Roland Ratzenberger
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belleair302 said:
The weekend should have been cancelled on the Friday in my opinion.
Without wanting to labour this......what for?Roland perished on the Saturday and Senna on the Sunday.
In hindsight, it was obviously awful but I can’t see how anyone would have known what was coming to enable a race cancellation.
Remember watching all three accidents.
Those horrid seconds as his car slewed around and finally came to a stop I can vividly remember.
Ruben's accident had been bad enough, it was almost unbelievable that things were just getting worse.. and that was before Sunday..
35 years this weekend since Toivonen's accident too.
Those horrid seconds as his car slewed around and finally came to a stop I can vividly remember.
Ruben's accident had been bad enough, it was almost unbelievable that things were just getting worse.. and that was before Sunday..
35 years this weekend since Toivonen's accident too.
Gameface said:
95 fiesta si said:
dont know about that, but he did have a bad crash on the Friday.
From the man himselfhttps://youtu.be/08xCZdj6VfY
Phil Dicky said:
Penelope Stopit said:
A horrible weekend, will never forget it
I was on a stag weekend, a weekend I won't forget for all the wrong reasons.Today is Easter Sunday, this is a year to the day when a very close friend died, still possible to wish her three children happy Easter and they do understand, difficult though
For many, Senna was never going to die like that yet he did
When did you find out he had died?
Digger said:
Moley RUFC said:
Digger said:
Thanks for the link
I saw it in a book Will never forget a high speed head-on impact, had one to two seconds to react, straightened arms and pushed against the steering wheel as hard as could, on, off and on brakes at the same time, felt like slow motion, five seconds or more
Do think that many involved in big impacts will push against the steering wheel and stay like that
We all differ though so..................
To this day still ask myself how did the mind tell the foot to on off the brake pedal
Penelope Stopit said:
Digger said:
Moley RUFC said:
Digger said:
Thanks for the link
I saw it in a book Will never forget a high speed head-on impact, had one to two seconds to react, straightened arms and pushed against the steering wheel as hard as could, on, off and on brakes at the same time, felt like slow motion, five seconds or more
Do think that many involved in big impacts will push against the steering wheel and stay like that
We all differ though so..................
To this day still ask myself how did the mind tell the foot to on off the brake pedal
Digger said:
Penelope Stopit said:
Digger said:
Moley RUFC said:
Digger said:
Thanks for the link
I saw it in a book Will never forget a high speed head-on impact, had one to two seconds to react, straightened arms and pushed against the steering wheel as hard as could, on, off and on brakes at the same time, felt like slow motion, five seconds or more
Do think that many involved in big impacts will push against the steering wheel and stay like that
We all differ though so..................
To this day still ask myself how did the mind tell the foot to on off the brake pedal
Very much doubt that training someone how to face possible death would change a persons reaction to a possible death
Anyway...........
Horrible weekend and not bothered much with F1 since
The reactions to that weekend depend on your age. It was shocking , of course , but if you had already been watching motorsport for 25 years it was more deja vu than anything else . As a teenager in 1968 , every month seemed to bring another tragedy - Clark , Spence , Scarfiotti and Schlesser and it made me realise , first hand , that the sport exacted a high price. But even then , it was far safer than in previous decades ,and some pre war races were carnage . I do wonder about the level of handwringing we now get - of course poor Jules Bianchi 's death at Suzuka was terrible , but the coverage in Autosport was crass overkill .
It's up to an individual to decide whether to carry on watching after the death of a high profile driver but I do wonder - was it really that much of a shock that people get killed sometimes?
It's up to an individual to decide whether to carry on watching after the death of a high profile driver but I do wonder - was it really that much of a shock that people get killed sometimes?
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