He got pole position at Imola!! (and Pole at the previous races) In the lap before his crash, he set the fastest lap time!! He was going for his win more than ever, he didn't care about Schumacher...he probably would've won had he not had his misfortune at Tamburello!! (That car finished 2nd that season with Damon Hill...if Senna had been driving...it almost certainly would've won him his 4th title!!)
4th title??? lol but senna couldn't finish the race with that williams, are you blind? put that fan glasses away and you will see how much trouble he had with the car that season...
Senna finish 1.6 seconds ahead of hill, I think you have to put your glasses away, Senna is the best of history without discussion and he would win his 4th title
Not said! Had he had a simple retirement in Imola, after 3 races Schumi30pts, Senna 0pts. A gap not easy to fill for sure(although still 13races to go). AND had the 2races ban been cast upon Schumi as well, we'd be here talking about the best driver on the best car STEALING his 4th title with the complicity of FIA AGAINST a young and never-before-winning team and rookie..
miso bozic the reason he didn’t finish the race was due to a last minute repair on the steering column because Senna was uncomfortable with the lack of space. This repair turned out to be fatal -and if it weren’t for Italian laws, that engineer (Patrick Head I believe) would have been found guilty for Senna’s death. The fact he couldn’t finish with the car wasn’t his fault.
prost and schumacher were just great drivers.... Senna was something else, he was larger than life. like Hendrix, made his mark on the world and left soon after, never having time to fade. Larger than life.
Well said. he left the world when he was still at his peak. 1993 stands for me as his most incredible year in F1 though. he didn't won the WC but he gave so many shows of his skill - Brazil, Donnington are some that come to my mind.
Notice the steering wheel isn't bouncing about all over in the onboard footage like it is in the race footage definitely the steering column that failed causing the crash
Daz Burnside Yes, definitely agree Daz. You can clearly see that Senna would take a tight curve and then straighten the car around the curve with a right turn. On the crash though as he takes the curve and then tries to straighten the car around Tamburrello the car understeers and veers off to the right. This goes against what Williams said about the car "oversteering", and being inconsistent with a steering column failure. It had to be failure in the steering that caused the crash, no doubt about it.
Totally. There are an other footage from senna onboard at imola from french TV TF1 when Ayrton recorded his famous message for Alain. It was recorded during the Warm Up on sunday morning and it doesn't move yet... So it all went broke during the race... Metal stress after a whole weekend of driving and then a race...
Hill was slower than Ayrton around 5 -7 tenths of sec as by the Pacific qualifying result. In Suzuka and Imola the huge 1,5 and 1,6 sec of difference was caused by the Hill fear of the car..
And Schumacher won his 1994 championship by 1 point over Hill!! Senna would have won easily the 94' 96 and 97' world championships for Williams. He would have been the greatest champion ever
After watching this, it's very hard for me to believe that after qualifing, when the car is at it's lightest, LOWEST, fastest, and how many times he went through the parabolica, bottoming out was the best excuse they could come up with that caused his accident. Steering broke. Simple as that.
For sure, had had a tremendous feeling of the car. Which driver besides him could do things like telling the engineers the behavior of the car describing details in a way comparable to the telemetry? Or distinguishing an engine 50RPM more or less than another engine by just HEARING it?!? The man was a true genius in his field, the better ever. And I bet if he was still alive he would've walked right up to 1997 or 1998, ending up with 7 or 8 titles.
@00Mancsfinest00 The black box was intact when it came out of the car, so there was telemetry until Williams trashed it. There was footage from Senna's camera also, until this "disappeared" . Williams covered a lot up. The Imola circuit owners did too, the race should never have run after Ratzenberger's death. The race should never have re-started after Senna's death. Sid Watkins stated that Senna spirit left his body right there on the side of the track.
The changes to the circuit now retains a lot of its qualities. They removed the chicane before the S/F line and the horrible chicane before Acqua Minerale. Still such an amazing ciruit.
I too quite enjoy the modern layout, it did however make it less of a power hungry circuit & way more about carrying speed through the corners and acceleration which tbh makes the racing there much more entertaining. the Eau Rogue chicane was pretty awful as well but in this period of history slowing for a chicane somehow equaled safety, not sure that was all that accurate considering how many horrific crashes we've all seen similar chicane's produce.
I always liked the acqua minerale chicane. The drivers would really thread through the first bit chucking the car around sliding, then the second long phase of the corner was off camber but for some reason very grippy and could be taken unsually quickly, then they’d fully pin it onto the top of the hill. Also much preferred the fast Variante Bassa chicane to the straight run from Rivazza now. Old Imola was peak
Whatever happened that day, it doesn't show that Ayrton is a bad driver!! He's the best driver the sport will ever have - what happened at Imola was a one-in-a-million tragedy!! And "the people in the know" are probably just Williams mechanics trying to clear their name for creating a shoddy car!!
