Please know how lucky you are. My relationship with my parents was nightmarish and as with you, Formula 1 reminds me of them. Except more in a shut up you stupid boy kind of way.
It makes me really sad to see all the R.I.P for Ayrton. When I get sad about him passing, I think of one of his most famous lines. " Let's Remember the good times, the good moments, and let's keep it that way" We miss you buddy.
Can't believe it will be 20 years since we lost him. I remember watching it on BBC and thinking "Senna will be mad with that, another DNF" (Williams were struggling early season in 1994 and Senna hadn't completed any of the three races) Never once did I think it would be the last moment of his life. Senna seemed indestructible. His legacy is that he will always be THE greatest, no matter what records have since been written. Ayrton was a one off.
RiP💖 I remember watching this, with my dad, and remember the gutting shock feeling. It still makes me cry seeing this. Amazing driver....but I think there was more to his death than we are told! Legend x
I was at donington when this man shown everyone what true racing is.I will never forget that day a true inspiration to not just drivers but to everyone.sadly missed
It was proven in the criminal proceedings in Italy that the disruption of car steering column of Ayrton Senna was the cause of the accident. Microscopic examination of the material showed typical streaks of fatigue caused by the application of cyclic stresses. So the reports showed, WITH ALL THE SCIENTIFIC CERTAINTY that the steering column broke up because of wear of the material, and not due to the impact of the accident. What happened was a poorly designed and poorly executed change in the steering column, which was carelessly welded to meet the pilot's request, who wanted to change the position of the steering wheel in the car. So Patrick Head, then technical director of Williams, was charged and found guilty of manslaughter by Italian justice. He only failed to fulfill its worth because of prescription. This National Geographic documentary and tampering with the car telemetry data are part of the fraud that is designed to hide the cause of the accident. The financial interests of Formula 1 did not desire that the directors of the teams could be liable for accidents to the drivers because it would threaten the business itself.
+KriZPify If it wasn't broken already, it would certainly break during the crash, but investigation claims that the steering column broke before the crash, being it major cause
@@HeavySmoker22 The docu is based on facts of the ECU readout. But the data was tampered. Why did they alter the black box? Of course, to hide something. The column broke, and if the lead technician will find their guts, this will be revealed...
A shoddy welding job and a broken steering column took away the best driver ever and a really decent person too. There never has been anyone like him and there never will be. If Williams had nothing to hide why did they seize the black box in contravention of the rules, something you won't hear NatGeo talk about ? The car was unsafe. Close friends of Senna begged him not to drive it, again something that you won't hear from this presentation.
The best Pilot that represent My Country, I Was 7/8 years old, but I remember that day, My Family was Launch in front of the TV to Watch the Race, And we Seen he crash that car. The Country Stopped on his Funeral. ( I don't Know if you will understand me, I tried to Write in English.)
The same car was driven by Damon Hill, David Coulthard, and Nigel Mansell even after Imola. Why oh why didn't their close friends convince them not to drive this horrible deathtrap? Why did Hill keep driving the death car and keep winning, when all he had to do was walk away to stop the murderers at Williams from winning the constructors championship that year with the blood of Senna? Unremarkably Senna's steering column broke on impact. Whatever its initial cause, the accident should have been survivable. Instead, the Great Ayrton Senna, a genius driver and a wonderful human being, was killed by a bloody tire. That's what happened. It was that trivial and that stupid. Deal with it.
The night before the race, his girlfriend was talking to him on the phone. She was telling him not to race tomorrow because he had this bad feeling and he didn't feel like racing. He later changed his mind and raced... That changed the world. That changed our lives. Yeah, it was just a racer, but he was nothing but inspiration for us automotive enthusiast
The doc is a total bullshit, nice try to help fellow britoins out of serious troubles. Senna was turning the steering wheel left, front wheels did not react at all. So the steering system was broken. It was Williams fail.
100% right. you see senna turn left and the wheels don't react, he had the steering column lengthened and that it where it broke at the part that was welded on to extend it
+Aaron Glanville Congratulations my friend, I hope your child can enjoy this idol as I could. I'm 26 years old, and I'm Senna fan today thanks to my father who always admired him.
+Aaron Glanville In my parents street, a then 19 year old guy bought a puppy in late 1993 and named it Senna, because he was a huge AS fan. He loved and treated that dog like it was his own child, and it lived to be 18 years old! It was a female Dutch Shepherd/Doberman cross, a big dog This was in the Netherlands. All over Europe, people adored Ayrton Senna, an unmatched sportsman and a unique, truly great person
Truly appreciate this well spoken explanation of ‘of how Ayrton’s accident and consequential tragic death’ occurred. Thank you. You’re still very much loved and missed Ayrton Senna. RIP ♾ 🌹💔🇧🇷✌🏼🙏🏼🕊💫
I've done karting, drifting, and rallycross, and can rightfully claim a 2nd place SCCA trophy to my name. I am of the opinion that Senna's car did not magically bottom out and understeer due to excessive downforce. I think Senna's modified steering column sheered off under heavy load, as he entered the Tamburello corner, and that the sensor used to measure the torque exerted on the steering column was simply gathering data above the sheering event as Senna hopelessly sawed at the wheel before his crash. If it were the case the case that excessive downforce were the cause of the accident, that wouldn't explain Senna's inability to reposition or even attempt to redirect the vehicles trajectory as he scrubbed 55mph from its speed (190mph down to 135mph) before impact. Surely a near 25% reduction in velocity would have sufficiently reduced the cars downforce to have brought the chassis back up off the ground, in the supposed two seconds after the initial loss of control. Maybe there was a .10-.25 second period where the grass or curbing on the outside of the corner could have contributed to the understeer event. But two seconds as a driver, is nearly an eternity in racing, and more to the point, under the load induced by braking, the front tires in Senna's car should have had even more grip to change the direction of the car prior to the collision, provided the steering was still functional. I genuinely don't think it was. The idea that Senna magically bottomed out and hit the wall because of aerodynamics doesn't make sense. Sennna's fatal crash has every indication, that steering column simply failed, and his car continued on a near straight line when it did. And despite his best efforts; both on the track in trying to slow the car down before the fatal crash at Imola, and off it in trying to improve F1 safety, the accident inevitably killed him.
