Aryton Senna - Fatal Crash Documentary

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] came to me in the students again at the cars really difficult to drive and is something wrong with the kind the way how the aerodynamics works we have to improve its cars not competitive at the moment even so he managed to put the cardboard position in the beginning of 94 so but that was him that was not the car [Music] things are with the car right as they are at the moment the handling isn't perfectly good let's hope the Japanese director will follow Ayrton Senna because I got a feeling this is gonna be new tires and bingo well two things are going to be important for centre but both overlap one is that you've got to get a clear lap and that's not easy there's been a big big problem thread there already we're in our second day of running here traffic on the circuit has been a major problem for everybody but the second problem is that the way the tire is working in relation to the track surface it appears that your first flying lap is your quickest lap so it is absolutely vital to get out at a point where you judge the circuit to be clear and be lucky and getting a clear lap and if everything works correctly you don't make an error you don't spin off in first corner well then you've got a shot well of course Senna a master in getting that one lap absolutely right and on the right we see Michael Schumacher's time and Ayrton being very close indeed Senna for in 0-7 of a second slower than Michael Schumacher and we going on today second intermediate point again on the right Michael Schumacher's time and now Ayrton Senna is faster than the German so halfway around the circuit it's Senna but this is the critical corner Oh and sent a very very committed indeed but basically not bad bite pretty good balance and momentum still intact [Music] coming up into Hobbs corner down into mic night and then into last corner and that will be the completion of what may be in reality his only opportunity this afternoon who and only a very ragged edge his own effort now let's watch coming through last curve how wide he lets the left of the car drift art while Cinna nice lights will be back after the break here on Eurosport from an engineering standpoint I would go back to what the NASCAR guys have always said that you know the understeer is when you hit the wall with the nose of the car first and over stairs when you hit the wall with the back of the car first and that's not really not too far off I mean an understeer technically comes from the car is under steering in that it's not steering enough so it's under steering it's not making it around the corner at the rate that the driver asked it to and over steering the car is actually rotating more than the drivers asking it to rotate if you turn the will and the will the car just pretty much do nothing that's when you have understeer when you turn the wheel and you above the speed and and then all of a sudden you say oops the reader has gone past is because you have oversteer [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] we are here in this third round European season starting now starting from zero so basically our championship starts here 14 races not 16 and it's not a comfortable position to be in but that's the reality and the team is conscious about the challenge we have to make to recover the ground over Benetton as well the the technical development that we must be able to do to improve our car performance we have some problems but I think we have a good car and I think we have a good engine too we just have to work on these problems at this moment which the team is doing and for that we have some modifications here DeMolay which you shall be trying the next two days hoping to improve part of the difficulties we have found so far [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] a technical point of view if you realize that the car was far from being one big dreamt instead long fat that in fact the car was pretty tricky at high speed and didn't really inspire much confidence in the drive shoulder though I heard to notice this very quickly when the first laps he made in testing course men and several weeks before the start of the season visibility is very difficult the ritual nabarro the car wasn't a great technical success it was a car that could potentially be quick but the margin for exploiting its possibilities was extremely limited and only a really gifted driver I in my view would be able to drive it within that very narrow window [Music] [Music] is it generally more one balancing out [Music] [Music] supposed to break away [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] it's really difficult to and wrong to make comments when you don't have enough information I think maybe the car was a bit too low and he hit the ground if you asked me to guess I think the car was running very low and he hit the ground the key to a good lap time was insanity era a technical balancing act the rewards for getting it right were in racing terms substantial lowering the car 1 millimeter which is less than 1/16 of an inch would make the car go several tenths of a second quicker at some circuits maybe as much as half a second quicker a lap so all competitive teams will be running their car absolutely on the limit overs as low as they possibly could [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] the steering column was made in the most part of 22 millimeter steel tube but had been modified at the driver's request to make it longer an extra section of 18 millimeter tube was grafted in and welded at both ends [Music] in the wreckage of Senna's car the column was found to have broken in the wreckage of Senna's car the column was found to have broken you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so why did Senna's