SENNA, FATAL CRASH 3D Technical Analysis
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- A video filled with 3D animations. In 1994, Ayrton Senna suffered a fatal accident during the San Marino GP, at the Tamburello corner. In this video, we reveal little-known facts about the accident, such as the true cause of Senna’s death and the details of the impact. Follow the thorough analysis of the accident’s dynamics, what happened to his helmet, and uncover the truth behind the theories about his death. Leave your like, share, and subscribe for more exclusive content!
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Excellent analysis. Thanks you for this important information about one of motorsports most gifted drivers. We deserve to hear the facts.
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Clickbate nonsense. Nothing new here that history hasn't already shown.
@@rroberts2023absolutely click bait.
FIA, you are to blame. There were accidents on Friday and Saturday, one that caused the death of another driver, which according to the regulations at the time would automatically cancel Sunday's race. After so many years, why has no one dismantled a criminal organization that caused and swept under the carpet the death of so many Formula 1 drivers?
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Blame FOM and SAGIS, the organizers of the race. In any case, back then many races continued on even in the event of a death. Case in point, when Gilles Villeneuve died at the 1982 Belgian GP, the race continued, sans Ferrari.
It was the death of Ratzenburger during P3, Barrichello crashed in P2, and Senna on lap 7.
I was 14yrs old at the time, I watched this race live, didn’t see qualifying or practice, because only the races were televised.
It was normal to continue the race after a death, and still is today, as there no rule out in place currently.
The commentators have this wrong, yes Senna death was delayed because any news of his death will out enormous pressure on the race organisers to cancel the race, but there isn’t any rule in place to cancel a race after a death.
@@paulroustan3643 imagine if the this never happened in the FIA would be stubborn AF and they just let it slide like nothing happened in history would repeat itself. It would be just like the 60s and 70s era of death but this time 1994 season would have 8 deaths in one year. Just like 1952
Roland did NOT die in hospital. He was dead on the track almost instantly. The FIA made the decision to airlift his body to the hospital to have him declared dead there instead of on the spot. That’s a fact.
This was done to avoid the Italian authorities from starting an investigation of the accident and stopping the proceedings of the weekend(cancelled). After all they didn’t want to lose out on millions. Italian law requires an investigation to be started immediately with a death on the racing circuit and they wanted to avoid that at all costs.
The result of that is what followed the next day with their excessive & disgusting greed. F1 lost TWO drivers on the same weekend and nearly a third in Rubens because of their greed. One being the greatest F1 has ever seen IMO. RIP to both Ayrton & Roland.
Edit: just caught at the end what you stated about if senna died at the track. You are correct. That also would have put a halt to the race.
we are know how he drive
Exactly. Ratzenberger died at once when he crashed into the wall, but he was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Correct. Roland’s cause of death was a basal skull fracture, an unsurvivable injury and he died as a result almost instantly.
The hospital has to do it even if he died on impact
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That race should have never happened after Ratzenbergers death. It should have been black flagged and Senna knew it too. Him never walking from a fight kept him wanting to race but the universe kept telling him to stop after Barrichello's near death then Ratzenberger's death but he persisted. I wish he for once stood his ground like Lauda and said no I'm not racing, we would still have him around today.
I thought it was the steering column too that killed him, technically it still was but at a different capacity. He couldn't steer and slammed into the wall so hard it cracked the helmet causing severe head trauma. RIP Senna, I cried at the end of the Netflix series even though we all know what happened.
Saddest thing is there is video of him throwing a fit at the safety meeting but he still races. He didn’t have to race. He knew it wasn’t safe and said so himself right to the face of the race director.
The FIA at F1 level is a corrupt institution to this day that relies on drivers wanting to race more than anything else in the world because if they won’t, someone else will and they make sure they know that.
Even now the drivers union has no real power and drivers who try to exercise perceived power pay for it.
mFIA
Everything you said is relevant however the failed steering column shortened at sennas request rewelded twice without any metallurgical heat treatment after the welding is the cause of a fatigue fracture which caused senna to drive into a wall with fatal consequences .
The cause of the accident is down to senna,his engineers ,and his team managers who should have known the risks they were taking .
I do not believe that blame has ever been correctly apportioned or ever will be
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@@JaySamurai79the same one who let all the drivers die from the 1950s til 1994 losing Jim Clark Tom pryce etc
The Netflix Series is shit and is telling lies.
The injury to the skull was far worse than I realised.
He appeared to die on track, his head twitched and Sid said he took a last breathe. They said he died in hospital because of money...no more no less...rip legend.
His heart was beating after the accident. It’s information from his personal coach. He suffered brain death instantly but his heart was still beating. They were trying in hospital to keep him alive until they would be sure if he could survive. When they realised that there is no coming back from this. Later in the day doctors while in touch with his family decided to stop mechanical support and left him pass away. He stayed alive that much because he was in a really good fit. That’s the reason everyone say that he passed in hospital. It was an article that describes hour by hour his last three days.
