Overall, Senna finished the championship second to Prost. With Senna's arrival, a new sponsor came as well. Rothmans International came aboard as the primary backer for Williams, with Senna being one of their first drivers in the familiar white and navy livery. Rule changes for had banned active suspension, traction control, and ABS. Senna expressed his discomfort with the handling of his car, stating, "I have a very negative feeling about driving the car and driving it on the limit and so on Some of that is down to the lack of electronic change.
Also, the car has its own characteristics which I'm not fully confident in yet. The first race of the season was at Interlagos in Brazil , where Senna took pole position. He took an early lead, but Schumacher's Benetton was never far behind. Schumacher took the race lead after passing Senna in the pits. Both drivers retired with front-suspension damage. Hill also retired with transmission problems, while Schumacher took the victory again.
It was Senna's worst start to a Formula One season, failing to finish or score points in the first two races, despite taking pole position both times. Schumacher was leading Senna in the Drivers' Championship by 20 points. The season was the subject of sweeping rule changes, most notably banning the use of electronic "driver aids" such as active suspension, anti-lock brakes, traction control and launch control. From the start, suspicion of foul play mainly involving the Benetton team was said to have troubled Senna.
For example, instead of returning to the pit area after his first lap retirement at the Pacific Grand Prix, Senna opted to stand near the first corner and watch the cars complete the race to see if he could detect whether any now banned traction control system was being used. Schumacher went on to win the driver's world championship title controversially after a collision that forced his retirement and that of his rival, and Senna's teammate, Damon Hill.
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Senna died aged 34 after succumbing to fatal injuries sustained during the San Marino Grand Prix , on 1 May The European leg of the F1 season, starting at Imola, was traditionally considered the beginning of the yearly competition. Senna, who did not finish the two opening races of the season, declared that this was where his season would start, with 14 races, as opposed to 16, in which to win the title. On Friday, Senna placed the car on the pole for a then-record 65th and final time, but he was upset by events unfolding that race weekend.
Senna complained about the FW16's handling and reported that the car's performance was generally worse after the engineers' latest adjustments. Barrichello suffered a broken nose and arm, and withdrew from the event. Barrichello reported that Senna was the first person he saw upon regaining consciousness. Senna immediately visited the accident scene and medical centre.
There he was met by FIA Medical Chief Professor Sid Watkins , who suggested to a tearful Senna that he should retire from racing and take up fishing a hobby they both shared , to which Senna replied that he could not stop racing. Senna spent his final morning on the Sunday talking to former teammate and rival Alain Prost to discuss the re-establishment of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association , a driver's union, with the aim of improving safety in Formula One.
Prost had retired from the sport at the end of the season, and was now a media presenter.
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As the most senior driver in competition, Senna offered to take the role of leader, starting from the next race in Monaco. During the drivers' briefing, concerns had been raised about the mainly promotional use of a Porsche lead car for the warm-up lap, with organizers agreeing to abandon the practice. At the start of the Grand Prix, Senna retained the lead from his chief rival Michael Schumacher , but proceedings were soon interrupted by a startline accident. A wheel and debris landed in the main grandstand, injuring eight fans and a police officer. The safety car, a sporty version of the Opel Vectra medium family saloon, was deployed for several laps.
The Vectra's slow pace was later questioned due to the speed allowing the Formula One cars' tyres to cool, causing a consequential drop in tyre pressures. Senna had pulled alongside the Vectra and gestured to the driver, Max Angelelli , [] to increase his speed. The red flag was shown as a consequence of the accident. Within two minutes of crashing, Senna was extracted from his race car by Watkins and his medical team, including intensive care anaesthetist Giovanni Gordini. Initial treatment took place by the side of the car, with Senna having a weak heartbeat and significant blood loss from his temporal artery being ruptured Senna had lost around 4.
Because of Senna's grave neurological condition, Watkins performed an on-site tracheotomy and requested the immediate airlifting of Senna to Bologna's Maggiore Hospital under the supervision of Gordini. At , the head of the hospital's emergency department, Maria Teresa Fiandri [] made the announcement that Senna had died, but said the official time of death under Italian law was , which is when he impacted the wall and his brain stopped functioning.
The right-front wheel and suspension are believed to have been sent back into the cockpit, striking Senna on the right side of his helmet, forcing his head back against the headrest. A piece of upright attached to the wheel had partially penetrated his helmet and made a large indentation in his forehead. In addition, it appeared that a jagged piece of the upright assembly had penetrated the helmet visor just above his right eye. Senna sustained fatal skull fractures , brain injuries and a ruptured temporal artery , a major blood vessel supplying the face and scalp.
