The making of the Williams Renault FW15c, Alain Prost's last championship winning car
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- Опубліковано 17 лют 2014
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In the early nineties Williams bounced back in great style after several difficult seasons. Essential in this return to form were an engine deal with Renault and the arrival of hugely talented designer Adrian Newey. The Renault V10 had already powered the British team to a pair of wins in both 1989 and 1990 but it was not until the Newey designed FW14 arrived in 1991 that Williams was able to challenge the dominant McLaren team.
Newey's very efficient aerodynamics and the powerful engine had resulted in seven wins and a second place in the constructor's table in 1991. If it wasn't for reliability issues early in the year the team would have been in contention for both titles. Much of the development work for 1992 focused on sophisticated electronics. Awaiting the completion of the new FW15, the new bits were fitted on the interim 'FW14B'. This proved so dominant that there was no need to roll out the FW15 in 1992.
Adapted to minor regulations changes, the FW15 did eventually make its competition debut at the start of the 1993 season as the FW15C. Unlike the FW14, it was designed for the latest electronic devices like the fully active suspension, so it was a much tidier package. Visually, it was hard to distinguish from the final evolution of the FW14 but nevertheless the aerodynamics had been improved by a further 12%.
One of the biggest tricks up the FW15C's sleeve was the hugely sophisticated active suspension system that was developed in-house at Williams. This allowed the suspension to be continuously optimised for each section of the track. Another feature was a 'push-to-pass' button, which would raise the rear ride-height and as a result reduce the drag created by the diffuser. In addition to the active suspension the 1993 Williams also featured traction control, ABS and fly-by-wire controls.
Renault supplied the latest evolution of their 3.5 litre V10. Fitted with pneumatic valves, it produced 780 bhp according to the official figures. The engine was mated to a transversely mounted, semi-automatic gearbox. Designed and built by Williams, it was operated by paddles behind the steering wheel. The driver also had the use of the 'one-up' button, which, once pressed, would instruct the gearbox to shift up the gears at the optimum revs until the driver touched one of the paddles again.
Williams had lost their 1992 World Champion Nigel Mansell but found a more than worthy replacement in Alain Prost. He lined up alongside Damon Hill, son of the two-time Champion Graham, who replaced Ricardo Patrese. Mansell had left to the United States to try his luck in the lucrative CART championship. With no World Champion on the grid, the Williams team were allocated the unusual start numbers 0 and 2 for Hill and Prost respectively.
On raw pace there simply was no equal to the FW15C for much of the 1993 season. At times Prost was 2 seconds faster in qualifying than his closest rivals Ayrton Senna (McLaren) and Michael Schumacher (Benetton). Prost dominated the opening race but bad luck saw Senna win the next two. The order was restored as the Frenchman won six of the next seven races. His winning streak was eventually ended by team-mate Damon Hill, who won three races on the trot, following his debut victory at Hungary.
Prost won the driver's title and with ten victories in sixteen attempts, Williams convincingly grabbed the constructor's crown. Illustrative of the FW15C's pace was the record of fifteen straight pole positions. Although they look great on paper, the results were not achieved quite as straightforward as may appear at first glance. Described by Prost as a 'Little Airbus', the FW15C was notoriously difficult to drive due to all the electronics often tricking the drivers' senses.
Halfway through the 1993 season, the FIA already expressed their desire to ban the high-tech 'driver aids' and some tweaks were made to the regulations. For 1994 all of the sophisticated electronics that featured so prominently on the FW15C were banned. The final development tested late in 1993 was a continuously variable transmission following a design pioneered by DAF. This made the already dominant car faster still. When the FIA got wind of the system, it was banned as well.
In the next years the teams tried to re-introduce many of the driver aids but the Formula 1 cars were never so comprehensively equipped as the FW15C. This makes the Renault-engined machine perhaps the most advanced Grand Prix car ever built. In low-tech form, the Newey designed Williams Renaults would continue to feature at the head of the grid for some years to come. - Ігри
Estoril!! where most of the F1 teams trained. It is near my home town. I was in the school hearing all the noise. Wonderful noise!
F1 devia voltar!
I'm jealous.....
@@juansdf1 F1 did come back?! 2020 and 2021?!
