic day for millions of people. It was my birthday weekend when I was 9 years old and i wrote about this in my book. I was alone on the couch watching the live coverage and never knew the drivers were risking their lives - I also had critical head injuries in 2007 and spend many years healing my brain and body. I remember crying and feeling so powerless, my mum just hugging me and saying ‘sometimes there is nothing that can be done Damien’ RIP Senna - you were an inspiration to so many ❤
I will never forget this horrible weekend starting with Barrichello's ugly looking incident and finishing with Senna's untimely passing. Every time I see a video about the accident I remember what it was like watching it live on television. I relive that feeling of dread that kept growing exponentially inside me as each minute passed and it became clear before it was announced that Senna was not going to make it.
And Ratzenberger's death Saturday in time
I too watched this race live. Still heartbreaking to watch😢
I'm just watching this video in my parents house, exactly the same place I watched it live in 94. Haunting and still emotional all these years later.
Ain't it about time you moved out? 😆
Just visiting for a few weeks@@cerneuffington2656
@@cerneuffington2656He most likely has a wonderful relationship with his parents, unlike you.
@@cerneuffington2656 I’ll take the emoji as a sign you were likely joking… BUT if you assumed the original commenter was American, with you also being American too - I would call you supremely out of touch with modern day wages v. housing costs.
@@TitaniumTurbine Three people on wages all renting together. That's pretty achievable even with higher rent these days. Problem is, Gen Z (especially) are so precious they want to live on their own.
What took medics so long to get to Senna. And no one of the drivers stopped. Yet Senna stopped to help French driver Comas when he crashed in the 1992 Belgian grand prix...that the difference that made Senna such a caring and special human being.
The heroism of fellow drivers plunging into the flames to help their mates never fails to amaze me 😢💔
However long it had taken them senna was already gone, the suspension strut went through his helmet....it was pretty instant sadly.
It’s dangerous to stop early only making another crash more likely. Sadly for Senna it wouldn’t have helped anyways :(
In 1994 Tamburello was a 190+mph corner. The other drivers were all at full speed, and if one or more had stopped at that speed there could well have been more accidents, especially with the debris everywhere - I remember Berger getting back to the pits and his suspension had been hanging by a thread from contact with some of the debris.
Comas was the one driver who came round to the accident site after the red flag. The commentators were very derogatory towards him but to this day I think he'd come to help his friend Senna. He was told there was nothing he could do but I do not believe he was told Senna was dead. He retired from F1 at the end of the season and I still believe this accident was why.
The medics were there pretty instantly from behind the wall, but Professor Sid Watkins (main doctor) was stationed at the pit lane exit. He couldn't leave into the F1 cars still going full speed so had to wait for them to pass. He was there as soon as possible. Also bear in mind the cars used both for pace car and medical car was a shitty Vauxhall/Opel Cavalier. These were not fit for purpose and personally I think the slow speed of safety car was a factor in the accident. Unfortunately it didn't matter what car they were in Senna was gone the second he hit the wall. He'd managed to brake from 190mph to 160ish but the wheel coming back and the suspension piercing his helmet plus g force (albeit the car breaking up did dissipate some of that) he was brain dead instantly. The head movement was his muscles "shock" from losing signal from his brain. An awful weekend all round. Although I guess he got his wish - he once said if he would rather die in a crash rather than be disabled. I don't think he'd have coped if he'd survived like Schumacher (and I'm not knocking Michael either - that's a whole other tragedy).
what, im gonna slam my brakes when im coming over 150 miles around a corner? sounds like a fantastic idea
Absolutely horrific weekend, ending with this... My 13 year old self cried every tear he had that day 😢
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I watched this live on the BBC. An awful weekend. I came back from Anfield on the Saturday, Liverpool's last ever home game before the kop was taken down and replaced with seating. Heard in the morning about Ratenzberger but thought that was a one off, then the accident at the start and then seeing Senna go straight off the track. Remember so vividly 30 years on. Senna was the greatest racing driver I have ever seen. I wonder how many more world championships he would have won. RIP Never forgotten.
Same here. I was 7. Grandad was round, he was having a roast dinner with us later which my ma was making in the kitchen. The 3 generations of lads were watching the F1. I actually remember it being a hot day and I remember thinking I wasn’t up for a roast with it being so warm.
Senna crashed and I asked why nobody was helping him. Grandad said straight away he’s dead. I remember my dad checking teletext later on - Ayrton Senna brain dead.
3 people killed in one weekend
F1's darkest race... 1 spectator in the Grandstands, Which was hushed up, Roland & Ayrton, Just totally tragic.
How did a spectator die?
Will never forget this day. An awful day, the whole event seemed cursed
It was a lot of eerie happenings
The most dangerous past time and people still shocked when people die doing it .
well yeah of course they will be shocked, imagine seeing your favorite F1 racer dying in front of your eyes. you won't be "oh wow, he died, okay whatever".@@ChrisDunn-c9r
@@ChrisDunn-c9ryou are never invited to parties.
