Safety on the F1 track is a lasting legacy of the Ayrton Senna tragedy
The death of Ayrton Senna 20 years ago was the most painful reminder of the dangers that existed at the pinnacle of motorsport that hard lesson was swiftly learnedFormula One has never before gone 20 years without a fatality among its drivers. If any good came out of the tragic death of Ayrton Senna on 1 May 1994, the day after Roland Ratzenberger died at the same Imola track, it is the progress made with safety. Nineteen drivers were killed between 1967 and 1982, more than one a year. Those included Britain’s greatest driver, Jim Clark, who was killed in Germany in 1968, and Gilles Villeneuve, perhaps the fastest of them all, who died in final qualifying session for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix. Continue reading…
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