Ayrton Senna

boardsuser1

This video is on the BBC website of Adrian Newey saying he feels "Responsible" for Senna's death.

Even though there were no subsequent convictions following the crash, do people feel that indeed Frank Williams,Patrick Head & Adrian Newey were responsible via poor engineering of the car?

Some people believe,as we know it was the steering column,others say it "may have been driver error"

Apparently it was Charlie Whiting who authorised the removal of the black boxes from FW16 chassis number 2 and these were only returned 1 month later and there was no readable content.

Was Whiting himself possibly responsible for impeding the investigation.

Nonetheless,what do people think of the Newey clip?



http://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/42114259

Harika

Here newey talks more about the issue. http://en.f1i.com/news/284770-newey-still-feels-guilty-senna-death.html basically the design of the car was not good enough and even now neither he or anyone else knows what really caused the fatal accident.

boardsuser1

Harika wrote: »

Here newey talks more about the issue. http://en.f1i.com/news/284770-newey-still-feels-guilty-senna-death.html basically the design of the car was not good enough and even now neither he or anyone else knows what really caused the fatal accident.

Interesting piece.

I've seen conflicting stories of when Williams got the car back in 2002 that it was destroyed and this was personally overseen by Frank Williams himself and that the engine was Returned to Renault.

And that his overalls and gloves from the race itself were obtained by someone in Japan.

The helmet was incinerated the Senna family themselves have said.

AMKC

If the adaptive suspension that had been taken off the car was still on the car do you people still think he would have been killed in a crash. I think the car was ok when the suspension was there as it was designed for that but once it was taking off it became unsafe as the car was never designed to be driven hard without the active suspension so the loads and stress on the car caused something in the car to fail that might not have happened had it still had its active suspension maybe the steering column or part of the suspension that was there.

elperello

https://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2017/11/05/how-to-build-a-car-by-adrian-newey-reviewed/

Adrian Newey has a new book out.

Anjobe

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

Even though there were no subsequent convictions following the crash, do people feel that indeed Frank Williams,Patrick Head & Adrian Newey were responsible via poor engineering of the car?

The Italian court ruled in 2007 that Patrick Head was indeed responsible, but the statute of limitations for corporate manslaughter is 7 years so they were 6 years too late to get a conviction.

boardsuser1

Newey speaks more on Senna.

Might buy the book.

http://www.skysports.com/share/11168060