It's been foreshadowed from the beginning
It's a shame that James Hunt died from a heart attack in 15 june 1993. If he was still alive in 1994 and in the commentary booth he would definitely say things like, they should cancel the race. And for a reason..
Useless piece of information. I was filling up my car, on just on the way back from Exeter to Midlands in 1992, and James Hunt was filling up his Jag. Was White with Green Livery, like the old Jag from The Saint TV show. Must have been less than a year before he passed
I have the live footage from Swedish TV recorded on VHS, they didn't cut away from the helicopter footage when they realised it was bad so it shows them removing Senna from the car and trying to resuscitate him etc and then taking him to the helicopter ambulance. History but very sad 😢
Well, later in the race, after the final nasty incident of the weekend (where Michele Alboreto had his right rear wheel come off after his final pit stop, knocking down and injuring several mechanics from Ferrari and Lotus), Murray Walker said that in his view, given the chaos in the pit lane, that race should just be stopped. At the time it had passed the mandatory 75% and everyone up and down the pit lane had had enough of all the incidents that had resulted in people being injured or killed that weekend. Steve Matchett, who worked at the Benetton team at the time, echoed that feeling 10 years later as part of Speed Channel's F1 Decade show:
"That was really, the final straw that broke the Camel's back. Everyone was like 'for God's sake, let this race stop. This is a living nightmare, stop it now!'"
maybe he would have even had the live broadcast interrupted
@@julianhoskins5158 Man is there anyway you can get me these images? Please
Quase 3 décadas depois e ainda dói lembrar que perdemos tão cedo o maior piloto de todos os tempos.
Sinto o mesmo!!!
É impressão minha,ou a ajudar médica demorou muito tempo a chegar? Agora já é tarde...😢
Its Hard to think this Accident happened nearly 30 years ago
I woke that morning , in Australia, knowing somehow that Senna had died.
I couldn’t have heard it , no radio, no TV, no social media, no laptop. Spooks me to think of it to this day.
Funny how people tell people they thought something has happened before it happened, after it's happened.if you said the day before I knew he was going to die the next day on the actual day before like wrote it down or told someone for prove.
you and mystic meg
Yeah sure
the moment he moved his head is so devastating
I watched this live in 1994 and it broke my heart. We lost the greatest ever F1 driver, never will be forgotten.
Unbelievable. 30 years ago this year. Interesting to hear big Dazza and Alan Jones in commentary for Nine’s Wide World of Sport.
To think they just had concrete barriers and no tyres on turns like that is insane.
Ayrton predicted someone would die at the Tamburello corner one day but I doubt he realised at the time that he predicted his own death. It's clear that the Williams Renault he was driving needed to be taken back to the factory where the car had been built and not driven until everything that needed to be improved had been done so. Ayrton and all the great racing legends who were killed on the circuit will always be remembered but their deaths and how they occurred will always be mentioned first. Rip Ayrton, Roland, and all the other racing legends, you will always be in our hearts forever 😢❤
Thirty years of that damn day
Senna Forever ❤
It's sad to say but now in retrospect, Senna got the better end of the deal compared to Michael.
How could we know that? We Knie his condition cant be Food, but maybe good enough for a worthy life? I have a family member that fell one floor deep in his own house under construction on his head, massive brain injuries, not able to speak, hardly mobile. He lost his wife a few years later, he could not let her give up the life sehe could have had with him before the accident. His plans for his life were gone, he is still not close to live without help, but he is able to write and to make decisions. And he is glad to be alive dispite his contition. Maybe Michaels Situation is comparable, maybe he is glad to be alive, too. We cant know
or Christopher Reeve
@@MetalJaska Well things must be bad for Michael if the family have released zero details. They wouldn't do that if he was fully lucid and able to communicate and make decisions, Michael is the type of person that would want people to know how he was, and he would want to communicate with his fans and the F1 community if he was actually able to do so. The fact there is a stone wall around him with absolutely no information suggests that he is basically alive, but not living (unable to do anything for himself).
Kind of a morbid way of looking at things, but I am inclined to agree. I think Senna would prefer to be dead than to suffer Michael's fate.
@@wetsox278I read an interview with him where he said that in case of a major accident he would prefer to "leave in one go" rather than live with physical limitations.
This footage is 30 years old today and it is still one of the most shocking and heartbreaking footages in F1 history. RIP Ayrton Senna 💯🇧🇷💎🌹
3:36 Wow. 2 tyres flying into the Grandstand
I’m still heartbroken by this. In the long version, you can see him take a breath and then nothing. The doctor confirmed later that he passed there, beside his car. I stopped watching F1 after that.