Loss of downforce, or bottoming out during deacceleration doesn't explain the path of Senna's car before his fatal accident. Loss of steering does. How's that?
Loss of downforce causes understeering (loss of steering) because the only flow of air is through the top of the car. This causes drag on the part of the car where air is moving from (in Senna's car's case, the front of the car). Therefore, the car is unable to grip the road, and therefore, steer.
Right, but if you watch the footage he didn't understeer into the wall. The front wheels ceased turning left, which would be consistent with a shearing of the steering column, a loss of steering load, and the car continuing in a straight line.
Interesting and how was this data determined, Senna's data was lost when the Williams team illegal accessed the ECU from the impounded car and "accidentally " erased it ........
I have 2 problems with the official "it wasn't the steering that broke" explanation shown here at around 15:30 - 16:30 in the video, which says that measurements of the torque being applied to the steeering column remained active until the impact with the wall (finishing at a value of -7.18 N/m2 ) thus the steering can't have broken. Firstly, "N/m2" is NOT a measure of torque but of PRESSURE. Torque is measured in "Nm" (newton-metres). Whatever that sensor was measuring was some sort of pressure, NOT the steering torque. Secondly, if we accept that this measurement was indeed some sort of steering input measurement, then since it's value non-zero all the way to the wall, then WHY WASN'T THE CAR TURNING from this input?!! The wheels remained straight and the car didn't turn.
According to other sources, the cause of death was NOT a wheel hitting him in the head....but rather the suspension arm puncturing his helmet and going into his head.
+Musicman81Indy then why did he move hes head after crash? and if you say "spasms" then no, the doc or medic who was there said they got hes helmet off and he was still alive at that point.
I've seen a video documentary which showed the aftermath of the crash, and there's a huge pool of blood left on the floor after they got Senna into the helicopter. Right where his head had been laying. That confirms the theory that the suspension bit pierced his helmet and was the cause of his death. For me it does anyway.
This "documentary" is an insult to anyone who has a brain. The Williams demonstration of how the steering wheel moves/moved within the cockpit was laughably ridiculous. The steering column broke. They said he steered into the slide at 11.7 seconds, the crash happened at 12.8 seconds, so you're telling me he just decided to commit suicide and not attempt to turn left in that remaining 1.1 seconds? C'mon.
you see cars throw sparks all the time in Formula 1, and not one of them goes out of control. His steering column broke plain and simple. Ayrtons death could have been avoided
watch the real footage and then watch the positioning of the front wheels, the wheels just went straight cause senna had no control of the steering, column failed
What's really crazy is senna was a very religious Christian in the morning of the race he told his parents that God told senna he is gonna get the greatest gift (eternal happines) please don't start I fight guys and girls RIP: Senna U will be missed forever and ever
Ayrton would have destroyed Schumacher had he lived. His determination and skill would've probably Vettel along with others not exist in the BUSINESS of Formula 1. R.I.P buddy..
True, but you have to admit that Senna was not the same Senna after he left McLaren. Not speaking of his driving skill, but more of his demeanor and overall outlook. He never trusted Williams.
I would be very tight butthole too if i was driving a 200mph shitbox. The crazy thing was that he put an inferior williams on pole three times in a row and out qualified Hill by a large margin each time, even with schumacher having an electronic advantage. pretty crazy when you think about it since hill had been around the williams fw14(?)-16's and senna just walks onto the team and takes the struggling car to pole past someone so familiar with williams cars and mechanics by over a second each time. he was a real racer.
The Best never slowed by life and his spirit raced on to Glory Forever to never be matched! That marks a man as a Legend! God bless his love ones and bless his soul with mercy......
There's a website showing that steering strain went to zero as Senna rounded Tamburello. The steering column broke, as subsequent photos showed it outside the car after the crash. RIP Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna. Imola '94.
Williams propaganda bullshit.... NatGeo must have loved the taste of that Rothmans money. The wheel was designed to move that way? Bullshit. In no other footage of the FW16's wheel in use did such motion occur. Ever.
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its a combination of both really, the weak steering column and cold tyres, which in those days werent at all kept to temperature under the sc and the car bottoming out in a flat out corner. Theyre all factors i would say and the combination was a lethal one
Absolute rubbish. This is the discovery channel footage that was widely discredited saying about tyre deflation behind the safety car. His steering column broke. And his suspension arm hit him in his visor killing him instantly after hitting the wall. This needs to be taken down. It's awful and untrue.
The talk of the steering column failure conspiracy is beyond ridiculous. In senna crash film you can see him entering the turn with no problem, as he comes to the apex you can also clearly see were he loses traction, making him sway to the right and into the wall.
21:10 Is nobody going to mention that groundforce cars were eliminated from F-1 in the early 80s, and they are making a return in 2021? That means there was virtually no ground effect on the 1994 cars. Downforce? Yes, from the spoilers/wings.
does anyone know when this was aired? I guess they were still speculating right up until the court verdict in 2007 as I don't think many details were available i.e. wreckage inspections etc until the case was completed. If post-2007 this would be a damn strange program!
A british documentary covering up for the british Williams team. The british media never liked Ayrton anyway since he dominated Mansell so many times. It was obvious the steering wheel column broke, sending the car straight to the wall, because of a bad job by the team.
