Sorry but what a breath of fresh air it was to watch this video entirely without being bombarded by ads every 90 seconds. Thank you for your sacrifice brother
We ran the accident in a simulator. Every single driver exhibited the leftwards movement of the head at the moment of loss of control. It is a natural reaction to want to "will" the car to the left because you know the runoff is so short. The width of the track at Tamburello in '94 was 9.2 metres with a very short runoff. No one ever "braked" in Tamburello under normal driving conditions without a mechanical issue. Steering corrections, lifting, throttle juggling are all employed, but never braking. You never brake in Tamburello unless there is something seriously wrong with the car. Senna was full on the brakes and downshifted twice. This is not normal race driving in Tamburello. Senna looked down at his steering wheel twice when entering the lap. The yellow button analysis shows the steering column first failed (partially) when entering Piratella on lap 6. The NatGeo documentary was completely wrong. Newey too admitted recently that he made a mistake in designing 16. He used the same aero mounting points as 14B and 15C, not taking into account the increased latitude in rideheight exhibited by a passive car (16) as opposed to the active 14B and 15C. Ironic when remembering the discussion between Senna and Newey in late 1993 testing, when Ayrton wanted to develop the 15D (passive evolution of the 15C) rather than race the 16.
What do you understand by "failed partially"? Disconnected? A welding spot cracked/broke halfway? A steering column is a solid, non elastic piece, correct?
I have a theory on the head movement before the crash. A driver will brace themselves under braking through their arms and shoulders. If the steering wheel had become detached, he would slump forward more under braking compared to normal braking for a corner because he couldn’t brace himself. The same as you see a passenger on a track day getting thrown around.
The severed, then tack welded together steering column is the cause of the accident. I believe this was a Black Magick attack, eliminating Senna allowed for Schumacher 7 championships, I believe he ultimately paid a karmic debt for it with his skiing accident.
@@RyanPerrellabut Schumacher would not be privy to any conspiracy against Ayrton. Not then and there. I know if I were told that the powers that be did something like that I would promptly retire.
@@Andy-yy2fg never seen or heard or read that line in the 30+ years since his death……. Lots of (mis)quotes from saint Senna. Half of them put in the wrong context.
Williams killed Senna and nobody was ever punished. I thank you Maurizio Passarini for seeking jsutice, and showing the world how the horrible steering column adaptation was done. Williams tried ti cover everything they could and blame Senna for his own death, and that i will never forget. Rest in peace Ayrton.
@@SuperWhiteBarry the team even took a hammer to the telemetry box. I recall reading accounts of events not long after the crash. I never pulled for any who were involved - including David Coulthard who did a video showing that “excess movement” of the steering column was somehow “normal”. Yeah, I know they pushed him into a corner but… it’s just not right.
Because he'd never seen or heard about it before?? Neither had I & I've seen...EVERYTHING there is to see about this crash. I knew he bled a lot from a cut to his forehead, but never heard or saw blood drops falling from the helicopter @muppetpaster
We all saw footage from Senna car right before crash and there we can actually see how he try to steer , but the car goes in straight line towards the wall. We can also see how steering itself move forward towards Senna . It is so obvious that steering column broke before hitting the wall and he have no option for steer it. Its like entering corner in high speed and lift your hands from steering wheel . He try to steer so hard we can see his head tilt to left , but the steering wheel was not connected to front wheels in that last moments. Senna simply cannot make mestake , he was greatest.
Yep the more I look into this even before this video the more it's clear that this was really a mechanical failure, even the telemetry and his reaction as well don't appear compatible to a sudden pilot error or loss of control because of a bump, it appears like someone who methodically tried to control the car to the very last second but the car just don't respond, first decelerating by 50% and then only after confirming that he had lost control he take the foot out and hit the brakes in full force, still trying to steer right, but the car goes almost tangentially to the wall.
Ayrton was, is, and will always be a F1 hero to me. His crash has ALWAYS felt off to me...Especially him calling F1 out for not being a pure racing sport, and said it's all about money and politics. Majority of the drivers complained about the teams, FIA, and cars...but no driver said F1 IS ABOUT MONEY AND POLITICS before or after Senna. So yes I believe he was targeted. Maybe not "unalively" targeted by the governing bodies...but targeted still
He is number 1 to me too! But it was an unfortunate mechanical failure, and all things that could have happened wrong happened! He was hated by the commission for standing up for safety, yes! But to say they jearparjed him is a stretch
I still remember watching this race, me my uncle n grandad were all heartbroken after the 2 deaths that weekend 💔 one of the darkest moments in F1 history
Me too! I remember Senna crashing, Galvão Bueno saying that it doesn't look good, my nana pushing me to the side saying let's pray, while my whole family started crying! I was so young, I thought if I prayed he was gonna be ok 😢😢😢 sad, sad memory
"More room? Don't worry, we'll just weld a piece of tubing into the steering column, problem solved." I know so much about welding, that if you're to weld something critical, you HAVE to weld from both sides. Which of course is impossible in a closed tube.... Weird they didn't just construct a whole new column.
1.25mm thick tubing was used to elongate the shaft. What was it made out of? If they chose to elongate it by stretching the shaft on a bit of inner tubing, my question now becomes why not support the cut shaft by using two bearings, or one longer plain bearing that would be a bit longer than piece they put in to take the stress off the smaller bit of tube?
In general one can weld two pieces of steel pipe only from one side, which means the entire outside, in a way that the weld is not the weakest point of the resulting longer pipe. That is very common fashion and tested and certified all over the world. But in a particular case like this - dissimilar materials of different diameter, maybe welded in situ with limited access due to hurry etc - everything is possible quality wise.
Its always been obvious, the car didn't understeer (front wheels sliding) or oversteer (rear wheels sliding), it stopped steering and went straight to the wall.
People who don't understand the forces involved at those speeds, don't understand bottoming and how critical downforce actually is to a car's cornering always think it must be a steering problem. Tamburello is a corner that requires downforce.
The worst of it is to think about all the previous deaths in F1 and how many of them could have happened due to incompetent workers, but we won't know due to lack of propper technology... Great documentary, nice work
You mean due to politics? I don't think they had incompetent workers, they did what they were told! They seemed quite amazing actually! And nowadays it's all about technology, very low risks
It is scary how everyone tries to shift the blame to a dead driver. This is how people are deep down inside. Rather than owning up and taking the blame like a man, everyone becomes a chicken and blames Senna. All these cowardly behaviors will haunt them to their death beds.
I'm Brazilian, and have lived abroad for over 16 years, I don't know anyone who blames him for his own accident! I met people from all around the world who admired or got to know Senna because of the documentary or because F1 drivers always saying he was their hero, and I only hear how unfortunate his accident was! Nobody ever blames him, because that would be ridiculous! Imagine a guy so meticulous about his driving, drive straight to a wall on a curve? It doesn't make any sense whatsoever
@@vrvel_music that was not the question. Maybe i missed some crash there in qualy sessions... But not as i remered. I watched all sessions that were broadcasted live.
They tried to hide the truth for many years. DC was a terrible coward to do such act. The steering wheel was moving erratically during lap 6, and Senna looked down staring at the wheel 2 times in lap 6. After it broke, the second time the yellow button. Appears, it is not the left button anymore. It was the right button. Meaning that sennas steering wheel was turned over 180 degrees to the left. The guy was killed by poor welding and poor decision making. Hill was also a big coward.
@@muppetpaster yeah this comment is kinda bullshit with the 180 degrees. but it still doesnt change the fact, that the steering wheel was clearly unstable and moving until it broke, which actually never happened before.
Amazing how David Coulthard can say with a straight face that that’s normal behavior of a steering wheel while racing and Damon Hill lying in court that he couldn’t remember anything. Lost all respect for those two
It was not a championship winning car, it was a death trap. After sennas crash Williams then sent Damon Hill back out again. They just didn’t care about their drivers.
Senna asked for his steering column to be modified. Damon Hill didn't have a modified steering column. Maybe Williams knew what caused the crash straight away and sent Hill out because they knew that his car would be fine?? Just a theory and probably very wrong but who knows.....
@ I watched a doco on Nigel Mansell a year or so ago where he stated the 91/92 Williams was dangerous and called Damon Hill the Test Monkey or words to that affect when Hill was Williams test and development driver.
I call bull💩 on that Coulthard wheel video. No driver in their right mind would race a car with that kind of slop in their steering wheel. The reason you feel secure in a vehicle while driving is because of the stability of the steering wheel to hold on to and why when as a passenger you feel like you’re flopping around like a fish out of water when the driver is driving aggressively. A floppy column is dangerous and adds chance for the universal joint to bind more as column angle increases. Anyone who has driven a vehicle with locking 4WD has experienced this while trying to make a low speed turn. I have a hard time believing an engineer in F1 who designs everything to the tightest tolerances and specs would design a steering column that flops all over the damn place. I don’t believe people should have spent the rest of their lives in jail but the lack of accountability and ass covering was disgraceful.
