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
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.
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.
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.
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. ❤
I actually saw a video a while back here on RUclips 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. ruclips.net/video/GnZ_VvzeJQI/видео.htmlsi=n1tSeQhOlx2RfdVU
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 😪🙏🌟✨
@@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“?
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.
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.
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....
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 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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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 ❤
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! ✊🇧🇷
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.
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.
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.
10:04 is so shocking to see, the close-up shot after the crash happened and the concern around his health. Thank you for uploading this video to capture this moment in history. Such a sad, harrowing day...
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 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.
My dad have told me about this race so many times, and he saw it live from his TV. And he described it as one of the sadness day in F1. It's crazy that i can watch it myself today, thank you internet.
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. 💛💚💙🇧🇷
30 years ago to the day!…I was 12 yrs old watching this at my parents home. I dreamt the night before that Senna crashed and was killed during the race and when it happened the following day, I was in utter shock, it actually left me traumatised as I idolised Senna. I had an awful feeling about the race that weekend, even before Roland had his fatal accident on the Saturday I had the feeling something awful was going to happen. 30 years have gone literally in the blink of an eye, that day is still as vivid in my mind as if it were yesterday
I'll never forget this moment... staying at my dads house on my birthday weekend. I was 8 years old and I impatiently waited for the race to restart... when I heard the news that night I was speechless and the tears flowed. RIP Senna ❤
I grew up with NASCAR and Gran Turismo, so not much Formula, so I only recently heard of Ayrton Senna's death. I can only imagine they felt what NASCAR fans felt watching Dale Sr. die on the final lap. He's not dead, just a lap down. Rest in power, Ayrton Senna.
@@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.
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.
Ayrton Senna was and still is my favorite F1 competitor. He was a kind and caring man. The love and respect he had for his country, the sport, his fellow drivers, and all F1 fans was heroic. And he drove the crap out of those cars he piloted once referring to F1 racing as, " like driving rocketships on sheets of ice." Arguably the greatest Grand Prix driver in history, a mechanical failure which he had no control over took his life. I cried watching it take place for his family, friends, and fans, and for myself, as I would not have the priviledge to see him race again. I have not been as big a fan of F1 since. RIP Ayrton, knowing that here in Canada you will always be loved and missed. ❤
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 remember this vividly as I was watching the Channel Nine broadcast in Australia, snug in bed, due to the eight-hour time difference between Italy and Australia’s East Coast. I witnessed the crash live and turned off the TV after Murray Walker commented on Senna’s head moving in the cockpit. Waking up the next morning, Monday, to my mum’s immediate and somber revelation of Senna’s passing left me in shock. I was truly unable to grasp the reality of it, a testament to the profound impact he had on fans worldwide.
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 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 was 22 when the greatest Formula 1 driver of all time! Was lost 😢 and the 1st of May 2024 which is a month or so away it will be 30 years ago that we lost the God of Legends Ayrton Senna, Rest in Peace Ayrton as you will never be forgotten ❤
I remember my father mentioned this incident as he was following the race, at that time me i was too young to understand the gravity of the situation. Till date Imolar is one of my favourite circuits. RIP Sennar.
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.
Remember it like yesterday,he was an incredible Driver,he also helped engineer the Honda NSX into the amazing car that it was.Gone but not ever forgotten.
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!'"
30 years ago today this... The weekend of the 1994 San Marino GP 🇸🇲 is probably the darkest in modern #F1 history. Barrichello - crashed & missed race Ratzenburger - died Crowd - hurt at start Senna - died Pit member - hurt by flying wheel. RIP Roland & Ayrton 🇦🇹🇧🇷
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
God have mercy on his soul. My idol... I was only 2 months old when he crashed, my dad told me nobody expected him to die, we was thinking he will go out of the car, stop the dust from his suit and walk away. But he never went out, he stayed forever there... Thing is, that after all these years still no one took responsibility for this. I admire him so much, hope he is in better place. Rest in peace.