@@nektarios_mastoris OP isn't wrong though, in some countries brain dead means legally dead
It wasn't only because of money, it was because of the italian law. If he was declaired dead on site, the event would have been shut down, a crime scene put up and a criminal investigation started right away. Since he was declaired dead at the hospital, it gave the organization the chance to finish the race and for Williams to take what they needed from the car's telemetry...
@@Gois83all of which would have costed those institutions a lot of money... So money.
@@Gois83 true!
It's crazy that 30 years later there is still so much stigma around this crash. The most eerie thing from this day is before the start of the race. It's like he knows something is going to happen.
Ayrton always kept his helmet on while on the grid, but this time he took it off while sitting in his car on the grid.
@hwsiu147 also it is the day after his friends death. Just look in his eyes. It's like he knows
Here's your answer-
Ratzenberger was the first driver death during a grand prix in 16 years. Before 1982, the sport had never gone more than two years without a driver death at a grand prix. Formula one as whole thought that we had entered a post-driver death stage of F1. There was the realization that the speed of the cars was given significantly more attention than driver safety partially for entertainment purposes, and that we were about to enter back into an era where driver deaths were common if things kept going the way they were.
Every driver on the grid that sunday was likely terrified that they would be next.
The stigma……because of the lies.
@@wadevallbona5314 yeah 1994 will be history repeating itself the 60s to 1975 era where deaths are common or in this case rampant we could’ve had 5 to 8 deaths in one year, not just in Grand Prix, but in testing Pedro lamy in the same month had a horrific crash in Silverstone during testing
I cried just after impact, when the TV chopper zoomed in on a dying genius. It was a stunned sense of disbelief. I was so chocked up at the whole damn weekend. Haunting analysis.
The greatest of them all.
Rest in peace Ayrton.
After Nelson’s accident, his depth perception was destroyed and could never drive like he did before imola 1987. Nelson never told this information to others for many years
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@@BruggerFilmes3D There was also Alboreto in 1991 in the same place with practically the same angle as Ayrton Senna 3 years before and had escaped unscathed except perhaps a bruise on the left ankle and what could have saved Ayrton Senna c is that if the right front wheel would have passed by he would have gotten up and walked to the paddock
Senna would still be alive today because the race should have been cancelled on Saturday because Ratzenburger died on the track but because there was so much money involved the race went ahead.
That wasn’t the way the world or formula 1 worked in 1994
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@@SprowstonRipper Italian Law says otherwise. They scummed their way out of it by saying Ratzenburger died at the hospital instead of the track even though he was dead after impact.
That's absolute nonsense! That's how F1 used to be, not like nowadays when race gets cancelled if a they break a fingernail...
I’ve read and watched a lot info about Senna’s death, but this video showed some new information i’ve never seen before - like description of his his head and face looked like. Good job. RIP Ayrton! Nobody matches you! Simply the best!
There's an interview of the doctors who did act at first in which it's said that, given such a big trauma, Ayrton Head looked quite "normal", just with some edema.
@@toivonencresto and everyone knows that the front wheel hit his helmet plus it seems that a vertical part of the assembly partially lifted the helmet visor and other suspension devices hit him at the level of the temple and a fraction of a second later his helmet would have touched the wall even if his helmet would not have touched the wall which means that it would not have changed anything because the impact with the wheel was so violent, which threw the head against his headrest leading to a fracture at the base of the skull and the cervical spine and that these suspension fragments ruptured the superficial temporal artery losing up to 4.5 liters of blood, i.e. 90% available in his body
I don't ever recall it being claimed that the steering column pierced Senna's helmet, it was always claimed that a suspension arm from the front wheel pierced his visor - which we now know wasn't true.
I remember his car bottomed out at the exact same spot on the previous lap when it went over some bumps on the inside of Tamburello, on the next lap the car just suddenly went straight on at same spot. It was either due to the car bottoming - perhaps due to a slow puncture or low tyre pressures, or did his welded steering column finally snap over the bumps on Tamburello. I've always believed his steering column snapped or something else broke on the car.
After seeing Senna's accident on the pit monitors Patrick Head was heard to have shouted "power steering" more than once to Williams mechanics as Williams were having problems with their power steering. Head even had the power steering switched off on Damon Hill's car for the restart, why? Senna also had his steering column shortened prior to the Imola race as he wasnt happy with the steering wheel position, so Williams cut it and welded it back as a temporary fix.
Thanks for the video, I was actually never aware of Senna's helmet hitting the wall as all they used to go on about was the front wheel and suspension arm.
It was floated around that the steering column did it. Aswell as the actual tire hitting him and another that he had no injuries what so ever.
