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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
The suspension broke when he hit the wall but he would not have hit the wall unless his steeriing broke.
I was watching the race on TV (Live, I believe). The impact did not look that great, but unfortunately the suspension and wheel folded around and impacted him. I remember it well. The camera came in on him and he was simply sitting in the car and it appeared looking straight ahead. You could see him twitching just a bit, and one of the announcers said softly that we could be watching him dying.
Sometimes the talking heads get it right, unfortunately, in this case.
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I'll never forget that day. I for some reason woke up very early that morning and turned on the TV. I put the Imola race on and watched that bazaar start and then that crash. As Tom noted, it didn't look that bad but the race had been put on hold for a long time. I basically turned off the TV and went back to sleep. It wasn't until later in the day I heard Senna had died from that crash.
I used to watch a lot of car racing back then, FI, Indy/CART, NASCAR, NHRA and World of Outlaws were on my TV often. I always thought Ayrton Senna was a great aggressive driver, you can clearly see he was one of the best out there. He would come off cocky, but as a race car driver, I respected that. My former co-worker, who Brazilian and was living there at the time, told me the whole country was in shock. She remembered how awful it was for everyone around her. Senna was their national hero who they thought was invincible.
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