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Next week is 20 years since F1's darkest weekend. I'll try and post any articles and the like I find that are of interest.

Obviously too young to have seen it happen, but reading about it as I got into F1 was shocking. Then watching the 1994 Season Review and seeing so many terrifying incidents. Just horrible.
 
Remember watching it, being the sneaky 6yo staying up well past my bedtime !!! What struck me then even at that age and will live with me forever was the complete and utter silence of Murray Walker. After the rest of the weekend had gone the way it did there was an already eery feeling and this added to it.

He just did not speak for a good 5-10 minutes and you knew something was wrong. My mum too was the same, having lost my Uncle in a car accident the previous December I knew by the expression on mums face something was awfully wrong, she promptly sent me to bed.

The next morning I woke up and mum said I could have the day off, extremely excited I ran to the TV only to find my hero had died. I had the immense pleasure of meeting him once, will forever live in my mind.

Apologies for the life story but the guy was my hero, no one should lose their hero at 6
 
Allan Simonsen was the only person to pass away in a race I was watching, fortunately for me, I didn't actually see it cause my stream went down.

Wasn't around when Senna died, can't imagine any one of my time dying while I'm watching.
 
I remember that weekend but not perfectly. I do remember my brother waking me up to tell me Senna was dead and being absolutely shocked.

I was more a Mansell fan at the time so Senna was a rival. After his death I came to appreciate him more.

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I was 11 at the time. I remember watching the Today show news in the morning prior to school and hearing them start talking about the race and I assumed it was another Senna win. They then announced he was dead. Was in shock after.
 
Watched it live with my brother , knew in my heart he was gone when the car finally came to a halt and his head slumped.
Just gave my brother the " yeahnar not good " look.
Went to bed and used to have the radio on while i slept , think it was the 3am/4am news when they announced it , chill up the spine.
 
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darth_timon said:
I hope F1 remembers Ratzenberger. He is always the forgotten man in all this. Honestly, after his death, the race should never have gone ahead.

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And don't forget Barichello was in a big shunt the same weekend. Watching it again he is lucky to be alive. Definitely one of the worst weekends in F1.

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ricardogp said:
And don't forget Barichello was in a big shunt the same weekend. Watching it again he is lucky to be alive. Definitely one of the worst weekends in F1.

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It was a bad year for the sport. Wendlinger crashed badly at Monaco and was in a coma for three weeks. Had he died, I would not have expected F1 to return to Monaco in the wake of everything else.

Andrea Montermini escaped with only a broken ankle after a big crash in Spain. Verstappen was lucky to avoid being burnt to a crisp in Germany. A marshall broke his leg when it was hit by debris in Japan. And we had the controversy over Schmacher- especially at the final race.

A defining year for F1, but not in a good way. It's good it's gotten a lot safer since then.
 
darth_timon said:
It was a bad year for the sport. Wendlinger crashed badly at Monaco and was in a coma for three weeks. Had he died, I would not have expected F1 to return to Monaco in the wake of everything else.

Andrea Montermini escaped with only a broken ankle after a big crash in Spain. Verstappen was lucky to avoid being burnt to a crisp in Germany. A marshall broke his leg when it was hit by debris in Japan. And we had the controversy over Schmacher- especially at the final race.

A defining year for F1, but not in a good way. It's good it's gotten a lot safer since then.
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Which one? The fuel hose, traction control, the race bans and the last race.
 
i can't beleive it's been 20 years already

was a 12 year old who snuck my telly on in my room when mum and dad went to bed and watched the race in silence. i don't think i slept that night.

managed to download the full race a few years ago, was just a horrible weekend overall. from rubens nearly dying, to ratzenburger, the massive crash at the start where some spectators got injured, then the senna crash, followed by a pretty nasty pit lane accident where a wheel hit someone in the pits. just a terrible terrible race meeting.
 

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Absolutely insane accident. Concussion, busted nose and arm....... very lucky bloke.
 
" I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car. And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension. It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel, but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit, but still able to find even more.

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down. I drove slowly back to the pits and I didn’t want to go out any more that day. It frightened me because I was well beyond my conscious understanding. It happens rarely but I keep these experiences very much alive inside me because it is something that is important for self-preservation."
 

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