Since he and Jordan have a podcast I want someone to call Coulthard out on the disinginuety of his making those statements. I understand he was trying to start his career but even he must have known it was a BS statement in a race distance
The cold tires is a null argument. Lap 6 he went through full speed (third fastest racelap of the entire race IIRC). By lap 7 they would have been even more temperature and pressure. He would have gone off on L6 if it was the tires
well the car was quite twitchy there on lap 6 so for argument sake if Senna did have to correct a small slide there, and got to lap 7 with a bit more grip would actually explain the over correction that sent him into the wall.
I was never a Senna fan. I respected him beyond doubt. He was a legend. R.I.P. I am left with an extremely bitter taste in my mouth. Statute of limitations? Newey, Williams, not responsible? Travesty of Justice. Dreadful is not the word. Actually I have no words. Sorry for us. Very depressing stuff.
Could you imagine loosing feel in your steering wheel at 250km/h. Death smiling back at you while roaring into the concrete wall that should of had some tire stacks or something. Jeez
the thing i find strange in sennas accident is it looked like all steering/input was lost, not that there was a loss of control, because then the car might have spun or changed direction before the impact, however, it does not. It just goes straight on. This is why I think something steering related failed or for some reason the car went straight on with little directional change.
A loss of the inside front tire can also cause an imbalance of grip and pull the car out of the turn and appear to go straight. It does look like Senna's steering wheel comes off right before he loses control but his inside front tire also shoots off a blast of air/dust right before he goes straight. That could have been the tire scrubbing hard and then taking the line of momentum without steering... but we'll never know 100%. It could also be a combination of the 2. The tire blowing might have put the last bit of force needed into that makeshift extension to break it.
@RAAFLightning1 I didn't mean it as in cold. I mean that piece of bodywork spotted on the track directly in the path of Senna's line could have cut his tire open. We will never know for sure if that giant gash in the center of his tire was a blow out or caused by impact. If the tire did blow out, that could have been the final bit of force needed to completely snap the steering column.
@@Lightning_aus the cold tyre argument is fine imo. the car bottoms out you can see it from schumacher's onboard. the rest of the field navigated it fine because they probably had a slightly higher ride height meaning the cold tyres didn't result in bottoming out.
Congratulations for the accuracy and depth of this analysis on Ayrton's controversial and as far as I'm concerned excruciating loss. By far the most detailed and clearest content I've seen to this date on the subject
I met an ex Williams employee at Alicante airport several years after the crash , we were chatting about the new Valencia street track and how it was a shock that Williams had won that weekend but he no longer worked for them . I asked off topic and out if the blue really, " was it the steering column that snapped" " Basically yes, and thats all i can say" was the answer.
Unless you was at the VERY top no one knew…! I worked for Williams for 8 years….I’m a huge Selena fan and asked as much as I could….no one on the shop floor knew…..all we was told was the the car came back to the factory…then was crushed and buried…..
I remember watching this Race originally on TV that Sunday. I remember Schumacher being interviewed. Schumacher said that when full on fuel, Sennas car kept hitting the same bump on each lap, and was twitching noticeably on that same bump on each lap. On lap 7, Senna was slightly more to the left, and the car was upset more by that same bump. Schumacher said it appeared to him that being slightly more left of the bump on the track is what initially caused the car to go straight instead of turning. In my Own opinion, the steering column failed as the car hit that bump slightly more to the left on lap 7. Schumacher was right behind Senna, and watched it happen. I don't know why Schumachers original interview post race has not been included in this decision.
So explain when the steering columns fails A) the back steps out B) there is still pressure being applied to the steering sensors? Doesn't scream steering column to me lol.
@@stephensegal5187 I remember him describing something along the lines of Senna having oversteer/back stepping out and then going to the right. But anyway, a more likely explanation would be that it is a combination of bottoming and aerodynamics. After all the FW16 at the start of the season was a car that could stall the diffuser very easy. Steering column failing is a good and easy explanation of what happend because people want answers, but I'm afraid the footage and data doesn't support that claim. Therefore it'd be foolish to say it was that.
@@optyfen5276 please read my most probably wrong theory: yesterday I fainted and before losing complete consciousness I made a childish very unreasonable attempt to no fall down. In complete possession of my senses and in a not desperate trying to save my life situation, I would have not tried that at all. In the same way Senna when fainting he did that childish maneuver to try avoiding the wall, that's why Ecclestone handed the "damaged "black box and the video of Senna's cockpit missing the last second before the collision, in order to hide the "poor " reaction technique made by Senna and prevent to be proven that it was his mistake . It would be too painful for the whole F1 world to have to accept that the considered by almost all as the greatest of all time ended his life in such a pity way. Hence I stand on the affirmation he fainted.
absolutely. The FIA allowing the black box to be removed by Williams...when in parc ferme, when an official police investigation was in play...Ecclestone wanted shit covered up real fast.
Exactly, cover up of an assassination. As seen at 23:15 when Senna's head not only displaced too far left of any previous recorded position, but into bouncing against the cockpit. Roland was the guinea pig for the sniper. Senna was the main trophy.
@@mickblast5794 Another RUclipsr posted a great video with testimony from the prosecutor who sought justice for the steering wheel being severed, which left Ayrton without control of the FW16. The failure was due to the slimming down (reducing the cross section and leading to failure) of a hollow tube/pole (steering rod) which was done at Ayrtons request because he wanted more movement for his hands in the relatively cramped Williams cockpit. This slimmed section severed, ultimately ending up as the responsibility of the Chief Technical Director Patrick Head, as determined by the Italian court. The computers were probably pulled because they needed to be analyzed, it’s a bolt on module that needs to be hooked up to a computer to read it. The car was a crime scene and the average Williams guy working the laptop wasn’t going to be allowed by the cracked monocoque, so it was removed and analyzed later. The chassis was eventually returned to Williams and summarily “destroyed” only in the past 10 years.
Shocking how complicit so many at Williams were in hiding evidence, or at the very least obstructing. They knew what they had done was incriminating, and were terrified of accountability. Even put a black mark against Charlie Whiting. But Bernie is at least true to character - money first. It’s disgusting that so many of these people still have careers in F1 today and especially Hill with the moral high ground he takes on anything by not Lewis Hamilton.
It's possible they were also using features not permitted by rules, in addition to all other car problems. No black box is the best type of black box for something like that
Coulthard and those who presented such a mockery of a video should be in prison. How could they be so idiotic to show how the steering wheel easily moves with the car static and the strength of their arms alone. If this were the case, in 3G curves the steering wheel would not move a little but would bounce from end to end inside the cockpit. A real mockery. Hill also deserved an award for his lack of cooperation at trial.
@@rickrolled7930 Presenting or preparing false evidence is an automatic felony. Escaping prison time will be almost near to impossible if you are found guilty.
After the death of Senna, the true color of a human and darkness of F1 had been clearly seen finally. I hope these culprits sleep and live well everyday of their life… they shall get their retribution and karma when time comes. Many proven facts and data showed the cause of the fatal accident. But, one thing for sure, I know “Senna is now in another better world” and he would always be remembered and missed as the great F1 legend of all times.
As my old man once said, "when money gets into any sport, it stops being a sport and starts being a business". If we go backwards, why would Williams lie? Cause they didn't care about safety only money. Imagine the sponsors that would give money to a team that build a shitty car that killed one of greatest of all time, they would all pull out of fear of bad marketing. The entire team put blame on Senna, and as history has shown, dead people are really bad at testifying in court in their defense. Nobody in the team was to blame for jury-rigging a steering column instead of fabricating a proper part ? Quality control, what is that? Steering wheel that wobbles from side to side while turning, and yet it wasn't wobbly laps before that? Footage cut? Onboard camera footage lost. O my, Williams really hit the motherload of all coincidences possible in their favor. I stopped watching F1 after Senna died, and after reading in the news about the trial and testimonies, I was disguised with the F1 forever.
But that must not happen. Someone is responsible for it and they always hide well. Williams killed Senna and drivers Hill and Coulthard did their part.
@@Wankdorf183the metal fatigue is a particularly damning, hair raising piece of evidence. Without reading too much into things, we lost a Great BRazilian.
Senna could avoid that... Sid invited him to leave all that and go fishing, off course the pilot and professional Senna was he sad "no" , he would never turn his back and walk away from that hell and face it as a true soldier he was.... We miss you Boss... we fking miss you 💪🙌🙏
Bernie Ecclestone starting his career as Joachim Rindt manager , I seen him taking the blood stained helmet at Monza 1970 qualifications. Bringing the helmet to Ninna Rindt. He is an unemotional men.
53:12 ... the wheel isn't turned, it's reacting to the bumps. Senna wasn't able to fight it because the shaft had broken, so it was basically free-wheeling. At the point it hits the wall it has no resistance, it turned left just the same as it would if he banged wheels with another driver.
I was was watching the race on TV and as soon as the crash happened I called it. Steering column snapped. You could see the car suddenly went from tracking the racing line to straight as an arrow into the wall. Later it was found to be the steering column snapped. It was fractured before it was installed on the car and finally gave up on Tamborello. I will always remember the crash because they showed the emergency team open massage his heart at the roadside.