After what happened with Rubens Barrichello on Friday, joining with the death of Roland Hatzemberg in practice on Saturday is unfitting that happened at the race Sunday. Unfortunately, the greed for shady deals, money spoke louder and killed Senna. Bernie Ecclestone was responsible for this tragedy.
Damon Hill almost won the 1994 crown... Senna was more or less 1 second faster than Hill. = Senna would have won 1994...BIG TIME. Quite easy maths...right?
maths says he couldn't score a single point that season...also he was fastest guy on the grid but maths again says 0 (zero) point after 3 races, schumacher had 30. i know you are fan of him...but maths is against him that season...
@@joeyabbs87 we'll never know, but i guess if he had had a good car for all the next years he would have dominated (at least staying at williams). I think it would be 94 schumi, 95 ayrton (schumi had a struggling car), 96 97 Ayrton. Schumi was the only competitor there, but he was building the team at ferrari
Senna drove in a umblivable way, extremely clean with perfect lines as this Williams was the Mercedes of two years a go. Simply flawless. Schumacher the most near payed almost half second but above all his team mate Hill more than 1 point six second ... But in race the stuff changes always so much, this becouse Ayrton had an extraordinary capacity to memorized the circuit and in qualifiyngs he gaves the best ..
You're right, there are hundreds of slow, fast corners like tamburello on race tracks all over the world. In my opinion, they didn't need to change the corner and put in a chicane, I think they shoulda taken down the concrete wall that Senna hit and replace it with a tyre barrier.
His car speed went from 193 to an impact speed of around 135mph. No way he could do that with a peice of wing wedged under the car lifting the tires. Stering column broke leaving him only brakes to control the car.
@JRRacing85 Nonsense. This video itself is just another solid proof of the failure of the steering wheel prior to the car going off. Notice how the steering wheel on the in-car shots here doesn't move at all compared to the severe degree it moves on the in-car footage a lap before the impact. Only someone without any understanding for racing single seaters would claim that Senna lost control over such a simple bend as Tamburello. And there isn't a driver who claimed it was Senna's fault...
At the end look at Damon Hill in 7th, 1.6s off Senna's time. Lehto is 1.1s off Schumacher's time. The cars took great skill to corner in these days, that's why there were many spins in this session. In Hungary that year there were 50 spins in practise alone.
1.7 seconds faster than his teammate!!! To think that Damon finished only a point behind Schuey at the end of the year. So 94, 95, 96 and 97 could have made Senna 7 time World Champ and then a swift move back to McLaren in 98, 99. RIP Ayrton... Saudade
@00Mancsfinest00 if that was the case he should have crashed a lap previous. The telemetry says he turned the wheels away from the wall but you can clearly see in the onbored footage the wheels do not change direction.
well I'm sorry, but you people obviously don't know what you are talking about. Clipping the ground could have been fatal for a 1982 car, which didn't even had a front wing, because it used ground effects. For the Senna years, bottoming was 100% normal - PLEASE do your research first, before getting upset. Sparks came very often, and usually a lot more! On the underside of the car was something called a "skidplate"! There never was an accident in that era caused by bottoming, not one, even
What is your problem with Ayrton!?!? He was competetive, which you have to be in that sport!! That's why he won more pole positions and podiums than Prost, and more than Schumacher (if you compare the amount of races they were in)!! His crash was a extremely unlucky - not only the fact that the car inexplicably left the track Also because he was only killed by a tiny piece of assembly (from the axle) that went through his skull..if it had gone a little higher, he would've been here today!!
i think most of the peolple think that, about the piece of assembly, but i saw an interview of a doctor that treated senna and said that piece was not a mortal injure and that he had the same injuries of roland, in the back of the head, Allesandro Misley its call. th-cam.com/video/twdNgQU0p-E/w-d-xo.html
The car was very light during this qualifying lap whereas he was on full tanks when the accident happened. I believe the extra weight made it bottom on the bumps. Schumacher said he almost lost it on the previous lap. An accident of that impact could easily have broken the steering column. Rule changes killed Senna, - the car was not set up properly.
Oh and the in car footage shows senna not looking down through tamberelo on his pole lap, but on the lap he died he looks down to the left before he goes off, definitely a mechanical failure
Pela câmera on board dá pra ver certinho o botão amarelo no volante, ou seja, a barra de direção quebrou mesmo...já vi teorias de que o carro teria perdido contato com o solo, acho que não foi isso!!!!!!!!!
Even is senna dossnt win 7 championship it is very good for him to get what he get because of many legends of formula 1 he is race with in his career. Michael is by himself for years. Senna also has many great drives you can see him pushing and so focusd. You feel him and he is so smooth with driving. One of the best for ever :D
I believe Prost asserted after the accident that Senna knew something may have been untoward with the steering; he pointed to Senna appearing to 'test' the steering at the last right-hand chicane, prior to the main straight, during his final race lap. I've done some observations myself, comparing Senna's steering movement at this last chicane (2:20-2:23) on the video above vs Senna at the same chicane on his last lap during the race (link below, fast forward to 0:34-0:37) and there is clearly a significant difference in how Senna steers through this final chicane. In qualifying (above), he steers more rigidly and direct, with less steering action - whereas during the race on this final chicane, he is apparently testing/flexing the steering, almost as if he wanted to make sure it was in working order. th-cam.com/video/tvw1BpNxiKY/w-d-xo.html
Não há teste nenhum. Na corrida fatal, perto dos boxes, ele percebe que algo está errado na direção, pois sentiu que a flexão do volante - entrando em colapso através da coluna de direção - estava diferente. Por isso ele olha para o volante por 3 vezes tentando entender o que estava acontecendo.