Bit dramatic to stop watching F1, shit happens, you’ve missed out on the real goat, Schumacher.
Still makes me want to cry. That weekend was bad from the very start of the weekend.
It seemed to take forever for the medics to get to him. To watch everyone standing around and not approaching the car is just so strange when you compare it to today’s F1. I guess in this instance, no immediate medical attention could have had much effect. An impact like that is obviously not survivable.
That spinout at 0:18 should have stopped this race as soon as it started.
It's been 30 years. We haven't forgot you Ayrton
We all know that the welded steering column failed.
Senna would have become President of Brazil. His lost while tragic to the motorsport world was immeasurable in Brazil. They still are feeling it.
Saw it live in 94...
Seeing this now exactly 30 years later l still freeze
As a Senna fan and as a teenager, I watched this live. The way the safety crew was acting and the lack of movement from Senna, I knew he was gone. The day Senna died was the day I stopped watching F1. Only Lewis Hamilton got me back into watching it again.
At 12:56, that blood soaked towel told you all you needed to know about how Senna was. There was no way he survived that wreck
...that steering change killed it... Williams was responsible for the death of the world's greatest F1 champion ..always in the heart ❤️
This was absolutely one of the saddest days in my life.
Same, it had a greater impact on me than both of my parents dying. I am usually in tears by now even thinking about it.
When I see this, I always think he only had about 5 minutes left of his brilliant life, how things can change so quickly without warning, very sad.
Wow, actual Nine’s WWOS coverage of this race. I’ve been searching for the Australian telecast of this tragic race for ages. I wasn’t around at the time, but my dad saw it live. Thanks for sharing it. I’d like to see the full WWOS telecast myself, but I don’t know if you’re willing to share it.
BTW, the other person accompanying Alan Jones in the studio was Darrell Eastlake, not Ken Sutcliffe.
hi!! thanks for the coments. I will share the whole race one day. i just have to get round to finding it and posting it. thx for the correction on Big Dazza Eastlake (appreciated)
@@techno302You’re welcome. I’m a fan of Channel Nine’s Motorsport telecasts, I’ve got most of their 500cc telecasts from 1992-96 (missing a few rounds from 1994 and 1996). Will be looking forward to seeing the actual telecast in full eventually, but I appreciate the clips you’ve posted so far.
Still sad that Senna passed away tragically that day. I watched that race live and I will never forget it. He will always be my greatest of all time. He's skills and abilities are unmatched. #SempreSenna
I remember watching this live and just assuming Senna would get out of the car, or at the very worst, be taken to hospital for checks.
9:05 I remember watching that moment live and thinking it was just a trick of the camera angle that made it appear that Senna had just speared off to the right. But then we cut to the camera at Tamburello, and I saw that the camera had not deceived.
After Barrichello's crash there, how did he survive? Thankfully he did, against all odds.
such a great and such a humble driver. I only became interested in Senna's F 1 estimate after his Netflix documentary. As easy as he is with a car, few drivers have that kind of inspiration.
A few months after this brazil won the 1994 world cup in the US
I watched this with my dad live and it was heartbreaking. What a legend he was. He was the GoaT.
My dad said, when they moved Senna’s car away, there was a lot of blood underneath it. Must’ve been horrible to watch..
Look 12:57… i think it was
Williams is to Blame for Senna death, They welded the steering linkage and it failed 😞 ( shocking how they got away with it ) Best F1 driver Ever R.I.P
Sou brasileiro, tinha 6 anos de idade , estava assistindo junto ao meu pai e meu irmão, perdemos uma grande pessoa, certamente o melhor de todos os tempos se não tivesse perdido a vida nesse tragico acidente.😢
That twitch at 10:04 is just haunting.
*MISLEADING VIDEO TITLE*
The pictures shown on the World Feed, supplied by Italian host broadcaster RAI, of Senna being treated were considered by the BBC, responsible for broadcasting the San Marino Grand Prix live to viewers in the UK as well as many other broadcasters who used the BBC’s broadcast, to be too upsetting for general viewing at the time (around 1:20 pm BST), and the BBC abandoned RAI's feed to focus on their own camera in the pit lane. Other broadcasters including ESPN and Nine Network took the BBC feed from the pit lane.
Murray Walker frequently talked about how upsetting it was to have to talk to viewers whilst avoiding mentioning the graphic images of copious amounts of blood & CPR being performed on Senna by the medics being shown on RAI.
Referring to the number of times the incident was replayed on the world feed, Ferrari team principal Jean Todt stated that "even if you didn't want to watch it, you could barely fail to". Waiting on pit lane, Martin Brundle reported that shortly after Senna's crash, televisions in garages were being switched off.
Senna was lifted from the damaged Williams, and after approximately *fifteen minutes* of on-site medical attention, was airlifted directly to Maggiore Hospital, becoming the third and final driver to be admitted there during the weekend. Commentating for the Australian telecast Channel 9 Wide World of Sports, former world champion Alan Jones remarked "that the local hospital might think they're a ‘MASH’ unit because that helicopter has been coming in quite frequently".
