was played 17 years ago one of the darkest GP in F1 history. 17 years ago, a Sunday like today, was a rookie driver death in the practice session and one of the pilots largest pinnacle of motorsport, was killed during the race at the Tamburello corner at Imola circuit. was the third race of the season. Williams wanted to resurface after the Grand Prix of Brazil and the Pacific with its new FW16 Adiran designed by Newey and Patrick Head. But the weekend painted black and had some foreboding that it would not end well. In the Friday free practice and Rubens Barrichello suffered a serious accident at the wheel of a Jordan that kept him from running the grand prize for the injuries suffered in the ribs and nose. His car flew off and ended in a violent carambola in the high variant of the circuit.
The first fatal accident: on Saturday the coaches
To compound the weekend rookie Roland Ratzenberger at the controls of a Simtek Ford suffered a serious accident in Turn over Giles Villeneuve 300 km / h which cost him his life.
Saturday practice in the Austrian pilot exceeds Tamburello and Villeneuve curve reaching a piece of his front wing flew out leaving his car without the necessary downforce to keep control. There was nothing to do, Villeneuve curve reached 300 kph, in fractions of seconds Ratzenberger impacted the wall, literally. It smashed the left side of his vehicle resulting from the impact at an oblique angle (or front or side), something not typical of the F1, the pilot's body hit the wall with tremendous force at the end of the curve, then slip on the grass, about 100 meters, and be gone in a corner Tosa
Ayrton's accident
But despite these bad omens the GP should continue in spite of having a pilot hospital and one died, though the minds of the drivers were not running. Even Senna had many doubts. But his passion could more his head and went to play the GP.
The race started with an accident between a Lotus and Benetton and had to leave the brand new safety car until you put an order in the court. After removing the safety car leading the race Senna and 12 seconds and 8 / 10 after his car entrellaba violently against the wall.
What were the causes of accident?. At first it was said that the problem was in the steering column qu elos William had prolonged mechanical welding a sleeve of 18 mm at the request of the pilot.
Further analysis of the telemetry of the car can demonstrate that the real cause of the accident had was that the famous "ground effect" was no longer present in a split second and lost Senna controlled car.
But it lost ground effect the Tamburello ccohe while driving by at 300 km / h?
The explanation lies in the fact that the safety car had rolled the car at speeds much lower (at that time was a road car normalito) and this fact would have lost that tire temperature and pressure causing a decrease in ride height.
For those times the car ran close to the floor and any height variation was critical because it could cause a loss of depression generated by the downforce and the car could be thrown out of control by the pilot. At
Tamburello show sparks Senna's car came off the floor, losing in tenths of a second floor effect and hence the grip on a curve at more than 300 km / h. Senna attempt to correct the loss of rear but failed and crashed into the wall.
But it was the impact with the wall that killed Senna, but the car's front wheel in the impact is trapped between the car and the wall and out abruptly dismissed a few moments after the coup brutally beating the pilot head.
Next documentary, produced by National Geographic, shows and explains the causes of the accident.
Senna
myth Three times F1 World Champion with McLaren in 1988, 1990 and 1991, Senna started his career in karts, reaching Formula 1 in 1984 with Toleman-Hart (then Benetton F1). In the Monaco Grand Prix that year, he dazzled everyone with a memorable performance in the rain that earned him to get his first podium. Senna was a master at the races in which the fluid element was present.
The next three seasons (1985, 1986 and 1987) the Brazilian was at the wheel a Lotus. In the GP of Portugal in 1985 got his first win driving the Lotus-Renault 97T, also in wet conditions.
then moved to McLaren in 1988, where he could have the best car. The MP4-4 with Honda 1.5 V6T dominated all season, getting 15 wins in 16 races of the season. In Japan, where he defined the championship that year long Senna poorly, losing many positions and a spectacular remonatada, including rain made it to Prost (his great rival) and took the title.
In 1989 the rivalry between Senna and Prost worsened: the world was decided between the two McLarens in the Japanese GP at Suzuka. Prost and Senna collided between them to try to advance the second to first in a highly controversial move. After the shock Prost had to leave, but continued in the race Senna back on track skipping a chicane in the escape and being helped by the stewards to start the car. At the end of the race was disqualified for this action, which finally came across the drivers' championship in 1989 was to stop the hands of Alain Prost.
retaliate Senna in 1990. With the French, already out of McLaren, Ferrari running in the world decided once again at Suzuka and the situation was very similar to the previous year. On this occasion, with an intention clearer by Senna, both drivers were touched and out of the race. The title went to the hands of Ayrton Senna, who thus became the champion.
In 1991, Senna and McLaren had it easier, getting his third drivers' championship. The Ferraris were less competitive and Prost was not in the fight, while Nigel Mansell in the Williams-Renault and warned what would happen next year.
1992 was a clear rule that allowed Williams abosluto crowned champion Nigel Mansell. In 93 the teacher returns to pilot Prost and does so with Williams and Williams supremacy that had allowed the Frenchman to get his fourth title. In 1994 Ayrton
passed to Williams again had a competitive car but found his death at the Tamburello wall.
Today, the first of May 2011, seventeen years after the death of Brazilian driver, all F1 lovers continue the pilot to follow, remember that pilot who made podiums with Toleman, who won under a flood in the Grand Prix at Donington in 1993, the ruler of Monaco, who had an intense struggle with Professor Alain Prost, and won three world titles
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