Italian investigators had an independent forensic analysis done; it was all available on the internet some years ago. They showed through photos and telemetry from his car that the steering column broke and that Senna knew it broke became stopped steering the car but braked hard then. Look the "yellow dot on the steering wheel" and you may find it somewhere. It's also quite in a book written by an English author whom I don't recall. I still have that book floating around somewhere.
It was good they removed electronic driver aids from the cars. When the cars practically rely on them, a failure of that magnitude significantly raises the likelihood of a driver dying during an accident.
The steering column piercing Ayrtons helmet was never a common theory with anyone in Motorsport.....it was dreamed up for this video......
@@flybywir1 It 100% was, when I was little many people talked about "The rod pierced the helmet" a lot. It was for sure a theory.
Thanks for breaking this down. I've been searching the internet for such a description. We lost a true legend - so sad this happened. Senna was & still is Simply The Best! 😢
I've always believed that the impact of his helmet with the suspension arm and the wall occurred at the exact same time, so it was effectively like headbutting a metal bar against a concrete wall at 240kph.
Me too, this is always what I thought had happened
I agree
With all due respect, but asking for a like before the video even started is not great. First you deliver something, then you can point us on liking it or not.
that's true but what do you expect from cheap shot content creators
Exactly. I refuse to give a like videos do that even if I enjoyed the video
The most disgusting part about his death is, that he wasn't declared dead right away, even though the doctors knew. They were pretending that he's in a coma, because Italian law at the time would have required the race to be cancelled if someone died...
Not even just this. Italian law states that *any* racing death is investigated immediately by the authorities, which has the potential to turn into a criminal investigation if wrongdoing is discovered. Personally, I think the fact that this was basically swept under the rug means It's formula one management would have been likely held criminally liable to some degree. Its q+why ratzenberger was declared dead at hospital when he was very obviously slumped over dead in the car. FOM swept all this under the rug just to save a weekend of profit.
Excellent ! I waiting for 3D animation of Ayrton Senna crash like this more than 20 years :D Nice video
I can’t remember where but I saw a picture of tamburello wall with a yellow mark on it, some thought it was the tire logo mark, though from this video there is no doubt it was the paint left from the helmet.
Good point
I was watching the race live from the central USA and always felt that that head movement after the car came to rest was when Senna died. Watching the helicopter take off and I said to myself that this great driver had passed away and nothing could save him even if he somehow were still alive.
Senna , what a F1 driver! 🔥
The HANS device is to help try and stop the head from moving violently forward during a crash, and causing the so-called hang man's fracture because this injury is the type found in people being executed by hanging,
the HANS device is trying to prevent this by trying to keep the head still in a crash
The way Senna's crash happened, unfortunately, the HANS would have made no difference in the type of crash had, he still would have died,
When senna crashed the tyre hit the wall and hit his head along with suspension parts hitting his head, if you have a HANS device on you ain't gonna stop car parts from entering the cockpit and near the drivers head,
This is why we now have the halo after years of trying to come up with a solution and implement it after another unfortunate death in 2014 as a result of a crash that put the driver in a coma .....
If you need any more info, just ask the proper fans as judging by the comments they know more than what this video and channel seem to, unless it one of these videos that purposely get stuff wrong so it gets more comments for the algorithm.
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The race was already supposed to be canceled on Saturday. The Austrian driver, instead of being declared dead on the track, was taken to the clinic outside the racetrack and only then was he declared dead. The FIA used a trick to avoid losing money that weekend and the result was the death of two drivers, 2 others in hospital, a mechanic in hospital and other members of the public who were hit by a tire during the accident at the start. Nobody was punished. money was always more important in formula one during those years. Sid Watkins said that Ratzenberger was already dead when they arrived, but he only had to officially declare him off the track and we know why.
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Genau das ist die Wahrheit.
Auch senna war bereits Tod er starb auf der Rennstrecke die Verletzungen die er hatte waren sofort tödlich .
So wie der Arzt sagte er tat seinen letzten Atemzug an der unfallstelle alles andere ist gelogen.
Niemand lebt noch stunden nach so einer Kopfverletzung
Dafür muss man kein Arzt sein um das zu wissen.
Für ein paar Millionen haben sie dich getötet.
Selbst nach 30 Jahren ist dein Tod unfassbar.
Diese Videos zu sehen ist unerträglich.
Du bist und bleibst einer der großartigsten Rennfahrer aller Zeiten.
Ein großartiger Mensch.
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Disgusting> Should have been multiple charges and lawsuits!
Sure!!! 😉
"money was always more important in formula one during those years."...you think anything has changed?
By far the best video about Senna’s crash.
I think Williams team have kept so many relevant clues or they have been helped to have vanished everything in that case.
