Adrian Newey interview - Senna crash etc....

racerx3317 · May 22, 2011

PSk said: ↑

Guys you cannot say it was the steering column. The car hit a WALL very hard it is just as probably that the steering column broke then, and not before.

Also a rear tyre deflating can cause a car to loose effective steering because the opposite front wheel will lift off the ground and if this is the outside and thus loaded wheel you have a big problem.

In the end I don't blame the car at all, it was simply Senna pushing too hard and he lost it. The car was all over the place and bottoming hard and he was trying extremely hard to break MS, and he was not able to. Senna and MS were playing mind games and Senna was out to prove that he still was competitive after 3 races with no results. MS was simply not going to go away and Senna pushed past the limits with a very difficult car to drive.

Let it go. He is dead, accidents happen on the race track and he would not have died if by very bad luck the wishbone had not gone into his head. When you have big accidents, you need luck. His ran out .
Pete
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You're dead wrong, Pete. Watch the onboard video, preferrably from the Senna movie. Someone as knowledgeable as you, will spot it in a second. The steering wheel was bouncing around all over the place from the lap before on all the onboard footage. I had seen the footage many times before that but when I saw it on the big screen there was no doubt in my mind that the column either snapped or at least particially broke going into the corner. Even Newey said it was faulty and poorly designed.

PSk · May 22, 2011

Sean F. said: ↑

The data shows Senna in full force breaking as he is leaving the track? Why? When drivers "lose it" so to speak, on a corner, they don't go full on breaks b/c that is a sure fire way to find yourself going off track.
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Actually you do once you have lost it completely, to try and reduce the impact.

Also if the steering wheel was moving more than normal ... Senna would have pitted, he didn't thus he was happy with the movement.

Anyway, this thread is a pointless discussion.
Pete

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