@@hughwaddell5772F1 began its downfall with the end of the V10 era and finally died when they started using those horrible hybrid engines!
I'm from Dublin Ireland and it Hurt's me to see them now in 2018 to see how far they have falling because I've being a fan of them since a kid and I'm almost 40now
It was all in their hands, no one to blame.
What an amazing film! It's a completely different universe to Drive to Survive. Makes me wonder if we'll ever get to see a modern documentary with the same level of access. Thank you algorithm!
Wonderful time capsule. The cars looked good back then.
And still look good now
Daz Burnside they look fast now but not beautiful like this....
Early 90s the cars were at their prettiest. I agree
yep... best looking cars. this and the mp4/4
@@ApolloVIIIYouAreGoForTLI BT52 is the best.
Although the Williams FW15 was an awesome car, and very dominant in it's own right the McLaren MP4/4 from 1988 was the most dominant of all time. It was so far ahead of the competition that it easily claimed every pole position and 2nd spot on the grid, and won 15 out of the 16 races that year. The only race it didn't win that year was Monza, when Senna was crashed into and had to retire, Prost also retired before that. The ghost of Enzo Ferrari who had recently passed away guided the Ferrari team to a 1-2 finish, which was amazing in itself.
True, but the MP4/4 was less ahead of the rest of the field compared especially to the 1992 FW-14B, which was untouchable even for Senna (unless something happened to the Williams and Senna didn't stop for tires). The reason the 1988 McLaren won all but one race is because the whole McLaren team was stronger, and they had the two best drivers. It is no secret that Patrese never felt comfortable with the active suspension Williams in 1992 and he didn't perform great. So in my view the 1992 Williams was the most dominant car in terms of performance and reliability. The 1993 Williams is probably second.
This Williams was from another planet.
@@VWaudiRULEs sorry but you are believing a myth. That Mp4/4 was seconds faster than the opposition in 1988. I watched a re-run of some of the races from that season and it is a complete joke how the mclaren is out of sight within one or 2 laps. Were it not for the rivalry between Proat and Senna the season would have been a complete failure. Lotus also had the Honda engine that year but did a very poor job. Williams would have provided opposition had Honda allowed them to keep the engine along with mclaren but they were never in with a chance with that Judd engine. The end result was that there was no competition at all for mclaren that year. In 92 yes williams was far ahead especially at the start of the season but mclaren developed their own upgrades that year so that in the 2nd half of the season the gap in qualifying was down to about 0.5s - nobody got as close to mclaren in 1988 as that.
McLaren's success was very much down to the Honda engine and how they made the right choice of choosing a 1.5L turbo boosted engine instead of a 3.5L normally aspirated one like much of the competition.
@@amjan yes the equivalence formula as it was called was of course nothing of the sort. The 1.5l turbo was definitely the way to go. But with the exception of Williams all the top teams - Ferrari, Lotus and mclaren went down the turbo route anyway. The majority of teams did as you say, go normally aspirated route but those teams were never likely to be contenders in any case based on the previous 3 or 4 seasons.
Ferrari actually had a very powerful engine but it was far too thirsty on the power circuits like Silverstone and the aero of the ferrari weren't good enough for it to be a threat on the high downforce tracks. So yes mclaren were aided by lotus and Ferrari producing poor cars and williams being left in a very bad position following Honda leaving them. I think they actually produced what could have been a great car that year equipped with a Honda engine bit it was back to the also runs for them after being the dominant teams in the previous 2 seasons.
Damon Hill - 1993 - 10 Podiums - 3 wins - 69pts - 3rd Place Overall. I would say he fulfilled his contractual obligation, with Alain Prost becoming World Champion
15:30 is possibly the most British thing I've seen on UA-cam - "Tea's ready!"
Adrian Newey is one hell of a racing engineer!
His role was more that of an aerodynamic engineer who cross pollinated a lot of the other design. Williams recognised his skills were so pivotal to their success that they needed to keep him on board as a part owner. However, even though they made that undertaking to him, Frank kept dragging the chain and eventually a jaded Adrian skipped to McLaren.
@@ivanjulian2532 really? I’m never new that. I always wondered why he departed Williams.
Thanks Ivan!
