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25 years ago today
dragon1964
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MAY 1ST 1994
San Marino Grand Prix - Imola
3 time world champion Ayrton Senna crashed and died.
Only a day earlier Roland Ratzenberger died at the same circuit.
Avery dark weekend in motor racing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Ayrton_Senna
San Marino Grand Prix - Imola
3 time world champion Ayrton Senna crashed and died.
Only a day earlier Roland Ratzenberger died at the same circuit.
Avery dark weekend in motor racing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Ayrton_Senna
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@dragon1964
As it happens, Sky Sports F1 are having a "Senna Week" & I've watched most of it.
I can remember "the crash" as if it were yesterday, in the same way we remember where we were when Kennedy or Lennon were shot, or when Princess Di was killed.
Can barely believe it was 25 years ago.
As you say, a dreadful weekend.
There's a miracle attached though, & partly because of that weekend. Fatalities in F1 are almost non-existent now. Think the only F1 deaths in a race since Senna in 1994 was Jules Bianchi 5 years ago.
When we consider the speed & proximity of F1 cars in a race, always within confined spaces - especially the street circuits - it's nothing short of miraculous. And much of that is due to lessons learned after that awful weekend.