San Marino GP 1994 (Saturday Qualifying 3) Ratzenberger Accident Investigation 

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Fully agree but without all these fatalities modern motor racing F1 In particular they would not be wat they are today cars tracks Marshalls even walls all past accidents got us here and for those thinking i dont feel for drivers and families i do but without their brave sacrifices in those crazy days of racing we be seeing this today RIP Roland Senna from this bad weekend

He wasn't saying that it saved his life, he was doing his job and trying to be positive. They knew just as everyone else did when that car came to a stop that Roland was dead, but because they can't say anything until the official word has been given, and all parties have been notified, they have to try to remain positive and try to tell the viewers about things like the chassis, the upgrades, etc. Has absolutely zero to do with them thinking he was alive and "saved" because they knew he was dead. Everyone knew he didn't survive that.

Did he died instantly after the impact?

@@xandrews13x39 Yes. He had a basal fracture so he basically bleed out. He was dead before he left in the helicopter.

Rest In Peace Jules Bianchi

It was awful, but im pretty sure there have been worse weekends, in 50s - 70s, when often more than one driver would die in a race

Terrible absolutely terrible..

And all the cars ended exactly the same

@@matthewworrall6582 and sadly now, even though its f2, Anthoine Hubert

Numpties.

Because normally drivers wouldnt hit the wall like that at that angle. Besides, better keep the car on track than into the stands

​@@JM_daDocThose aren't good arguments though. First of all cars reached easily 300kph before the kink and they often battled side by side when they approached the corner. An impact like this had to happen sooner or later. Concrete walls on the outside of 300kph corners is just inexcusable, both for the Tamburello as well as the Villeneuve/Tosa corners. Even simple guard rails or tyre barriers could have possibly prevented both deaths that weekend and the cars still wouldn't have exceeded the track limits

Daniel Alexander Hill 21 today :/

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But a human brain is so clever that it can creat a thing which can go at 1000mph

They would not race today if it happened

@@audreyperrin320they actually would. Nothing stopped racing when jules or even anthoine met their fates on a weekend

@@krampusk5699had Jules died earlier in the weekend as opposed to 9 months after a mid-race accident, I’d imagine they’d have probably cancelled it. I remember reading somewhere they deliberately delayed Senna’s death announcement so it wasn’t cancelled mid race because of Italian law

The organiser and bernie would of lost millions, hence why the black box on sennas car dissappear and senna was resuscitated so death wasn't declared on track, neither he or Roland were alive after initial impacts

They tried to resuscitate greg Moore in 1999 who had an even worse crash than roland and senna, his head hit ground and concrete wall at 190mph no slowing down, that was live aswell

Yes, HANS was 7 years in the future. Unavoidable time an accidents drive progress.

+Zoomer30 I did see an interview with Roland's father where he stated that he has the helmet Roland wore that day, and the only sign of the crash present on it is a crack on the right hand side. Roland's head possibly hit the wall in the crash so HANS might not have helped sadly. The raised cockpit sides introduced in 96 (and by Sauber in the latter part of 94) might have helped however.

MadGaz85 it's odd watching old races and seeing the driver check their blind spot. And if course the cockpit sides were level with their shoulders or a bit lower. Way way to low. The push now is for "enclosed cockpits" in F1. It would help in cases of debris strikes (Felipe Massa hit by a spring) and perhaps loose tire issues hitting the driver (Seem to remember a driver got killed like that at Laguna Seca in a F3000, a relative of famous F1 driver Surtees).

I remember the Laguna incident, it was F3000 driver Gonzalo Roudriguez, driving as a substitute driver in the then-active CART series who crashed, he went straight on at the corkscrew, flew over a tyre wall and hit a concrete wall, vaulting it and landing upside down on the other side. The poor guy had no chance but it was one of the big incidents that prompted the use of HANS (If Gonzalo had been wearing it, he would have possibly survived unscathed - the broken neck was his only injury). Henry Surtees (John's son) indeed died after being hit by a wheel which had come off in a seperate accident ahead of him at Brands Hatch, the recent Justin Wilson tragedy was very much the same kind of incident. Personally, I don't like the idea of canopies or silly looking devices in front of the driver - what I would recommend would be increasing the cockpit sides higher (Ferrari and McLaren were the only ones who interpreted it in 1996 in the way it was supposed to - the other teams found a loophole and it's been the norm ever since) and slanting the roll hoop forward - therefor the cockpit is not enclosed but there's a far greater chance of debris deflecting away from the drivers head. The current "preferred" proposal (a cage supported by a single strut in front of the driver) wouldn't work in my view as A: Visibility is reduced and B: Smaller debris can still hit the driver - If Massa had that type of protection when he was hit in Hungary, the result would have been the samet. There's also the chance of larger pieces of debris becoming wedged in the supports and halving, or totally reducing driver visibility. I drove a single seater recently and I'd hate to have had one of those things in front of me! Zoomer30

