Damon Hill onboard Adelaide 1994
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There's a onboard lap with Damon Hill in the Rothmans Williams FW16B powered by Renault RS6 V10. The spec B of the previews version of Williams FW16 driven by Ayrton Senna garantly a chance to Damon Hill to compete with Schumacher's Benetton B194.
Hill may not have have had that "streetfighter" mentality on track, but he sure had a fine touch to driving. He is one of those guys that can adjust any car and improve it. Just look at what he did in the "lesser" Jordan and Arrows. Of course he also had great engineers and mechanics around him.
A deserved 1996 Champion!
The sad thing is that this could have been Ayrton's cockpit view, fighting for the title of 1994 with Michael at Adelaide. Sad in my eyes (Taking nothing away from Damon though)
i was just thinking about that,was imagining him stabbing the throttle and imagined the yellow helmet on the onboard
If Hill almost did it, Senna would have got that title somehow. Even with that awful start of the season.
Monaco was the race right after San Marino. Than Spain where Hill won...
Absolutly, spain was the turning point for de williams team in 94. Ayrton i think could easly won the title in 94, maxbe 95 and who knows… Gerhard Berger said that in many many interviews. Williams was very strong from 92 untill 97. the 94 season start was very bad with that car and 95 benetton was strong but ayrton in the Williams cars maybe until 96-97 🤷🏻♂️ michael never got these two benetton titels
I doubt it, 40 points behind by the first four races, he hated the behaviour of the car and Damon had been testing each Williams car since 1991, he knew these cars very well. However if Senna did stay at Williams he should have won '96 and '97, but he did want to finish his career at Ferrari...
@@R9naldo
Hill was behind as well: 33 points behind after San Marino. What brought him back was Great-Britain, Belgium, Italy, Portugal. Which Senna could have won.
Here where I think Senna would have the title and where I think Hill lost the 1 point missing for his title: Hockenheim. Senna, somehow, was often great at Hockenheim: He won there in 1990, 1989, 1988. Williams was also pretty good at Hockenheim in the 1990s, often beating Senna the years priors. So Senna on a Williams at Hockenheim, to me, that sounds good!
Hill ended a lap back in 8th place, in 1994 after a contact with Katayama - behind the two Larrouse and two Ligiers. Schumacher had engine problems. Gerhard Berger won the race.
Eurosport had the best F1 coverage in the mid 90s, also had the benefit of having commercial breaks that didn't match those of other channels, so you could always switch
and best commentary back then...as opposed to the often "unqualified" stuff one had to listen to elsewhere....:-)
@@stratman9449 sorry but Murray had a V10 engine inside of his lungs himself, that enough makes him the best. Of course him getting paired with Brundle meaning good technical analysis was also there was great.
Awesome memories with Damon. That face shot is amazing, the go-kart feel back then.
graham dirved the fragile lotus 49 to a championship in1968.damon dirves the dangerous fw16 to a runner up.it´s on the blood
this, year, this championship, this track, this race, marks a before and an after in the automotive world
Damon is underrated!!
I have sure that Senna at this ocasion got pole 1:15.850.....
Well you're wrong he was dead
@Michael I. Hansen: It's a very good point you make, however there are crucial differences between the movement of the steering wheel on senna's car and on hill's car. Firstly, Senna's steering wheel was moving a lot even on the straights, not just over the curbs as is the case with hill in this video. Also when senna's car went off the track, just before that happened, when he was midway through tamburello, the yellow button suddenly went off the screen.
Indeed. I don't understand why people still doubt the steering column breaking, causing Senna's accident. It's been proven by a team of independent engineers studying all evidence. It also makes the most sense when you look at all the footage and public data.
I was pointing out the button movement on the curbs because they were the most extreme and partly show why they allowed for this movement!
But you can clearly see it move in corners, braking etc.!
I have seen several videos that show the same - or more - movent as in the case of Senna's crash!
Especially Jean Alesi very often had a lot of movent and that in different cars! (check the top of his steering wheel for reference in his Benetton days)
I haven't seen it in modern cars as I guess the designs are very different, as the last video where I found it very noticable was a Mika Salo onboard in a Sauber!
Again: not saying Senna's crash was not due to steering failure, just stating that significant movent was in fact normal! Btw: early footage from that weekend (Before the welding) show similar movent!
hristoitchov That's what I don't understand! :-)
The last footage clearly show Senna correcting a small oversteer, so at that moment his steering must have been working, as a slide with 300+ over bumps rarely correct itself.
Second, the slide happens excactly in that split second where the lateral g-forces peak at 3.62 g which greatly point at a grip problem!
The fact that the collumn was broken after the crash is not strange at all... it would be strange if it wasen't with the energy of the crash, but it had to become a theory in the investigation because of the wierd Italian law!
I think it really points toward a grip problem (which almost all "solo" crashes does)!
Michael I. Hansen First, about the movement. It's one thing for a wheel to oscillate over severe irregularities on the road (such as kerbs) and quite another to be happening just while going straight or through corners. You can easily compare Senna onboards from 94, such as Brazil, Aida or even Imola warm up session footage (same day as the race) with his last lap onboard, and see the obvious difference.