@@kendaullary4102 Patrick head block Newey from being the technical director for Williams That why he moved to Mclaren. Senna death court case also hurt Williams
Pure gold listening in to Prost and Hill commenting with their engineers. Oh and how the amounts of money discussed have changed also !
I absolutely love every Williams machine that Adrian Newey had part in designing. They all had championship potential. They could have potentially won every year from '91 to '97.
Fascinating discussion between Frank Williams and Alain Prost at 44:30...Williams adressing Prost in French and Prost replying in English. Shows each man's respect for the other, I think.
It might be also due to the fact that Sir Frank probably doesn't want his personnel to understand what he is talking about with Prost. Hill had not been confirmed to drive with the team yet- he was a test driver for Williams at the time. Sir Frank couldn't let word get out over which drivers he was even considering for the drive. That's good, responsible management.
+hmdwgf Exactly.
Brian Messemer He didn't know how to break it to Prost that they were hiring Senna the next year after this one.
Prost knew very well that they would hire Senna, in fact, Senna was supposed to drive in 1993 but Prost made an arangement to stop it from happening because he didn´t want to be team mates with him. This was not because Prost was scared of Senna or anything, it was mostly because they couldn´t stand each other given previous circunstances.....
But everything was in peace with them at the end of the season, so thats good
Prost always says it's best to speak the teams language
I miss beautiful F1 cars.
Alain Prost.....the thinking mans race driver. And IMO the best there has ever been in Formula One.
No SENNA was the BEST and always will ❤❤❤❤❤BE GODs fighter pilot
The Last Williams Car to sport the awesome Blue, Yellow, & White Canon Sponsor paint scheme.
It was a beautiful car and I was not even a Williams fan.
From 1994 till 1997 the car looked even better in the Rothmans livery.
@@megawutt it didnt
That bit at 28:50 made me spray tea everywhere
OMG "if you were a Portuguese laborer....????" what?
Not sure if you mean you didn't catch what he said, or you did and you're saying WTF, rightfully!
He said 'If you were a Portuguese labourer carrying a ladder, you'd probably stop for a look'.
The track Esteril is in Portugal. So he meant what he said 😀. What he really meant was "If you were a random person walking by who like things driven with 4 wheels, you'd stop for a look".
Great movie. Thanks for uploading/sharing. However... I was 14 years old fan of Prost in 1993. The FW15C seemed to me such a sophisticated car then, almost like a space shuttle :) Now, 29 years later everything in th movie (car, computers and even turning machines) seem so obsolete. This damn time goes by so fast :)
The gentleman with large glasses and beard (Bryan Lambert) I think also appeared in the BBC Top Gear Reliant Robin episode.
Love the sounds of those cars.
Great video. I used to pass the old Didcot factory each day on my way to school, and I went to school with many of the people from this video's kids. Williams are a great local company. Nice to see Didcot Power Station chugging away in the background...another bit of Oxfordshire history gone...
Never knew there was a Williams perspective documentary like "The Team- A Season with Mclaren" episodes for McLaren in 1993.
This documentary is preseason but still.
What a great Video ! Long time a go, the great locking FW-15. The Team is back this year (2014) to the "old" routs ! The FW-36 has become an honorable successor until now, unfortunately without a win.
Been looking all over for this. Thanks for the upload!
Frank Williams legend!
What I never understood about the FIA and the 1994 season was that they wanted F1 to be the most technologically advanced racing series in the world, but they had a problem with Williams Renault having all of the driver aids that they developed because it made the other constructors obscelete? That is pretty rubbish for FIA to even think of banning those features on the cars, because that mind set of doing that ruined the whole point of Formula 1. If the other constructors wanted to win or come close to it, it was up to them to build similar or better innovations to keep pace with the 1993 (and what could have been 1994) Williams race car. Basically what I call the everyone deserves a trophy era in F1, because the 1994 constructors champions did not earn it that year.
