This Crash Changed Formula 1 FOREVER.. 

I can't express my feelings everytime I see a video that tells about Erik Comas tried to save Senna after Comas' crash two years earlier. That man has such a huge respect

The only time I've ever been truly shaken by the death of a person I had never met.

Imagine witnessing your friend's death and someone telling you it's your turn in 24 hours

I was 13 years old and now 43, I still get chocked up watching his videos

10:05 "FOR FINANCIAL PURPOSES"... pretty much sums up this world

I Miss Schumacher not being around the F1 paddock. We deserved to have Senna and Schumacher battling for years to come.

At Christmas this past year, my ten year old son gave me a picture of Ayrton Senna as a gift. Upon opening it, I felt the emotions of that day. No gift has ever hit me so hard. Senna was my idol.

A friend of mine was there who worked for lotus and he went white and didn't say a word when you asked him about it. Ayrton I did know as he's a human just like us and not unreachable, despite what some of you say. He came out to visit friends whom he knew when he worked for lotus, back in the early 80s. Me and a friend played tennis and he often had a go on my RC Tamiya stadium blitzer truck. He last visited us here in Norfolk UK Jan 8th 1994. I was 13. For reference it killed a spectator, they later died in hospital after being hit by jj leito rear wheel. I got straight from someone who was there despite what it says on wiki, as there was a big cover up with a lot of things involving that race in that country. By rights it should not of took place because Roland Ratzenbeger did actually die on this track. And by italian law, the race should not have taken place.

30 years later to the day. We all still miss you terribly Ayrton. Rest Easy.

Great video! One tiny correction though: Barrichello's injuries were not as small as reported by most media. In a brazilian podcast he said that when he swallowed his tongue he ended up dying for 5 minutes until paramedics were able to revive him. He also had sequelae from the concussion to the point that he was unable to keep his memories from that whole week and even though he carried Senna's coffin during his funeral, any memory he had from these events were gone, in such a way that he's only able to recall these events by watching recordings. Cheers and congratz for the video!

Ayrton is not dead he’s just a lap in front of us

I was only 8 years old at the time. I remember the race very well (I've been watching F1 since I was 6 years old). Never has Brazil felt the loss of someone so much. Senna was a big philanthropist here, he supported several social programs. Everyone stopped. Everything stopped here... Excellent video!

So many years have passed, yet the tears still fall. It was a horrific weekend. The race should never have been allowed to continue after Roland's fatal crash. Then we lost Ayrton... Erik Comas, a truly touching gesture from one man to another. Just as Ayrton had done for him. That's the true kindness, and showing of a huge caring heart. Rest easy Legends. Forever on the winner's podium and one lap ahead. X 😢

My mom was a huge Senna fan. She was starting labour during this race, senna hit the wall like that and labour stopped. Next day i was born. Senna made my birthday a day later. I am, and she still is a big fan of F1 :)

I was Senna's fan in my childhood in China. There were not a lot of ways to watch live so the best way is to keep watching TV until there are sports news and I can see the highlights. I still remember the day of his death, that I was shocked by this sad news. As a 9 year old boy, I cried. He's a legend of F1! 30 years later, I spent time with my wife to watch all the videos about Aryton, and he IS the one to respect!

Saw this race live. Two deaths in one race. Unbelievable!

Rest in peace to those who died from the races. God bless them all and may it never happen again. 🙏

If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver. -Ayrton Senna

30 years now😢❤ sadly missed❤ we love you senna❤🇧🇷

I cried for days, he was my idol and my inspiration to become a racing driver . Wet weather master, and genius, his heel and toe, and left foot breaking was incredible

for me, Ayrton was the best driver in the World 🏁🇧🇷 R. I. P Ayrton 😢

In the rain there was no one for anyone. Legend.

Roland 🤍 Ayrton 🤍 The gentleman driver and the great champion... Remember this so well 30 years on... so desperate after Ayrton's crash... and yet still so hopeful he would survive... no Internet then... following up over the radio... and then the awful news... just couldn't believe it!! Cried so much for Magic Senna... and I was a Prost fan! Immortal Senna lives forever in our minds, hearts and souls ❤🇧🇷🇵🇹

Hey man, you made me cry.... again after all this years, it still hurts a lot

Correction: Ayrton didn't go to Williams for a more powerful car, he moved for their dynamic suspension. This suspension tech gave drivers edge when it came to taking corners in 93 season

My childhood hero , Forever the best, Cried my eyes out as a kid , R.I.P

I have never watched F1 again after Senna's death. What The F1 administration did has no excuse.

Unfortunatly i was too young to have watched him race live and only heard so many great things about this legend as a race car driver but i never knew how much he cared for his fellow drivers! what a great man and role model.

Still angers me when I see that video of that marshal tipping barrichello’s car back up like that

I was watching the race live on TV, sadly it was immediately obvious something terrible had happened to Ayrton.

Our hero Senna, today rests in his father's arms, amen. Eternal Senna!! from Brazil thanks

a legend! His name was Ayrton Senna da Silva, but he will always be remembered as Ayrton Senna of Brazil

F1’s greed ended an era they would never see again.

