Ayrton Senna Crash 😔

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[rokkitman]

Imagine carrying that level of guilt and responsibility…. F*cking tragic, from all perspectives…

[adimuzmusic]

I cried so much as a 10 year old boy when Senna died. My mum said I couldn't watch the racing anymore. But I did and still do, and Ayrton is still my number 1. Ayrton Senna Sempre ❤

[goldinho]

I didn’t watch F1 for 12 years because of that, it broke my heart as a 9 year old kid.

[youngfossil]

I'm a 42. Seating in front of the TV with my family to watch him race was so good. Senna's funeral was the biggest one I've seen my whole life in Brazil. I was in 6th grade in school. The day after the accident, the schools were mourning him in a way I've never seen again. The kids were so quiet those days. During the breaks, we didn't hear the usual noise of kids chatting and playing. It was like all of us had lost a family member or a close friend. 😢

[Bounty_Hunter]

I admire Adrian Newey for all he has achieved. And I admire his courage for admitting that. He has to carry it. But he alone is not fully responsible.

[TrevorLeggo]

You can see the raw genuine emotion in all that he is saying. To this day…there’s depth of empathy in this. Nice post.

[christianprice]

F1 was never the same after Ayrton died. A terrible loss of an amazing talent and character.

[steveh]

30 years ago, and it still brings tears to our eyes.

[MalcolmHales]

After the accident i was in shock. I was 33 and luckily enough to be racing Mini Miglias. I took my Suzuki GSXR 750 out to try and get my head around the shock and grief i was feeling. I rode that thing as fast as i could, stopped after 20 odd miles and cried my eyes out! Frightened myself on the bike so much i sold. I still miss Ayrton as a person, and as simply the best racer of all time.

[outfield]

He was an amazing talent and human being.

[patepulkkinenvtec]

If there needs to be someone blamed for Senna's death and for all the other incidents, crashes and tragedies that happened in 1994, it's the FIA for banning basically all the driver aids at once for 1994. Because they made the change so late in 1993, the teams had designed cars that should have had all the gizmos, but eventually didn't, and then people are somehow surprised about all the carnage. Unbelievable.

[gamzefatmaozkan]

Not a stupid accident, he was anxious the day before. It was a consequence of greedy people who were unwilling to cancel the race.

[patrickgarrison]

That went down as the worst weekend of racing in history. So many signs were missed and voices silenced, including Ayrton's. IMO, this was the moment in F1 when fans realized the drivers were treated like modern day gladiators. The show must go on, no matter what. Thank God that mentality is gone

[michaklimek]

After the incident when the pack placed cars on the grid you could see Damon Hill and by his side Adrian Newey - devastated, all in tears

[adrianoramos]

"What a waste of such an amazing person..." That's one of the most accurate definitions of Senna's death I've ever heard/seen!

[unbearifiedbear]

One of my earliest memories of "noticing" a news story as a kid

[StuartH]

Whoever welded an extension to/altered the steering rack was to blame.

[NJTRAF]

The worst thing is that people have, wrongly, blamed him for Senna’s death over the years but it had nothing to do with him. The Italian Prosecution absolved him of any blame, and instead attributed the blame to a poorly modified steering column - at Senna’s request - because he was catching the back of his hands against the cockpit. Unfortunately, whoever did the modification did a really poor job, cutting the steering column which was 22mm and welding in a length of 18mm piping for lack of a better word which was also of a poorer quality metal than the original 22mm was… that had 70% of its circumference damaged by stress fractures… if you look at the on board footage the lap before he died and the lap he died and look at the Yellow Button on the steering wheel, you can see the button move on a normal semi-circular arc the lap before, and then drop down and out of view on the lap he died just before he went off - the steering column failed, no matter how much Williams tried to protest, but it wasn’t Newey’s fault, he wasn’t the aerodynamicist, that had nothing to do with him, and yet here we are now 30 years later and he feels guilty for something that wasn’t his problem.

Also, the track at Imola, between really shitty uneven patchwork of the asphalt at Tamburello, to the slope dropping something like 2 degrees at the track limit that would launch cars into the barrier and not allow them to have full brake application (hence why you will see patches of skid marks at the crash!), no real runoff area for a corner where you’re going 320kmh, the concrete barrier which afforded no protection… honestly, as much as the shitty patchwork modification was on the steering column, the track was probably the most to blame… if it had more of a run off, a gravel trap, tyre barriers maybe he would have survived

[JAK]

I was 9 and i remember exactly that Day, its cristal clear in my mind and a loss of a hero. I like the dignité and humanity of this dude. Senna was greater than life

[Foxcatcher]

A tragedy but the safety that’s come from this incident and the many others and the countless lives that have been saved. It’s his spirit of racing carrying on through every driver saved