As for the "slide", there's really no slide at all, the car goes slightly straight, then turns back towards the inside, then finally starts going completely straight towards the wall. A slide at that speed would not only be extremely violent, but also leave tire marks and produce smoke, none of which has been seen. If you observe Senna's car movement in slow motion from all the camera angles available, not just onboard, you can see the car never slides. On the onboard footage, you can see Senna never makes any corrections, his left hand never appears in view.
There is simply no way the car lost any grip, since it has great downforce at such speed, the car is far from the lateral limit of its friction circle (over 4G) and Senna would never just jump on the brakes and keep going straight if it was a mere momentary loss of control, and wait nearly 2 seconds for a shallow impact that can be easily avoided if the car is functional. It's such an obvious steering failure, that I don't see why we even need to speculate about it. One doesn't have to even listen to any theories, but simply watch, observe and think.
+Michael I. Hansen I think we'll never know exactly what really happened in the cockpit that day. The only person who could tell us would be Senna himself. Unfortunately this will never happen.
Go Damon!!!!!
Title shouldn't have been awarded to any driver that year. Fucking chaotic mess and tragic season.
Uh why
@@jstoli996c4s Senna was championship leader when he died. He was dominating too.
@@187Blondie that’s not a reason to cancel the entire championship. And no, Senna was not dominating in early 1994, as Schumacher won the first two races (launch/traction control aside).
@@187Blondie Senna had 0 points in the championship when he died, he wasn't leading anything. You dumb moron.
oh my feelings, Schumacher giant driver, but Damon best guy, however none of them deserved that year championship
totally agree!
This track should really be brought back - I'd rather 2 Australian GP's than half of them on the circuit. The new middle east tracks are so crap. This is a real racers track.
The TRUE champion of 1994.
ahahahahaha fuck you
Not if you don't count the unnecessarily excessive penalties given to Schumacher that same year. It should've never been close by the time they got to Adelaide.
@@DCTib and Senna..
If Schumacher wasn't undisciplined as he was in the British grand prix which cost him second place and of course copping a two race ban he would have easily won the championship well before Adelaide as he was a far superior driver. Tragically we will never know how Ayrton Senna would shape up against Michael for the whole season but it would have been one almighty battle to the end 😟
that engine sound tho
Damon Hill, the real 94 season Champion
Yes, Hill made the mistake of thinking Michael knows how to keep his car on the track. Avoidable contact. Game lost.
Damon Hill era 1 bom piloto, teria sido campeão se não tivessem roubado o título dele, pra mim Schumacher deveria ter sido desclassificado, pela atitude trapaceira de jogar o carro em cima do carro do Hill, no final da corrida em Adelaide.
Damon should have waited for the next straight where he could have overtaken Michael easily.
@@leroyrs Yes, Michael abready had the car with lower speed, his attitude was completely unspostsmanlike, the FIA should have from the Championship, the correct attitude should have made Michael lose all the championship points .👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
It crossed my mind:
People who use the "yellow button theory” to “prove” that Senna's crash was a steering column failure (in another "identical" car), and believe that the attempts to show that it was in fact made to allow movement was fake, should look at this video!
His wheel moves a lot (notice the button), especially over the curbs and other loads! (run it frame by frame and remember that the camera is fixed)!
I’m not saying it was or wasn’t the column, just that it proves nothing!
Sorry for the 7 years late reply, but there's a big difference in the way the yellow button (and steering wheel as a whole) moves in this case and in Senna's onboard. The movement here is strictly around the axis of rotation of the steering wheel, caused by the bumpy nature of the road and the large kerbs.
In Senna's case, the movement is unnatural, perpendicular to the steering column. In other words, it was moving up and down, left and right, without the steering wheel actually rotating. If you compare it to Senna's onboard footage from the warm up, qualifying and practice during the same weekend, it's pretty obvious that it was abnormal.
@@hristoitchov I wonder if it was abnormal on previous sessions why Senna didn`t stop or slow down the car? He must knew there`s something wrong with steering wheel on previous (6th) lap. I`m pretty sure he would felt this moves are bigger and bigger so why he didn`t react?
@@upalony69 Yes, I have thought about it as well. He probably felt extremely pressured into winning that race and not giving up, no matter what, because of the bad results in the previous 2 races. It's also possible that he didn't expect it to go so wrong so suddenly, at the worst possible moment.
As for previous sessions, what I meant was that if you compare it to what is seen on lap 6, it's very different. He didn't have that issue develop before the race.
mansells last win
A pity that he didnt won the 1994 championship. He definately deserved it way more than Cheating-Schumacher.
Senna would have destroyed all of them at this GP
He shouldn't have destroyed himself at Imola then.
@@redfruit1968 :))
the costly mistake of michael schumacher.
Costly mistake cost him a championship in 1994. The best driver won the title.
No! mistake by Hill. Avoidable contact. Game lost.
The only man in motor racing history more boring than Mansel