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 saw Senna win two times Arizona 90 and 91 this crash happened 30 years ago May and i am still crying 😢😢😢😢😢 Senna and Clark the two best of all time B.O.A.T...😮
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. 😢
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! 🇧🇷
Of all his quotes I like the one where he says: *“In any competition the 2nd is the First of the losers!”* because it shows his spirit, his mind, the way he understood what he did. In one of his early interviews on a Brazilian talk show he mentioned an experience from his go karts days where someone told him that if he kept driving like that he would end up going straight into a wall and dying, almost prophetic. The way I see it, that’s the way it had to be, Schumacher had come into the picture, Senna, obviously, was still one of the best, but things were changing incredibly fast, second, as he, himself, said it, wasn’t an option and retiring during someone else’s glory wasn’t in his book. Every time I see him with that thoughtful, meditative look before the start on that day, it is to me as if he is telling himself that from that they on, winning wouldn’t just be enough anymore… 🏎️💥💨
@@apguitar8075 Hey, thanks for the correction! Gemini agrees with you! [ *There's some debate about the authorship of that quote. Here's what we know: * **Popular Attribution:** The most popular association is with stock car driver **Dale Earnhardt**. He's credited with popularizing the saying, "Second place is just the first loser." * **Possible Origin:** The quote might have originated with race car manufacturer **Enzo Ferrari**. This aligns with the sentiment often associated with competitive racing culture. * **Ayrton Senna Misattribution:** Since the previous ones came before attributing it to Ayrton Senna could be a misconception. So, although Dale Earnhardt gets the credit for making the saying famous, Enzo Ferrari’s came much earlier and seems to be the original. *]
@@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1 Yes, lessons were learned and incidents since then have moved the industry to be much safer overall. It almost feels like this entire event was a safety experiment considering they opted to continue to letting it all play out instead of calling it a day at the first death.
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
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?
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
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he jumped out to save comas before his car could explode
@@SFbayArea94121Spa 1992, Eric Comas. 🙏❤🇧🇷
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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.
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 🕊️
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.
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
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 RUclips 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.
ruclips.net/video/GnZ_VvzeJQI/видео.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?
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.
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“?
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.
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. 🇧🇷 😢.
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There were other Brazilian drivers though. I'm sure they would have loved your support also.
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…
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 😢
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 ?
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
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
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
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.
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 🤮.
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
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
Still painfull to see, my childhood idol
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.
My idol in life. We all could learn a lot from Senna.
Love the channel 9 f1 stuff
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!
Thanks for posting this. I was watching this very telecast (Ch. 9 in Aus) live…That image at 12:56 is one I will never forget…
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I remember when my dad told me “I thought it was oil at first, and when I realized it wasn’t, I lost all hope”
Truly haunting
He lives in our memory and his legacy. Simply the best of all.
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!
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
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.
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
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 😢
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.
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.
10:04 is so shocking to see, the close-up shot after the crash happened and the concern around his health. Thank you for uploading this video to capture this moment in history. Such a sad, harrowing day...
I will never forget this race, surely the blackest weekend in F1 history. The greatest taken too young. Tragic loss.
The GOAT. Forever in our hearts Ayrton. ❤
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 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
My dad have told me about this race so many times, and he saw it live from his TV. And he described it as one of the sadness day in F1. It's crazy that i can watch it myself today, thank you internet.
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. 💛💚💙🇧🇷
30 years ago to the day!…I was 12 yrs old watching this at my parents home. I dreamt the night before that Senna crashed and was killed during the race and when it happened the following day, I was in utter shock, it actually left me traumatised as I idolised Senna.
I had an awful feeling about the race that weekend, even before Roland had his fatal accident on the Saturday I had the feeling something awful was going to happen. 30 years have gone literally in the blink of an eye, that day is still as vivid in my mind as if it were yesterday
Absolutely horrific weekend, ending with this... My 13 year old self cried every tear he had that day 😢
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Thank you for sharing and preserving history.