We know what happened. He wanted the steering column adjusted and they did a crappy job welding it, and when it broke he couldn't turn left and when he hit the wall the broken steering column went into his helmet. This has been known for a long time.
I would have loved to see Ayrton do some IndyCar races as some Indy Teams had offered him to come do a race after he's done in F1 as I could see Ayrton being just as good at IndyCar but sadly we shall never know, R.I.P Ayrton gone but not forgotten
Unfortunately, many documentaries about Senna are no longer available on RUclips. This soft-edged documentary is probably more portable these days. Even if it offers little content.
I'm only about 5 minutes in, and there have already been several misrepresentations: Barrichello might have died without medical intervention; Ratzenberger's wing broke; Alboreto's first name was not "Michelle"; deaths were not reported at the track in Italy because of fear of prosecution, not just for financial reasons...
Ayrton's agent had me scheduled to meet Ayrton at Miami Int'l Airport the week after that race to custom-mold him to his steering wheel. Emerson showed him my Ser.#010 wheel, and told him to get one. We tried to meet for a couple of months prior, but I was too busy making wheels for the Indy drivers. My then-new 94M material was perfect for him to remold by himself after testing it...I still use that material today. I knew power steering was new in F1, but with a 54% reduction in effort with a properly molded set of PersonaGrips, there is no need for power steering. The result is the cornering limit feeling like a sharp peak, and not a soft, nebulous edge...EMG tests proved this, and is why nearly all drivers in IndyCar use it today. I showed Michael Schumacher's steering wheel that I made for him in '95 (Ser. #159/F1-001) to the engineers in Berlin and Dusseldorf when I spoke at engineering conferences. I feel bad now that I know the power steering was switched off...he was fighting the car. Having the wheel orbit +/-28mm in the cockpit while trying to feel the top of the mu-slip curve is totally unacceptable. Godspeed, Ayrton.
This is a very interesting history! Do you really believe that steering wheel movement was something designed by the Williams team? I've never seen something like this before. It is absolutely against the precision driving. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! God bless you!
@@MattGoss3060 because as he told... he was designed to win... He drove the F3 without brakes the whole race... He drove F1 Mclaren to win his first home grand prix in 1991 with only the 6th gear at the final 6 laps... So he was commited to give everything for the win. And he was winning that race. But anyway, I think that the steering column was working, even with small displacements it was working...
Displacement of 2cm in the steering wheel and column! That’s complete and utter insanity, I just can’t believe that any team or racing driver would accept that for racing of speeds up to 200mph!
There are no doubts Williams killed Senna, all the staff and particularly those who ordered and performed the steering wheel modifications as well as all the Renault staff who deleted evidences, those should be in jail today, right next to Eclestone who made billions.
I agree, but also Seems knew they're were problems... and the first thing you don't do is race a car with problems... but he was famous for that and it caught up with him. I miss him. That Williams did kill him... he fell to evil math and came into the non turbo era tragically
This is a tragic story in general.Its so cringe,to see a racer complain about things inside the race,and some old guys that they only care about money dont listen to what a PRO says.I am very sorry for losing a human,and a great person-racer that could not only bring lot of highlights,but make races safer. I would love to watch Formula 1 and MotoGP,but they are so money-centered that they kill what makes a race something glorius to watch,we just watch whitch team got better technology. Races like this can easily be driven by AI's,we want human races with pulses. RIP Senna,with you died formula 1 also, and after Valentino Rossi also GP.I think we will keep watching old races instead of the new ones.
Your video, the presentation of the facts/data is incredible. You had me hooked from the start. I remember the incident and some news afterwards. But never heard the conclusion. Sad how people with blood on their hands remaink cocky.
Another interesting thing: Gerhard Berger and Ayrton Senna were good friends and pretty much would have been the leaders of the GPDA if it hadn't been disbanded at that time. On Friday, they walked the Tamburello and agreed that it was a death trap. They also agreed, that they would race it in the current form this one last time, and if there were no security changes by the next year, they would refuse to race at Imola. (My) Source (pretty sure it is not the only one): An Interview with Gerhard Berger in Austrian Television on the "anniversary" of Sennas death.
he tried to turn, not fainting because something broke in the car. probably the weight of the steering changed and he got left slap because of the snap. and the fact that senna wasn't loved by the fia about safety. lil back story: in 85 drivers were already saying that the regulations should be upgraded during the increase of speed last 5/10 years. fia did not wanted to hear it so some drivers got their foot in the door demanding upgrades of regulations and changes on tracks etc.
Yes, his body language says it all, he tried to turn left the car with all his body. It wasn't the ''G-forces'', it was him, fighting the car.... So sad!!
Great documetary. It is so sad that Ayrton had to die because so many people messed up (FIA, Italian track organizers, Williams). Senna was always fighting for safety changes. RIP Ayrton.
@@ArjunTheRageGuy they are all part of the murder . hill ,frank. patrick and OC newey ! To make mistake is one thing ,to throw all blame on the victim is another level ! Disgusting !!!!
My main conclusion is that this case stinks on all levels. Yes, It was a tragic combination of circumstances. But NONE! Absolutely N-O-N-E of it was sheer bad luck or force of nature. All involved knew exactly what they're doing. All knew what type of danger they exposing Senna to. All assumed that Senna's driving skill & experience will compensate their mistakes and laziness. All are disgusting people who were motivated by greed. None of them really cared about the safety of Senna. And im pretty sure that not only before the trial, But even after it: Millions of Dollars poured to the judge, witness pockets, Colthard & Hill(Disgusting), And basically: All involved that "suddenly" suffered from head trauma or amnesia, or testified that during the accident weird things happened because "it simply dose"(e.g, The missing seconds from the tape). Simply wanna puke on the Williams team and the FIA.
Man people must hate Senna, if they keep defending Millionaires/Billionaires who gave an OK to an unsafe track who already had one fatal accident on the day before to happen just because of Money. Also the telemetry shows Senna tried to break and down shifted on Tamburello, and every other pilot at the same year and year before took Tamburello pretty much flat out.
The obvious one is why after so many accidents at that corner in previous years especially Berger did they continue with an exposed concrete wall at that corner and no safety cushions ??
In my opinion, things were like this: somewhere during the race-weekend, Ayrton Senna asked for something to be done to the car, because he couldn't drive it properly (it happens, not Ayrton's fault). The Williams team decided to make the steering column longer (alrighty then, they're the experts, it's their call). The guys who actually welded the column did a poor job, because various reasons (didn't have enough time, didn't have the proper materials etc., who knows). They thought it'll hold for this single race and after they'll return to the base in UK, they'll make the whole column properly, from one single piece of metal. The steering column broke (it wasn't Adrian Newey's and Patrick Head's direct fault either, honestly speakin'), leaving Ayrton a passenger in that car, he couldn't do anything to avoid the crash. The accident happened in Tamburello, but it wasn't Tamburello's fault either (they should get rid of that nasty chicane, enough of that already!), there are lots of high-speed turns in Formula 1, what should they do, remove all of them...?! The wall from that area didn't have any sort of protection, I can't believe they left it like that, especially after Piquet's (and Berger's) accident (and I'm not the kind of "special snowflake" that wants to red-flag the race if a bird shíts on the track, like they do these days. But the simple sight of that concrete wall without any barrier of protection gives me shivers down my spine). Here we definitely can put the blame on someone, the organizers and the people responsible with the safety of the track. The spring of the wheel penetrated the visor of Senna's helmet (not the fault of the helmet nor the spring), that was really unlucky, if it hit 5 inches (that's 12,7 centimeters) to either sides, Ayrton would've walked out of the car, very shaken, but also very alive. It was a "perfect storm", little details, bad luck and mistakes that led to great consequences. But the biggest mistake was, in my opinion, the lack of a barrier made of tyres in front of the wall from that turn. Especially regarding the history of the crashes in that area. If there was protection, I strongly believe that no matter what unfortunate events happened until that moment, the crash wouldn't have been fatal.
A tire barrier in front of the wall probably would have softened the blow just enough, so that the wheel wouldn't have impacted his head that way. A perfect storm of not enough protection, a mechanical fault in the wrong corner.
In high-speed, low-angle impacts, tyre walls can do more damage than they prevent because they can block the car causing violent deceleration, without the car after an initial impact a little hard (the low angle means that the velocity component in the direction normal to the wall is relatively low, e.g. 70Km/h, not fun but not to dangerous), can slip and stop gradually. Today there are protections that do not have these drawbacks but at the time on straights, corners in ovals and some corners in normal tracks, concrete was the lesser evil.
The Williams Team removing the black boxes, cut the last frames of the camera, and then destroyed the car. That should be enough to judge who is accountable for Senna's death and why so many efforts in destroying/hiding evidences.