It was weird, Senna's car had more Power but the bennetton seemed faster in the Race, perhaps where aerodynamics were important.. that Williams was unsafe at that point in the Season, god Knows how he qualified on Pole, Pure Genius that's how.
My opinion is that the steering broke when it hit the bump, For someoene to feel a slide and corrected that fast, even with Senna is just too quick, to me, the reason he hit the brakes with that he felt the steering break.
Whenever I watch these onboard shots of Senna at Imola, I always look for his steering wheel to "flex" like the Coulthard demo at Senna's trial claimed it did. I have yet to see his steering wheel "flex".
Looking at the onboard, I have to say the handling looks good. People go way overboard about the setup problem of this car. It had nothing to do with the accident. Clearly, after Senna got the steering column adjusted poorly overnight, it failed at Tamburello.
If I am not mistaken, Senna said that he would race until 2000 at least, finishing his career with Ferrari. Maybe longer, if in a good mood with the Scuderia, a good car....he also said that he will stop F1 when he will feel that he's missing 0.01s. They are drivers that where still fast at 39/40 years old, so Senna, in better shape than theses drivers would have done better.
OK, I think I already tried to explain these cars did not use ground effects. The bottoms were flat, the only thing there was is a diffuser to make the car more efficient and produce less drag. The sparks come when the car's bottom makes contact - yes - but it doesn't mean it's too low. It was normal. Besides, it's usually just bumps hitting part of the skidplate. There were bumps on Tamburello. Again, I ask you to find me cases where sparks and bottoming out caused anyone to go off. It was 100%
here after watching lecrec flying on friday practice sessions of the 2024 f1 imola gp .... 30 years post senna death ... i learned recently that i watched the '94 Imola gp .. but i have no memory cause i was a few years old :(
Back then we thought that Williams was the best car at the grid. Of course, as time went by, we learned that Newey screw up and the car had serious aerodynamic problems (changing the balance on every corner). Also at the time, we didn't know that Schumacher was the "new" Senna and the Benetton B194 projected by Byrne and Brawn was one of the best cars ever designed. The 1994 season was marked by Senna's death, for sure. But also characterized by the "birth" of a new set of legends. Anyway, as Frank, Patrick and Newey said (on many occasions), Senna was fighting against the car and they were more than impressed on how good he really was - driving a car with under and over steering problems - since Williams simply couldn't solve the balance issue at the beginning of the season. Re-watching this flying lap after so many years (now knowing all his problems with Williams car) is a truly joy. Cheers!
Not to mention Schumacher's team (Benneton) were using an illegal traction control system in their car (something which Senna noticed in the race before Imola)!! So the fact he was facing opponents who he (correctly) believed were cheating, may have got to his head, rightfully!!! Schumacher's a great driver, but Senna had driven in an era when the cars were much harder to drive (and less safe) - his crash was totally unrelated to Schumacher's success!!
Please don't take this the wrong way or no Disrespect to Senna if it was not Senna who died there & then it may have been someone else as there had been 4 crashes already at that corner on 4 seperate occasions in 4 seperate years & they did nothing about it to slow it down so it was only a matter of time for someone to crash & die at that corner for them to do something so don't blame Senna or Williams for Sennas death either blame the FIA or the Circit designers for not changing that corner sooner rather than later after the 4th crash before Sennas then maybe just maybe Senna would still be alive today & retired.
You cant take the corner too fast. Even a full fuel load on cold tires (Which they weren't). The corner is flat out, and had been for years. The steering colomn was re-welded, so the best bet is; when he went around during the race the welds broke under the extra G's (As thats a massive G corner, and puts massive strain on the entire car). As ofcourse, when you re-weld something, it will never be as strong as it was; always becomes a little weaker.