The surgeon who attended Senna track-side said he had a catastrophic head injury and even with an airway in he took his last breath on the ground where the crash occurred, no mention of the impact through the visor of the steering component on the right hand side of the car, the wheel was caught between the car and the wall, but the steering rod or whatever had pierced the helmet through the visor prior to that wheel supposedly hitting Senna, if the wheel did hit him, he was already mortally wounded, you can see the helmet has no obvious damage on the top and right hand side when shown during the funeral. If it is the same helmet as used on the day then the visor has been replaced and the outside cleaned and polished, why else would there be no damage? The lady holding the helmet at the end there rubs the area of the helmet that was impacted (by the wheel?), almost as if she knew something important was going on with it. Very sad and the old money is more important aspect rode over everything, Williams didn't want their operation to be found at fault by having a compromised component, and the FIA and track officials didn't want the race cancelled hence the "he died four hours later offsite" excuse. I wonder if Williams changed the setup of the other cars after this crash, quietly and with no announcement?
Yeah, he is totally correct. The touch with the ground and the tyre temperature was the problem. That's why every f1 car nowadays do that and isn't oversteering, and of course he had less temperature than 1 lap ago.
On 1 May 1994, Ayrton Senna veered off the track at the Imola circuit and into the crash barriers. No one knew it at the time, but the great Brazilian was effectively killed on impact: debris had pierced his helmet, causing multiple fractures at the base of his skull. The medics who arrived on the scene instantly knew that his chances of survival were zero and that Senna was gone, perhaps to meet the God he believed in so fervently. What now began was a grim afterword to the great Brazilian's life story: the search for an explanation and, ultimately, for someone to blame. Officially, the three-time world champion died at 18:37 local time. Later that evening, Williams team manager Ian Harrison received a phone call from an Italian lawyer. He was informed that Senna's death was being treated as a "road traffic accident". Publicly, the immediate aftermath focussed on the sense of loss that Senna's death caused, both in the sport and in his native Brazil. The man acknowledged as the best of his generation and among the greatest of all time was gone, brutally and without warning, becoming the first (and to date only) F1 champion to die in a world championship grand prix. What's more, he perished in an age of live television coverage across the globe; F1 had never experienced a more public death than Senna's. As if to confirm this, his state funeral was broadcast live on television in Brazil, while the government declared three days of national mourning. But as the grief subsided, it became apparent that Senna's death was being treated as particularly suspicious. All fatal racing crashes require intense scrutiny. Even if it is clear that the accident occurred due to driver error, the authorities must investigate extensively so as to learn lessons that can be implemented in the future. This was the case with Roland Ratzenberger, whose death the day before Senna's had begun F1's darkest weekend. Ratzenberger had gone off track during qualifying, damaging his front-wing, but continued pushing for a quick lap. The damaged wing failed and the Austrian crashed heavily, suffering fatal head injuries. Put very simply, driver error had set in motion a chain of events that led to Ratzenbeger's crash. Blame, for want of a better word, could be apportioned.
And because Roland Ratzenberger was almost certainly killed instantly upon impact, under Italian law, the race should’ve been canceled. But because he was pronounced dead at the hospital (even though he sustained a basilar skull fracture, which is almost always an instant fatality), and because of the financial losses that the track would’ve incurred as a result, the race went ahead.
That fatality got lots of tears from people who would not only admire his talent, but also his is charismatic look and feelings. It is also hard to understand how unprofessinal mechanics fddIt’s also hard to understand how professional mechanics would leave the car in that condition to be used! Besides that, a dangerous curve roughly protected. More old bold tires or nets or sand along that curve would have changed the way of history. As far as I know no one was punished for that. Hope I’m wrong.
Its disgraceful that there is no mention of Roland Ratzenbeger, dying the day before on qualifing, that had a huge impact on the drivers like Senna too. His death was a major loss for motorspot! R.I.P Ratzenberger and Senna
@gunz365 if, if if.....lots of "if"s. But first, the car does not lose downforce, even if it touches or bottoms out completely - such are the aerodynamics. This video never mentions eanything about wings and airflow through the body of the car, including under it (but still separated from the ground by passing over the skidplate). Then, the onboard or any other footage never show either stepping out of the car, or any correction with opposite lock - the front wheels never show the rapid right movement consistent with opposite lock. And no, it would not have looked like that. The car would have been upset enough for it to slide outwards, not rocket out of the track. And finally, if the steering mechanism worked, 1.9 secs is eternity for a driver to be able to steer away from the wall. Yet, again, the front wheels don't move. And ll that time Senna is clearly trying to steer left (not right, not in opposite lock) - this can clearly be seen on the onboard, with his helmet pointing to the left and not to the right. until the end.
Haha. Yeah, lots of "if's," I know. But it can happen, actually; though I agree with you more. The step out I'm talking about is small (an illusion, basically) -- if that's even what happened. Maybe three inches or less. And you do lose grip (made a mistake saying downforce, sorry) when the car touches the road, which is why cars are raised in the wet; which is why drivers complain about aquaplaning when there are rivers running on the circuit: there is no space between the bottom of the car and the road, which causes skating. Might get away with it down the straight in the dry, but it's different going around a corner at 180+ miles an hour and having the car bottom out. It will slip! Especially with a stiff suspension. Look at the onboards from Senna and Schumy and you will see the difference; and Senna had more fuel. But I agree with you. Something is not right about this being "the" explanation for what happened. I might be wrong. But it can happen. Thanks for challenging me.
gunz365 I don't know about rain, but in aquaplaning it's the wheels that skid and lose traction. That's different. I just don't see where Senna's car supposedly slid. Even from the onobard, if the car oversteered at 180+ mph, the rear of the car would have twitched to the right. Instead, we can see the rear moving uncontrollably to the left, as the car veers to the right (as if unloaded). There's no sideways movement wither, which would be expected in a high speed slide. Same with the onboard. Williams claim Senna was steerign right, but you can clearly see his head tilts to the left, which would indicate he was trying to steer left. You can also see the front wheel movement on the onboard and one of the track cameras and the front wheels don't steer.
