There Can be Only One.
Before the start of the 1994 season, Senna said, “It’s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I’ll risk saying that we’ll be lucky if something really serious doesn’t happen.” Ayrton Senna da Silva (March 21, 1960–May 1, 1994):
On the second lap after the restart, Senna’s car left the track in Tamburello and struck an unprotected concrete wall. Telemetry shows he left the track at 193 mph and managed to slow the car to 135 mph in less than two seconds but it was not enough.
All that was left.
Imola: Tamburello
The run-off areas at the track were worrying, a fact highlighted in 1987 with Nelson Piquet having a huge accident at Tamburello Corner when he suffered a high-speed tire failure. In 1989 Gerhard Berger had a similar accident but his ended with the Ferrari in flames. He was plucked from the wreck by alert fire fighters and suffered only light injuries.
Imola’s luck ran out in 1994 when Grand Prix racing endured a nightmare weekend with the death of Roland Ratzenberger at Villeneuve Corner in qualifying and, on race day, the accident which claimed the life of the great Ayrton Senna. It was the end for Tamburello Corner.
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