1.7 seconds faster than his teammate!!! To think that Damon finished only a point behind Schuey at the end of the year. So 94, 95, 96 and 97 could have made Senna 7 time World Champ and then a swift move back to McLaren in 98, 99? Who know's how many titles he could have achieved? RIP Ayrton... Saudade
Jesus 1.6 faster than damon. Ayrton was out of this world. Later revealed damon said he was afraid of the car and was nowhere near ayrtons speeds in the corners
Ok, you can say that and I see you are trying to analyze. But there is one main problem with the theory you argue - Tamburello isn't really a corner - it is a flat-out bend, which means these cars, as long as properly-functional, take Tamburello as fast as they can go, like a straight line. You don't need to apex anything. This is the LAST place you can mess up, or be thrown out by "cold tires"
Well the steering column was patched up the night before - fact. Williams insisted it was cracked "only" 20% before impact - even that would be completely abnormal for the 2nd fast lap on a race. The court ruled in 2005 it was the steering that caused the accident. Upon supposedly correcting for a slid in a "split second", Senna had 1.7 secs before impact to steer away, but supposedly didn't..however he never corrected - the onboard shows his helmet swing left just before the car veers off. If
@SeinSchatten ´´ i noticed that he was going faster than the car..the car was sliding backways on tamburello... than...... he lost it´´ michael schumacher about senna´s accident. 1994
Ayrton porfavor, alli donde estes, el dia que yo muera venme a buscar, estare confundido y asustado. Me calmara y alegrara poder charlar contigo. Supongo que a Lauda, Tambay, Streiff, Frank, Jules i Anthoine ya les habras explicado que ocurrio....a mi me lo contaras tambien?
@Taikamya Benetton Ford 747HP, Williams Renault 782HP. And dont tell me Benetton had more downforce or what so ever. They are both fantastic drivers. Each in their way
Tamburello was not the reason he died. Ayrton was just extremely unlucky that something happened to the car as he was going round a very fast corner, and he was unlucky that that piece of assembly didn't go 6 inches higher or lower. If u wanna blame something, blame the safety of the cars back then.
The difference between Senna and Hill (that was driving a Williams too, and that would becomes a champion of the world) - more than 1,5 s - show us who was the best of all: AYRTON SENNA DA SILVA
Well, the doctors who attended Senna on the track say that he died from a massive injury in the base of the skull, caused by the impact of his car's front wheel. So my mistake, it was not the "tire" itself that hit him (in fact the wheel hit him so hard due to the tire explosion, which happened to explode because of the great impact on the wall).
@marcus6291 So because of all of these bumps and cracks, his poorly welded steering column could have failed/snapped/fractured or whatever you would like to call it too..??? This is what I think happened.
And that one race lap he completed was the 3rd quickest of the entire race. No way he lost downforce. All the years I have watched racing, I have NEVER seen an accident where the steering column broke. EVER. Has anyone?
He got pole position at Imola!! (and Pole at the previous races)
In the lap before his crash, he set the fastest lap time!!
He was going for his win more than ever, he didn't care about Schumacher...he probably would've won had he not had his misfortune at Tamburello!!
(That car finished 2nd that season with Damon Hill...if Senna had been driving...it almost certainly would've won him his 4th title!!)
4th title??? lol but senna couldn't finish the race with that williams, are you blind? put that fan glasses away and you will see how much trouble he had with the car that season...
Senna finish 1.6 seconds ahead of hill, I think you have to put your glasses away, Senna is the best of history without discussion and he would win his 4th title
Not said! Had he had a simple retirement in Imola, after 3 races Schumi30pts, Senna 0pts. A gap not easy to fill for sure(although still 13races to go). AND had the 2races ban been cast upon Schumi as well, we'd be here talking about the best driver on the best car STEALING his 4th title with the complicity of FIA AGAINST a young and never-before-winning team and rookie..
miso bozic the reason he didn’t finish the race was due to a last minute repair on the steering column because Senna was uncomfortable with the lack of space. This repair turned out to be fatal -and if it weren’t for Italian laws, that engineer (Patrick Head I believe) would have been found guilty for Senna’s death. The fact he couldn’t finish with the car wasn’t his fault.
@@misobozic2634 you don't know f1 at all! Get your facts right!
prost and schumacher were just great drivers.... Senna was something else, he was larger than life. like Hendrix, made his mark on the world and left soon after, never having time to fade. Larger than life.
Well said. he left the world when he was still at his peak. 1993 stands for me as his most incredible year in F1 though. he didn't won the WC but he gave so many shows of his skill - Brazil, Donnington are some that come to my mind.
Seeing him go round Tamburello in this vid is strange, to think that 24 hours after this, he lost his life at that very corner... ;(
He takes the corner likes it nothing. Absolute master
looks like he bottoms it though
@@johanburger6109 hes nothing
It was a mechanical failure, not his mistake, he was Senna!!!
@@jandaf2761 what do you mean?
Hill + 1.651 .. incredible. On one lap Ayrton was a martian.
the difference among God and the humans drivers...
Hands down he was the greatest of them all! Ayrton Senna forever!!!! R.I.P. We lost a legend that day, but we will never forget............
You mean, next day. ;) I also miss him a lot. He was the best in rain.
Notice the steering wheel isn't bouncing about all over in the onboard footage like it is in the race footage definitely the steering column that failed causing the crash
Daz Burnside Yes, definitely agree Daz. You can clearly see that Senna would take a tight curve and then straighten the car around the curve with a right turn. On the crash though as he takes the curve and then tries to straighten the car around Tamburrello the car understeers and veers off to the right. This goes against what Williams said about the car "oversteering", and being inconsistent with a steering column failure. It had to be failure in the steering that caused the crash, no doubt about it.