Having drifted road cars in parking lots, I can say that the "steering to the slide" theory is bogus here. When you countersteer, you esentially keep the front tires pointed toward where you want the car to go, only turning the steering wheel right of center in a left drift if you get a significant slip angle. In Senna's crash tape, the car DID get a small slip angle but nowhere near enough to warrant turning the wheel right of center, maybe a little bit closer to straight ahead, but not right of center. From viewing other laps of Senna, he would have rather kept his wheel to the left and hop over the inside curb a little bit rather than risk steering toward the outside of the corner.
this people just killed him, he was a just a good guy, just worryed about hin friends, is not nice, is to fear, i'm still in tears because of him,i'm so sad, i hate this people, i just hate so bad
Greatest Video showing the world 17 years before Dale Earnhardt's Death why were safer barrier walls not mandatory after this crash on all race tracks?
it's honestly completely possible the car bottomed out in tamburello. If you bottom out, you lose all downforce and can't turn. keep in mind that setups in the 90s were VERY low.
i don't necessarily agree with this either, but i think it best to keep an open mind. imola is mostly a left turn circuit; and given the safety car laps leading to lower tyre pressures -- the left side tyres, then, being at lower pressures (given more left turns) -- it makes sense what this says happened.
Okay, so if the car bottomed out and it caught when he corrected it, then why did he ride it straight into the wall without even attempting to turn it back left?
0.15 the part where the piece of suspension debris hit towards Senna helmet visor similar to 2009 Hungarian GP qualify session from Felipe Massa Ferrari with rear suspension bullseye hit from brawn Ruben's Barrichello car but Massa is saved with HANS Device
Even worse, this show aired in the late 1990s as part of Nat Geo's "Seismic Seconds" program. The makers of the film were said to given "secret access" by Williams to Senna's telemetry right up to the moment of the crash. This is a lie because Williams never produced the last 2.8 seconds of the crash for the Italian courts - they said it was "missing."
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By the way, here's a short clip that was aired a few hours after the San Marino broadcast.
ruclips.net/video/VLztY_tdJQ0/видео.html
I remember watching Senna race with my late father! We enjoyed his races up until his death! Rest in peace Senna! You are a true legend in our hearts!
amela montgomery may your father rest in peace🙏🏻
He is not dead he just a lap ahead of us
Please know how lucky you are. My relationship with my parents was nightmarish and as with you, Formula 1 reminds me of them. Except more in a shut up you stupid boy kind of way.
It makes me really sad to see all the R.I.P for Ayrton. When I get sad about him passing, I think of one of his most famous lines. " Let's Remember the good times, the good moments, and let's keep it that way" We miss you buddy.
Ayrton Senna 25 years ago today. Most talented and passionate F1... Forever the Campeão.
Can't believe it will be 20 years since we lost him. I remember watching it on BBC and thinking "Senna will be mad with that, another DNF" (Williams were struggling early season in 1994 and Senna hadn't completed any of the three races) Never once did I think it would be the last moment of his life. Senna seemed indestructible. His legacy is that he will always be THE greatest, no matter what records have since been written. Ayrton was a one off.
Amen
As a kid I only knew 3 sportsmen because they were all over TV ect.
Mike Tyson, Maradona and Senna.
R.I.P. Senna
You forgot MJ
Michael Jordan
@@markovangjeli7982 the only 3 sportsmen that HE knew
@@farrelldzakijumayil3281 no man MJ was same as Senna Tyson and Maradona
@@markovangjeli7982 i know. But its the 3 sportsmen that he watch not the best at the era
I still remember the day of his passing, I was a big Senna fan and it was so shocking.
RiP💖 I remember watching this, with my dad, and remember the gutting shock feeling. It still makes me cry seeing this. Amazing driver....but I think there was more to his death than we are told! Legend x
I was at donington when this man shown everyone what true racing is.I will never forget that day a true inspiration to not just drivers but to everyone.sadly missed
R.I.P Ayrton Senna, God bless you!
Senna was a citizen of the world. Great driver. Senna forever in our memory. A complex human being.
It was proven in the criminal proceedings in Italy that the disruption of car steering column of Ayrton Senna was the cause of the accident. Microscopic examination of the material showed typical streaks of fatigue caused by the application of cyclic stresses. So the reports showed, WITH ALL THE SCIENTIFIC CERTAINTY that the steering column broke up because of wear of the material, and not due to the impact of the accident. What happened was a poorly designed and poorly executed change in the steering column, which was carelessly welded to meet the pilot's request, who wanted to change the position of the steering wheel in the car. So Patrick Head, then technical director of Williams, was charged and found guilty of manslaughter by Italian justice. He only failed to fulfill its worth because of prescription. This National Geographic documentary and tampering with the car telemetry data are part of the fraud that is designed to hide the cause of the accident. The financial interests of Formula 1 did not desire that the directors of the teams could be liable for accidents to the drivers because it would threaten the business itself.
+Tayrone Resende so the crash would not have broken the steering column?
+KriZPify If it wasn't broken already, it would certainly break during the crash, but investigation claims that the steering column broke before the crash, being it major cause
+Tayrone Resende i thnk in the onboard we can see he lost steering after 3rd bumb in track and car go straight with no control--r.i.p
Rubbish, the corrupt Italian courtroom is no place to find answers. Watch the damn documentary.
