Ayrton Senna 1994 Test Session France Paul Ricard Circuit Track Williams Renault FW16 F1 Formula One 

I love how he still has his red boots from the previous season with McLaren! :) Brings a tear to the eye...makes you feel like you're really there...thanks for sharing this very rare footage!

What a beautifull sound. And what a legendary driver...

How beautiful the car was, how bad its performance was.. And still Senna drove it like it was the best car on the grid.. A true legend and maestro at his office...Never forgotten.. RIP Mr.Senna ❤

"I have a very negative feeling about driving the car and driving it on the limit and so on. Therefore I dindn't have a single run or a single lap that I felt comfortable or reasonably confident. I am uncomfortable in the car. It all feels wrong. We changed the seat and the wheel, but evenso I was already asking for more room. Going bach to when we raced at Estoril last September, it feels much more difficult. Some of that is down to the lack of electronic change. Also, the car hat its own characteristics which I'm not fully confident in yet. It makes you a lot more tenxe and that stresses you" Ayrton Senna

Thanks Jean-marc for a treasure...right down to last years red driving shoes. even though ayrton was under tremendous pressure and uncomfortable at williams he still manages a smile and a wave to his public...awesome video thank you. Barry

I forgot how f1 sounded

OMG the sound of those cars just pure heaven

R.i.P Ayrton Senna Da Silva❤️ from NL 2023

I still rate Ayrton Senna as the greatest F1 driver.

Being the professional and brave and courageous soul that he was, he still tried to make it work with an awful un-driveable car, after those ridiculous rules changes. It eventually killed him. So unfair. He didn't deserve this. He was a great man, on and off the tracks. The greatest racing driver that ever lived! Like Lauda said. We miss you Beco! 🇧🇷❤

That car still looks amazing today

looking at how cars are built now, it's not difficult to imagine why that crash killed him... look at his shoulders, completely exposed. rip senna! thanks for sharing this excelent footage!

Wish he was still alive 😭

I miss him so much if he was alive today I would send a message to him of how much I loved him, and his story, I feel so sad for not being able to do that hug him :'(

Merci pour cette vidéo, 30 ans aprés on a toujours ce manque

J'ai toujours le même chagrin 28 après. Quelle tragédie, quelle perte. ...C'est épouvantable. ( PARIS le 26 Avril 2022 ).

2:44 that shape of the car is so iconic.

This video is so incredibly rare. Thanks a million

i realized halfway through the video how god damned amazing the quality is for something filmed in 1994

most handsome man in the F1 history indeed!!!!!!!!

Man, so long ago now. I remember 1994.

Incroyable......il arrive à bord d'une PEUGEOT 306 !

Thanks for sharing this unique Senna material!

Love the sound of that Renault V10!!!

when the Renault engine is a dream ! But the Williams suspension is a nightmare !! 😬

Senna driving Peugeot 306? My car is 306! SENNA LEGEND

Amazing footage

Thank u soo much for sharing this unique fotage

Someone should have told him at this moment to go far away from this team... Rip Ayrton we all miss you

Still unbelieveable he died two month after this...

Ayrton is still on our hearts ❤❤

Today, the location where this footage was taken and where the team adjusted the Willians, is in the back of the building Winfield Racing School which is located inside the Paul Richard circuit, you can see the location on Google Earth.

Piloto completo igual ao meu compatriota Senna,nunca mais.

Ayrton fue el mejor

Senna in 1994 had a small smile

The FW16 was for sure a deadly car but nevertheless one of the most beautiful F1 cars ever made!!! We miss you Ayrton!

Beautiful sounds. Awesome video. Thanks for posting.

That car was as beautiful as it was nervous, thanks for this footage!

DAT SOUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for sharing this video sir... We are very grateful watching this.... :) :) Nice.... Nice.... :) :) We can clearly hear Ayrton Senna pumping the gas pedal.... :) Nice Nice.... :) :)

Essa willians era um carro muito bonito....Barulho do motor era uma orquestra sinfônica

Only sadness in the images.

Paul ricard looks more like a racing circuit back then unlike now

Beautiful footage. Thank you so much for sharing!

Rothmans, Williams and Renault, my favorite combo of all-time

Infelizmente, dois meses depois estaria morto. Muito triste isso.

thanks for sharing

its a shame to this day .. all this testing and stuff .. all this money and time spent .. and they werent able to give him a proper and safe car for the Imola race .. he should have gone fishing with watkins .. ;(

Merci de nous faire partager ces souvenirs, j'étais également présent avec mes grands parents.

Ayrton drove a Renault V10 but arrives on track in a Peugeot.

Saudades Senna

Et dire que 2 mois plus tard il nous quittait 😢

Fevereiro de 94 que saudades

Senna o melhor de todos 😎😎😎😎

It's just a shame that the 1994 Williams will always be remembered as "that car". Damon Hill did brilliantly in the FW16B. Almost won the championship and Williams won the constructors championship. Senna would have won the championship in 94, 95, 96 and 97 possably even further. We lost a legend that day. Full respect to him, his family and to the Williams F1 Team. Rest In Peace, Ayrton Senna 1960 - 1994

The legend the king the history ayrton sempre con noi you are immortal

I need time machine to go there and tell to Ayrton, that he must go away and show a middle finger to this team )

"Na minha vez cagaram o carro" Ayrton Senna.

Amaying Footage!! Thaanks for posting it

We miss you Ayrton! ❤

It's a beatiful looking car, but the pit garage and the crew, makes it look like a kitcar assembled in a backyard

Not surprised he stalled the engine! Prost had a lot of problems with the clutch the previous year.

uma gambiarra matou nosso campeão.