Totally
very good observation
@@10DKJUMP also a simple corner especially for senna, he could take that corner drunk and still not fuck it up
Totally. There are an other footage from senna onboard at imola from french TV TF1 when Ayrton recorded his famous message for Alain. It was recorded during the Warm Up on sunday morning and it doesn't move yet... So it all went broke during the race... Metal stress after a whole weekend of driving and then a race...
1:13 still so disturbing to me watch Senna passing this corner
agreed
2:33
Cheguei a sonhar agora, a camera onboard fazendo a tamburello e contornando normalmente, na corrida, Senna vencendo, vida seguindo.
Ê saudade! :-(
Still poling laps right to the end. A true great. Senna was AWESOME.
Senna more than a whole second in front of his teammate! Very impressive!
Wow i am falling of my sher
Senna foi o melhor piloto que eu já vi correr 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Que DIOS te tenga en su Gloria Gran Campeon!!!
1,651 s ahead of Hill in the same car. FACT.
Hill was slower than Ayrton around 5 -7 tenths of sec as by the Pacific qualifying result. In Suzuka and Imola the huge 1,5 and 1,6 sec of difference was caused by the Hill fear of the car..
@@paolociarpaglini1303 Senna was faster. FACT.
Says it all. Levels.
WAIT WHAT NOT CRASH
And Schumacher won his 1994 championship by 1 point over Hill!!
Senna would have won easily the 94' 96 and 97' world championships for Williams. He would have been the greatest champion ever
After watching this, it's very hard for me to believe that after qualifing, when the car is at it's lightest, LOWEST, fastest, and how many times he went through the parabolica, bottoming out was the best excuse they could come up with that caused his accident. Steering broke. Simple as that.
For sure, had had a tremendous feeling of the car. Which driver besides him could do things like telling the engineers the behavior of the car describing details in a way comparable to the telemetry? Or distinguishing an engine 50RPM more or less than another engine by just HEARING it?!?
The man was a true genius in his field, the better ever. And I bet if he was still alive he would've walked right up to 1997 or 1998, ending up with 7 or 8 titles.
@00Mancsfinest00 The black box was intact when it came out of the car, so there was telemetry until Williams trashed it. There was footage from Senna's camera also, until this "disappeared" . Williams covered a lot up. The Imola circuit owners did too, the race should never have run after Ratzenberger's death. The race should never have re-started after Senna's death. Sid Watkins stated that Senna spirit left his body right there on the side of the track.
So weird watching this knowing what happened there
Especially watching him take that corner and not crashing. That corner is actually piss for these guys, no ways it was a driver error on the day
Johan Burger whoever thinks his crash was driver error doesn’t have a brain.
Simplesmente Ayrton Senna
Senna......:"UN MONDO CHE NON C'È PIU!!!!!😪😪😪😪😪😪😪
The changes to the circuit now retains a lot of its qualities. They removed the chicane before the S/F line and the horrible chicane before Acqua Minerale. Still such an amazing ciruit.
I too quite enjoy the modern layout, it did however make it less of a power hungry circuit & way more about carrying speed through the corners and acceleration which tbh makes the racing there much more entertaining.
the Eau Rogue chicane was pretty awful as well but in this period of history slowing for a chicane somehow equaled safety, not sure that was all that accurate considering how many horrific crashes we've all seen similar chicane's produce.
I always liked the acqua minerale chicane. The drivers would really thread through the first bit chucking the car around sliding, then the second long phase of the corner was off camber but for some reason very grippy and could be taken unsually quickly, then they’d fully pin it onto the top of the hill. Also much preferred the fast Variante Bassa chicane to the straight run from Rivazza now. Old Imola was peak
OMG what an amazing man we lost that weekend.. Schumacher can only dream about being like him.. RIP
Whatever happened that day, it doesn't show that Ayrton is a bad driver!! He's the best driver the sport will ever have - what happened at Imola was a one-in-a-million tragedy!!
And "the people in the know" are probably just Williams mechanics trying to clear their name for creating a shoddy car!!
After what happened with Rubens Barrichello on Friday, joining with the death of Roland Hatzemberg in practice on Saturday is unfitting that happened at the race Sunday.
Unfortunately, the greed for shady deals, money spoke louder and killed Senna.
Bernie Ecclestone was responsible for this tragedy.
i swear man, if he was alive that season then he would have won it
3 poles in a row tho
Ayrton Senna brought Formula One onto a new never-before-seen level...
Damon Hill almost won the 1994 crown...
Senna was more or less 1 second faster than Hill.
= Senna would have won 1994...BIG TIME.
Quite easy maths...right?
yes he would have, but patrick head was there....the rest is history
maths says he couldn't score a single point that season...also he was fastest guy on the grid but maths again says 0 (zero) point after 3 races, schumacher had 30. i know you are fan of him...but maths is against him that season...
