Ayrton Senna - Death of a Racing Driver - video Dailymotion

May 1 marks 30 years since the deaths of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger at Imola

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00:00 You know, he means a lot and Ayrton, up to one point, was one of these drivers.

00:06 He was immortal.

00:07 And it was a big shock for me, for Brazil and for all the Ayrton fans all over the world,

00:16 for sure.

00:17 Imola, to my memory, it was the most horrible racing weekend.

00:32 Rubens Barrichello crashed on Friday, where he could easily be killed.

00:38 There was Roland Ratzenberger on Saturday, where he sadly lost his life.

00:43 Ayrton Senna was killed by a very unfortunate series of circumstances.

00:51 The cause of Ayrton's death was the front wishbone.

00:57 Broke when he hit the wall.

00:59 The impact that Ayrton gave was not a very hard impact.

01:03 It was just, you know, it was very unfortunate, his wishbone hitting right on top of his eyes

01:10 and it was like a bullet.

01:15 So I think if you repeat this accident ten times, he will survive every single time.

01:22 The physical death happened at 17 and something, the physical death, so beyond the concern

01:32 and gravity of the impact, which was more or less known to everyone, in fact one of the

01:37 difficulties he had in managing the Grand Prix was that I had to calm down both Moretto

01:46 and Martini, which were serious things, but there was still some hope.

01:51 In fact, the hope was zero.

01:54 After Ayrton, it was a long time with no fatal crash in Formula 1.

02:01 It just happened the same weekend in Imola.

02:03 It was a tough weekend to everybody.

02:09 I think this tragedy has hit, I mean, everybody to different degrees, but definitely the team,

02:16 those who were working in the car.

02:18 It must have been horrible.

02:21 They had to deal with the sorrow, with I don't know to which degree sense of guilt if they

02:29 had.

02:30 I don't know, and I really tried a lot to think about that, but I don't know if anybody

02:36 besides them really know what went on in their head and definitely I was on their side.

02:43 At that time, we all knew the risk was very high.

02:49 I lost from the time I started Formula 1 to my last Indy race, I lost 37 colleagues that

02:57 raced with me on the track.

02:59 Every day I thank God to be here.

03:02 We are survivors.

03:04 That's exactly the feeling we have now.

03:08 We are survivors from a very tough time.

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