@@HeavySmoker22 The docu is based on facts of the ECU readout. But the data was tampered.
Why did they alter the black box? Of course, to hide something.
The column broke, and if the lead technician will find their guts, this will be revealed...
A shoddy welding job and a broken steering column took away the best driver ever and a really decent person too. There never has been anyone like him and there never will be.
If Williams had nothing to hide why did they seize the black box in contravention of the rules, something you won't hear NatGeo talk about ? The car was unsafe. Close friends of Senna begged him not to drive it, again something that you won't hear from this presentation.
The best Pilot that represent My Country, I Was 7/8 years old, but I remember that day, My Family was Launch in front of the TV to Watch the Race, And we Seen he crash that car. The Country Stopped on his Funeral. ( I don't Know if you will understand me, I tried to Write in English.)
The same car was driven by Damon Hill, David Coulthard, and Nigel Mansell even after Imola. Why oh why didn't their close friends convince them not to drive this horrible deathtrap? Why did Hill keep driving the death car and keep winning, when all he had to do was walk away to stop the murderers at Williams from winning the constructors championship that year with the blood of Senna?
Unremarkably Senna's steering column broke on impact. Whatever its initial cause, the accident should have been survivable. Instead, the Great Ayrton Senna, a genius driver and a wonderful human being, was killed by a bloody tire. That's what happened. It was that trivial and that stupid. Deal with it.
The night before the race, his girlfriend was talking to him on the phone. She was telling him not to race tomorrow because he had this bad feeling and he didn't feel like racing. He later changed his mind and raced... That changed the world. That changed our lives. Yeah, it was just a racer, but he was nothing but inspiration for us automotive enthusiast
This might sound stupid but what are the chances senna missed the turn? probably unlikely right with the wide space?
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They drove the same car, however WITHOUT a modified, poorly welded steering column...
The doc is a total bullshit, nice try to help fellow britoins out of serious troubles. Senna was turning the steering wheel left, front wheels did not react at all. So the steering system was broken. It was Williams fail.
100% right. you see senna turn left and the wheels don't react, he had the steering column lengthened and that it where it broke at the part that was welded on to extend it
I'm British and so was my grandad he believed the steering column broke and so do I. Not all British believe that it was for this bullcrap reason.
Rubbish! The steering column was thoroughly tested after the accident by Adrian Newey and the rest of the technical department.
@@Burns1993Joe so no neutral testing?
Only Brazilians know what Senna meant for our country. Up to this day he remains a hero to us.
GeneralZod011 Not just Brazilians either...my sons middle name is Ayrton, I'm from the United States.
+Aaron Glanville Congratulations my friend, I hope your child can enjoy this idol as I could. I'm 26 years old, and I'm Senna fan today thanks to my father who always admired him.
+Aaron Glanville
In my parents street, a then 19 year old guy bought a puppy in late 1993 and named it Senna, because he was a huge AS fan. He loved and treated that dog like it was his own child, and it lived to be 18 years old!
It was a female Dutch Shepherd/Doberman cross, a big dog
This was in the Netherlands. All over Europe, people adored Ayrton Senna, an unmatched sportsman and a unique, truly great person
Japaneses love him too
GeneralZod011 lmao brazilian and their pride for their shithole country.
Saw him win in the U.S. in 91 - Phoenix.
Thanks 4 sharing this documentary i watch it ova & ova cos its interesting
Truly appreciate this well spoken explanation of ‘of how Ayrton’s accident and consequential tragic death’ occurred. Thank you. You’re still very much loved and missed Ayrton Senna. RIP ♾ 🌹💔🇧🇷✌🏼🙏🏼🕊💫
I've done karting, drifting, and rallycross, and can rightfully claim a 2nd place SCCA trophy to my name.
I am of the opinion that Senna's car did not magically bottom out and understeer due to excessive downforce.
I think Senna's modified steering column sheered off under heavy load, as he entered the Tamburello corner, and that the sensor used to measure the torque exerted on the steering column was simply gathering data above the sheering event as Senna hopelessly sawed at the wheel before his crash.
If it were the case the case that excessive downforce were the cause of the accident, that wouldn't explain Senna's inability to reposition or even attempt to redirect the vehicles trajectory as he scrubbed 55mph from its speed (190mph down to 135mph) before impact.
Surely a near 25% reduction in velocity would have sufficiently reduced the cars downforce to have brought the chassis back up off the ground, in the supposed two seconds after the initial loss of control. Maybe there was a .10-.25 second period where the grass or curbing on the outside of the corner could have contributed to the understeer event. But two seconds as a driver, is nearly an eternity in racing, and more to the point, under the load induced by braking, the front tires in Senna's car should have had even more grip to change the direction of the car prior to the collision, provided the steering was still functional.
I genuinely don't think it was.
The idea that Senna magically bottomed out and hit the wall because of aerodynamics doesn't make sense. Sennna's fatal crash has every indication, that steering column simply failed, and his car continued on a near straight line when it did. And despite his best efforts; both on the track in trying to slow the car down before the fatal crash at Imola, and off it in trying to improve F1 safety, the accident inevitably killed him.
+DrivenMind why?
too much talk. simplify your argument.
Loss of downforce, or bottoming out during deacceleration doesn't explain the path of Senna's car before his fatal accident. Loss of steering does. How's that?
Loss of downforce causes understeering (loss of steering) because the only flow of air is through the top of the car.
This causes drag on the part of the car where air is moving from (in Senna's car's case, the front of the car).
Therefore, the car is unable to grip the road, and therefore, steer.
Right, but if you watch the footage he didn't understeer into the wall. The front wheels ceased turning left, which would be consistent with a shearing of the steering column, a loss of steering load, and the car continuing in a straight line.