According to Fiandri, any one of these three injuries would likely have killed him. As later revealed, when the medical staff examined Senna, a furled Austrian flag was found in his car—a flag that he had intended to raise in honour of Ratzenberger after the race. Out of respect, those photographs have never been made public. On 27 April , as part of commemorating Senna on the 20th anniversary of his death, a three-journalist panel composed of Murray Walker, Maurice Hamilton, and David Tremayne and interviewed by Sky Sports ' Simon Lazenby, concurred that, at his final F1 Grand Prix race , Senna was undergoing psychological turmoil in various parts of his life due to:.
Senna's death was considered by many of his Brazilian fans to be a national tragedy, and the Government of Brazil declared three days of national mourning. The Italian Air Force offered to fly the coffin back to Brazil, but the Senna family wished that it return home in a Brazilian plane.
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Contrary to airline policy and out of respect, Senna's coffin was allowed to be flown back to his home country in the passenger cabin of a VARIG McDonnell-Douglas MD airliner, accompanied by his distraught younger brother, Leonardo, and close friends. The coffin was carried by soldiers from the Air Force Police to a fire engine , where eight cadets from the Military Police Academy mounted guard as it carried the coffin on the mile journey into the city. Leading the motorcade were 17 police motorbikes, and 2, policemen lined the route to keep the crowds at bay.
This is widely accepted as the largest recorded gathering of mourners in modern times.
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After the public viewing, a gun salute was fired by the 2nd Artillery Brigade and seven Brazilian Air Force jets flew in a diamond formation as the funeral procession made its way to Morumbi Cemetery. Senna's family did not allow FOM president Bernie Ecclestone, a friend of Senna's, to attend the ceremony, after an altercation between Ecclestone and Senna's brother Leonardo at Imola regarding Ecclestone's misconstrued reaction to the news of Ayrton's death and the fact that the race had not been abandoned after his accident.
I thought it was important that somebody went to his. A testament to the adulation he inspired among fans worldwide was the scene at the Tokyo headquarters of Honda, where the McLaren cars were typically displayed after each race. Upon his death, so many floral tributes were received, they overwhelmed the large exhibition lobby.
Senna had a special relationship with company founder Soichiro Honda [] and was beloved in Japan, where he achieved a near mythic status. For the next race at Monaco , the FIA decided to leave the first two grid positions empty and painted them with the colours of the Brazilian and the Austrian flags, to honour Senna and Ratzenberger.
Italian law requires that accidents resulting in a fatality must be investigated for any criminal culpability, with the associated scene of the accident secured and the activities that led to the fatality, suspended forthwith.
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Senna's death was thus the subject of criminal proceedings in Italy, which saw key Williams team members investigated and charged with manslaughter. The original trial in concluded with acquittals on the grounds that the prosecution had failed to prove its case. This failure was caused by badly designed and badly executed modifications.
The responsibility of this falls on Patrick Head , culpable of omitted control". Head, however, was never arrested because the Italian statute of limitation for manslaughter is 7 years and 6 months, and the final verdict was pronounced 13 years after the accident. The criminal charges focused on the car's steering column, which was found to have sheared off at a point where a modification had been made. The prosecution alleged that the column had failed causing the accident and the Williams team conceded to this failure, but only as caused by the impact at the Tamburello corner.
Senna had not liked the position of his FW16 's steering wheel relative to the seating position and had asked for the former to be changed. Head and Adrian Newey satisfied Senna's request by having the existing column cut and extended with a smaller-diameter piece of tubing, which was welded together with reinforcing plates.
The modification was carried out in this manner as there was no time to manufacture a new longer steering column in time for the race. Senna was a devout Catholic once saying: "Just because I believe in God, just because I have faith in God, it doesn't mean that I'm immune. It doesn't mean that I'm immortal" As his profile rose, Senna expressed concern over the poor in Brazil. Senna was awarded the No. However Senna was so outraged by the editor dropping him from No. Senna was often quoted as using driving as a means for self-discovery and racing as a metaphor for life: "The harder I push, the more I find within myself.
I am always looking for the next step, a different world to go into, areas where I have not been before. It's lonely driving a Grand Prix car, but very absorbing. I have experienced new sensations, and I want more. That is my excitement, my motivation. Towards the end of his career, Senna became increasingly preoccupied with the dangers of his profession. On the morning of his death, he initiated the reformation of the GPDA safety organisation, with which he had intended to work to improve the safety of his sport. The pair had met the year before at a hospitality event by McLaren sponsor, Shell , as part of the Brazilian Grand Prix for which Galisteu had to audition through a model agency, to work as a hostess.
Senna enjoyed a range of physical activities including running, waterskiing , jet skiing , and paddleboarding.