EFFORTPOST The Darkest Grand Prix in Formula 1 History (pt 2/2) The Tragic Crash of Hero and Legend Ayrton Senna (more footage in post)

Footage of a race just prior with Ayrton Senna rushing to Erik Comas who had just been knocked out unconscious from a crash with his foot still on the gas pedal, pumping gasoline into the engine risking a disastrous explosion capable of taking his and maybe other people's lives. Senna managed to turn off the engine and make sure Comas was okay, saving his life in doing so. It's easy to forget that under those cold hard helmets are real human beings, and sometimes real heroes.

More footage of his fatal impact from the live TV airing:

The shadow government wants you to believe it was a sudden lack of downforce, but it's easy to see that it was a steering column failure 100%. At no point on the onboard camera do you see him turn into a slide. His car hit ground on a previous bump so hard you could see the marks on the track it made from Schumacher's onboard camera. This broke the steering column. Also if you watch the video in slow motion from the camera at Tosa you can see that when Senna leaves the track he has his head turned fully to the left, already bracing for the impact. He makes no attempt to turn away from the wall because he has no steering. The wheels still turned left but then suddenly went straight. The onboard footage also lets us see that the steering wheel was severely shaking like it did not have the pillar, because it was about to be rid of the shaft. All f1 drivers say this was 100% a steering failure, not downforce related.

Whatsoever we lost a legend. Rest in peace Ayrton Senna, 1960-1994

As Senna rounded the high-speed Tamburello corner on lap 7, his car left the racing line at around 307 km/h (191 mph), ran in a straight line off the track, and hit the concrete retaining wall at around 233 km/h (145 mph), after what telemetry showed to be an application of the brakes for around two seconds. 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. The 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. At this point, Senna had already lost around 4.5 litres of blood, constituting 90% of his blood volume. 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 18:40 CEST (16:40 GMT), 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 14:17 CEST (12:17 GMT), which is when he impacted the wall and his brain stopped functioning. Watkins later said that as soon as he saw Senna's fully dilated pupils, he knew that his brainstem was inactive and that he would not survive. 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.

Perhaps the Saddest Part of the Whole Story (as continuation from pt.1 of this post)

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It was later revealed that when the medical staff examined Senna's vehicle, a furled Austrian flag was discovered—he had intended to raise it in honour of Ratzenberger after the race. Photographs of Senna being treated on the track by emergency medical personnel were taken by Senna's friend and Autosprint's picture editor, Angelo Orsi. Out of respect, those photographs have never been made officially public.

Senna's crash and final race was at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola, Italy