I appreciate the uploader has gone to the effort of converting a VHS tape to digital footage & also uploaded it, but (despite the TH-cam warning) this footage from Channel 9 is cut by many adverts, and Channel 9 were using the BBC’s footage, which cut away to their alternative pit lane feed (which Channel 9 & ESPN decided they would rather show that too).
The *genuine* uncut footage shown by RAI is on TH-cam somewhere as I’ve seen it again recently.
If people want to watch that, that’s up to them, but this cop, where Channel 9 took several long breaks which have been cut out of this, was itself taken from the BBC’s alternative/cut feed.
I think German Station RTL has the only uninterrupted footage that I've seen, I've never seen RAI Channel.
And the title is not misleading.
Obviously to avoid copyright the uploader has made certain edits.
But your other comments are interesting.
@@hwd7 I presume you mean you have never seen RAI’s footage of this incident, as opposed to never having seen or heard of RAI as a TV channel?
“UNCUT” in the title doesn’t really fit with (actually I have had to make some cuts). Do you see how that can trick someone into thinking they are going to see the *uncut* version, which this isn’t?
@@MikaHakkinen-vj5sb
No, I haven't heard of any TV station called RAI.
I will look them up,
Yes, I agree with your summary of this video.
Thank you.
its an omen for a race to start with a car stalling out causing a crash, it’s a little eire knowing what happens later.
R.i.p Senna Legend❤️💙. That is brutall kill car mafia
They should have given the first n gold medal to the fallen legend on this race...to respect him since he was leading the race... The best that ever drove an F1 car
With all respect, I don’t think he was the best
What a cursed GP that was.
Barrichelo nearly died, Ratzenberger died, then you have the crash at the start with wheels flying into the grandstand and then, finally Senna's fatal death.
And the race was not stopped. Unfathomable. What would it have taken for this race to be stopped? I get the impression anything short of a fully fueled car flying into a crowd of people and exploding wouldn't have clued in the marshalls that this race was simply not safe.
Money 👹
So true. F1 has seen many sad days, but this was really one of the worst Grand Prix ever and a low point in F1 history. At least they massively improved safety after this.
So a Le Mans 1955
And a pit stop went wrong resulting in 6 injured mechanics.
Wait all that was during this one race?
Jonathan Palmer is a qualified doctor. He must have immediately realised how much trouble Senna was in and just couldn’t say it on air…
He Senna wouldn't survive. The massive blood pool after removing Senna's helmet showed this. To think we would have to wait until late 2016 for the Halo yet drivers like Lewis Hamilton was still against them being introduced...
Can you explain what exactly are you referring to with the helmet and why was LH against it?
@@GabrielaTiborova I believe the reference is to Lewis Hamilton being against the Halo, not a helmet. A Halo is the circular structure above the driver's head in today's cars. Many drivers were opposed to it when it was introduced because it looked ugly, but it has arguably saved many lives since then.
@@GabrielaTiborova they mean the halo that’s on modern F1 cars. Most drivers, not just LH, were against it because they felt it went against the DNA of F1.
However they all changed their mind when the halo prevented (I think Alonso’s) car from landing on LeClerc’s head at Spa.
Yes. A qualified dentist.
I remember that head move, i was like "yay!" he is alive. But it was just twitch...
I actually saw a video a while back here on TH-cam where a guy was filming on his camcorder just a few yards from where Senna lay in his car after the crash. It showed a woman shouting at Senna in his car from behind a fence. Senna actually momentarily looked at her. It was so sad.
th-cam.com/video/GnZ_VvzeJQI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=n1tSeQhOlx2RfdVU
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it was him dying, your body actually twitches once death occurs,like a final exhale
@@landonleean8353😮😮😮😥😥😥😭😭
@@landonleean8353Yeah he said he twitched, can you read?
A very unfortunate end to the greatest racing driver in history and the darkest weekend in F1 history. Descanse em paz Ayrton. Godspeed.
And, the tragedy that was 1994 in Motorsports as 4 months earlier, NASCAR drivers Neil Bonnett and Rodney Orr were killed at Daytona, a month after this tragedy, the Isle of Man TT claimed 3 lives in its already bloody reputation. Earlier that year, the Dakar Rally claimed another life in January 1994. What a year it was in motorsports. 8 tragic fatalities, many more injuries in all of these events. Rest easy Roland Ratzenberger, Ayrton Senna, the 3 folks at the Isle of Man TT and the one at Dakar Rally. ❤
@@CycloneSakurayes. Nothing but the utmost for those guys, literally putting their lives on the line for our entertainment
whatever happened to Alain Prost ? I thought he was the best -
Oh well - none of them are as good as AJ Foyt was - just ask Mario - he knows
In F1, he was the greatest. Dale Earnhardt was the best driver in NASCAR. Now, sadly, they're together...