The information about the damage he sustained and the head swelling up gave me the chills
Back up with the subscription reminders a little, it actually put me off of subscribing to you haha. Interesting video though
I was watching the race live, and saw Senna was struggling to stay ahead when he unexpectedly drove straight off the track. The live feed didn't show the impact but the replays did. The crash while violent didn't seem to be catastrophic because the tub was largely intact. We were used to seeing the suspension and wheels breaking away, so I was expecting to hop out of car after gaining hs senses. But that didn't happen. The tracks safety marshalls extracted his body from the car and laid him down on the ground beside the wrecked car and worked on him. The overhead helicoter's camera feed quite clearly showed that he was unresponsive, but I held out hope until the marshalls carried him to the rescue car, and then where his head was, there was a clearly visable massive pool of blood on the ground.
I can't forget that image, because in that moment I realized he was gone.
The helicopters video feed disappeared or more likely was withheld from public veiwing, because I can not find it anywhere online. BuI know what I saw.
Ese hombre dijo la verdad. Hay varios videos en esta red donde se observa el charco de sangre. Lo vi en la transmisión brasilera/portuguesa y también en una inglesa@@thegreatape884
Finally somebody shows how the suspension injured Senna, many if not all other videos tell you about the suspension, but only this video shows you how.. i always thought it punctured his helmet straight in... not like how you described it.
In fact it punctured his helmet straight in. But he didn't die due for this, which for sure did not help and caused a temporal artery rupture too, he died for the massive head trauma. Search for Doctor Alessandro Misley interviews, has been known for years.
@@toivonencresto wheres the hole tho
@@toivonencrestoso he would have died because of the head impact to the wall?
Prof. Watkins had said that Senna passed away at track...
In racing they never pronounce a driver dead at the track. I forgot the reason but it's something that they never do Even if it was the truth
@@michaeljode4350 Because then they have to cancel the race weekend
@@michaeljode4350 This in particular because of Italian law, which would automatically make it a crime scene and any event would be closed for a full investigation. Some other countries have similar laws, but Italians were always extremely strict on this.
The car was also impounded for investigation, and would you believe Ferrari's next car had several Williams looking components
soha nem mondta ezt Sid
It's amazing how much damage there can be from something that doesn't visually look like there would be that much
I would give more but I'm finally happy to have a little bit more closure on this. However I just wish we got more justice as the FIA didn't do a very good job of things over the early years. So much could have been prevented ❤
Their popularity was high in Japan, as Ayrton became a champion in a Honda-powered F1 car and Roland raced variously in Japan for four years.
The weekend we lost one genius and one hard worker is still fresh in my memory.
It was also a time when I, as a young man who thought F1 was a pure motorsport fought by sportsmen,
discovered that there were people on the other side of the TV who thought it was showtime for making money.
As it was said by Orsi himself various times, the pics of Senna after the accident have been destroyed few hours after they were taken because they were too gruesome as a form of respect for him.
That Kronenbourg ad aged nicely for them.
Timing is everything, everything
My dad watched this live he said it was horrifying to watch as Senna's body was close to lifeless and as soon as that little twitch of his head he was not as worried but he didn't move after and he got so worried he told his dad immediately his dad said
“im sure the doctors will help him and he will be back on grid in a couple of months“ my dad got the news that he had died in the hospital he broke down in tears
Amazing video
Senna ❤, Couldn't watch F1 after he was lost it seemed absolutely pointless.
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Senna's helmet didn't "mysteriously disappear". It was given back to "Bell" after the end of the trial and the "Bell" burned it together with the Senna family
They burned the Senna family? Last time I checked the Senna family was still alive.
@@namesurname8812 😂😂 He meant the family was with the manufacturer Bell when they burned the helmet 😂😂😂😂
@@namesurname8812 Very well, obviously my sentence wasn't clear enough for you to understand.
Unfortunately Senna's Vater Milton died in 2021
source?
@@matmul4850no they burned the family
Years and years later there’s very little real evidence in the public domain about what happened. Thanks for the time you’ve put into researching and visualising what you found.
By the way - nobody believes that Senna was pierced by the steering column. If so, there are people who think he was pierced in the head by a wishbone. The fact is, as Sid Watkins wrote in his book, as the first doctor to treat Senna at the track and remove his helmet, Senna was hit in the head by the tire with extreme force. This caused his head injuries and not the wall. This is unanimously reported by several witnesses who were at the scene of the accident and at the hospital. And this was also stated in the expert reports in the court proceedings.
Same with the cause of the incident... It might have been broken steering column, but it's not 100% sure - as it's described in this video... It might have been puncture, or just bottoming in hight speed with lower tyre pressures... Lot of speculations and inaccuracies presented as facts in the video...
Das bedeutet nicht das es so war!