I'll never forget this moment... staying at my dads house on my birthday weekend. I was 8 years old and I impatiently waited for the race to restart... when I heard the news that night I was speechless and the tears flowed. RIP Senna ❤
I too watched this live at the time and really don’t want to be reminded of it.
I grew up with NASCAR and Gran Turismo, so not much Formula, so I only recently heard of Ayrton Senna's death. I can only imagine they felt what NASCAR fans felt watching Dale Sr. die on the final lap.
He's not dead, just a lap down. Rest in power, Ayrton Senna.
After his passing it took me 10 years to see another race
Same I lost interest for many years after Sennas death
I admire that you went back to it.
I was the same when Marco Simoncelli died, I stopped watching motorcycle racing for a period because it was just too painful
7 for me.
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.
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.
I'm from Brazil, I wasn't born in 1994, but the image of Senna's accident is shocking and sad.
Ayrton Senna was and still is my favorite F1 competitor. He was a kind and caring man. The love and respect he had for his country, the sport, his fellow drivers, and all F1 fans was heroic. And he drove the crap out of those cars he piloted once referring to F1 racing as, " like driving rocketships on sheets of ice." Arguably the greatest Grand Prix driver in history, a mechanical failure which he had no control over took his life. I cried watching it take place for his family, friends, and fans, and for myself, as I would not have the priviledge to see him race again. I have not been as big a fan of F1 since. RIP Ayrton, knowing that here in Canada you will always be loved and missed. ❤
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 watched this live and remember it like it was yesterday. I have followed F1 since 1988. It was a dark day for the sport.
Thanx for sharing 🙏
Love from Sweden 💖
I remember this vividly as I was watching the Channel Nine broadcast in Australia, snug in bed, due to the eight-hour time difference between Italy and Australia’s East Coast. I witnessed the crash live and turned off the TV after Murray Walker commented on Senna’s head moving in the cockpit. Waking up the next morning, Monday, to my mum’s immediate and somber revelation of Senna’s passing left me in shock. I was truly unable to grasp the reality of it, a testament to the profound impact he had on fans worldwide.
I was a kid and never forgot this moment … rest in power Senna
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?
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
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.
His last moments were spent with his true love, RIP.
Who was she?? Did his girlfriend know...??
I was 22 when the greatest Formula 1 driver of all time! Was lost 😢 and the 1st of May 2024 which is a month or so away it will be 30 years ago that we lost the God of Legends Ayrton Senna, Rest in Peace Ayrton as you will never be forgotten ❤
I was also 22. I watched this exact footage live in Australia. It was a surreal then, and it's still surreal now...
30 years after. No words. Heartbreaking. Miss you so much Magic Senna. 1er mai 2024.😢
Brought back a lot of memories of watching this live at the time. RIP Senna
I watched this live in 1994 and it broke my heart. We lost the greatest ever F1 driver, never will be forgotten.
I remember my father mentioned this incident as he was following the race, at that time me i was too young to understand the gravity of the situation. Till date Imolar is one of my favourite circuits.
RIP Sennar.
How old where you?
I remember it as it was yesterday. I saw it live in May 1st 1994.
Rip Senna.
We all miss you Ayrton.
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
Remember it like yesterday,he was an incredible Driver,he also helped engineer the Honda NSX into the amazing car that it was.Gone but not ever forgotten.
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
30 years ago today this...
The weekend of the 1994 San Marino GP 🇸🇲 is probably the darkest in modern #F1 history.
Barrichello - crashed & missed race
Ratzenburger - died
Crowd - hurt at start
Senna - died
Pit member - hurt by flying wheel.
RIP Roland & Ayrton 🇦🇹🇧🇷
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
The whole weekend was a tragedy from start to finish 2 deaths, Barrichello, wheel in the crowd plus so much more
Barrichello's crash looked a lot worse than Senna or Ratzenberger's. Yet he came out fine.
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...😢
And Schumacher saw Senna crashing from his own car. Must have been truly shocking for him.