11:12 "who died in a crash after this interview" WTF?!?!?!
Senna'Senna did
Michele Alboreto....
Ritet
Yeah, it cought my ear too..... strange ai! xx
he was killed testing for le mans in 2001
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Interesting and how was this data determined, Senna's data was lost when the Williams team illegal accessed the ECU from the impounded car and "accidentally " erased it ........
LIARS...FOOLS AND LIARS.....THERE WILL NEVER BE ONE LIKE HIM...SHAME ON YOU...
anthony louloudis Did you see Max Verstappen they say is the next senna.. look ad this driving is the same drive he had back then.
A brutal loss for the world of sport! one of the best F1 pilots of all times!
I have 2 problems with the official "it wasn't the steering that broke" explanation shown here at around 15:30 - 16:30 in the video, which says that measurements of the torque being applied to the steeering column remained active until the impact with the wall (finishing at a value of -7.18 N/m2 ) thus the steering can't have broken.
Firstly, "N/m2" is NOT a measure of torque but of PRESSURE. Torque is measured in "Nm" (newton-metres). Whatever that sensor was measuring was some sort of pressure, NOT the steering torque.
Secondly, if we accept that this measurement was indeed some sort of steering input measurement, then since it's value non-zero all the way to the wall, then WHY WASN'T THE CAR TURNING from this input?!! The wheels remained straight and the car didn't turn.
A partial failure of the steering column could explain that. The iBook Tamburello brings this up as a plausible theory.
According to other sources, the cause of death was NOT a wheel hitting him in the head....but rather the suspension arm puncturing his helmet and going into his head.
+Musicman81Indy then why did he move hes head after crash? and if you say "spasms" then no, the doc or medic who was there said they got hes helmet off and he was still alive at that point.
I've seen a video documentary which showed the aftermath of the crash, and there's a huge pool of blood left on the floor after they got Senna into the helicopter. Right where his head had been laying. That confirms the theory that the suspension bit pierced his helmet and was the cause of his death. For me it does anyway.
had the privilege of watching him race many times and saw him go off at Imola, was one of the worst days I have ever experienced
Rip Ayrton, though 90% of this is bullshit, he is gone, we can not replace the legend that he was!
This "documentary" is an insult to anyone who has a brain. The Williams demonstration of how the steering wheel moves/moved within the cockpit was laughably ridiculous. The steering column broke. They said he steered into the slide at 11.7 seconds, the crash happened at 12.8 seconds, so you're telling me he just decided to commit suicide and not attempt to turn left in that remaining 1.1 seconds? C'mon.
Quem viu, viu, quem não viu infelizmente jamais verá um piloto como Senna! Puro talento
you see cars throw sparks all the time in Formula 1, and not one of them goes out of control. His steering column broke plain and simple. Ayrtons death could have been avoided
watch the real footage and then watch the positioning of the front wheels, the wheels just went straight cause senna had no control of the steering, column failed
If the steering column broke you wiuld see his arms fling left
Rest in peace.
What's really crazy is senna was a very religious Christian in the morning of the race he told his parents that God told senna he is gonna get the greatest gift (eternal happines) please don't start I fight guys and girls
RIP: Senna
U will be missed forever and ever
RIP Ayrton Senna 1960-1994
I Remembered That Crash And I Will Miss Senna
Don’t Be Sad Ayrton Senna Came Back As A F1 Livery Helmet Car Back In 2017
R.I.P
was 5 when he died. i remember the imax presentation on his career in the 90s. been a hero of mine ever since.
Ayrton would have destroyed Schumacher had he lived. His determination and skill would've probably Vettel along with others not exist in the BUSINESS of Formula 1. R.I.P buddy..
Exactly.
DavieDrum98 schumacher was already winning races when senna was alive douchebag.
DavieDrum98 I agree
True, but you have to admit that Senna was not the same Senna after he left McLaren. Not speaking of his driving skill, but more of his demeanor and overall outlook. He never trusted Williams.
I would be very tight butthole too if i was driving a 200mph shitbox. The crazy thing was that he put an inferior williams on pole three times in a row and out qualified Hill by a large margin each time, even with schumacher having an electronic advantage. pretty crazy when you think about it since hill had been around the williams fw14(?)-16's and senna just walks onto the team and takes the struggling car to pole past someone so familiar with williams cars and mechanics by over a second each time. he was a real racer.
The Best never slowed by life and his spirit raced on to Glory Forever to never be matched! That marks a man as a Legend! God bless his love ones and bless his soul with mercy......
There's a website showing that steering strain went to zero as Senna rounded Tamburello.
The steering column broke, as subsequent photos showed it outside the car after the crash.
RIP Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna.
Imola '94.
Williams propaganda bullshit.... NatGeo must have loved the taste of that Rothmans money. The wheel was designed to move that way? Bullshit. In no other footage of the FW16's wheel in use did such motion occur. Ever.
+Jeremy Johnson is so sad and pathetik how they try to cover up his death-murder-they just respect nothing in the name of money :(
Rest in peace Ayrton Senna 1960 1994
Your legacy lives on 😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥
im of Ayrton Senna contry! (Brazil)
Sad thing is that if it has happened to someone less famous, nobody would have made such a big deal out of it.
kind of true. it's indeed sad. but that's how things are. the good thing is this way safety was improved for everyone.
*F1 died with Senna*
Oh just stop
Very well done. Thank you ! I also believe in that theory. Many people believe in the "broken steering shaft" theory.
For me you are the only one and you still my favorite driver forever l miss you Ayrton now!
I might not have been born at that time but at what I saw on footage is legendary. R. I. P Senna
RIP Senna. Your were the best ever!