He could of won the championship 94-97 if he hadn`t of died, sadly we will never know
@@joeyabbs87 we'll never know, but i guess if he had had a good car for all the next years he would have dominated (at least staying at williams). I think it would be 94 schumi, 95 ayrton (schumi had a struggling car), 96 97 Ayrton. Schumi was the only competitor there, but he was building the team at ferrari
Senna drove in a umblivable way, extremely clean with perfect lines as this Williams was the Mercedes of two years a go. Simply flawless. Schumacher the most near payed almost half second but above all his team mate Hill more than 1 point six second ... But in race the stuff changes always so much, this becouse Ayrton had an extraordinary capacity to memorized the circuit and in qualifiyngs he gaves the best ..
You're right, there are hundreds of slow, fast corners like tamburello on race tracks all over the world. In my opinion, they didn't need to change the corner and put in a chicane, I think they shoulda taken down the concrete wall that Senna hit and replace it with a tyre barrier.
And also get rid of the grass. Add more stones or the like instead
Especially considering that the curve grande in Monza is pretty much exactly the same as Tambruello. Just needed more gravel to slow the car down
AIRTON SENNA SOBRAVA PILOTO E FALTOU CARRO OBRIGADO AIRTON SENNA.
His car speed went from 193 to an impact speed of around 135mph. No way he could do that with a peice of wing wedged under the car lifting the tires. Stering column broke leaving him only brakes to control the car.
Yes,brakes he had,it was the stering column.
34 anni vissuti con quel volto da bambino, da uomo sei diventato mito . ciao ayrton
Senna: forever number 1.
@JRRacing85 Nonsense. This video itself is just another solid proof of the failure of the steering wheel prior to the car going off. Notice how the steering wheel on the in-car shots here doesn't move at all compared to the severe degree it moves on the in-car footage a lap before the impact. Only someone without any understanding for racing single seaters would claim that Senna lost control over such a simple bend as Tamburello. And there isn't a driver who claimed it was Senna's fault...
1:21.548 x 1:21.837 Senna fighting against himself. The BOSS 🤣🤴🏻🏁🇧🇷
Senna had no opponents... His opponent was himself
At the end look at Damon Hill in 7th, 1.6s off Senna's time. Lehto is 1.1s off Schumacher's time. The cars took great skill to corner in these days, that's why there were many spins in this session. In Hungary that year there were 50 spins in practise alone.
The williams was really not good in the beginning of the 94 season, but Senna still beats everyone by 0,5 seconds there, simply awesome
SENNA ETERNO!!!!
1.7 seconds faster than his teammate!!! To think that Damon finished only a point behind Schuey at the end of the year. So 94, 95, 96 and 97 could have made Senna 7 time World Champ and then a swift move back to McLaren in 98, 99.
RIP Ayrton... Saudade
@00Mancsfinest00 if that was the case he should have crashed a lap previous. The telemetry says he turned the wheels away from the wall but you can clearly see in the onbored footage the wheels do not change direction.
1.6 seconds faster than his team mate
F1 died with Senna
Brother, It's the True Sprit of Racing that left off with Senna. Racing continues...
Yeah Jesus it is extremely fucking boring nowadays
Ipank Corleone very true
Agreed.
It's kinda magical. That fucking steering column...
well I'm sorry, but you people obviously don't know what you are talking about. Clipping the ground could have been fatal for a 1982 car, which didn't even had a front wing, because it used ground effects. For the Senna years, bottoming was 100% normal - PLEASE do your research first, before getting upset. Sparks came very often, and usually a lot more! On the underside of the car was something called a "skidplate"! There never was an accident in that era caused by bottoming, not one, even
What is your problem with Ayrton!?!? He was competetive, which you have to be in that sport!! That's why he won more pole positions and podiums than Prost, and more than Schumacher (if you compare the amount of races they were in)!!
His crash was a extremely unlucky - not only the fact that the car inexplicably left the track
Also because he was only killed by a tiny piece of assembly (from the axle) that went through his skull..if it had gone a little higher, he would've been here today!!
i think most of the peolple think that, about the piece of assembly, but i saw an interview of a doctor that treated senna and said that piece was not a mortal injure and that he had the same injuries of roland, in the back of the head, Allesandro Misley its call.
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Great archive, thanks. Wonderful cars in those days (not including the safety aspects, of course)
that steering wheel looks so on its place
The car was very light during this qualifying lap whereas he was on full tanks when the accident happened. I believe the extra weight made it bottom on the bumps. Schumacher said he almost lost it on the previous lap. An accident of that impact could easily have broken the steering column. Rule changes killed Senna, - the car was not set up properly.
Oh and the in car footage shows senna not looking down through tamberelo on his pole lap, but on the lap he died he looks down to the left before he goes off, definitely a mechanical failure
Pela câmera on board dá pra ver certinho o botão amarelo no volante, ou seja, a barra de direção quebrou mesmo...já vi teorias de que o carro teria perdido contato com o solo, acho que não foi isso!!!!!!!!!
Um piloto como senna jamais ia errar assim , aconteceu alguma coisa grave q ele não conseguiu ter o controle do carro.