Sit Watkins ist Arzt und kein Unfall Sachverständiger
@@janvcala6985 Yep, this is hard to watch. Everything they're presenting as fact is information that has only ever been speculation, not great.
@@janvcala6985 It's not speculation though. It's pretty clear it was the steering that failed. A puncture wouldn't cause a car to go straight on like Senna did. Bottoming out is a dumb theory as all the cars did so. Not even mentioning the fact that the lap prior, Senna hit the ground much harder
@@Ben94 No, mate unfortunatelly it's just a speculation. Adrian Newey believes that it was slow puncture, bottoming out is most likely based on all experts. I red tons and tons of articles about this... If you ask me, I believe it was similar to airplane disasters. There is never just one issue, always combination of different factors... it might have been slow puncture, causing to bottoming out, which was such a big hit to chassis, that steering column half-snapped... But we'll never know for sure... And presenting these specualtions as a fact is just wrong...
Roland’s accident was estimated at 500g’s as the front wing broke and got under the front suspension which caused no steering and little braking
fuckk….
On the previous lap I remember Roland hit a kerb pretty hard and the presumption is it damaged his front wing mounts which then completely failed when the car was flat out after Tamburello curve.
The famous theory is not that the steering column penetrated your helmet, was the a piece of suspension attached to the wheel partially penetrated his helmet and caused trauma to his head. . Also, it appeared that a jagged piece of the upright assembly had penetrated the helmet visor just above his right eye.
I actually cry every time I think about his death.
After Senna's accident, he was taken to the hospital, but a Japanese reporter who rushed to the hospital to cover the incident was mistaken for someone related to Senna and was guided to the room where Senna was lying. According to a later testimony, "I didn't know it was Senna even when I saw his face." The yellow of Senna's helmet was left behind at the spot where the car went off the course and crashed into the concrete wall at Tamburello. If there had been a tire barrier there, the future might have been different.
Right, he may not have died if there was a tire or some sort of barrier before the wall. But that impact was so massive it still would probably have ended his career.
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Senna and Gerhard Berger had long been aware of the dangers of the Tamburello corner at Imola, and had visited the corner during development testing. They wanted to propose removing the concrete wall, but gave up because of the river behind it. Berger later said, "The only thing we could think of at the time was to remove the wall. We should have put an obstacle at Tamburello and made it a chicane." Nelson Piquet had a serious accident at Tamburello in 1986, and Berger himself had a serious accident at the corner in 1989.
FIA is deeply responsible for Ayrton's death. That race should have never happened.
Thanks for the video.🙏👍
It’s definitely a death that shouldn’t of happened and such a pity it had to happen to one of the most gifted drivers of our time. Even in the nineties there was very little importance put on safety, especially compared to the current era. if that was today neither drivers would of died, drivers would never been allowed to race around such a dangerous corner in the first place.
When I followed F1 back then, I used to refer to the cars as “coffins on wheels”. You almost expected a fatality each season. Safety now is incredible.
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The photos still exist in a safe in the archives of "Autosprint"
How can we see ?
@@ugurpolatarslan We'll probably never see them as the photographer refuses to publish them out of respect
@@SennaRossiFan46dont blame him. Im sure nobody wants to see Senna’s wounded head. Too horrific.
The story with the steering column is in no way secure! It is broken yes, but nobody knows whether it was before the accident or DURING the accident. Many Senna fans want to believe that the steering column was broken before the accident because anything else would mean that Senna made a mistake or could not "save" the car despite his driving skills. Which is nonsense, because at a certain point nobody can avoid such an impact, even if the steering column is still intact. And that's what happened in my opinion. You can clearly see from Schumacher's cockpit camera that exactly before the Tamburello and also exactly when the accident "occurred" that the rear of the car first touched down extremely and sprayed massive sparks and then a second time, much stronger. It was not the normal touchdown and sparking, but abnormal and absolutely extreme. What happens when the rear end of an F1 car touches down so extremely? The flow in the underbody and in the diffuser comes to a standstill and stalls. As a result, the downforce under the car is lost. Without this contact pressure, the friction coefficient of the tires drops, which means that they have less grip and can withstand less lateral forces. In a high-speed corner like Tamburello, the car would be carried massively outwards in this case, which is exactly what happened! Basically, Senna steered into the corner, but the car understeered incredibly badly and was carried to the outside. If the steering column had broken, he would have the tires would have been without a firm connection and would have yielded to the lateral force. However, this was not the case; instead, the car drove a constant arc as if the steering angle was constant, only much too wide. This is exactly what would happen if, for example, the car had too little ground clearance due to a drop in tire pressure after a safety car phase, and the car touched down so heavily that the airflow in the underbody and diffuser came to a standstill and tore off, causing a massive drop in downforce. In Senna's case, Schumacher's cockpit camera proves beyond doubt that Senna's car touched down just