It's simple, it wasn't down to racing and/or track conditions because all the other cars were subject to the same conditions, but only Senna's flew off the track. This proves it was down to something uniquely related to Senna's car only. It was the steering wheel modification failure. We all know it. Senna was able to apply the brakes and downshift gears, he just wasn't able to steer. The cover up was a blatant conspiracy. How about this for a whacky conspiracy theory: Adrian Newey is the weak member in the conspiracy team and is threatening to blow the whistle and admit it was the steering wheel - so they've had to get together to keep Newey quiet all these years by giving him secret information on regulation changes, endless praise and championship success, as well as the title: "Adrian Newey The F1 God, Emperor, Maharaja and Guru, King of Aerodynamics". 😅
I remember watching the 94 Imola live on TV. I had his crash helmet tattood the next day. Unfortunately I have gained a few more lid tats from fallen drivers and riders i have followed. Long back I asked a certain ex F1 driver who will remain namless about that demonstration video of a moving steering wheel. He had trouble keeping a straight face while trying to explain why that would be useful! That said he also told me he had seen how F.W. and the team were affected by the incident. The Williams still carries the Senna logo. Motorsport after all is dangerous. Even if a defective column caused the crash the cars are built and raced as evolving prototypes. Many newly fitted parts have failed and caused the crash of a race car but in Senna's case it led to tragedy. Best thing to do is to learn and make changes to limit the the chances of a repeat.
Excellent video. One thing, the name is pronounced Mik-Elle Alboreto, who would also be killed behind the wheel of the Audi R8… I remember watching this, Senna was my racing hero and was absolutely gutted…
This is an excellent video... thank you for producing it with such clarity. I think that all students of law, justice, racing, and life should watch this. It points out the big flaw in "justice systems" Big money is allowed to delay proceedings! That should be criminal in motive! This video points out so many flaws in the Italian system.... What a farce and joke Italy has going. Same can be said for all justice systems I'm afraid. Great video!! Rest in Peace dear Aryton... you are missed.
RUclips age restricted the video. Which meant that it wasn't promoted by RUclips anymore (it didn't appear in people's recommendations and so on) . And the number of views just stuck after it got restricted.
9:38 Are you kidding me? They‘re ripping apart those cars, turn them into watches and „give us a chance to be a part of this history“ for a small fee of 3200 - 4000 dollars… this is so scummy
My opinion, its the combination of a faulty steering column and the terrible design/condition of Tamburello. First things first, the steering column failed from the amount of stress being placed at the modified weld that was engineered and installed that is not fit to be raced with. Newey designed the column, and has stated that he feel partially guilty, as his design was something that should have never been fitted to any car. Though, I think as much as Newey is responsible, Patrick Head holds an unfathomable amount of responsibility, due to being the head of technical, and showed negligence towards the quality control of the modification. Next, I believe the design of Tamburello was extremely poor due to the new asphalt providing an uneven bouncy track that upsets the cars and causing violent bouncing which caused the already fatigued steering column in Senna's car to snap. Then, the run off area, the run off area was way too narrow for a corner that drivers take flat out at, no gravel traps to help slow the car, a grass patch that would reduce the efficiency of braking it the car was head towards the wall, and lastly, a concrete wall instead of a tire barrier. Tamburello in 1994, is a literal corner that ticks almost every box on what a corner would look like if it followed a step by step guild on how to make the worlds most dangerous corner on a racetrack. I know what I said is obvious, but this is my view on the whole situation regarding Senna's death RIP TO THE TWO LEGENDS THAT DIED AT IMOLA 1994 ROLAND RATZENBERGER ARYTON SENNA
I agree, with the exception of the tyre wall. In high-speed, low-angle impacts they can do more damage than they prevent, and I strongly suspect that the Tamburello falls into those situations where it is deleterious
02:50 In an interview prior to the race on english and german TV, Senna prefered not to race this sunday after Roland had passed away. But he was over ruled...
If this happens today, if a racing driver dies on Saturday quali, do you think there would be a race on Sunday?? Hell no! Drivers wouldn't allow it, i'm sure.
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Sorry but what a breath of fresh air it was to watch this video entirely without being bombarded by ads every 90 seconds. Thank you for your sacrifice brother
We ran the accident in a simulator. Every single driver exhibited the leftwards movement of the head at the moment of loss of control. It is a natural reaction to want to "will" the car to the left because you know the runoff is so short. The width of the track at Tamburello in '94 was 9.2 metres with a very short runoff. No one ever "braked" in Tamburello under normal driving conditions without a mechanical issue. Steering corrections, lifting, throttle juggling are all employed, but never braking. You never brake in Tamburello unless there is something seriously wrong with the car. Senna was full on the brakes and downshifted twice. This is not normal race driving in Tamburello. Senna looked down at his steering wheel twice when entering the lap. The yellow button analysis shows the steering column first failed (partially) when entering Piratella on lap 6. The NatGeo documentary was completely wrong.
Newey too admitted recently that he made a mistake in designing 16. He used the same aero mounting points as 14B and 15C, not taking into account the increased latitude in rideheight exhibited by a passive car (16) as opposed to the active 14B and 15C. Ironic when remembering the discussion between Senna and Newey in late 1993 testing, when Ayrton wanted to develop the 15D (passive evolution of the 15C) rather than race the 16.
What do you understand by "failed partially"? Disconnected? A welding spot cracked/broke halfway? A steering column is a solid, non elastic piece, correct?
I have a theory on the head movement before the crash. A driver will brace themselves under braking through their arms and shoulders. If the steering wheel had become detached, he would slump forward more under braking compared to normal braking for a corner because he couldn’t brace himself. The same as you see a passenger on a track day getting thrown around.
The severed, then tack welded together steering column is the cause of the accident. I believe this was a Black Magick attack, eliminating Senna allowed for Schumacher 7 championships, I believe he ultimately paid a karmic debt for it with his skiing accident.
@@RyanPerrellabut Schumacher would not be privy to any conspiracy against Ayrton. Not then and there. I know if I were told that the powers that be did something like that I would promptly retire.
So, was his last pole at Brazil or San Marino? You seem unsure
fun fact: when senna's death was annouced, and NASCAR found out, they decides to do some silent laps to honour his death
And Dale Earnhardt dedicated his win to Senna. (Tragic that he had a similar fate in Daytona some years later)
@@inno-v8-ion165 Yep
That's cool to know. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing rip both of them
Fun
After the first death, the race should have been stopped. The fact it went ahead is disgusting.
You don't know about motor-racing.
Senna didn't want to race either because he was super upset about the death on the day prior...
@@quaerimuslux Then why did he race? Because he had to. He could not stop.
@@bowelrupture Senna was very strong minded, if he wanted, he wouldn't have raced. He did because he wanted to..
@@bowelrupture Jusy FYI, I'm from Brazil. So, I know what I'm saying.
Senna, my hero. The man who said "I am not programmed to come second" Who was leading 'til the end.
i used this for my project thanks andy!!
😂 he never said that 😅
@@carlosdezee5003 Yes he did.
@@Andy-yy2fg never seen or heard or read that line in the 30+ years since his death……. Lots of (mis)quotes from saint Senna. Half of them put in the wrong context.
@@carlosdezee5003 OK, misquote. Try this, 'I am not designed to come second or third, I am designed to win...'
Senna was a friend of my grandpas. He had invited my uncle to his box on the day of the accident. It was really tragic. Rest in peace Ayrton
Wow! I wish I was your grandpa! 😂❤What a lovely story! But yes, sad, sad ending! 😢
We knew all along. Shitty welding job, steering column failed and Ayrton was killed in the process! Legends never die! We miss you Ayrton!
Williams killed Senna and nobody was ever punished. I thank you Maurizio Passarini for seeking jsutice, and showing the world how the horrible steering column adaptation was done. Williams tried ti cover everything they could and blame Senna for his own death, and that i will never forget. Rest in peace Ayrton.
@@SuperWhiteBarry the team even took a hammer to the telemetry box. I recall reading accounts of events not long after the crash. I never pulled for any who were involved - including David Coulthard who did a video showing that “excess movement” of the steering column was somehow “normal”. Yeah, I know they pushed him into a corner but… it’s just not right.
He was SIMPLY THE BEST !!!
One inch of weld can hold two tones
@@martinj2843 Yes and still, a shitty welding job is a shitty welding job
I had no idea that blood drops have fallen from the helicopter! How macabre!
Why? He was bleeding like a MF-er.....
Because he'd never seen or heard about it before?? Neither had I & I've seen...EVERYTHING there is to see about this crash. I knew he bled a lot from a cut to his forehead, but never heard or saw blood drops falling from the helicopter @muppetpaster
Isn't that insane
I was watching live and they showed it all really new right then he was dead
That is actually not that uncommong, unfortunately.
We all saw footage from Senna car right before crash and there we can actually see how he try to steer , but the car goes in straight line towards the wall. We can also see how steering itself move forward towards Senna . It is so obvious that steering column broke before hitting the wall and he have no option for steer it. Its like entering corner in high speed and lift your hands from steering wheel . He try to steer so hard we can see his head tilt to left , but the steering wheel was not connected to front wheels in that last moments. Senna simply cannot make mestake , he was greatest.