Senna was a great man he gave a lot to charity and his country he gave is all to formula 1 racing he is a legend and one of the greatest drivers of all time you are a legend rip senna😊

Comas rushing to the scene with his car wanting to help his friend is truly heartbreaking to witness

A really good documentary about what happend in 1994. Still miss him. He was my hero. ❤

Damn, I didn't want to but I'm sitting here crying as I watch this video and saw what happened inside the car. I had thought it was head trauma that killed him, it was the suspension piece boring into his skull. He wouldn't have lived no matter what they tried to do. God was ready for Ayrton Senna, even if he wasn't ready to go. RIPeace great man, till we all meet up again. I'm crying because I hate stories of unfulfilled destinies, but also because that Sunday morning I was in bed watching the race from my TV set. After the crash. He seemed to move his head. I saw the helmet move and thought to myself, ok, that was bad but he's going to be alright... 🙏🏻🙏🏾✝️💪🏻💪🏽

I learned about ayrton senna through gt6, it was cool to follow his story in the game and drive his cars.

Pra sempre Senna, Ayrton Senna do Brasil 🇧🇷

Every single Brazilian I know, who was old enough to understand, know where they were when Senna died. I knew of his death when I was very little because my mom would always tell me how she was a teenager in her living room when she watched the crash. I knew of Ayrton’s death before I had ever watched cars racing and I only first learned of F1 because of it

I watched it live. A tragic loss of a legend 😢

Fearless,A Legend,A great racer A great man, R.I.P.

I will never forget. Thank you Senna! 🥺😓

Good video really well done 👍🏻

Barrichello’s accident didn’t occur during qualifying, but free practice, on Friday

Senna will live on through all the people who loved him, he was not just a great driver but more importantly a great human. The best racing driver of all time, and not because he is no longer with us, he was simply the best ever.

He didn't swallow his tongue. That's not possible.

1 was 8 years old when this happenend and i didn't know anything about formula 1. I was listening to a soccer finale in Holland which was interrupted to bring news of Senna's crash. It took some time before the news of him dying reached us, i'll never forget my uncle, with an anxious face asking me nervous: is he dead? When i said that i believed so he couldn't say anything. It's something i'll never forget.

Ayrton Senna was a legend, he has been forever memorialised in the McLaren Senna car.

As a Brazilian, I remember that day like it was yesterday. May 1, Brazil lost its dearest family member, and May 29, I lost my father.

You’re telling me 2 drivers died in separate single car crashes in the same weekend? Wtf?! How did F1 survive?

R.I.P senna the greatest formula 1 driver😢😢

2024 30 years without him.. tears still coming!

The fact that he was having the worst season in years, struggling with his new car... And died while driving in first place.... always gets me.

I know I’m representing every Brazilian on my statement: thanks you for all your kindness toward Senna! More than a legend, Senna was an important figure in a turbulent time in Brazil. Great man! By the way: he was the responsible for bringing Audi to the Brazilian Market. Today, 2024 I found a Senna’s sticker on my desk. Wheat outside and cleaned the surface of my Audi and put it there! Best wishes to every Senna fan in here!❤️🇧🇷❤️🇺🇸❤️🇧🇷❤️🇺🇸❤️

That Rubens Barichello one though💀 R.I.P Ratzemburg and Senna❤️

Senna will always be my hero and one of the greatest of all time. Rest In Peace to a legend😭

He was a fantastic formula one driver and a great man Rip

Crazy how such a small piece of car part did so much damage. Such a shame.

I visited the crash spot after the GP in 2024, I wish I was born earlier to see him race live but the stories I've heard from my dad and seeing him break down at the spot yesterday was one of the most emotionally wrecking moments I've experienced in my life. F1 has come a long way in terms in safety.

06:22. I remember watching this scene live on TV and noticing that big red stain going down his chest. I knew his racing suit was white and blue, no red, so immediately I knew that this was very bad. Not a lot of people noticed that back then.

The Brazilian Government should have sued the FIA organization for wrongful death on a sudden change of rules and they did not stopped the race when 1 driver already dead.

I remember this sad day😢 still upsetting to watch, there will be lots of accidents, he knew😢

My love of F1 died that day to. RIP to the greatest F1 driver of all time. Always remembered, Ayrton Senna.

New Sub!!! Great Video RIP Senna 🇧🇷

A friend of mine was working for Williams at the time and he’s adamant that it was Ayrton that purposely cut the steering column the night before the race. He wasn’t happy with the distance of the wheel from him, so took matters into his own hands. Being a hands-on mechanical guy, this stacks up. The team were then left with no option other than to patch the steering column up as best as possible. The rest is history. Whether this is true or not, I guess we’ll never know but absolutely tragic whichever way you look at it. 😢

Saw this live 30 years ago and cried like crazy... 30 years later it gets worse as the tears are frozen in time 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

OK. Comas didn't try to save Senna. Sorry, but that is simply not true. What happened is that Comas entered the pits with some mechanical problems right before Senna crashed. The team managed to fix the car, and then a misunderstanding in the conversation with the race direction is what happened. They asked about the restart procedure and if they were allowed to rejoin the race. Race direction told them it would be a standing start from the grid and they indeed were allowed to rejoin the race, which the team misunderstood as they could do so right away. So they started Comas' car engine and sent him out. That's what happened. It's pretty stupid to think that 15 minutes after the crash, Comas just went out on his own to check on Senna. Please...