Weil appear to move up and down inside the color well it was designed that way this exclusive footage seen here for the first time in public shows the amount of vertical wheel movement available in an identical Williams Formula One car the amount of effort required to deflect it this much is quite considerable but remember the driver is being subjected to g-forces in excess of three times the force of gravity and with nothing saved the wheel to take the weight of the drivers arms the design allowed for this much movement [Music] you the court gave you the vitally well I said that experience came from Ross broad and his sports car days when they were used to refueling working out pitstop strategies with your the wait panel to buy a carry extra fuel so it all worked out very well we were very fortunate to have Ross Brawn his technical director at the moment running that brand-new FW 16 Williams with the Renault engine and gentlemen we have a look at the rear suspension of the Castella rule of us-cuban Ebola but Ayrton Senna da Silva method the Rutland's willing to host well now we were starting the salami adopt national approach with diamond huh lobster colony san I have to know hey the Newfoundland have left off although ham rather dude [Applause] [Applause] we have some problems but I think we have a good car and I think we have a good engine - we just have to work on these problems at this moment which the team is doing and for that we have some modifications here the mola which you shall be trying the next two days hoping to improve part of the difficulties we have found so far [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] siRNAs williams fw 16 was carrying a miniature camera located here just behind into the left of the driver's head it was able to see ahead of the car and some detail within it notably this a small bright yellow button mounted on the steering wheel as the wheel turns the button turns with it allowing a computer to accurately plot every movement of the steering wheel [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I FM's accident was caused by problems with his own car and certainly were in no way connected to the competitiveness of any of the cars around him again you know are people who would claim that his it's a pursuit of of Michael in the Benetton was overly aggressive because of his necessity to compensate for the inadequacies of his car but again I I think that's a nonsense it's again it's just people trying to rewrite the script simple fact is you know I hadn't almost certainly suffered a car failure which caused the accident and it was one of those things these these things happen for sure it's a mechanical problem I'm very careful about what I said because the Magisterium Colin different could be it could be a possibility I already know no no idea precisely you know but for sure it's a mechanical mechanical failure mauro forghieri was one of the expert investigators my opinion the crash was caused by the decision of Sandlin that something was trans gene is driving with because the driving was moving too much he realized that something strange was on and so he decided to stop the car if you are all in your driving in your car and you feel that your driving wheel is moving what do you believe that something is broken and what you do you stop the car of course he was stopping a car from 320 km/h that was a different it's a dangerous corner because if you have a failure in the car it was the wall very very close in the high speed the part of the track but I'm sure because I know because I had the same crash de nieve don't have in the same place I know that you can go out in this in this corner only if you have a mechanical failure on the carbon [Music] it's very very clear that it must be a technical fever you cannot go off without the technical fella in this corner except in rainy condition [Music] have here is a steering column failure with a Mustang g/t on a left-hand turn watch what happens when it comes off the car goes straight right I mean it's basic science you mauro forghieri was one of the expert investigators my opinion the crash was caused by the the cheese of Senna that something was Trajan is driving with because the driving was moving too much Sun as Williams fw 16 was carrying a miniature camera located here just behind in to the left of the driver's head it was able to see ahead of the car and some detail within it notably this a small bright yellow button mounted on the steering wheel as the wheel turns the button turns with it allowing a computer to accurately plot every movement of the steering wheel this button appeared to move in a very unexpected way just as Center lost control on the approach to Tamburello he turned to the left aiming the car at the apex of the bend taking the fastest line through the corner this reconstruction shows the wheel moves quite significantly not only about its center point as normal but vertically as well it was this movement that led to the theory that the steering column had broken so he realized that something strange was on and so he decided to stop the cart if you are all in your driving in your car and you feel that you are driving will is moving what you believe that something is broken and what you do you stop the car of course he was stopping a car from 320 km/h [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] the side and the resort is spirited departed [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] we think that the car probably left the road rather than had a hysteric colony failure that's our the engineering of the car and it's a tech consequence integrity was as normal rather than suffered a failure

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Length: 61min 30sec (3690 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 16 2020