Bravo, esattamente così...
Yes his body language says ''need to turn left'', his helmet in the video says exactly that. Visceral survival response.
He didn't failed.
Yep the more I look into this even before this video the more it's clear that this was really a mechanical failure, even the telemetry and his reaction as well don't appear compatible to a sudden pilot error or loss of control because of a bump, it appears like someone who methodically tried to control the car to the very last second but the car just don't respond, first decelerating by 50% and then only after confirming that he had lost control he take the foot out and hit the brakes in full force, still trying to steer right, but the car goes almost tangentially to the wall.
Ayrton was, is, and will always be a F1 hero to me. His crash has ALWAYS felt off to me...Especially him calling F1 out for not being a pure racing sport, and said it's all about money and politics. Majority of the drivers complained about the teams, FIA, and cars...but no driver said F1 IS ABOUT MONEY AND POLITICS before or after Senna. So yes I believe he was targeted. Maybe not "unalively" targeted by the governing bodies...but targeted still
Like all sports
He is number 1 to me too! But it was an unfortunate mechanical failure, and all things that could have happened wrong happened! He was hated by the commission for standing up for safety, yes! But to say they jearparjed him is a stretch
I still remember watching this race, me my uncle n grandad were all heartbroken after the 2 deaths that weekend 💔 one of the darkest moments in F1 history
I still remember it as well. I'm still shocked.
Me too! I remember Senna crashing, Galvão Bueno saying that it doesn't look good, my nana pushing me to the side saying let's pray, while my whole family started crying! I was so young, I thought if I prayed he was gonna be ok 😢😢😢 sad, sad memory
"More room? Don't worry, we'll just weld a piece of tubing into the steering column, problem solved." I know so much about welding, that if you're to weld something critical, you HAVE to weld from both sides. Which of course is impossible in a closed tube.... Weird they didn't just construct a whole new column.
*tent tubing!
1.25mm thick tubing was used to elongate the shaft. What was it made out of? If they chose to elongate it by stretching the shaft on a bit of inner tubing, my question now becomes why not support the cut shaft by using two bearings, or one longer plain bearing that would be a bit longer than piece they put in to take the stress off the smaller bit of tube?
I think they Williams thought that the welded tubing would support the stress and it wasn’t necessary to add reinforcements to the tubing
In general one can weld two pieces of steel pipe only from one side, which means the entire outside, in a way that the weld is not the weakest point of the resulting longer pipe. That is very common fashion and tested and certified all over the world. But in a particular case like this - dissimilar materials of different diameter, maybe welded in situ with limited access due to hurry etc - everything is possible quality wise.
Even a fish mouth weld would've been better than straight around the circumference.
Its always been obvious, the car didn't understeer (front wheels sliding) or oversteer (rear wheels sliding), it stopped steering and went straight to the wall.
Well yeah, the front got lifted in the air.
Yep, the car broke. Just like it did on Sargeant last week at Netherlands. Williams ... smh
Williams killled him
Definitely @kaing5074 Head and Newey pulled the trigger
People who don't understand the forces involved at those speeds, don't understand bottoming and how critical downforce actually is to a car's cornering always think it must be a steering problem. Tamburello is a corner that requires downforce.
It was an accident that could have been avoided because of negligence. Then tampering of evidence.
The worst of it is to think about all the previous deaths in F1 and how many of them could have happened due to incompetent workers, but we won't know due to lack of propper technology... Great documentary, nice work
You mean due to politics? I don't think they had incompetent workers, they did what they were told! They seemed quite amazing actually! And nowadays it's all about technology, very low risks
this video is a banger it is really sad it was destroyed like that. keep up the good work to get those type of videos to our feed
It is scary how everyone tries to shift the blame to a dead driver. This is how people are deep down inside. Rather than owning up and taking the blame like a man, everyone becomes a chicken and blames Senna. All these cowardly behaviors will haunt them to their death beds.
I'm Brazilian, and have lived abroad for over 16 years, I don't know anyone who blames him for his own accident! I met people from all around the world who admired or got to know Senna because of the documentary or because F1 drivers always saying he was their hero, and I only hear how unfortunate his accident was! Nobody ever blames him, because that would be ridiculous! Imagine a guy so meticulous about his driving, drive straight to a wall on a curve? It doesn't make any sense whatsoever
Thanks for posting this. I had never heard a real in depth review of the investigation. Had no idea it went on for so long.
Senna was not the only driver to crash in this corner on that weekend. In his case, it was the Williams car that killed him.
Who else crashed in 1994 in Tamburello?
@@Superstocker669 Roland Ratzenberger, not in Tamburello but a turn later
@@vrvel_music that was not the question. Maybe i missed some crash there in qualy sessions... But not as i remered. I watched all sessions that were broadcasted live.
@@Superstocker669 he died in quali...its in the video you are commenting on.
@@gothicusmaximus5697 i watched Ratzenberger crash live in 1994, i asked for other crash in Tamburello that weekend.
you're making me Cry for Senna again...
They tried to hide the truth for many years.
DC was a terrible coward to do such act. The steering wheel was moving erratically during lap 6, and Senna looked down staring at the wheel 2 times in lap 6. After it broke, the second time the yellow button. Appears, it is not the left button anymore. It was the right button. Meaning that sennas steering wheel was turned over 180 degrees to the left. The guy was killed by poor welding and poor decision making. Hill was also a big coward.
Absolute bullshit. HAHAHAHAHAH 180 degrees.....Sure......and his hands were in a twist/bunch...🤣🤣
@@muppetpaster yeah this comment is kinda bullshit with the 180 degrees. but it still doesnt change the fact, that the steering wheel was clearly unstable and moving until it broke, which actually never happened before.
Amazing how David Coulthard can say with a straight face that that’s normal behavior of a steering wheel while racing and Damon Hill lying in court that he couldn’t remember anything. Lost all respect for those two
Coulthard made a deal. I lie for you, you make me the main race driver.
It was not a championship winning car, it was a death trap. After sennas crash Williams then sent Damon Hill back out again. They just didn’t care about their drivers.
I think those two idiots murdered senna, they may think they didn’t but look at the rigged up steering wheel!!!(. That’s my thinking.
Senna asked for his steering column to be modified. Damon Hill didn't have a modified steering column. Maybe Williams knew what caused the crash straight away and sent Hill out because they knew that his car would be fine?? Just a theory and probably very wrong but who knows.....
@ I watched a doco on Nigel Mansell a year or so ago where he stated the 91/92 Williams was dangerous and called Damon Hill the Test Monkey or words to that affect when Hill was Williams test and development driver.
I call bull💩 on that Coulthard wheel video. No driver in their right mind would race a car with that kind of slop in their steering wheel. The reason you feel secure in a vehicle while driving is because of the stability of the steering wheel to hold on to and why when as a passenger you feel like you’re flopping around like a fish out of water when the driver is driving aggressively. A floppy column is dangerous and adds chance for the universal joint to bind more as column angle increases. Anyone who has driven a vehicle with locking 4WD has experienced this while trying to make a low speed turn. I have a hard time believing an engineer in F1 who designs everything to the tightest tolerances and specs would design a steering column that flops all over the damn place. I don’t believe people should have spent the rest of their lives in jail but the lack of accountability and ass covering was disgraceful.
Since he and Jordan have a podcast I want someone to call Coulthard out on the disinginuety of his making those statements. I understand he was trying to start his career but even he must have known it was a BS statement in a race distance
I agreed with everything you said until you down played the responsibility. They should all be thrown in jail!!!!
@@TheDoctor46vr 💯
The cold tires is a null argument. Lap 6 he went through full speed (third fastest racelap of the entire race IIRC). By lap 7 they would have been even more temperature and pressure. He would have gone off on L6 if it was the tires
I absolutely agree with you. Unstable car? Impossible. Unstable car can't brake with 4G...
@@marekpelikan9873 The part of unstable car is that you can do it, just not always. Which causes a big problem if it's not reliable.
well the car was quite twitchy there on lap 6 so for argument sake if Senna did have to correct a small slide there, and got to lap 7 with a bit more grip would actually explain the over correction that sent him into the wall.
@@marekpelikan9873 why can't it? what do you mean by unstable?
i dont understand how this is not viral? its so good and editing is so well done good job
I was never a Senna fan. I respected him beyond doubt. He was a legend. R.I.P. I am left with an extremely bitter taste in my mouth. Statute of limitations? Newey, Williams, not responsible? Travesty of Justice. Dreadful is not the word. Actually I have no words. Sorry for us. Very depressing stuff.