as massively that this could happen. There was also an SC phase beforehand. It is known that Williams and Senna were under massive pressure to score points, so they certainly went to the minimum with the ground clearance to get the best possible downforce from the underbody (the lower the ground clearance, the more downforce). The more downforce you get from the underbody, the less wings you can drive, which was essential at Imola at the time due to the fast characteristics to achieve high top speed, while you need the downforce in the fast corners and the downforce from the underbody hardly creates any drag in contrast to increasing wings. So it is very likely that Williams set the car extremely low. Due to the SC, the air pressure of the tires dropped because they became cooler and the ground clearance of the car dropped. As the Williams was set very low anyway, too low. The car was too high on the bumps before and at Tamburello, the flow dropped and the downforce dropped sharply, causing it to understeer extremely and be carried to the outside, which is exactly what you see in the pictures. If the steering column had broken before the impact and been the cause of the accident, the "ride into the wall" would not have been as smooth as if the wheels had had a constant steering angle as was the case here. It is relatively clear to me what happened. While the theory that the steering column broke simply doesn't fit the uniform cornering radius, the stall theory not only fits everything perfectly, but you can also see the brute impact of the car required for this, as well as the safety car phase beforehand, which led to a drop in air pressure, which in conjunction with the already very low set-up of the car led to this accident. And no driver in the world can prevent a car whose downforce suddenly drops massively in a corner from being carried to the outside. Sure, you could have tried to initiate oversteer with the accelerator pedal to counteract the understeer, but the situation was simply too fast and too complex. Senna had to make the decision within a second to wait for the downforce to return, where initiating oversteer with the gas pedal would probably have caused an accident, or to wait and hope that the downforce would return in time and with it the grip.
Basil skull fractures are a terrifying injury of their own. Ratzenburger had one, so did senna. Not only them, Dale Earnhardt and Adam Petty all had the same injury. All were before the HANS device were made mandatory. Senna also suffered the head and brain trauma described. It’s graphic to imagine but important to understand the dangers of motor racing. Adam Petty was pronounced dead during a practice session, and many share the same thought that Senna, Earnhardt and Ratzenberger were all likely dead or near death immediately upon there accidents.
Note that HANS device was available for use with Dale Earnhardt but he was strongly opposed of using it.
His death was not only a strong evidence to support the need to enforced the use of HANs device but it also removed the main obstacle stopping it from being enforced.
Wow this is such a Great Video
30 years later and there are some still insisting that the steering column did not break. Every video in existence clearly shows Senna did not have any correction to the wheels, the wheels kept on a straight line by the laws on nature. Had Senna been able to turn the wheels he most certainly would be turning left, not the case obviously. The steering column broke, straight into the wall he went, suspension and wheels struck him as well as his head hit the wall, concrete particles attached to helmet prove that. Maybe Hans device would have helped, just speculation. I guess another 30 years will go by and still some will argue that the car "bottomed out"...absolute nonsense. Regardless, RIP Senna.
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We know for a fact the steering column did not break before the crash, Williams presented data from the power steering that revealed the steering wheel was indeed still steering, the car stalled due to a rear puncture. That will look like Senna had no steering as he goes straight off understeering into the wall.
@@iamthestog Not sure who is this "we" you refer to; but as clearly shown multiple times by different entities, the steering column did break. That fact can clearly be seen when the steering wheel moves all over the cockpit and before the last frame of the inboard video, the further most yellow button (on the right of the steering wheel) travels all the way left, as Senna tried to turn left, but was unable to do so because the steering wheel shaft broke. Further more the wheels remained straight as the laws of nature dictate, even if what you say is true " a puncture" would not have kept Senna from turning the wheels to the left. As I stated on my previous comment, 30 years from now this "we" crowd will still want to change an indisputable fact, the steering column broke. Facts are funny that way...but then again, we live in times where some believe a man can get pregnant...good luck with the puncture fantasy. Steering shaft broke.
@@iamthestog we know no such thing - and Williams can't really be trusted since they were facing manslaughter charges and doing everything in their power including removing the black boxes from the car and coming up with ridiculous videos suggesting that the steering column on the car was supposed to be wobbling around in order to save their asses. In the end it was proven in court to be the steering column but nobody had to serve any sentence because of the amount of time that had passed, but that ought to be the end of the debate.
Uhhhh... I don't think anyone believed the steering column broke and pierced him, except for you. Some DO believe the steering column failed which led Ayrton to go straight into the wall...... where a suspension arm collapsed and pierced him.
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Everybody, except his race team know the steering column broke. Their is no other reason for them to have hidden and tampered with evidence.