R.I.P legend true great of f1
dafreiman YOUR COMMENT WAS THE MOST GENUINE I HAVE SEEN.DO NOT SAY SORRY ABOUT YOUR ENGLISH NOR SPELLING IT IS GREAT. I HAVE A 107 GRANDMOTHER ALIVE BUT DUE TOO VISITING IS AN ONAS I HATE WHAT PEOPLE DO NOT THE PERSON UNLESS THAT PERSON IS FAMILY OR CLOSE FRIEND,FORMER FOE BUT ONE THING I SAY IN FAMILY CHILDREN LOOK YOU SEE THAT WOW HE IS SO LIKE SENNA, RIP AND THE IDIOT DISLIKES ARE BLOW TORCHES SO THANK YOU FOR A FANTASTIC REPLY.
My bullshit-o-meter went berserk
Rest in peace ayrton senna
its a combination of both really, the weak steering column and cold tyres, which in those days werent at all kept to temperature under the sc and the car bottoming out in a flat out corner. Theyre all factors i would say and the combination was a lethal one
Absolute rubbish. This is the discovery channel footage that was widely discredited saying about tyre deflation behind the safety car. His steering column broke. And his suspension arm hit him in his visor killing him instantly after hitting the wall. This needs to be taken down. It's awful and untrue.
The talk of the steering column failure conspiracy is beyond ridiculous. In senna crash film you can see him entering the turn with no problem, as he comes to the apex you can also clearly see were he loses traction, making him sway to the right and into the wall.
I remember my mum & dad told me they were watching watch this until they find out on the news.
21:10
Is nobody going to mention that groundforce cars were eliminated from F-1 in the early 80s, and they are making a return in 2021? That means there was virtually no ground effect on the 1994 cars. Downforce? Yes, from the spoilers/wings.
does anyone know when this was aired? I guess they were still speculating right up until the court verdict in 2007 as I don't think many details were available i.e. wreckage inspections etc until the case was completed. If post-2007 this would be a damn strange program!
Loss of down force my arse,the steering column snapped period!!
love the evidence
we love you senna you are a legendary driver
A british documentary covering up for the british Williams team. The british media never liked Ayrton anyway since he dominated Mansell so many times. It was obvious the steering wheel column broke, sending the car straight to the wall, because of a bad job by the team.
The surgeon who attended Senna track-side said he had a catastrophic head injury and even with an airway in he took his last breath on the ground where the crash occurred, no mention of the impact through the visor of the steering component on the right hand side of the car, the wheel was caught between the car and the wall, but the steering rod or whatever had pierced the helmet through the visor prior to that wheel supposedly hitting Senna, if the wheel did hit him, he was already mortally wounded, you can see the helmet has no obvious damage on the top and right hand side when shown during the funeral. If it is the same helmet as used on the day then the visor has been replaced and the outside cleaned and polished, why else would there be no damage? The lady holding the helmet at the end there rubs the area of the helmet that was impacted (by the wheel?), almost as if she knew something important was going on with it. Very sad and the old money is more important aspect rode over everything, Williams didn't want their operation to be found at fault by having a compromised component, and the FIA and track officials didn't want the race cancelled hence the "he died four hours later offsite" excuse. I wonder if Williams changed the setup of the other cars after this crash, quietly and with no announcement?
The steering column was made by Jeremy Clarkson with a hammer
How Do You Know?
Never going to convince me it was anything other than the steering column that failed
I would like to belive that the steering column broke but the on board camera shows otherwise. Catching a slide at 190mph is tricky. RIP.
Senna was the one of the most famousfil F1 driver.its shocking his unfortunately dead, he made the iconic history round the world..i tribute to him...
AYRTON bijoux de la F1
Yeah, he is totally correct. The touch with the ground and the tyre temperature was the problem. That's why every f1 car nowadays do that and isn't oversteering, and of course he had less temperature than 1 lap ago.
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On 1 May 1994, Ayrton Senna veered off the track at the Imola circuit and into the crash barriers. No one knew it at the time, but the great Brazilian was effectively killed on impact: debris had pierced his helmet, causing multiple fractures at the base of his skull. The medics who arrived on the scene instantly knew that his chances of survival were zero and that Senna was gone, perhaps to meet the God he believed in so fervently. What now began was a grim afterword to the great Brazilian's life story: the search for an explanation and, ultimately, for someone to blame.
Officially, the three-time world champion died at 18:37 local time. Later that evening, Williams team manager Ian Harrison received a phone call from an Italian lawyer. He was informed that Senna's death was being treated as a "road traffic accident".
Publicly, the immediate aftermath focussed on the sense of loss that Senna's death caused, both in the sport and in his native Brazil. The man acknowledged as the best of his generation and among the greatest of all time was gone, brutally and without warning, becoming the first (and to date only) F1 champion to die in a world championship grand prix. What's more, he perished in an age of live television coverage across the globe; F1 had never experienced a more public death than Senna's. As if to confirm this, his state funeral was broadcast live on television in Brazil, while the government declared three days of national mourning.
But as the grief subsided, it became apparent that Senna's death was being treated as particularly suspicious. All fatal racing crashes require intense scrutiny. Even if it is clear that the accident occurred due to driver error, the authorities must investigate extensively so as to learn lessons that can be implemented in the future. This was the case with Roland Ratzenberger, whose death the day before Senna's had begun F1's darkest weekend. Ratzenberger had gone off track during qualifying, damaging his front-wing, but continued pushing for a quick lap. The damaged wing failed and the Austrian crashed heavily, suffering fatal head injuries. Put very simply, driver error had set in motion a chain of events that led to Ratzenbeger's crash. Blame, for want of a better word, could be apportioned.