His wheels don’t even turn he went straight on
Yeah. It looks like he was in the middle of a slight turn and then all of a sudden the car just straightened up and went into the wall
His steering column snapped and all those cowards @ williams and the fia covered it up
Could you imagine loosing feel in your steering wheel at 250km/h. Death smiling back at you while roaring into the concrete wall that should of had some tire stacks or something. Jeez
@@josephweimers4021you wouldn’t feel anything. Not enough time to process anything
@@josephweimers4021the enough saidó KLAUS...🦩🇨🇴🇦🇷🇨🇺🇨🇵🇮🇲🇧🇷🏴🏁 RIP A.S. 🏁
the thing i find strange in sennas accident is it looked like all steering/input was lost, not that there was a loss of control, because then the car might have spun or changed direction before the impact, however, it does not. It just goes straight on. This is why I think something steering related failed or for some reason the car went straight on with little directional change.
A loss of the inside front tire can also cause an imbalance of grip and pull the car out of the turn and appear to go straight. It does look like Senna's steering wheel comes off right before he loses control but his inside front tire also shoots off a blast of air/dust right before he goes straight. That could have been the tire scrubbing hard and then taking the line of momentum without steering... but we'll never know 100%. It could also be a combination of the 2. The tire blowing might have put the last bit of force needed into that makeshift extension to break it.
@@BionicBurke that probably wouldnt be caused by cold tires as suggested since the rest of the field navigated it fine.
@RAAFLightning1 I didn't mean it as in cold. I mean that piece of bodywork spotted on the track directly in the path of Senna's line could have cut his tire open. We will never know for sure if that giant gash in the center of his tire was a blow out or caused by impact. If the tire did blow out, that could have been the final bit of force needed to completely snap the steering column.
Grip at that speed
@@Lightning_aus the cold tyre argument is fine imo. the car bottoms out you can see it from schumacher's onboard. the rest of the field navigated it fine because they probably had a slightly higher ride height meaning the cold tyres didn't result in bottoming out.
This is by far the best video
Congratulations for the accuracy and depth of this analysis on Ayrton's controversial and as far as I'm concerned excruciating loss.
By far the most detailed and clearest content I've seen to this date on the subject
I met an ex Williams employee at Alicante airport several years after the crash , we were chatting about the new Valencia street track and how it was a shock that Williams had won that weekend but he no longer worked for them . I asked off topic and out if the blue really, " was it the steering column that snapped"
" Basically yes, and thats all i can say" was the answer.
Unless you was at the VERY top no one knew…! I worked for Williams for 8 years….I’m a huge Selena fan and asked as much as I could….no one on the shop floor knew…..all we was told was the the car came back to the factory…then was crushed and buried…..
@@spice3767 I was chatting about the America's cup race actually, he was doing something with the hydrofoil keel .
@spice3767 I'm glad you like Mexican America singer Selena. But here we are talking about Senna.
@@FernandoRodriguez-fj5pj 😅😅
I remember watching this Race originally on TV that Sunday.
I remember Schumacher being interviewed. Schumacher said that when full on fuel, Sennas car kept hitting the same bump on each lap, and was twitching noticeably on that same bump on each lap. On lap 7, Senna was slightly more to the left, and the car was upset more by that same bump. Schumacher said it appeared to him that being slightly more left of the bump on the track is what initially caused the car to go straight instead of turning.
In my Own opinion, the steering column failed as the car hit that bump slightly more to the left on lap 7.
Schumacher was right behind Senna, and watched it happen.
I don't know why Schumachers original interview post race has not been included in this decision.
So explain when the steering columns fails A) the back steps out B) there is still pressure being applied to the steering sensors? Doesn't scream steering column to me lol.
@optyfen5276 Schumachers opinion as I recall was that Senna's car "broke suction" when going over that bump.
@@stephensegal5187 I remember him describing something along the lines of Senna having oversteer/back stepping out and then going to the right. But anyway, a more likely explanation would be that it is a combination of bottoming and aerodynamics. After all the FW16 at the start of the season was a car that could stall the diffuser very easy.
Steering column failing is a good and easy explanation of what happend because people want answers, but I'm afraid the footage and data doesn't support that claim. Therefore it'd be foolish to say it was that.
@@optyfen5276 please read my most probably wrong theory: yesterday I fainted and before losing complete consciousness I made a childish very unreasonable attempt to no fall down. In complete possession of my senses and in a not desperate trying to save my life situation, I would have not tried that at all. In the same way Senna when fainting he did that childish maneuver to try avoiding the wall, that's why Ecclestone handed the "damaged "black box and the video of Senna's cockpit missing the last second before the collision, in order to hide the "poor " reaction technique made by Senna and prevent to be proven that it was his mistake . It would be too painful for the whole F1 world to have to accept that the considered by almost all as the greatest of all time ended his life in such a pity way. Hence I stand on the affirmation he fainted.
the black box removal, the missing video and the destruction of the car tells you everything you need to know.
absolutely. The FIA allowing the black box to be removed by Williams...when in parc ferme, when an official police investigation was in play...Ecclestone wanted shit covered up real fast.
Exactly, cover up of an assassination.
As seen at 23:15 when Senna's head not only displaced too far left of any previous recorded position, but into bouncing against the cockpit.
Roland was the guinea pig for the sniper. Senna was the main trophy.
lol, you guys obviously never been in race paddock.
@@mickblast5794 Another RUclipsr posted a great video with testimony from the prosecutor who sought justice for the steering wheel being severed, which left Ayrton without control of the FW16. The failure was due to the slimming down (reducing the cross section and leading to failure) of a hollow tube/pole (steering rod) which was done at Ayrtons request because he wanted more movement for his hands in the relatively cramped Williams cockpit. This slimmed section severed, ultimately ending up as the responsibility of the Chief Technical Director Patrick Head, as determined by the Italian court.
The computers were probably pulled because they needed to be analyzed, it’s a bolt on module that needs to be hooked up to a computer to read it. The car was a crime scene and the average Williams guy working the laptop wasn’t going to be allowed by the cracked monocoque, so it was removed and analyzed later. The chassis was eventually returned to Williams and summarily “destroyed” only in the past 10 years.
Idiotic thinking like this is why the world is in shambles.
Thank you for this. And for a real voice instead of an AI-created one. Consequently watched it till the end!
Shocking how complicit so many at Williams were in hiding evidence, or at the very least obstructing. They knew what they had done was incriminating, and were terrified of accountability. Even put a black mark against Charlie Whiting. But Bernie is at least true to character - money first.
It’s disgusting that so many of these people still have careers in F1 today and especially Hill with the moral high ground he takes on anything by not Lewis Hamilton.
It's possible they were also using features not permitted by rules, in addition to all other car problems. No black box is the best type of black box for something like that
Coulthard and those who presented such a mockery of a video should be in prison. How could they be so idiotic to show how the steering wheel easily moves with the car static and the strength of their arms alone. If this were the case, in 3G curves the steering wheel would not move a little but would bounce from end to end inside the cockpit. A real mockery. Hill also deserved an award for his lack of cooperation at trial.
Coulthard was rewarded for his lies with a race seat and Hill didn't cooperate due to being afraid to lose the seat.
totally agree... Ridiculous!
Prison?! That's a bit harsh, isn't it?
@@rickrolled7930 Presenting or preparing false evidence is an automatic felony. Escaping prison time will be almost near to impossible if you are found guilty.
a bunch of english cunts, williams and the drivers. hill totally deserves the title that was stolen from him for this.
After the death of Senna, the true color of a human and darkness of F1 had been clearly seen finally.
I hope these culprits sleep and live well everyday of their life… they shall get their retribution and karma when time comes.
Many proven facts and data showed the cause of the fatal accident. But, one thing for sure, I know “Senna is now in another better world” and he would always be remembered and missed as the great F1 legend of all times.
As my old man once said, "when money gets into any sport, it stops being a sport and starts being a business".
If we go backwards, why would Williams lie? Cause they didn't care about safety only money. Imagine the sponsors that would give money to a team that build a shitty car that killed one of greatest of all time, they would all pull out of fear of bad marketing. The entire team put blame on Senna, and as history has shown, dead people are really bad at testifying in court in their defense. Nobody in the team was to blame for jury-rigging a steering column instead of fabricating a proper part ? Quality control, what is that? Steering wheel that wobbles from side to side while turning, and yet it wasn't wobbly laps before that? Footage cut? Onboard camera footage lost. O my, Williams really hit the motherload of all coincidences possible in their favor. I stopped watching F1 after Senna died, and after reading in the news about the trial and testimonies, I was disguised with the F1 forever.
May Ayrton Senna Rest in peace 🙏
Thankyou my childhood hero ❤️ you are missed. ❤❤
Steering column broke, plain and simple, mechanical failure, no malice, incredibly sad.
But that must not happen. Someone is responsible for it and they always hide well. Williams killed Senna and drivers Hill and Coulthard did their part.
negligence
@@Wankdorf183the metal fatigue is a particularly damning, hair raising piece of evidence. Without reading too much into things, we lost a Great BRazilian.
@@Wankdorf183 adrian newey did
Yea, ignore all the “ritual” red flags…
man amazing work ! how in hell you managed to find all that info and footage ! well done !
It’s all stolen from readily available sources 😂
Senna could avoid that...
