30 years ago today F1 driver Ayrton Senna died in a track crash in the San Marino grand Prix. In probably the worst weekend in F1 history Austrian driver Roland Ratzenberger also lost his life in a practice crash the day before.
Ayrton had won 3 World titles before his fatal crash and many rate him as the greatest racing driver of all time.
Roland Ratzenberger was pretty much forgotten about and hardly got a mention even at the time which wasn't really fair, I remember at work all the talk was about Senna and then a girl looked up and asked "Why are you all just talking about Senna, wasn't there another driver killed too
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Yes Senna was such a well known driver who had won the title 3 times and would have won it again if he'd had the right seat but another man lost his life which is the ultimate sacrifice, I was as much to blame as anyone else for just focussing on Senna but now as i'm older I reflect and think I was wrong all that time ago
Strangely enough a couple of days ago I opened up a cardboard box of videos and DVD's that I have in storage and the Senna film was on the top, I thought to myself that I must watch that again sometime, probably make it in the next few weeks with this prompt