Schumacher fans may have something to say about this. Tragic for all 3 of them now. @@tenngirl4trump
RIP Roland. 😢
RIP Ayrton. 😢
With other racers and Murray Walker narrating their race.
Pudieron haber sido 3 pilotos en ese gran premio.
R.I.P Ayrton Senna 😢
This may seem strange, but dealing with an unfolding tragedy often shows the quality of a commentator. Murray Walker handled this situation really well I feel. Naturally, he was surprised and shocked when the accident unfolded, but afterwards he struck the delicate balance between not overstating the drama that was unfolding before his eyes and at the same time not understating it as well.
For all the times he was giving badly timed or even wrong comments, he handled this situation really well, hence part of the reason he was so well respected
Murray said it was the hardest commentary in his career.
I agree and I’d like to point out another commentator, Paul Page. He’s had to call many tragedies and always did it with respect and dignity. His Greg Moore call was a tough one.
@crazydrummer181 yeah, probably another tough day for Paul Page was his personal friend, Jeff Krosnoff's, fatal accident at Toronto in 1996. It's one thing to have to talk about the death of a driver, another when it's someone universally liked, but when it's a personal friend of the commentator, it must be extremely tough
@@SiVlog1989 damn, I didn’t realize they were friends. That one was rough too
@@SiVlog1989 And it's especially sad when they also died in such a brutal way. Both Moore's and Kronsonff' fatal accidents were some of the most brutal crashes in racing history.
That was the very last F1 Grand Prix I watched in my life. F1 died for me on May 1st 1994. You can't imagine what Senna meant for us brazilians. 🇧🇷 😢.
💔😢
There were other Brazilian drivers though. I'm sure they would have loved your support also.
The little head movement was heartbreaking. Literally the life draining from him.
How would you know? Are you a doctor?
@@jasmins203 He was effectively dead or close to it. I’ve read the report and seen the documentary. I am capable of learning and assimilating information. That’s how I would know. Next question.
@@final_mile_music9713 „effectively dead“ what does that even mean? He wasn’t dead that is for sure,, he died in hospital so stop writing rubbish like „effectively dead“. We are all going to die at some point so according to your rubbish logic we are all „effectively dead“?
@jasmins203 this argument is stupid and you're stupid for having it
@@jasmins203so out of curiosity, why are you being an ass and even commented that to begin with?? It’s no secret he died so why respond like someone going through denial of death? There was literally no point in your comment on someone who just mentioned it is sad to see…..literally no purpose. Stop being a bully through a keyboard. Anything further you respond is being ignored so just like your previous comment, there is no point in responding. Move on.
Even though I was 8 years old when it happened, I still remember this moment like it was yesterday. I also remember my mother begging me to stop crying saying: ''We don't know what happened, all we saw was a crash'', ''just wait until the next race and you will see him back on the grid'' she said. This was the first of two occasions when I cried myself to sleep in 38 years so far. I loved him with all my heart, I still do and I miss him so much... Senna Sempre!
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Это ваш родственник?
Você também e um guerreiro amigo não te conheço mais às suas palavras me emocional falando do nosso melhor piloto que o mundo já teve eu moro à 20 minutos do cemitério onde o Airton Senna está sepultado dia 1 de maio é lotado de visitantes ele sempre será o eterno está com deus na gloria 😪🙏🌟✨
What was he your dad or something?
@@Sheriff_GrimLawI think he's Brazilian.
Imagine a 63 year old Senna in the sport today. Id imagine he wouldve done Indy and probably sportscars. He wouldve been a perfect fit in the early 2000s Audis
I imagine he might have done motorbikes like Schumacher did.
@@toddventura7191 That wouldve been cool what if he had a kid that kid would probably be in f1 as we speak
@@MrGoombasticveryFantasticI’d say in f2 rn but yeah
@@frozenuruguayball6436 No, F1 already cause Schumi's son already reached F1 in 2021, and Senna's son should've been slightly older.
He would have become President of Brazil
At the 12:57 mark, you can see how bad it was. One if not the best ever and gone way to early. Thanks for this video.
Is that blood?
@@tehidiotboys3010 Yup.
@@tehidiotboys3010he lost about 90% of the blood in his body
Nasty 🤮.