Sid invited him to leave all that and go fishing, off course the pilot and professional Senna was he sad "no" , he would never turn his back and walk away from that hell and face it as a true soldier he was....
We miss you Boss... we fking miss you 💪🙌🙏
Bernie Ecclestone starting his career as Joachim Rindt manager , I seen him taking the blood stained helmet at Monza 1970 qualifications.
Bringing the helmet to Ninna Rindt.
He is an unemotional men.
very sad = facing death at that speed and a lot of times = Brave Champions = thank you and blessings !
53:12 ... the wheel isn't turned, it's reacting to the bumps. Senna wasn't able to fight it because the shaft had broken, so it was basically free-wheeling. At the point it hits the wall it has no resistance, it turned left just the same as it would if he banged wheels with another driver.
I was was watching the race on TV and as soon as the crash happened I called it. Steering column snapped. You could see the car suddenly went from tracking the racing line to straight as an arrow into the wall. Later it was found to be the steering column snapped. It was fractured before it was installed on the car and finally gave up on Tamborello. I will always remember the crash because they showed the emergency team open massage his heart at the roadside.
Senna had a theme music in Brazil which was played on tv when he won a race. The Brazilian people were very proud of this man.
obviously the steering column failed..you can see it in the video
We know what happened. He wanted the steering column adjusted and they did a crappy job welding it, and when it broke he couldn't turn left and when he hit the wall the broken steering column went into his helmet. This has been known for a long time.
Suspension arm pierced his helmet not the steering column
I would have loved to see Ayrton do some IndyCar races as some Indy Teams had offered him to come do a race after he's done in F1 as I could see Ayrton being just as good at IndyCar but sadly we shall never know, R.I.P Ayrton gone but not forgotten
He trialled and got the fastest time - his strategy was to remind McLaren of his many options
Should have stayed at McLaren--Ron Dennis
Was in my recommended. Gonna watch the full video when I get home from work.
Why did RUclips take down the original video? Absolutely loved it btw.
what was the diference?
Unfortunately, many documentaries about Senna are no longer available on RUclips. This soft-edged documentary is probably more portable these days. Even if it offers little content.
I was a HUGE Mansell fan,but I genuinely sobbed my heart out when this happened
I watched the video when it was released and couldn’t find it again after recommending it to a friend glad to see that you managed to repost it
@2:59 that's not jos verstappen it's jj lehto. lehto was replaced by jos after all of this m8 after having a fracture in his neck.
I'm only about 5 minutes in, and there have already been several misrepresentations:
Barrichello might have died without medical intervention; Ratzenberger's wing broke; Alboreto's first name was not "Michelle"; deaths were not reported at the track in Italy because of fear of prosecution, not just for financial reasons...
That's right
Ayrton's agent had me scheduled to meet Ayrton at Miami Int'l Airport the week after that race to custom-mold him to his steering wheel. Emerson showed him my Ser.#010 wheel, and told him to get one.
We tried to meet for a couple of months prior, but I was too busy making wheels for the Indy drivers.
My then-new 94M material was perfect for him to remold by himself after testing it...I still use that material today.
I knew power steering was new in F1, but with a 54% reduction in effort with a properly molded set of PersonaGrips, there is no need for power steering.
The result is the cornering limit feeling like a sharp peak, and not a soft, nebulous edge...EMG tests proved this, and is why nearly all drivers in IndyCar use it today.
I showed Michael Schumacher's steering wheel that I made for him in '95 (Ser. #159/F1-001) to the engineers in Berlin and Dusseldorf when I spoke at engineering conferences.
I feel bad now that I know the power steering was switched off...he was fighting the car.
Having the wheel orbit +/-28mm in the cockpit while trying to feel the top of the mu-slip curve is totally unacceptable.
Godspeed, Ayrton.
This is a very interesting history! Do you really believe that steering wheel movement was something designed by the Williams team? I've never seen something like this before. It is absolutely against the precision driving. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! God bless you!
Why do you think Ayrton continued driving the car with a failing steering column instead of parking it on lap 6?
@@MattGoss3060 because as he told... he was designed to win... He drove the F3 without brakes the whole race... He drove F1 Mclaren to win his first home grand prix in 1991 with only the 6th gear at the final 6 laps... So he was commited to give everything for the win. And he was winning that race. But anyway, I think that the steering column was working, even with small displacements it was working...
Displacement of 2cm in the steering wheel and column!
That’s complete and utter insanity, I just can’t believe that any team or racing driver would accept that for racing of speeds up to 200mph!
So there was footage of the impact of the actual crash on the car? That would be one of the most dark web videos to ever exist for those few seconds.
That'll be the evidence of steering wheel ''on the air'' right BEFORE the crash.
Those last frames are valued in hundreds of millions.
There are no doubts Williams killed Senna, all the staff and particularly those who ordered and performed the steering wheel modifications as well as all the Renault staff who deleted evidences, those should be in jail today, right next to Eclestone who made billions.
I agree, but also Seems knew they're were problems... and the first thing you don't do is race a car with problems... but he was famous for that and it caught up with him. I miss him. That Williams did kill him... he fell to evil math and came into the non turbo era tragically
Great video! Keep this up. Deffo underrated for all the effort that went out of this video!
This is a tragic story in general.Its so cringe,to see a racer complain about things inside the race,and some old guys that they only care about money dont listen to what a PRO says.I am very sorry for losing a human,and a great person-racer that could not only bring lot of highlights,but make races safer.
I would love to watch Formula 1 and MotoGP,but they are so money-centered that they kill what makes a race something glorius to watch,we just watch whitch team got better technology. Races like this can easily be driven by AI's,we want human races with pulses.
RIP Senna,with you died formula 1 also, and after Valentino Rossi also GP.I think we will keep watching old races instead of the new ones.
Top tier doc my dude. Well done!
2:16 Ratzenberger DID NOT lose control. He had a car failure that put him in the wall. Show some respect!!
Your video, the presentation of the facts/data is incredible. You had me hooked from the start.
I remember the incident and some news afterwards. But never heard the conclusion. Sad how people with blood on their hands remaink cocky.
All surviving that corner but not the Sienna because that Shaft for steering got him kild😢😢😢❤❤❤and that's it👎🏻🙈🎯
8:34 Senna's last pole wasn't Brazil 1994, it was Imola 1994 🤐
Newey ,Head & FW i find it DISGUSTING how you blame Senna for driving mistake as at 55:43 steering column broke BEHIND ANY DOUBT!!
Another interesting thing: Gerhard Berger and Ayrton Senna were good friends and pretty much would have been the leaders of the GPDA if it hadn't been disbanded at that time. On Friday, they walked the Tamburello and agreed that it was a death trap. They also agreed, that they would race it in the current form this one last time, and if there were no security changes by the next year, they would refuse to race at Imola.
(My) Source (pretty sure it is not the only one): An Interview with Gerhard Berger in Austrian Television on the "anniversary" of Sennas death.
Senna will not be forgotten rip champ
Great videos Bob. I can understand you perfectly. Best of luck in the next few weeks. We are praying for you.
he tried to turn, not fainting because something broke in the car. probably the weight of the steering changed and he got left slap because of the snap. and the fact that senna wasn't loved by the fia about safety. lil back story: in 85 drivers were already saying that the regulations should be upgraded during the increase of speed last 5/10 years. fia did not wanted to hear it so some drivers got their foot in the door demanding upgrades of regulations and changes on tracks etc.
Yes, his body language says it all, he tried to turn left the car with all his body.
It wasn't the ''G-forces'', it was him, fighting the car....
So sad!!
Great documetary. It is so sad that Ayrton had to die because so many people messed up (FIA, Italian track organizers, Williams). Senna was always fighting for safety changes. RIP Ayrton.
Always a good answer in courtroom: No, I don't remember.
Damon 'i dont remember' Hill
"I had amnesia"
"I had alzheimer's"
"I forgot"
"I forgor💀"
*Insert some statement that's still synonymous with "I don't remember"*
@@ArjunTheRageGuy they are all part of the murder . hill ,frank. patrick and OC newey ! To make mistake is one thing ,to throw all blame on the victim is another level ! Disgusting !!!!
Rest in peace, Ayrton ❤️🕊
this was a good video i watched the full thing when it first released made no sense why they took it down
also youtube u on something
@@linin7446 they will take it down again, or when someone reports it. There are still footage where blood is seen, and thats a big nono
what was the difference between than and this video?
@@Josip5001 dont think he changed anything but youtube making him re post it is comfusing
My main conclusion is that this case stinks on all levels.
Yes, It was a tragic combination of circumstances.
But NONE! Absolutely N-O-N-E of it was sheer bad luck or force of nature.
All involved knew exactly what they're doing. All knew what type of danger they exposing Senna to.
All assumed that Senna's driving skill & experience will compensate their mistakes and laziness.
All are disgusting people who were motivated by greed.
None of them really cared about the safety of Senna.