And because Roland Ratzenberger was almost certainly killed instantly upon impact, under Italian law, the race should’ve been canceled. But because he was pronounced dead at the hospital (even though he sustained a basilar skull fracture, which is almost always an instant fatality), and because of the financial losses that the track would’ve incurred as a result, the race went ahead.
That fatality got lots of tears from people who would not only admire his talent, but also his is charismatic look and feelings. It is also hard to understand
how unprofessinal mechanics fddIt’s also hard to understand how professional mechanics would leave the car in that condition to be used! Besides that, a dangerous curve roughly protected. More old bold tires or nets or sand along that curve would have changed the way of history. As far as I know no one was punished for that. Hope I’m wrong.
Its disgraceful that there is no mention of Roland Ratzenbeger, dying the day before on qualifing, that had a huge impact on the drivers like Senna too. His death was a major loss for motorspot! R.I.P Ratzenberger and Senna
@gunz365 if, if if.....lots of "if"s. But first, the car does not lose downforce, even if it touches or bottoms out completely - such are the aerodynamics. This video never mentions eanything about wings and airflow through the body of the car, including under it (but still separated from the ground by passing over the skidplate).
Then, the onboard or any other footage never show either stepping out of the car, or any correction with opposite lock - the front wheels never show the rapid right movement consistent with opposite lock. And no, it would not have looked like that. The car would have been upset enough for it to slide outwards, not rocket out of the track.
And finally, if the steering mechanism worked, 1.9 secs is eternity for a driver to be able to steer away from the wall. Yet, again, the front wheels don't move. And ll that time Senna is clearly trying to steer left (not right, not in opposite lock) - this can clearly be seen on the onboard, with his helmet pointing to the left and not to the right. until the end.
Haha. Yeah, lots of "if's," I know. But it can happen, actually; though I agree with you more. The step out I'm talking about is small (an illusion, basically) -- if that's even what happened. Maybe three inches or less. And you do lose grip (made a mistake saying downforce, sorry) when the car touches the road, which is why cars are raised in the wet; which is why drivers complain about aquaplaning when there are rivers running on the circuit: there is no space between the bottom of the car and the road, which causes skating. Might get away with it down the straight in the dry, but it's different going around a corner at 180+ miles an hour and having the car bottom out. It will slip! Especially with a stiff suspension. Look at the onboards from Senna and Schumy and you will see the difference; and Senna had more fuel. But I agree with you. Something is not right about this being "the" explanation for what happened. I might be wrong. But it can happen. Thanks for challenging me.
gunz365 I don't know about rain, but in aquaplaning it's the wheels that skid and lose traction. That's different.
I just don't see where Senna's car supposedly slid. Even from the onobard, if the car oversteered at 180+ mph, the rear of the car would have twitched to the right. Instead, we can see the rear moving uncontrollably to the left, as the car veers to the right (as if unloaded). There's no sideways movement wither, which would be expected in a high speed slide.
Same with the onboard. Williams claim Senna was steerign right, but you can clearly see his head tilts to the left, which would indicate he was trying to steer left. You can also see the front wheel movement on the onboard and one of the track cameras and the front wheels don't steer.
Greatest Ever. Period. RIP...
Senna！
RIP legend !!!
The only thing a team is required to build on its own is the monocoque, everything else can technically be bought
Having drifted road cars in parking lots, I can say that the "steering to the slide" theory is bogus here. When you countersteer, you esentially keep the front tires pointed toward where you want the car to go, only turning the steering wheel right of center in a left drift if you get a significant slip angle. In Senna's crash tape, the car DID get a small slip angle but nowhere near enough to warrant turning the wheel right of center, maybe a little bit closer to straight ahead, but not right of center. From viewing other laps of Senna, he would have rather kept his wheel to the left and hop over the inside curb a little bit rather than risk steering toward the outside of the corner.
RIP legend
And the conclusion in this doc is?
May he rest in peace
this people just killed him, he was a just a good guy, just worryed about hin friends, is not nice, is to fear, i'm still in tears because of him,i'm so sad, i hate this people, i just hate so bad
Rise of the peace my favorite driver all time
7.18 N/m^2 for messing "force"?
What you apply to a steering column is torque and it´s meassured in Nm (Newtons * meters)
NatGeo pls...
what year was this doc made?
RIP ayrton
2000 i think.
they should investigate more about the injuries. they focused on the accident.
Legends don't die.
Greatest Video showing the world 17 years before Dale Earnhardt's Death why were safer barrier walls not mandatory after this crash on all race tracks?
RIP. Senna 😭
Only because the tire was able to go anywhere it wants!? That's sad.
it's honestly completely possible the car bottomed out in tamburello. If you bottom out, you lose all downforce and can't turn. keep in mind that setups in the 90s were VERY low.
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i don't necessarily agree with this either, but i think it best to keep an open mind. imola is mostly a left turn circuit; and given the safety car laps leading to lower tyre pressures -- the left side tyres, then, being at lower pressures (given more left turns) -- it makes sense what this says happened.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit" This is bullshit. The column broke prior to impact.
Okay, so if the car bottomed out and it caught when he corrected it, then why did he ride it straight into the wall without even attempting to turn it back left?
I feel like Ayrtons car slapped the ground, stopping downforce and low pressure.. Along with the the bad steering column
240p? seriously?!
0.15 the part where the piece of suspension debris hit towards Senna helmet visor similar to 2009 Hungarian GP qualify session from Felipe Massa Ferrari with rear suspension bullseye hit from brawn Ruben's Barrichello car but Massa is saved with HANS Device
Even worse, this show aired in the late 1990s as part of Nat Geo's "Seismic Seconds" program. The makers of the film were said to given "secret access" by Williams to Senna's telemetry right up to the moment of the crash. This is a lie because Williams never produced the last 2.8 seconds of the crash for the Italian courts - they said it was "missing."