My bad, it was only the driver's championship Williams lost, but none the less absolutely stupid to deny innovation where it is supposed to be welcomed
Gunnar Kranenburg the governing bodies of the FIA felt the cars were becoming too advanced and doing the work and the drivers becoming more of a robot ( stupid i know ) they wanted F1 to focus more on driver skill then having driver aids in all actuality Formula one is in a since a contradiction in terms they really do not know what they want they want high tech but not too high tech to where the drivers skill becomes second nature..... if that make sense, i just watched a document on f-1 they even say this them selves discovery channel's formula one the limit they explain more on why FIA banned the car look it up on you tube
Gunnar Kranenburg I think you misunderstand the situation they were in:
Car racing always have contradictory demands, and there is never just one point. Demand for technology is there (obviously), so is high performance (because having the most high-tech scooter racing would be a bit silly), safety (because having the car going fast is nice until someone kill himself), competition (because it got to be a race, not a demonstration...), show business and theatre demands (because the George Follmer & Mark Donohue show could be a bit boring), cost (because having the high technology and performance is great, but if it cost a billion dollar a year who is going to race?).
And you cannot have them all at the same time : you can have a low cost high tech car, but it's probably won't be that fast. You can have something more equal giving a better show, but it would probably be generic and a bit lower tech. You might be able to get a high performance and high tech at a lower cost, but you would cut on safety...
At the time, Williams was the fastest : they had the best car, the best engine, the best drivers. So they were dominant : 164 points vs 99 points for McLaren. Normally, that would have been ok.
But, the FIA were starting to have big budgetary issues and were dealing with small teams, so at the back of the grill they had BMS Scuderia Italia, Minardi, Fondamental, and Larrouse - the absurd teams that should have been in F3000... And the large constructor were not that interested at that moment. This is an issues because you need that theatre aspect of a full grill. That was fixed - at least momentary - when the large constructors and some corporations decided to come in F1, progressively.
Due to the performance increase, they started to have fear for safety - and did not do enough, actually...
Now, I do think that they only kicked the ball on a lot of issues, even if they shifted policies 20 times since...
It was also because Ferrari put pressure in the FIA to ban these electronic "aids"..They were the only "Top tier "team that were having problems adapting these systems to their car..Mainly because of their insistence with the giganormous V12 engine resulting from the obsolete school of thought that horsepower alone would win races in a era when people were starting to realize the importance of aerodynamics in the car.
Seeing that they were losing grid positions and prestige to seemingly lesser teams like Williams(I know..they are big but not nearly as half as Ferrari) and Bennetton... instead of trying to catch up they started a "smear campaign" against the devices..they hoped that a eventual ban would heavily impair Williams, Mclaren and Bennetton and make their car competitive again.
In the end they achieved this as they have a lot of "political power" in FIA(they even receive a bonus budget each season because of their "old team" status)
@@sfugid That's a load of rubbish. Ferrari is a mainstay in F1, yet it didn't have the pull to achieve whatever it is you're claiming they did. Remember this is a very British series. From the top teams, to the management, all the way down to the drivers: some major countries in Europe didn't have a national driver in the series at times, or just the one. When did that ever happen to the UK?
It was well known back then that Ferrari was completely disorganized, which is exactly why di Montezemolo recruited J. Todt to take matters into hand mid-93. I don't even know who could've enforced that demand on their end.
That drive to remove aids was mostly because Williams had such a decisive advance (nearly 2 years!) and the costs were skyrocketing, which eventually would've driven half or more of the grid out: the Tyrrells, Arrows/Footwork, Minardis, Jordans, Larousses. The only ones that would've had a chance at staying competitive at all, bar the 4 usual suspects would've been Sauber and Ligier. The latter only due to the fantastic Renault engine, as they were always striving for money, and their chassis sucked as a result. The former due to being an unofficial Mercedes team in the making.
Fantastic documentary
41:58 MIN .. How I Loved and Love this Sound ... Thats F1 ! That shit of Today .. Noway ..
Bring back the glorious V10!!
The dude in the flat cap with the ladder on his shoulder lol haha
If I was him I would have done the same thing. :-}
GREAT DOCUMENTARY. THANKS.
really good docu
This is a mind blowing documentary. Suscribed
Frank is a legend...Such a shame he had an accident. He's suffered a great deal.
Agreed. I find it disgusting that people try to pin Senna's death on him too. Those people should be ashamed, Frank has done a lot for the sport to make it what it is today and Ayrton would never want anyone to point the blame at people.
@@JCDenton2000 I think people should blame, Michael Schumacher and/or Flavio Briatore for Senna's death! Even though, I'm not actually bothered that Senna's dead!😂
@@hughwaddell5772 why blame them It was driver error Pushed to hard on cold tires car bottom out.