And im pretty sure that not only before the trial, But even after it: Millions of Dollars poured to the judge, witness pockets, Colthard & Hill(Disgusting), And basically: All involved that "suddenly" suffered from head trauma or amnesia, or testified that during the accident weird things happened because "it simply dose"(e.g, The missing seconds from the tape).
Simply wanna puke on the Williams team and the FIA.
Man people must hate Senna, if they keep defending Millionaires/Billionaires who gave an OK to an unsafe track who already had one fatal accident on the day before to happen just because of Money.
Also the telemetry shows Senna tried to break and down shifted on Tamburello, and every other pilot at the same year and year before took Tamburello pretty much flat out.
The obvious one is why after so many accidents at that corner in previous years especially Berger did they continue with an exposed concrete wall at that corner and no safety cushions ??
This gran prix was an absolut disaster....RIP Senna....
In my opinion, things were like this: somewhere during the race-weekend, Ayrton Senna asked for something to be done to the car, because he couldn't drive it properly (it happens, not Ayrton's fault).
The Williams team decided to make the steering column longer (alrighty then, they're the experts, it's their call).
The guys who actually welded the column did a poor job, because various reasons (didn't have enough time, didn't have the proper materials etc., who knows). They thought it'll hold for this single race and after they'll return to the base in UK, they'll make the whole column properly, from one single piece of metal.
The steering column broke (it wasn't Adrian Newey's and Patrick Head's direct fault either, honestly speakin'), leaving Ayrton a passenger in that car, he couldn't do anything to avoid the crash.
The accident happened in Tamburello, but it wasn't Tamburello's fault either (they should get rid of that nasty chicane, enough of that already!), there are lots of high-speed turns in Formula 1, what should they do, remove all of them...?!
The wall from that area didn't have any sort of protection, I can't believe they left it like that, especially after Piquet's (and Berger's) accident (and I'm not the kind of "special snowflake" that wants to red-flag the race if a bird shíts on the track, like they do these days. But the simple sight of that concrete wall without any barrier of protection gives me shivers down my spine).
Here we definitely can put the blame on someone, the organizers and the people responsible with the safety of the track.
The spring of the wheel penetrated the visor of Senna's helmet (not the fault of the helmet nor the spring), that was really unlucky, if it hit 5 inches (that's 12,7 centimeters) to either sides, Ayrton would've walked out of the car, very shaken, but also very alive.
It was a "perfect storm", little details, bad luck and mistakes that led to great consequences.
But the biggest mistake was, in my opinion, the lack of a barrier made of tyres in front of the wall from that turn.
Especially regarding the history of the crashes in that area.
If there was protection, I strongly believe that no matter what unfortunate events happened until that moment, the crash wouldn't have been fatal.
same thoughts as above. Tamburello run off area / protection inexistent!
A tire barrier in front of the wall probably would have softened the blow just enough, so that the wheel wouldn't have impacted his head that way. A perfect storm of not enough protection, a mechanical fault in the wrong corner.
In high-speed, low-angle impacts, tyre walls can do more damage than they prevent because they can block the car causing violent deceleration, without the car after an initial impact a little hard (the low angle means that the velocity component in the direction normal to the wall is relatively low, e.g. 70Km/h, not fun but not to dangerous), can slip and stop gradually. Today there are protections that do not have these drawbacks but at the time on straights, corners in ovals and some corners in normal tracks, concrete was the lesser evil.
The Williams Team removing the black boxes, cut the last frames of the camera, and then destroyed the car.
That should be enough to judge who is accountable for Senna's death and why so many efforts in destroying/hiding evidences.
It's simple, it wasn't down to racing and/or track conditions because all the other cars were subject to the same conditions, but only Senna's flew off the track. This proves it was down to something uniquely related to Senna's car only. It was the steering wheel modification failure. We all know it. Senna was able to apply the brakes and downshift gears, he just wasn't able to steer. The cover up was a blatant conspiracy.
How about this for a whacky conspiracy theory:
Adrian Newey is the weak member in the conspiracy team and is threatening to blow the whistle and admit it was the steering wheel - so they've had to get together to keep Newey quiet all these years by giving him secret information on regulation changes, endless praise and championship success, as well as the title: "Adrian Newey The F1 God, Emperor, Maharaja and Guru, King of Aerodynamics". 😅
Crazier things have happened
The video ends abruptly. Is there a part 2 ?
I remember watching the 94 Imola live on TV. I had his crash helmet tattood the next day. Unfortunately I have gained a few more lid tats from fallen drivers and riders i have followed.
Long back I asked a certain ex F1 driver who will remain namless about that demonstration video of a moving steering wheel. He had trouble keeping a straight face while trying to explain why that would be useful!
That said he also told me he had seen how F.W. and the team were affected by the incident. The Williams still carries the Senna logo.
Motorsport after all is dangerous. Even if a defective column caused the crash the cars are built and raced as evolving prototypes. Many newly fitted parts have failed and caused the crash of a race car but in Senna's case it led to tragedy.
Best thing to do is to learn and make changes to limit the the chances of a repeat.
Just say the ex drivers name, it’s not something that can be prosecuted.
Excellent video. One thing, the name is pronounced Mik-Elle Alboreto, who would also be killed behind the wheel of the Audi R8… I remember watching this, Senna was my racing hero and was absolutely gutted…
Great video, but it ends abruptly. Is their a part 2 I'm unaware of? If so, could you please post the link to it because I can't find it.
This is an excellent video... thank you for producing it with such clarity. I think that all students of law, justice, racing, and life should watch this.
It points out the big flaw in "justice systems"
Big money is allowed to delay proceedings! That should be criminal in motive!
This video points out so many flaws in the Italian system....
What a farce and joke Italy has going. Same can be said for all justice systems I'm afraid.
Great video!!
Rest in Peace dear Aryton... you are missed.
RUclips deleted your video or demonetized it?
RUclips age restricted the video. Which meant that it wasn't promoted by RUclips anymore (it didn't appear in people's recommendations and so on) . And the number of views just stuck after it got restricted.
@@IronMarkijan Appeared in my recommended videos? Did he reupload ?
@@justposi yup
Take death out of the title
Appeared straight on top of my feed after a refresh 😉
Great Video. Thanks for making it. Crazy how they tried to hide the truth
what's also suspicious is that this youtube video is cut off at the end ..
Senna,s death was the last time I followed F1 sadly I list all interest....I can't believe it's been 30 years....
its good to see roland metioned no one remembers he died at the same track the day before
I do!!
Everybody remembers, but his accident isn't shrouded in controversy and lies.
Thanks for the Video Bro!
I was a big fan of Senna. But when you step into a race car, you accept that serious accidents can happen. It's just part of the sport.
Senna is a legend!!!!
❤❤❤SENNA - BEST❤❤❤
9:38 Are you kidding me? They‘re ripping apart those cars, turn them into watches and „give us a chance to be a part of this history“ for a small fee of 3200 - 4000 dollars… this is so scummy
My opinion, its the combination of a faulty steering column and the terrible design/condition of Tamburello.
First things first, the steering column failed from the amount of stress being placed at the modified weld that was engineered and installed that is not fit to be raced with. Newey designed the column, and has stated that he feel partially guilty, as his design was something that should have never been fitted to any car. Though, I think as much as Newey is responsible, Patrick Head holds an unfathomable amount of responsibility, due to being the head of technical, and showed negligence towards the quality control of the modification.
Next, I believe the design of Tamburello was extremely poor due to the new asphalt providing an uneven bouncy track that upsets the cars and causing violent bouncing which caused the already fatigued steering column in Senna's car to snap. Then, the run off area, the run off area was way too narrow for a corner that drivers take flat out at, no gravel traps to help slow the car, a grass patch that would reduce the efficiency of braking it the car was head towards the wall, and lastly, a concrete wall instead of a tire barrier. Tamburello in 1994, is a literal corner that ticks almost every box on what a corner would look like if it followed a step by step guild on how to make the worlds most dangerous corner on a racetrack.
I know what I said is obvious, but this is my view on the whole situation regarding Senna's death
RIP TO THE TWO LEGENDS THAT DIED AT IMOLA 1994
ROLAND RATZENBERGER
ARYTON SENNA
why do you call Roland Ratzenberger a legend?
I agree, with the exception of the tyre wall. In high-speed, low-angle impacts they can do more damage than they prevent, and I strongly suspect that the Tamburello falls into those situations where it is deleterious
Put your dummy back in and go and sit in your safe space.
@@frankwittwer3141 just out of respect, tbh all F1 drivers are already legends in motorsports (excepts those who bought their way in)
@@Mr.Nobody48007Okay, that is your right to see it like that 👋
02:50 In an interview prior to the race on english and german TV, Senna prefered not to race this sunday after Roland had passed away. But he was over ruled...
If this happens today, if a racing driver dies on Saturday quali, do you think there would be a race on Sunday?? Hell no! Drivers wouldn't allow it, i'm sure.
@@tylerdurden2518 please stop calling this shit from today F1 and compare it to real F1... Just stop it...
@@chrisbee9643You sound like a boomer. This is still F1, whether you like it or not
Wow, great docu