May 1 marks 30 years since the deaths of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger at Imola
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00:00You know, he means a lot and Ayrton, up to one point, was one of these drivers, he was
00:06immortal.
00:07And it was a big shock for me, for Brazil, and for all the Ayrton fans all over the world,
00:16for sure.
00:17Imola, to my memory, it was the most horrible racing weekend.
00:32Rubens Barrichello crashed on Friday, where he could easily be killed.
00:38There was Roland Ratzenberger on Saturday, where he sadly lost his life.
00:43Ayrton Senna was killed by a very unfortunate series of circumstances.
00:51The cause of Ayrton's death was the front wishbone broke when he hit the wall.
00:59The impact that Ayrton gave us was not a very hard impact, it was just, you know, it was
01:05very unfortunate, this wishbone hit him right on top of his eyes and it was like a bullet.
01:15So I think if you repeat this accident ten times, he will survive every single time.
01:22The physical death that happened on the 17th is something, the physical death, so beyond
01:30the concern and gravity of the impact, which was more or less known to everyone.
01:37In fact, one of the difficulties I had in managing the Gran Premio was that I had to
01:44reassure both Moretto and Martini that things were serious, but there was still some hope.
01:51In reality, the hopes were zero.
01:55After Ayrton, it was a long time with no fatal crash in Formula One.
02:00It just happened the same weekend in Imona.
02:03It was a tough weekend to everybody.
02:08I think this tragedy has hit, I mean, everybody at different degrees, but definitely the team,
02:15those who were working in the car.
02:17It must have been horrible.
02:21They had to deal with the sorrow, with I don't know to which degree sense of guilt if they had.
02:29I don't know, and I really tried a lot to think about that, but I don't know if anybody
02:36besides them really know what went on in their head and definitely I was on their side.
02:45At that time, we all knew the risk was very high.
02:48I lost from the time I started Formula One to my last Indy race.
02:54I lost 37 colleagues that raced with me on the track.
02:59Every day I thank God to be here.
03:02We are survivors.
03:04That's exactly the feeling we have now.
03:08We are survivors from a very tough time.