@@chevy4x466have more respect for him man
Wow, the huge pile of blood at 12:56 on the ground says all you need to know about how severe the situation was. I believe the racer Roland Ratzenberger was also killed that weekend, too. It's amazing how far technology has come in the design of car safety in f1, but even with todays technology I don't think anyone could survive that crash. RIP Ayrton Senna 🇧🇷🏎🏁🏆🐐
His Brain was impaled by a piece of the car, it was a fatality
@@giuliorobertoful Where did you hear that his head was impaled? Fractured skull yea, but his head being impaled like a shish kabob sounds inaccurate. I saw in the video and even the announcer said that he was moving after the accident and you can see his helmet still on with nothing penetrating it, but more than likely it was his body naturally reacting to his nervous system even though he was killed on impact. I don't think he was impaled, but i'm sure he was definitely hemorrhaged from the severe impact like Dale Earnhardt because Ayrton wasn't wearing a head restraint like a hans device or any safety device like it. I looked up the report on his cause of death and it didn't say anything about him being impaled by the car but it did say debris hit his helmet causing a fracture in his skull and stated the force of the impact caused such severe hemorrhaging that it ruptured his temporal artery in his brain. Either way, it's a tragedy.
@@eldiablo3794his temporal artery was ruptured and he lost nearly 5 litres of blood and the upright in the steering penetrated his helmet and damaged his forehead
@@eldiablo3794 it's know here in Brazil, Senna is our national hero, his former girlfriend a brazilian pilots and journalists confirm this, i have the interviews but they are in portuguese, i can show you
He may have had a chance of surviving if there was tyre cushioning at the barrier.
I was 16 watching this race with my Dad. Something at that time we enjoyed doing together.
Then this, oh how quiet that Sunday afternoon was, we never really spoke much after this. A very sad day and a sad memory loosing on of the best drivers ever. Wish he went on his instincts and never took part of this race. E. Senna GOAT
I stopped watching F1 for 20 years after this. The love for racing at the highest level was shattered.
No offense but Sir Hamilton and Schumacher are the real GOATS. They have more titles and Schumi has raced against Senna in his prime.
@@falconeshieldthey are great but stays arent everything when it comes to drivers driving style is also there senna has the best driving style out of all 3
I remember watching this, must have been around 8yrs old, me and mom used to watch together on Sundays, I remember thinking a t the time, he’s ok he moved his head but was devastated to hear later he’d died, was so shocked I never watched for years after wards, I don’t watch anymore neither
@@wscottwalters74Sadly you missed then Prime F1 time from late 90's to 2012, except a few dominant seasons
Thirty years ago today. Hopefully there will never be another F1 like this ever again. RIP both Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna. 😞😞
No Brasil Ayrton Senna ele é insubstituível. Senna era também uma pessoa humilde ajudava muitas pessoas carentes ele sempre deu apoio a casa de caridade pessoas mais necessitadas neste Brasil. Infelizmente perdemos um grande ídolo do esporte brasileiro. Mas a vida é isso mesmo devemos entender que : nós não somos deste mundo. Nós somos sim é de outro lugar e tudo que é vivo morre ninguém não está para ficar nesta terra. Esperamos um dia encontrar o Ayrton na glória do senhor Deus
Ayrton Senna was genius, charismatic, controversial, aggressive, kind and humane who died doing what he loved the most, racing in his car
I’m noticing a trend with race driver where if your controversial, your some of the best racing driver in a racing sport
@@Dark-ql7kn he was controversial because he was aggressive, which gives good racing
Never has there ever been a more high profile example of money and the power of it over-riding the actual law of the country. This weekend should’ve been abandoned straight after Roland’s accident. Even Senna’s death was reported as ‘after the race had finished’ purely for legal reasons. Anyone watching on live TV knew he died the second he hit the wall.
Absolute corrupt organisation, and it’s 2024 and they still are. No sport should be owned by a company. It ceases being a sport and becomes a ‘product’.
Nothing changes 😢
To those criticising the people nearby for not helping, firstly they are not Medic’s, they are Safety Marshall’s - you can even see one with a fire extinguisher. They could conceivably have made matters worse by getting involved, however well intentioned they may have been. At 9.30 one does get close to Senna but recoils. At 10.05, you can possibly see the reason for this as it appears to me that there is a large blood stain on Senna’s overalls. I shudder to think on how horrifying it was for the Medic’s a few seconds later when they removed his helmet, particularly for Professor Sid Watkins who was a close friend of Senna. RIP Ayrton and Sid
also a spine injury could have been possible so moving him would have been dangerous without knowing
@@fabianbrown2021 Exactly. Remember Barrichello’s car being flipped back over after his crash as though it was a pancake. If his spine had already been injured, that move could have been catastrophic.
I agree 100%. They could cause more damage than good by trying to do anything. Good intentions don’t necessarily save lives. Senna turned off Eric Comas car to prevent a fire, but he didn’t dare trying to remove him from the car.
The accident involving Tom Pryce in 1977 is the perfect example of untrained marshalls! Wouldn't happen today!
I remember this moment as now, i was 14 years old at this time, watching our hero dead inside the cockpit, this day was the most sad day in our country, we were so proud about him, Senna has taken our country’s flag around the 18:13 World, after that i stoped to Watch F1.
