May 1 marks 30 years since the deaths of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger at Imola
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00:00 You know, he means a lot and Ayrton, up to one point, was one of these drivers.
00:06 He was immortal.
00:07 And it was a big shock for me, for Brazil and for all the Ayrton fans all over the world,
00:16 for sure.
00:17 Imola, to my memory, it was the most horrible racing weekend.
00:32 Rubens Barrichello crashed on Friday, where he could easily be killed.
00:38 There was Roland Ratzenberger on Saturday, where he sadly lost his life.
00:43 Ayrton Senna was killed by a very unfortunate series of circumstances.
00:51 The cause of Ayrton's death was the front wishbone.
00:57 Broke when he hit the wall.
00:59 The impact that Ayrton gave was not a very hard impact.
01:03 It was just, you know, it was very unfortunate, his wishbone hitting right on top of his eyes
01:10 and it was like a bullet.
01:15 So I think if you repeat this accident ten times, he will survive every single time.
01:22 The physical death happened at 17 and something, the physical death, so beyond the concern
01:32 and gravity of the impact, which was more or less known to everyone, in fact one of the
01:37 difficulties he had in managing the Grand Prix was that I had to calm down both Moretto
01:46 and Martini, which were serious things, but there was still some hope.
01:51 In fact, the hope was zero.
01:54 After Ayrton, it was a long time with no fatal crash in Formula 1.
02:01 It just happened the same weekend in Imola.
02:03 It was a tough weekend to everybody.
02:09 I think this tragedy has hit, I mean, everybody to different degrees, but definitely the team,
02:16 those who were working in the car.
02:18 It must have been horrible.
02:21 They had to deal with the sorrow, with I don't know to which degree sense of guilt if they
02:29 had.
02:30 I don't know, and I really tried a lot to think about that, but I don't know if anybody
02:36 besides them really know what went on in their head and definitely I was on their side.
02:43 At that time, we all knew the risk was very high.
02:49 I lost from the time I started Formula 1 to my last Indy race, I lost 37 colleagues that
02:57 raced with me on the track.
02:59 Every day I thank God to be here.
03:02 We are survivors.
03:04 That's exactly the feeling we have now.
03:08 We are survivors from a very tough time.
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