It had fatigue cracks and would have failed at some point. There is no question that its design was very poor. 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. 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. Following the blame falling at his door, Patrick Head blamed driver error for the cause of the crash, a theory also agreed by Damon Hill. Meanwhile, Newey says a tyre failure could have caused the crash, caused by debris on the circuit.
Whatever the cause of the crash, the missing black box raises many eyebrows across the F1 world. Whatever the cause, the weekend of the San Marino Grand Prix will go down as one of the darkest in motor racing history. Article written in memory of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger.
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Frank Williams and two of his engineers faced manslaughter charges, as did two track employees. Nothing could be proved and the charges were dropped, luckily for the sport, avoiding setting a dangerous precedent.
Death, too, plays its part in the iconography. When Senna was killed at Imola in , his helmet pierced by a suspension arm as he smashed into the wall at the Tamburello corner, he was frozen in time at the age of Ayrton Senna Formula 1. Once you're here Max Verstappen flew past his Mercedes rivals at the start to win the Mexican Grand Prix on Sunday in a another step towards a first Formula One world title.
The high-altitude t Bottas takes pole in Mexico as Mercedes lock out front row Cde 7th November The prosecution - the case starts on Thursday in Bologna, Italy - is expected to allege that Senna's Williams lost control on the seventh lap due to a pre-impact failure of the steering column which had been modified before the race.
However, a photograph published in yesterday's Sunday Times shows Senna's Williams, just before the crash, apparently about to run over a piece of debris left after an earlier collision between J. Lehto's Benetton and the Lotus driven by Pedro Lamy. A second after the photograph was taken, the Brazilian's car plunged off the circuit and he suffered fatal head injuries when his car collided with the concrete wall lining the track.
There is also evidence that Senna may have pressed too hard on cold tyres after several laps of running at a much-reduced speed behind the safety car, while debris from the earlier collision was removed from the straight in front of the pits.
Formula One tyres depend on heat built up by vigorous use to retain their optimum operating pressures and generate maximum grip. If allowed to cool, they can lose grip dramatically and in this situation, they created a situation beyond even Senna's control.
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