Even the commentary immediately after the accident reflects a steering failure. Both mention about Senna going straight to the wall. Their voices clearly possess surprise and shock.
Hard to believe that 30 years is coming up since this tragic weekend occured. I recall in Dr. Sid's book him saying that although he was not a religious man, he felt the moment when Senna's soul left his body.
First thing - this race should have been cancelled after Ratzenberger died on Saturday. After Senna crashed and everyone realized its severity, the race should have been CANCELLED WITHOUT A DOUBT. Putting those drivers in a position to have to race after what happened was incredibly dangerous and unfeeling. Anyone responsible for these decisions has blood on their hands and it should weigh very heavily on their minds to this day.
12:57 that’s all blood, holy shit
I can't imagine how traumatic it would be for me if i was at the crash site
I just can’t believe they didn’t Stop it! Thanks for the upload
It’s easy to judge in hindsight especially when we such high safety measures today. 2021 at Silverstone when Max hit the wall and went to hospital, the race continued still.
Sadly too much money involved. Apparently Senna was already dead but didn’t announce it so that the race could continue. Completely ruthless
RIP ROLAND RATZENBEGER 💐🙏
RIP AYRTON SENNA FLOWER 💐🙏
famous footage showed that day on French TV was Prost (commenting the race) holding his head with both hands in disbelief knowing it was very bad...they had just spoken through the radio on the formation lap ,Senna telling Prost he & the other pilots missed him on the grid that Sunday...
I'm italian, I was watching live the race.
When I saw that little unconscious mouvement of the head at 10:05, I understood all 😢
In the documentary, before the race he knew that he was going to be taken, or at least he felt something was off about everything. He saw it coming and he embraced the hand of god. Long live the legend of racing. 💛💚💙🇧🇷
I was born about 2 and a half years later, but watching this, with the context of the day prior, and his career, this is a true tragedy
No one cares
@@Brock-Lesnar-WWE and I didn't ask YOU
@@didgereemedia194 nobody cares
Same thing here, I was born 1 year later so this is really poignant as i was told about it by my parents eventually but it was just a brief mention nothing more, and only brought up to point out that safety had come a long way and I’m growing up not really having to worry or consider that like they did when they were just getting into the sport… only to have that ‘luck’ run out with bianci 😢 before oh he’ll be fine… now I wait for at least a arm movement to breathe abit.
Need 2 minutes that the first paramedic came to help Senna, its long long time to rescue by such accident.
by introduce halo that will survive senna .
RIP Senna the best driver ever in f1
If low tyre temperatures were to blame then Senna would've gone off on lap 6 as soon as the safety car came in.
And if so, why didnt Hill or any other drivers suffer the same fate?
But Senna went off on the next lap which should've been enough time to bring the tyre pressures and temps up to speed.
It was obviously a mechanical steering column failure.
RIP Senna and Ratzenberger,😢
Gone but not forgotten.
Notice what you don’t see when senna’s head twitches at 10:04? His steering wheel. I’ve read several times that they cut and lengthened his steering shaft. This turn was no match for his skill as a driver and yet his wheels didn’t turn and he drove right into the wall. Guess after 30 yrs on( hard to believe) we will never know the truth. What a cursed 3 day race if ever there was such a thing
It’s obvious from the first responders (track side) lack of urgency to help the driver that when they assessed the damage to his helmet and visible blood > that they waited for EMS to arrive. 😢
Não havia o que fazer num acidente dessa magnitude,bater num muro de concreto a 207 kms por hora, não há ser humano que aguente, além do mais,por azar do SENNA,ao bater no muro,a roda dianteira direita que foi a primeira a se chocar,soltou- se e veio de encontro ao cockpit e ao bater no mesmo empurrou a cabeça do AYRTON contra o encosto do cokpit causando-lhe uma forte LESÃO NA BASE DO CÉREBRO,e ainda o braço da suspensão da roda dianteira direita passou pelo CAPACETE do AYRTON feito uma FLEXA,perfurando o mesmo e tbm a tempora direita do AYRTON,causando um corte de aproximadamente 6(seis) centrimentos provocando perda de MASSA CEREBRAL e muito, muito SANGUE,realmente foi fatal,a equipe médica ao chegar ao local do sinistro, após 1(um) minuto e 40( quarenta) segundos, já sabia que o AYRTON estava em processo de MORTE CEREBRAL AGUDA,e eles apenas fizeram manobras médicas para manter o CORAÇÃO do AYRTON ainda batendo,para alegarem que o AYRTON não morreu na pista, porém ele já estava morto,para que a corrida não fosse "INTERROMPIDA"por motivos financeiros,afinal a ganância está acima da vida humana,este foi o fim do MAIOR E MELHOR PILOTO DE FÓRMULA 1,um fim trágico,por erro colossal da equipe WILLIANS e tbm dos organizadores deste GRANDE PRÊMIO que não deveria ser corrido após a morte de um piloto no dia anterior tbm na PISTA.😮