God have mercy on his soul. My idol... I was only 2 months old when he crashed, my dad told me nobody expected him to die, we was thinking he will go out of the car, stop the dust from his suit and walk away. But he never went out, he stayed forever there... Thing is, that after all these years still no one took responsibility for this. I admire him so much, hope he is in better place. Rest in peace.
I remember watching this live. Devastating. Hearing Murray’s voice was like a warm hug. I miss his commentary.
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
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 saw Senna win two times Arizona 90 and 91 this crash happened 30 years ago May and i am still crying 😢😢😢😢😢 Senna and Clark the two best of all time B.O.A.T...😮
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. 😢
And Today, 30 Years Ago, Darkest Day in Formula 1.
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! 🇧🇷
0:35 Wow...the damage on the car shows how far f1 car safety and car safety in general has developed ...rest easy champ. Always at heart
Of all his quotes I like the one where he says: *“In any competition the 2nd is the First of the losers!”* because it shows his spirit, his mind, the way he understood what he did. In one of his early interviews on a Brazilian talk show he mentioned an experience from his go karts days where someone told him that if he kept driving like that he would end up going straight into a wall and dying, almost prophetic. The way I see it, that’s the way it had to be, Schumacher had come into the picture, Senna, obviously, was still one of the best, but things were changing incredibly fast, second, as he, himself, said it, wasn’t an option and retiring during someone else’s glory wasn’t in his book. Every time I see him with that thoughtful, meditative look before the start on that day, it is to me as if he is telling himself that from that they on, winning wouldn’t just be enough anymore…
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It was Enzo Ferrari who said that
@@apguitar8075 Hey, thanks for the correction! Gemini agrees with you!
[ *There's some debate about the authorship of that quote. Here's what we know:
* **Popular Attribution:** The most popular association is with stock car driver **Dale Earnhardt**. He's credited with popularizing the saying, "Second place is just the first loser."
* **Possible Origin:** The quote might have originated with race car manufacturer **Enzo Ferrari**. This aligns with the sentiment often associated with competitive racing culture.
* **Ayrton Senna Misattribution:** Since the previous ones came before attributing it to Ayrton Senna could be a misconception.
So, although Dale Earnhardt gets the credit for making the saying famous, Enzo Ferrari’s came much earlier and seems to be the original. *]
Thanks to @apguitar8075 I just learned that the quote was from *Enzo Ferrari* and not *Ayrton Senna,* which makes me like it even more… 🏎️💥💨
I don't remember an F1 weekend that had so many terrible accidents... Ratzenberger, Barichello, the start crash and ultimately, Senna
@@autogyro333nah but someone broke their leg due to an errant wheel
The worst weekend in formula 1 history but lessons were learnt that weekend
@@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1 Yes, lessons were learned and incidents since then have moved the industry to be much safer overall. It almost feels like this entire event was a safety experiment considering they opted to continue to letting it all play out instead of calling it a day at the first death.
RIP ROLAND RATZENBEGER 💐🙏
RIP AYRTON SENNA FLOWER 💐🙏
Had so much hope and relief when watching this live and seeing that head movement. This was the day F1 ended for me.
It's still upsetting as I sit here wiping away tears.
Watched it live in 94 boy does that bring back the shock & memories of that sad day😢
RIP great race driver. We remember you.
Its Hard to think this Accident happened nearly 30 years ago
Unbelievable. 30 years ago this year. Interesting to hear big Dazza and Alan Jones in commentary for Nine’s Wide World of Sport.
This still breaks my heart. I love that man RIP Senna xxx
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I remember watching that race night, my daughter asleep. I woke her with my screams. RIP AYRTON SENNA Loved him from the first race😢❤
I watched this race, and it is still unbelievable that Ayrton Senna died in the aftermath of the crash. RIP Ayrton Senna.
I was watching live with my dad. We used to watch formula 1on Sundays. My mom was a Senna fan, and my dad always went with Schumacher. Such a sad day
I hope they didn't divorce over ur dad winning:(
More than 30 years later... We still remember that fateful daythat our four-time champion is gone in a flash... Ayrton, We will all miss you. 🕊️🇧🇷🇧🇷