It's kind of strange to see how Senna drives through Tamburello, knowing what happened to him the next day. Still sad...
How I miss those days... F1 weekend where more exciting with pilots like Senna with real personality.
Even is senna dossnt win 7 championship it is very good for him to get what he get because of many legends of formula 1 he is race with in his career. Michael is by himself for years. Senna also has many great drives you can see him pushing and so focusd. You feel him and he is so smooth with driving. One of the best for ever :D
I believe Prost asserted after the accident that Senna knew something may have been untoward with the steering; he pointed to Senna appearing to 'test' the steering at the last right-hand chicane, prior to the main straight, during his final race lap.
I've done some observations myself, comparing Senna's steering movement at this last chicane (2:20-2:23) on the video above vs Senna at the same chicane on his last lap during the race (link below, fast forward to 0:34-0:37) and there is clearly a significant difference in how Senna steers through this final chicane.
In qualifying (above), he steers more rigidly and direct, with less steering action - whereas during the race on this final chicane, he is apparently testing/flexing the steering, almost as if he wanted to make sure it was in working order.
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Não há teste nenhum. Na corrida fatal, perto dos boxes, ele percebe que algo está errado na direção, pois sentiu que a flexão do volante - entrando em colapso através da coluna de direção - estava diferente.
Por isso ele olha para o volante por 3 vezes tentando entender o que estava acontecendo.
It was weird, Senna's car had more Power but the bennetton seemed faster in the Race, perhaps where aerodynamics were important.. that Williams was unsafe at that point in the Season, god Knows how he qualified on Pole, Pure Genius that's how.
My opinion is that the steering broke when it hit the bump, For someoene to feel a slide and corrected that fast, even with Senna is just too quick, to me, the reason he hit the brakes with that he felt the steering break.
The ultimate drivers driver rip senna
Whenever I watch these onboard shots of Senna at Imola, I always look for his steering wheel to "flex" like the Coulthard demo at Senna's trial claimed it did. I have yet to see his steering wheel "flex".
Never a true word spoken .. Coulthard should burn in hell forever for such a lie.
Looking at the onboard, I have to say the handling looks good. People go way overboard about the setup problem of this car. It had nothing to do with the accident. Clearly, after Senna got the steering column adjusted poorly overnight, it failed at Tamburello.
Senna died in the lead, with fastest lap and pole, Schumacher's car was that good even he couldn't get pole in the first three races.
THe besst driver of the F1 history, period, Shumasher is the worst fiasco. Senna the best. LONG LIVE TO THE KING!
@MrGene321 Thats just simple g-force as the steering broke man, thats why his head slumped left.
i can't believe i just watched the deathplaces of two incredible racing drivers in just 10 seconds! I wish Senna hadn't died
If I am not mistaken, Senna said that he would race until 2000 at least, finishing his career with Ferrari. Maybe longer, if in a good mood with the Scuderia, a good car....he also said that he will stop F1 when he will feel that he's missing 0.01s. They are drivers that where still fast at 39/40 years old, so Senna, in better shape than theses drivers would have done better.
Ｓenna forever.
OK, I think I already tried to explain these cars did not use ground effects. The bottoms were flat, the only thing there was is a diffuser to make the car more efficient and produce less drag. The sparks come when the car's bottom makes contact - yes - but it doesn't mean it's too low. It was normal. Besides, it's usually just bumps hitting part of the skidplate. There were bumps on Tamburello. Again, I ask you to find me cases where sparks and bottoming out caused anyone to go off. It was 100%
I don't talk about his death, his LIFE was what mattered, not his DEATH.
here after watching lecrec flying on friday practice sessions of the 2024 f1 imola gp .... 30 years post senna death ... i learned recently that i watched the '94 Imola gp .. but i have no memory cause i was a few years old :(
Back then we thought that Williams was the best car at the grid. Of course, as time went by, we learned that Newey screw up and the car had serious aerodynamic problems (changing the balance on every corner). Also at the time, we didn't know that Schumacher was the "new" Senna and the Benetton B194 projected by Byrne and Brawn was one of the best cars ever designed. The 1994 season was marked by Senna's death, for sure. But also characterized by the "birth" of a new set of legends. Anyway, as Frank, Patrick and Newey said (on many occasions), Senna was fighting against the car and they were more than impressed on how good he really was - driving a car with under and over steering problems - since Williams simply couldn't solve the balance issue at the beginning of the season. Re-watching this flying lap after so many years (now knowing all his problems with Williams car) is a truly joy. Cheers!
"Can he improve on that in the dying minutes of the session?"... err oh dear.
Not to mention Schumacher's team (Benneton) were using an illegal traction control system in their car (something which Senna noticed in the race before Imola)!!
So the fact he was facing opponents who he (correctly) believed were cheating, may have got to his head, rightfully!!!
Schumacher's a great driver, but Senna had driven in an era when the cars were much harder to drive (and less safe) - his crash was totally unrelated to Schumacher's success!!