@@jcerullo5015 it was both, it was Schumacher, Briatore and pushing too hard!😡
@@hughwaddell5772 Senna wanted another championship The race restarted and his tires were still cold That made the car bottom out. Schumacher was his main rival that year ,But still Senna death was caused by driver error he pushed to hard himself Every car on the grid was pushing hard only 1 driver had a accedent
The electronics engineer seems like a fun guy 🤨
39:44 Steve Wise: Racecar engineer or serial killer?
This is the most beautiful F1 I have ever seen
Interesting to see how frank was considering mika for a drive. 45 min into the video
The budget for development of the car was 20 million GBP for the 1993 season. For only r&d material technology WilliamsF1 needs a 80 million GBP per year. The material technology is the field which makes the difference.
wonderful...
when improvising was a skill.
"somewhere on the way is a 5 mill discrepancy"
Brilliant presentation 🇬🇧✌️
Watching from New HampSHIRE 🇺🇲👍
I watched Graham at Watkins Glen up close in the Kendal garage. So watching Damon now my mind thinks of Father and Son. How often did Damon think of how did his father handle situations?. I'm sure mum Bette is proud, but worries. Damon will prove worthy of the seat, won't he. 🇬🇧💚✌️🏁🏆
Do you realise that in 44.30 Frank confession with Alain, 1996 WDC has been decided, plus potentially 1994,95,97,98 and 99? Hell of documentary 👍
They sais mansell left is't that him working in the workshop @ 8:08 haha
EXCELENTE, VIVA WILLIAMS.
Frank: So, what do think about Senna?
Prost : (head explodes with Micheal Bay voracity)
Who would have believed Williams now the tail Charlie of F1! How times have changed eh!
@44:33 Mika would have been a strong competitor for him
Frank wanted Hakkinen and the deal was already done and signed, but jealous Lotus teamboss Peter Collins blackmailed Frank Williams not to have Mika.
Looks like a corporate in-house video, all it needs is an Alan Partridge voice-over
Prost: The best thing about Damon is that he is not Senna
Frank: We are signing Senna next season
Prost : I quit.
Yep but next year Benetton was the best team.
Prost didn’t really quit. He agreed to sit out 1994 while being paid his full salary
@@filipborin555 yeh due to cheating
@@raymondchapman5990 It isn't proved
@@filipborin555 of course it was, the fuel filler at Brazil..which was obvious after pit stops. The traction control in the software and if you watch the start in Japan it was obvious. FIA just did nothing about it. Politics....you have to be blind to not see what was going on.
Beautiful car and noise 🙏😍
The myth that the Williams was the only car with all the electronics, the McLaren in 1993 was the most advanced McLaren and all the cars for 1994 had to run without all the electronics, the Williams of 1994 was also a very advanced car but the handling could be a bit unpredictable, just as the 1993 Williams was, it could change from understeer to oversteer without warning, the electronics helped but did not mean it was easy to drive.
Only an idiot would claim that to hell and toe is the same as using a paddle shift.
Wow i didn't know that Sir Frank speaks french so well.
Add boost until motor blows. Dial boost back .1 bar for quali. Dial back boost .2. bar for race. Win or Blow Up.
Lol the English and their tea. Has always fascinated me.
When F1 was fun!
I don't want to ever meet the person who thumbed down this incredible video
Brilliant
Does someone know why is Estoril out of the testing/race calendar? I could be nice change for Barcelona (although it's great circuit of course ;-))
Frank: A lot of people want Damon, but I really want Senna.
Prost: I'm re-retiring.
Funny watching them testing "start launch control" when it would be banned just a year or 2 later. I think by 1993 active suspension, antilock brakes, launch control were all banned, making the Williams almost undrivable and un-safe.
Alain Prosts 100% Sterling Silver model of this Williams FW15c is currently on ebay.
Check out the ebay site named goofle, it's amazing.
I love F1 Spec Cars almost as much as I love the Toyota Camry V8 NASCAR Spec Cars. I don’t want any type of innovation to interfere with car designs. The S in NASCAR did not originally mean Spec.
