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HILL: SENNA WAS TO BLAME
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Damon Hill believes Ayrton Senna was responsible for the crash that claimed his life 10 years ago.
Hill, who was Senna?s team-mate at the time, has dismissed claims that the Brazilian?s car was at fault.
Instead he makes the bold suggestion that the Brazilian hero, adored the world over, actually did the unthinkable he made a mistake.
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I think he is probably correct about the fact that the steering rack didn't brake. It was broken in the car after the crash, but so was almost every other component of the car so its not suppressing.
Some years ago, there was an independent investigation done into the crash and the results were presented in a magzine and some television programs.
It came to the a similar conclusion, the suggested that the sequence of events was something like this.
1. JJ Lheto's crash caused the safety car to be deployed.
2. Once the safety car left the circuit the race resumed but the tyres of Senna?s car had cooled due to the slow running
3. The old Taburello was very fast and bumpy, while accelerating through this corner Senna's car hit the bumps.
4. The floor of his car momentarily grounded causing air flow under the car to cease.
5. The resulting momentary loss of down force combined with the cold tyres caused
Senna?s car to overseer.
6. Senna applied some opposite lock to correct the problem.
(4,5,6 lasted merely tenths of a second)
7. At the same time the car lifted from the roads surface and down force increased to normal levels.
8. At this point the car griped on the road again but Senna was steering away, not into, the corner which caused him to leave the circuit and hit the wall.
Many believed that the steering rack broke because on the on-board camera, you can see the steering wheel move horizontally as Senna tried to steer away from the wall. This however, was not uncommon with the cars and the steering wheel on the Williams did move up/down/left/right by a few inches as was demonstrated in the program.
You could argue that it was driver error, as Senna may have kept accelerating throughout the overseer, but we cant be sure, but the conditions were very tricky with the bumps and cold tires.
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