Senna in fact hit 60 poles by 1991. In the next 2 years his car was up to 3 seconds slower than the Williams.
They killing him.
Please don't take this the wrong way or no Disrespect to Senna if it was not Senna who died there & then it may have been someone else as there had been 4 crashes already at that corner on 4 seperate occasions in 4 seperate years & they did nothing about it to slow it down so it was only a matter of time for someone to crash & die at that corner for them to do something so don't blame Senna or Williams for Sennas death either blame the FIA or the Circit designers for not changing that corner sooner rather than later after the 4th crash before Sennas then maybe just maybe Senna would still be alive today & retired.
@elkyf1
2:32 ~ 2:37 should have been lap 7 of the race.
por cierto Ayrton, dale un gran abrazo a todos los chicos de mi parte, en especial a Tazio , Juan, Gilles y Michele
You cant take the corner too fast. Even a full fuel load on cold tires (Which they weren't). The corner is flat out, and had been for years.
The steering colomn was re-welded, so the best bet is; when he went around during the race the welds broke under the extra G's (As thats a massive G corner, and puts massive strain on the entire car). As ofcourse, when you re-weld something, it will never be as strong as it was; always becomes a little weaker.
1.7 seconds faster than his teammate!!! To think that Damon finished only a point behind Schuey at the end of the year. So 94, 95, 96 and 97 could have made Senna 7 time World Champ and then a swift move back to McLaren in 98, 99? Who know's how many titles he could have achieved?
RIP Ayrton... Saudade
the best driver ever!!
@MagicAyrtonforever no there is a video on here somewhere that analysed his death. i am pretty sure there was no mention of a broken steering column
Jesus 1.6 faster than damon. Ayrton was out of this world.
Later revealed damon said he was afraid of the car and was nowhere near ayrtons speeds in the corners
Very unstable car still 3 races 3 pole positions. The man was indeed from another world
Ok, you can say that and I see you are trying to analyze. But there is one main problem with the theory you argue - Tamburello isn't really a corner - it is a flat-out bend, which means these cars, as long as properly-functional, take Tamburello as fast as they can go, like a straight line. You don't need to apex anything. This is the LAST place you can mess up, or be thrown out by "cold tires"
0.5 sec over the 2nd place. The best driver we'll never know, but no doubt about who was the fastest in one lap.
Still thinking that Sennas death is a failure in the matrix. In the real world he has won GP od San Marino snd the 94,95 and 96 Championship.
Well the steering column was patched up the night before - fact. Williams insisted it was cracked "only" 20% before impact - even that would be completely abnormal for the 2nd fast lap on a race. The court ruled in 2005 it was the steering that caused the accident. Upon supposedly correcting for a slid in a "split second", Senna had 1.7 secs before impact to steer away, but supposedly didn't..however he never corrected - the onboard shows his helmet swing left just before the car veers off. If
I'm really horrified about how much stiff were f1 cars since 1994, almost no suspension travel, nightmare cars to drive in my opinion
AYRTON SENNA FOREVER
GOD YOU IN MY HEART
OBRIGADO AYRTON
@SeinSchatten ´´ i noticed that he was going faster than the car..the car was sliding backways on tamburello... than...... he lost it´´ michael schumacher about senna´s accident. 1994
2:33 Terrificante...
Ayrton porfavor, alli donde estes, el dia que yo muera venme a buscar, estare confundido y asustado. Me calmara y alegrara poder charlar contigo. Supongo que a Lauda, Tambay, Streiff, Frank, Jules i Anthoine ya les habras explicado que ocurrio....a mi me lo contaras tambien?
@Taikamya Benetton Ford 747HP, Williams Renault 782HP. And dont tell me Benetton had more downforce or what so ever. They are both fantastic drivers. Each in their way
Tamburello was not the reason he died. Ayrton was just extremely unlucky that something happened to the car as he was going round a very fast corner, and he was unlucky that that piece of assembly didn't go 6 inches higher or lower. If u wanna blame something, blame the safety of the cars back then.
patrick head
great lap senna.
The difference between Senna and Hill (that was driving a Williams too, and that would becomes a champion of the world) - more than 1,5 s - show us who was the best of all: AYRTON SENNA DA SILVA
Saudades!
True, Damon Hill found the car almost undrivable.
before. he was one of some drivers which didnt go out again after the ratzenberger crash.
Well, the doctors who attended Senna on the track say that he died from a massive injury in the base of the skull, caused by the impact of his car's front wheel. So my mistake, it was not the "tire" itself that hit him (in fact the wheel hit him so hard due to the tire explosion, which happened to explode because of the great impact on the wall).
@marcus6291 So because of all of these bumps and cracks, his poorly welded steering column could have failed/snapped/fractured or whatever you would like to call it too..??? This is what I think happened.
2:34
If only he had gotten through there just as smoothly the next day...RIP Ayrton
And that one race lap he completed was the 3rd quickest of the entire race. No way he lost downforce. All the years I have watched racing, I have NEVER seen an accident where the steering column broke. EVER. Has anyone?