@@vernonlemoignan1392 his race team knew too especially Damon Hill. He literally lied at the investigations of Senna’s death that he “didn’t remember” if Senna’s steering column failed. Absolutely disgusting from Damon and the Williams team then
incredible video. full of details and animations. Keep up the good work
The similarity between the previous crashes and Senna's is astonishing. Additionally, many circuits feature high-speed corners without any run-off areas (such as the main straight at Interlagos). When something is destined to go wrong, it inevitably will.
Very Good analysis . All of us , we know it was murder the death of sena . For FIA it was just an accident .
1) I’ve never heard of anyone refer to the HANS device as the “H A N S” device.
2) I’ve never heard of the theory that the steering column broke off and pierced Senna’s visor (this doesn’t even make the slightest bit of sense)
I was under the impression that it was part of the suspension that hit sennas head
@@mechsgtpuma938 it was - the steering column broke and caused the accident, but the idea that the steering column pierced his helmet is ridiculous.
Sid walkins said that when he was track side beside him he knew it was going to be a fatal head injury. He said he saw senna body relax after being tense for a while and that when he said he knew senna soul had left his body
4 Major accidents happened on that race week alone, 2 of them are fatal, and it was plagued with issues.
Practice session, Rubens Barrichello hit the curb while going 225 km/h at the Variante Bassa corner. He flies directly into the catching fences, stopping his car immediately registering a 95g impact, luckily he only suffered a broken nose and sprained wrist. Damon hills recalled "We brushed ourselves and carried on to qualifying".
Qualifying, Roland Ratzenberger hit the concrete barrier at Villeneuve Curve while going at 314 km/h registering 500g upon impact (highest ever registered in F1). He died immediately on impact. Now, you think the official would cancel the weekend entirely or at least cancel the session after this horrific crash?? Nope, the qualy session restarted 48 minutes later and the show must keep going.
Race start, JJ Lehto stalled his Benetton on the grid, Pedro Lamy driving for Lotus at that time had his view of the Benetton blocked by other car, as the car in front swerve away to avoid crash, Pedro Lamy was greeted by the back of the stationary benetton. Pedro reacted quickly but it was too late, his Lotus hit the back of Lehto's Benetton, causing bodywork and tyres to fly into the air. Parts of the car went over the catch fences designed to protect spectators at the startline causing minor injuries to a police officer and 8 spectators. Despite this, no red flag was waved, instead the race was neutralized by a safety car.
During the SC period, the Opel Vectra was deemed inadequate and too slow for a safety car. In order to keep up, the driver Max Angelelli have to push hard resulting in the brakes fading thus the SC has to be driven at a reduced speed. As a result Eric Bernhard and Erik Comas had a minor collision due to lack of spacing for tyre warm up as a direct result of the SC going too slow. Erik Comas boxed to the pit for repair
Lap 5 after restart, Ayrton Senna hit the concrete barrier at Tamburello at 313 km/h. Senna was killed instantly. The session was subsequently red flagged, unbeknownst to the Larrousse team who sent Erik Comas to the end of the pit lane for release despite the race track being closed due to the red flag. Bizarrely the pit lane marshal allowed him onto the race track causing mass confusion for the official, the spectators, and the Larrousse team themselves. Comas eventually arrived at Tamburello where Comas stopped and witnessed Senna's accident scene, Comas was so distressed that he withdrew and retired from the motoracing entirely.
I watched it live and cried that fateful day. 😢
Great video. I’ve never seen that break path before the crash picture. I wish there is a video that I saw years before UA-cam that showed the onboard camera and in that split second when Ayrton was outside the track, that he slowed down at least 2 gears, i can still hear it, Senna even tilted his head more to the left. Nowadays we see the same video but as soon as Ayrton is on the grass, the video gets blacked out. I was right there in Imola and it’s so sad that the wall is literally next to the river and it’s shocking that considering how many accidents happened before 94, that nothing was done.
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Also, is that video you can see that the steering wheel snapped out of his hands before the impact
Could you do an onboard camera from the top of the middle air duct?
1.) His helmet did not hit the wall and there is no concrete embedded in it. That just looks like damaged fiberglass, consistent with the impact with the front right wheel.
2.) He really did not die immediately, according to the doctors at the scene. There is an interview with one of the Italian doctors that were on the circuit’s medical team where he explains it.
Great and very detailed video. Any chance of making a video of this style about Dale Earnhardt?
If you would have asked one more time I would have clicked the like button
The car looked like it had no steering,no matter the angle.
yep, because it didn't.
@jimsin101 Exactly.
Simply the Best vídeo , magic
A poor modification to the steering column by so called engineers ultimately caused the death of a legend.
Not getting a like before even playing the video!😅
Senna died on the track, Williams killed our Senna, with a car full of problems, the other driver also died on the track!!!Senna forever 💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💛💚💙🔰🔰🔰🔰
Thanks for the video. I red a few month ago all You say here, but of course, see it is different. Great job! Thanks again
That was a sad day. I stopped watching F1 after Senna died.