+MadGaz85 The accident That I am thinking of is one that killed either a nephew or grandchild of John Surtees. A car way in front of him wrecked, a tire came off and bounced a few times and came down just as he was there and it hit him in the head.

Guess what???? 2024 another's 5 years past away, it ' s past 30 years from Imola 1994

@@jimmy-vy8hy Crazy to think it has been 30 years since that infamous and horrible weekend.

Yea. At that point, NO amount of safety devices can help.

He also had Ratzenberger's country flag in his car, he was gonna wave it around after the race in remembrance of Ratzenberter. He snuck the flag in his car, they found it during the post wreck inspection.

It's on youtube

jules bianchi's crash was never shown i believe.

@@robertr7923lol there’s footage everywhere. I watched it live and recorded the tv on my phone.

He won't talk about that day

yeah and nowadays the first thing you hear after a crash is "are you okay? are you okay?" to the driver

2 years from imala is returned

Oliver Bulmer Ayrton's last corner....

@@thepiston7891 Dangerous corner that Senna died...

Tamburello..

Yep Ayrton was gone exactly on the previous corner than Ratzenberger did. Absolutely terrifying 😮😮😮😮

DM G yeah, it seems like they have no clue about what just happened. Surreal

The sort of injuries that Ratzenberger died from wouldn't have been prevented by something like a halo or aeroscreen though, one of which being an aorta transection which is caused by extreme deceleration.

I guess the Hans prevented loads of deaths like this one in the next years...

​@@ethownzbhthe HANS device would've probably helped Roland though

Indeed, racing should be fun, noone should die that way. Hopefully thanks to the new regulations it's almost impossible to get killed

joseph baldwin eerily prophetic

4 wheeled motorsport I agree, it was the darkest weekend. I think the 1970 Isle of Man TT is the darkest in all of any type of motorsport (6 seperate fatal accidents).

joseph baldwin officially he wasn’t dead at the time so no one was to know this!

Le Mans 1955 killed 83, with 180 injured. That will forever be the worst day in Motorsports

What was that weekend? So many things did go wrong..

On this same weekend? Omg

Same corner too

@@SnIpErThAtRaPeSu no, different corners

***** He was talking about Robert Kubica's accident in Canada in 2007 and comparing it to this one Juhani...

***** This is quite possible but the truth is we will sadly never know... Concrete walls - just like tractor in the horrid Jules Bianchi accident hopefully will become things of the past. We'll never make it 100% safe, but making it safer should continue to be a priority. Thanks for you comments

This is true but I have been predicting a death due to a rescue tractor being out on the course in the wet for many years. Jules' head hit it at over 100mph. That must never happen again...

Daniel Alexander Hill I agree with you Daniel, i have been fearing for drivers and tractors for years now, specially after watching a lot of American's Cart Series back in the 90s when they already had those trucks with some arguably bizarre huge bumpers which made them a lot safer (at least looked safer anyway). Cant understaand why they never made it to the f1

I didn't know that Miguel thanks, I have only really followed F1...

14 years later…. I’ll answer your question. Yes. Hope things have gone well for you since your question.

Daniel Gandolfi As a live commentator, you cannot speculate things to the public, to the people watching the live coverage, it is not like "Mmm yeah, he looks dead to me, his head was motionless after the incident, i think he might be dead by now", as a commentator you have to keep a positive atmosphere in the transmission of a sports event.

he wouldnt peter brook discussed him in his video "would the halo prevented hisdtorical f1 fatalities" and we can confidently say that even with modren equipment he had no chance of surivival

DCC Games Jules Bianchi has died, ending the 21 years. #ripjules

I cant stand the taste either!!

Barinade23 25 years today...