Is 29 years and a half since that day and I still remember this race... I was with my cousin watching the broadcasting early in the morning and I wanted Senna to win since the 1994 season started (I have Ayrton photos taken by Ercole Colombo )... I was very excited and I remembered the night before my cousin told me... hey a formula 1 driver from Austria died in the Imola circuit... it was horrible... and that Sunday May 1st watching me so excited to see Senna win and hearing from me several times saying I want Senna to win and be champion again, he came to me, he hugged me and said " no worries Sennita is going to win, have faith Sennita will win ". Then the race started and another accident happened on the grid starting... the race should have been stopped to get a 2nd start as used to be before however and suddenly we had to see the safety car in the front for a few more laps... we were watching ESPN as always and we saw the accident of Senna in lap 7 at Tamburello curve and I remember when Bob Varsha said " Where the hell are the tires barrier " , he was angry and we couldn't believe there wasn't tires barrier in front of the concrete wall to absorb the impact of any possible accident... terrible mistake from Imola circuit authorities because there was accidents before in the same curve where the top speed is 300 km / hour. We saw Senna moving his neck a little bit inside the cockpit and the helicopter landing to pick him up to go to Bologna hospital, later during the race Bob Varsha said " Ayrton Senna is fighting for his life ". The race was over and we felt that would be difficult for him to survive, the broadcast finished and watching Italian soccer in Rai we heard the news that he died.. We knew was a failure of the Williams car and not Ayrton mistake. Since the beginning of the season he wasn't feeling the car competitive and the cockpit was not comfortable as his McLaren was... reason he asked Williams team to modify his steering column... steering column that wasn't weld properly and broke down just exactly in Tamburello and probably was getting cracked before because of the bumpy circuit. Is true that Ayrton asked to get modified the steering column in the meanwhile Williams was waiting for the new cockpit... however that wasn't an excuse to not have the properly steering column for that race, specially when we were talking about of one of the best Formula 1 teams. Frank Williams wanted Senna to be a World champion of formula 1 again but at the same time I feel his team brought him to die. Since that day the formula 1 wasn't the same and I lost the interest in the next couple of years and I was angry seeing Schumacher winning races not having real drivers in front of him... he wasn't skillful on the rain and not fast as Senna on the dangerous gaps and no real competitors against him, easy to win like that. Just remember how he lost the control of his Benetton in Adelaide circuit and hit Hill to not let him win the championship. If Hill slammed on the breaks a little bit he would have avoid that accident and win. I always remember Senna and is sad not seeing him alive, he could have been 4 or 5 times formula 1 champion. He didn't feel to race that day, it was touching for him seeing the accidents of Friday and Saturday at Imola. I wish he didn't race because he would have won at Monaco as he did 6 times and driving a new Williams. Probably if there was a 2nd start instead of having the safety car in the front, the steering column could have been broken in a slow part of the circuit. The 2nd Start was after Ayrton accident... too late and very bad management of the authorities at Imola. GRAZIE AYRTON ❤
Williams literally killed him , so sad and traumatising to this day!
My idol in life. We all could learn a lot from Senna.
Love the channel 9 f1 stuff
As a guy with a Brazilian mom, I remember she said to me that the entire Brazil cried over Senna's dead, and I can imagine
Edit: I am spanish :)
Choramos mesmo. Até hoje nos lembramos de Senna com muita saudade.
Quem lembra fica triste até hoje. O país parou e chorou . Grande perda ... Como ser humano e para o esporte 😔🖤
Se nao me engano deve ter sido o maior funeral do Brasil
I have tears in my eyes right now after all this time and I'm romanian. Can't imagine how it must've been for the brazilians who admired him back then!
@@LuciTulceawhen I visited my girlfriend in Brasil we drove on the Ayrton Senna highway from the airport in São Paulo to Santos.
We all miss you Ayrton.
I feel honoured to have witnessed the flash of that yellow helmet like a blur past many times in Adelaide in those years in real life. He was just much faster than the others consistently...Always totally committed. I remember this race...Haunting still.
That 2010 'Senna' documentary that came out is outstanding. It covers this race very well. Iincredibly touching....esp the almost 3hr version :)
I went to Saturday qualifying for the Australian GP in '90 and '92. I was quite young and don’t remember a lot, but can vividly remember every time the Marlboro McLaren with the yellow helmet flashed by.
I've not seen this in full, (Start to Senna Crash) since it aired live on BBC1. Back when it happened you were jaw to the floor and on the edge of your seat with hope and all fingers crossed praying he would be ok, you had time to get used to the idea he might not make it. But today that sinking feeling hits you harder as you know the moment it happens. 🙁
Senna was a champion of champions and then some! 🇧🇷