It should be internationally illegal to monetise Ayrtons death in any way shape or form, including UA-cam videos
Thank you for that amazing work!
Never in all my years have I heard a theory that the steering column pierced the helmet. Everything I’ve ever read over nearly thirty years says it was a piece of suspension.
It was definitely one of the defining moments of a sporting era. It’s hard to believe that nowadays any event would proceed after what happened on the previous two days.
exactly - seems weird people suddenly talking about that here as if it was a thing, when I've never heard anybody say that in the last 30 years of debate on the matter.
Great video I subscribed 👍
I was watching the NASCAR race at Talladega that day & I think if I remember correctly, it was Bob Jenkins who made the announcement that Senna had died. After watching lots of replays of the accident, I felt like even if the metal debris had not pierced his helmet that his head hitting the wall still would have been enough to kill him. Remember Scott Brayton was lost at Indy in 1996 after his head hit the wall during practice...
I read that Senna’s helmet was privately returned to his family and incinerated in front of them at a private ceremony
There are many mistakes in this video. Including him hitting his head against the wall or the suspension bar hitting his head sideways. Regarding the helmet, it was left to Italian expertise until the end of the legal procedures, then it was returned to the manufacturer Bell, and at the request of the Senna family, the helmet was incinerated.
At 300 km and old track safety barriers he had no chance
I would guess the first impact with the helmet probably knocked him unconscious. When his helmet hit the wall, he was already dead.
I still remember watching this all unfold like it was yesterday, a great loss to F1, R.I.P Ayrton. Why the FIA never took action after the previous day...
I was always lead to believe having worked in the industry for 15yrs, it was the wheel that cause Ayrton's injuries (hence the circular damage to Senna's helmet) as data showed he still had torque applied to the steering wheel at impact so column was not broken prior to the impact.
The round hole was an air vent.
Bravo - great analysis !
The tracks back then were so unsafe..
How can someone even think about putting a concrete wall at a 300kph corner with just a few meters runoff.
R.I.P Champ ❤ your are the Best 🙏🏼
Telling me to like, and subscribe three times is just going to make me NOT do it. Thanks.
Exactly! Talking about a man’s death and begin for likes and subs just makes instantly not want to sub
The corner at Tamburello should not been without tyre barriers, even having gravel as well should have improved safety at this corner.
Great Video! Thanks!
I can hear your breaths, go farther away from the mic, or get a noise suppresser. Good analysis.
Yep the steering column 1000% broke. I hate the "bottomed out" theory. You would see wheels attempting to steer or counter steer. They went dead straight as would happen when losing steering.
It is not Mishel Alboreto!!! He was Italian. It is Mikele.
Michele, not mikele
@@Motoroloogyand sadly Michele is also no longer with us. I remember Michele saying there was no way Senna lost the car at Tamburello and insisted something broke on the car. Tamburello was always a flat out curve, it wasn't challenging to the drivers and all previous accidents there were due to car or tyre failures.
@@Motoroloogy you are not rigjt! He was italian, and not French
@@vladanstefanovic i know, i’m italian too. Michele is the real name. Not mikele o mishel
The op is explaining it's pronounced Mik-A-lee and not mish-ell. We all know it's spelt Michele.
So 😥 tragic.
Obrigado pro alrficipar.
The others said his car bottomed out, causing the wheels to lift off the track for a split second, which is why he couldn't turn the wheel. This is new you're saying the steering column broke.
Its not new at all.
@@rossiwilton He said it broke before the crash I never heard of that before.
@@Raiden_Factory there was a mod made to the steering column to bring the steering wheel closer to ayrtons preferred position..... and mr blobby could of done a better job, go have a look at the senna foundation where u will find pictures of the " bodge job " done by someone in the Williams team, its basically a piece of copper pipe like in your home heating system pushed in and braized . Senna knew it was breaking i think and picked his spot for the accident, because no way would it of held thru the rest of tamburello.
R.I.P ayrton , still the greatest.
Perfect explanation...I just add, that the real cause of death of those two drivers was greed.
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People get mad about the giant cars and safety measures but I have seen some horrible accidents that drivers just walked away from
Interesting analysis, like others, I always thought it was a suspension piece that pierced the helmet. But after finding some information on the autopsy, the video does a pretty good job of piecing together what likely happened on impact. If your read the autopsy, his helmet striking the concrete wall would have caused the fatal injuries and is a more likely explanation. As to why he left the track, I personally believe the steering shaft broke, but that's just my opinion, based off past evidence that's been presented.
Asking for likes and subs in such a short video is super irritating
I don't know if this accident would be near as bad in today's cars
I was born in Brazil and was watching the race by the way.