Best I ever saw by the eye test. He just looked faster than everyone. My gosh at the time I thought Prost was so good and then Senna showed me that there’s a difference between greatness and artistry.

I was prrparing for my undergrad final exams when this happened. I was shocked and devastated. Senna was the reason I got interested in Formula 1. It took me a long time to accept that a great driver like him could pass away the way it happened.

Moment of silence for his death 30 years ago

Interesting choice to use a photoshopped picture of Alonso’s crash in Australia 2016 as the thumbnail

Im brazilian, i was 13 years old and i was watching this race. I remember that day and the next days. The grief was huge!

I was six, a Senna fan thanks to my father, this was the death that made me realize what death really was and the feeling of loss that came with it. Now with 36 still remember vividly that moment.

Simplesmente o MELHOR piloto que já existiu! 👏🇧🇷

🙏 We didn't have internet , RU-vid or smartphone back then in 1994 ... Now we slowly beginning to piece together what went wrong in this San Marino F1 race that caused two F1 drivers lives that tragic weekend ... 🕯🌼🌿🌏🕊

i completely forgot that Eric Comas simply drove there in his car. my heart sank to my feet once again. such tragedy. the fact so much blood was lost and it literally rained on the cars below was all you needed to know and it was a crime that the race still went on, after it was already a crime it started in the first place. the sad thing about all of this was that had Senna actually decided to boycot and not race, he would have lived. he would not have raced, but he never raced more than 7 laps that day either. there are many conspiratory stories, including assassination by (sniper) gunfire, supposedly indicated by the hole in the helmet, the reason being exactly the proposed boycot and that senna, as claimed, threatened to come out with the truth that they knew Ratzenberger was dead upon impact and that they should have cancelled, which has been claimed involved Italian mafia. Far out stuff? perhaps. probably. but, it encompasses the severity of that weekend. it was the darkest moment in F1 history. the weekend of Bianchi's death was eerily similar though.

FIA murdered senna ..

what a video...........loved it.......he truly was a legend

At 10 seconds is Haas pit - Grosjean crash - not Senna.

I loved watching f1 around that time...i was 15 and Mika Häkkinen was my favorite...i think when he had his crash it hit me just as much as everyone hit by Sennas death. 30 years ago and its still as fresh as if its happened just yesterday. Great athletes!

I think formula 1 races back then were much interesting and drivers back then had such a great sportsmanship compared to today’s f1 races and drivers

30 years later I have finally watched this, I was only 2 yrs old when this happened but his legacy and name still lives on. After experiencing a car crash myself 6 weeks ago, I feel so sorry and sad for this amazing human being. I can’t believe they still continued that race on that weekend. Just all about the money and greed 😭

I'm new to F1 and I found this video to be very informative and well put. It's unfortunate that there are people who prefer watching f1 where the pilots drive these little and unsafe cars, calling themselves as men who like to watch the race with "pure skill and adrenaline" while the legendary and skillful Ayrton Senna concerned about the safety regulations and the cars' safety technology.

great documentary .thanks

legends never die

Remember watching this race turned out a very sad sad day still gut wrenching thinking about it.

Saw a few clips in this that I've never seen before. Or maybe never realised at the time. RIP Senna and Roland 🙏

I used to love Formula 1. He was my hero 😢.

Saw this race live on TV, then hours later got a phone from a friend telling the horrible news. Started watching F1 because of him, hence could not watch F1 anymore until many years later. What a travesty that the race still proceed. FIA got Senna's blood on their hands. I never forget the 1st May.

Got the senna doc about this on my planner with showing the horrible weekend

May he Rest In Peace

Lap:07 Speed:307 Time of accident:2:07 Time of death:12:17 Very much annoying

As a Brazilian, I can tell you all. It was like loosing a family member. Sunday mornings, were never the same. I simply stopped watching F1. His name lives on!

It was May Day, I was 16 years old and I will never forget that awful weekend. RIP Senna, Ratzbengerger and all the dead pilots.

Ayrton died on my birthday, the year i broke my neck... I finally got to Imola to visit his Memorial... The statue was smaller than i thought, yet its surrounded by fresh flowers.... He is still honoured....💞

It's a massive loss for F1 & us, not having Senna & Schumacher around😢

The Greatest , but he should have stayed with Honda ~Mc Laren🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The Golden years! R.I.P Ayrton Senna the Legend❤❤❤❤❤

At the tender age of 8, while viewing alongside my father on television in South Africa, I was captivated by the exceptional prowess of Senna, who remains an enduring hero in my eyes.

I watched it. I knew when I saw the crash and his head slum 4:20 p. It still gets me watching this much sorrow because it was Senna Ruben and Roland. Even worse than Dale Earnhardt dying at Daytona and I'm a fan of both