47:27 isn't this James Volwes in younger years? He, who is the Boss in this company since a few days? :D
Although one of the best documentaries i ( a Williams Fan) have ever seen,i found it very spooky that the very thing the drivers were talking about while testing, the bottoming of the chassis on bumps ,the car loosing traction on the front end thus the car under steering, may have caused the fatal Senna accident,in my opinion.Why this team had to endure two of F1s greatest tragedies will remain an eternal mystery to me.
Listen fuck face , it was none of that. Steering Broke.
What track are they at @ 11:30 where the Williams crashes into the back of the McLaren?
1993 Portuguese grand prix, Estoril.
Correction: 1992. It's Berger in the McLaren and Patrese in the Williams.
Magic 🚘
Williams was nuclear powered? Incredible.
200 people in 1992 ! 650 25 years later...
Great remember of a time when computers counted in hundred kilobytes...
4:55 - That little speech is exactly why F1 is bullshit today. An 'artificially lowered pinnacle' - that's the best way it can be put.
+Craig Charles Looks like the FIA has been pretty bad at that, considering how the teams' budgets have been increasing basically every year.
R.I.P・・・sir Frank・Williams・・・
Those traction control-aided launches are insane... Literally no wheelspin!
No skill required , it sucked .
28:48
Makes me so sad watching these videos. The magic is all gone now.
Senna!
Who would have been responsible for performing the fateful steering column modifications to come the following year?
+Niderfyn I cant figure out how such a professional team managed to do such a bodge job on the steering column of Senna;s car. It;s what NASA might call a single point of failure and mission critical. I;ve seen the drawings of the modification and they aren;t the lightest or cheapest way to do it, just the stupidest and probably the quickest..
I don;t know if it caused the accident despite all that though, I don;t think anyone ever will.
Niderfyn Search for a free e-book called Tamburello by Martin Zustak. He is a Senna fan who has pretty good technical knowledge of engineering and F1 cars. He doesn't draw any firm conclusions but examines all the theories in huge detail and concludes that on the balance of probability that a broken steering column did cause the crash. I am not so sure myself, but I can't fault his reasoning.
It's a great read, even if it is about a fatal accident to a great racing driver.
Senna himself. He wanted to replace it.
It's too bad Riccardo left for Benetton. He would have been very succesful in 93.
He wasn't good enough to deserve that car! Hill and Hakkinen were.
@@amjan Oh, ok. Glad you're the expert.
17:19 the guy in the blue shirt looks like serial killer :O
So, not to be ghoulish, but how does Frank Williams breath? He doesn't seem to have a ventilator or a tracheotomy for a breathing tube. Christopher Reeves had to have help breathing and had the system built into his wheelchair. Reeves had to talk in fits and starts as he had to let the machine breath for him. Can't really tell if Frank does this, sorta seems like he does. His talking does seem much more natural than it did in the BBC show "Toys For the Boys" which also followed Williams.
Steve Wise scares me
What an amazing brand and an amazing team. Such a shame Claire Williams fucked it into the ground. A big mistake, not spending correctly on RND and merging with other multinationals win the sport explode into international money during the early 2000s.
15:45 Time for a brew!
That should have been Nigel Mansell car . He deserved that right to drive that car. Not Prost. Who walked in . Then left. That is not true world champion driver.
Did Patrick head ever go sailing like he said was going tooo
Steve Wise electronics engineer, i’m sure he did a great job but not the first on the list to invite to a party?
I don't know why people still put Ferrari in the list of the succesful constructors of the 85-95 period. To tell the truth, within this period of time it was totally inconsistent...
senna said taking away the traction control would case accidents
+Paul Murphy
Hill managed quite well.
Barrie Rodliffe like how you didn’t say shumi cause we know he had fucking traction control and launch control lmao
I wonder how Nigel Mansell or Michael Schumacher would have fared in the Williams FW15C?
Though I am a big Schumacher fan, I felt happy for Hill when he got the second seat at the end of the video. He certainly deserved it.
Mansell won his only championship in the predecessor to this car the season before. Which was very similar to this car with electronic aids and such
Mansell’s more hard charging driving style suited the car better, Prost’s smoother driving style didn’t make full use of the electronics
hakkinen didnt get the seat cause he is not from england as it appears. a lot of things would have changed if that happened. but hill even though he wasnt as talented did a good job after all
At that time it was poor win 3.x applications on computer ! Argh !