Only die those are forgotten. Senna sempre

why is this so much more exiting then what we have now??

Precious footage ... So much missed ...

It's the real thing - The FW16, not the FW15D. There are no bumps on the nose in front of cockpit, it also has the refuelling port.

Deus... pq levou senna tão cedo? Será que este foi o seu presente para ele, mostrar a ele como era amado, como era importante não só como o melhor piloto de seu tempo, e talvez como sua missão já estava mais do que cumprida, e talvez Deus de tão feliz estava com esse filho que o eternizou aqui nesse planeta na memória de todos que o viram fazer suas proezas extraordinárias, por mais triste que foi para quem ficou... talvez tenha sido realmente seu maior título, o título dado por Deus, o título de talvez e para mim com certeza um dos mais magnífico ser humano que já passou por aqui! Como gostaria de ver vc aqui com agente ainda, ver vc desfrutando da sua vida gloriosa que desde pequeno sempre foi; mais tenho certeza que se tratando de vc, quase não tenho dúvida que até nisso vc superou todos nós, ganhando um presente do único maior de todos, Deus o pai de todos! Realmente vc foi o maior daqui, e deve estar conquistando seus títulos por aí também! Foi uma honra poder ter visto vc em suas glórias, dentro e fora das pistas Nunca nos vimos, nunca fui em uma corrida, nem gosto de fórmula 1, tudo que sei desse mundo foi por sua causa Obrigado senna!

Always thought the Adrian Newey-designed Williams cars from 1991-1994 had a nose that looked a bit like a vacuum cleaner. I guess the FW14B and FW15C were kind of like vacuums - they *hugged* the road!

Que som, meu Deus!!!

Despues de ver esto me repudia como este fin de semana vitoreaban a Hamilton como ciudadano ilustre(????) Pobre Ayrton debió revolcarse en su tumba, que rapido se olvidaron de él! No quisiera saber lo que pasaba por la mente de Felipe (GANADOR EN 2008, EN BRASIL, EN INTERLAGOS... y ya no se que más puedo agregar) después de entrevistarlos. En fin EL GRAN CIRCO. Eterno luchador por un deporte justo mi querido Ayrton! Siempre que podia te seguía a todos lados, siendo niño. Representabas todos nuestros sueños! Una lagrima al viento por ti. QEPD amado!

I disagree, the culmination of beauty to me was the FW15C. After this all cars started to get ugly (Mclaren MP4/9, FW16, etc). If you look carefully you'll notice the FW16 has straight sidepod inlets. This as opposed to the curved inlets of FW15C. Try to find the Estoril promo shot of Hill and Senna in front of an FW15c painted in Rothmans colors. (No anhedral wing & curved sidepod inlets) it is the most beautiful F1 shape & color ever.

7.28, a nice smile for the old chicks!

Thank you 🙏

0:41 - Senna takes the racing line in normal car on that corner!

Imagens que viraram história

Que saudades.,a fórmula 1 numa mais foi a mesma, Senna para o povo brasileiro foi e será um gigante.,atrás de um volante de carro de fórmula 1. Valeu família Senna obrigado por ter permitido este grande brasileiro de nos ter trazido tantos domingos maravilhosos. Quê barulho mais fantástico e um barulho único valeu. . Eu sou Marcio coelho moro em Brasília. DF,sou fã deste grande piloto obrigado a todos vocês por tudo.

Belo video, mas as imagens dele tentando acertar aquela " cadeira elétrica" que deram para ele guiar me corta o coração.

@pabloramon3804 Here is how you can tell if it is the F15C or the Fw16. First the fW15 does not have a refueling valve on the side. Second The Fw15c had a bump on the nose to accomedate the Solid suspension. The Cockpit front is a V shape on the fw15. and Lastly the rear bottom wing of the Fw16 is angled. This is the Fw16.

If you read the WIKI article on the FW16 you'll see that it's designer (Newey) actually admitted they made a "real cockup" of the car in the early season of 94.

Melhor de todos!!!

Esse motor Renault era sensacional !

"Cagaram justo no meu carro" (Flavio Gomes)

Amigo espiritual.Tive felicidade de ver Airton Senna após sua morte entrar e seguir para dentro da luz.

@bubi8894 It wasn't Senna's fault, not it was Williams' team fault. The fault belonged to the organisers of the Imola GP. In 1989, G. Berger crashed in the same corner at 180 mph. The crash was even more horrifying than Senna's, but Berger survived. If after Gerhard Berger's crash the organisers would have decided to put the protective tires against the wall (a simple decision full with common sense) or changed the corner, Senna would have been alive today.

I am Brazilian and I don't like this car because it was he who took Ayrton us. Ayrton simple the best forever!!

i vecchi motori di formula uno sono delle sinfonie stupendo

Ni parece que ya paso 30 años de aquel accidente

Foi um conforto para mim vê-lo partir na luz do amor eterno as duas horas da manhã .Fiquei muito calmo.

This is an incredible video! Haha

Ainda com a sapatilha vermelha da McLaren....

final prepartion for his final season...

merci :D

Esse caro era absolutamente lindo, pena ser trágico.

Man that peugoet was fast 😂

present this day at paul ricard !!!

Senna deveria ter ficado a carreira toda na McLaren a partir de 1988.

Lucky people there

@bubi8894 I said it before and I will say it again. It may have been Senna's desire to lengthen the steering but it should have been the engineer's decison to tell him it was unsafe. Drivers want to go fast at all cost....its in their nature...the crew should be the voice to tell him..mechanically it was not possible.

pedro bial, journalist from brazil