And already there as chief designer Adrian Newey...
+bo2web “olivier” as
At the time, the best driver won and other cars had as much technology.
A good win by the best driver is just that.
They prolly used workstation grade computers, not PC's
Drive to Survive before it was a thing
Airton Senna forever!
Did he say a budget of 25M pounds? That’s a shoestring budget by today’s standards
Did you recalculate that amount for inflation?
"Washing machines get better every year." I would have some contention with that remark. Some recently have irreplaceable parts such as the circuit board. If it weren't for the guarantee, we'd be buying another in a year or two. As it is, it is damned inconvenient to have the service man out 3 times and still not end up with something dependable. I would hope racing is doing better than that ! I know what he means though. Cannot stop technology. I hope we get to use the secret technologies that are out there soon. Our world could really use them about now.
Now it is time to see "The making of FW16, Ayrton Senna's killer car"
SENNA IS THE BEST OF ALL TIMES...GOD GIVE HIM THE WINGS TO FLY
Klanger
Senna the best? he certainly has one record, the most collisions by any F1 champion.
He flew into the wall at Imola, did god push him?
+Barrie Rodliffe ah it is funny so way FIA president was so close to Prost ? My job is be a investigator so you dont now in 100% what you speeking of? Turn on tv and belive that is your live...be aware
King virus
Your job is be a investigator. Well obviously you do not need much education to investigate anything.
Balestre did not like Prost. If you could investigate a thing you would be able to find that out for yourself.
Why did Senna deliberately take prost out at speed at Suzuka in 1990 and he was allowed to get away with it?
If Balestre wanted to help Prost, Senna could have had all his points for the year taken away.
NOT TRUE AT ALL ! HE WAS VERY FAST FOR SURE BUT THE BEST ALL TIMES ?
You Senna fanboys are cancerous as hell
One of these killed SENNA
You're confused with the FW16.
Damon Hill thought Senna made a mistake. Newey expressed his thoughts:
"The honest truth is that no one will ever know exactly what happened. There's no doubt the steering column failed and the big question was whether it failed in the accident or did it cause the accident? It had fatigue cracks and would have failed at some point. There is no question that its design was very poor. However, all the evidence suggests the car did not go off the track as a result of steering column failure... If you look at the camera shots, especially from Michael Schumacher's following car, the car didn't understeer off the track. It oversteered which is not consistent with a steering column failure. The rear of the car stepped out and all the data suggests that happened. Ayrton then corrected that by going to 50% throttle which would be consistent with trying to reduce the rear stepping out and then, half-a-second later, he went hard on the brakes. The question then is why did the rear step out? The car bottomed much harder on that second lap which again appears to be unusual because the tyre pressure should have come up by then - which leaves you expecting that the right rear tyre probably picked up a puncture from debris on the track. If I was pushed into picking out a single most likely cause that would be it."
Neither of which would make the actual death the car's fault. But rather the speed combined with either a mistake and/or debris as the root cause.
The best answer though: no one really knows for sure.
@@Jortio Senna remains without steer on a 300 km/h curve caused by an artisanal work ordered by their engineers. The telemetry shows that he tried to brake and downshift with the gear.
We have no doubt on this.
You can definitely see Grant Hill in Damon in that jaw/chin when he grins. Can't hide that. It's a Jay Leno chin.
Looks like they swapped the negative or something, everyone is driving on the wrong side of the road.....
...... I'll let myself out.....
Ayrton Senna Forever
"To drive at such a speed still requires something from the driver." Yeah, a death wish ! LOL Not really. I am of the ones that say put all the electronics you can in there but keep the driver cuz he's the one who will do something the electronics just will not try and that is how races are won !
+Sonny Moon ___ Course at the same time, we DO want to keep heavy equipment off the course and such things while races, practice and qualifying are in session. And while we are at it, let's raise the walls on the banks so flying cars do not go into fences.
That would be a paraplegic, not quadriplegic.
Newey was old even when he was young 😹
This reporter can't see the advantage of traction control on a road car? Really? Some people are so short sighted.
Zoomer30 normal road cars don't really have the power to spin tires if you floor it, so TC isn't necessary, I think that was the point he was making.
@@tommihommi1 ice, snow, rain