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[Gamba]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXRFUUGEjAk

It seems pretty logical to me.
What do you think?

Also, to help you analyze it here are 2 other footages:

From the TV cam:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3__FRuqWKqU

And the close-up OnBoard:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Wwx22mzMU

[texasmr2]

One camp still think's the accident was do to the lack of steering from the car bottoming out. The 2nd camp believe's it was do to the steering shaft failure.

Supposidly the Discovery Channel did a show on it a few year's back. Personaly I believe the steering shaft theory.

[McLaren Fan]

The truth is we'll never know. Each side of the argument have very good evidence: the car was clearing bottoming out from the account of Schumacher and what we ourselves saw on the footage, the Williams FW16's steering wheel was designed to have several inches of vertical movement, and a negative STGACT value could also mean the steering column was not broke. But, then, why does the value drop so quicky and in such a way? Also, Senna's sixth lap was a stunner. How could that have been done if the tyres were not up to temperature/pressure? It could be they were almost up to their normal operating levels, enough to put in a super lap but still a fraction too low, which could have lowered the ride height, even by a fraction of a milimeter, which would have been enough to make the car bottom out given the car's ride height is made as low as you can get it. I feel this gets undermentioned as well: the rear end of the Williams FW16 was not brilliant anyway. I think that exacerbated matters.

Personally, I'm inclined to believe the car bottomed out, but there are one or two things which stop me from totally believing it, if you get what I mean.

In any case it was a sad and sorry weekend. I can't watch the footage without tears filling my eyes. I'm not embarrassed to say that.

[texasmr2]

I refuse to watch that race again also. I think I watched it one time during that offseason of '94 and I have not watched it since.

[7UpJordan]

I can't watch the footage without tears filling my eyes. I'm not embarrassed to say that.

A lot of people will no doubt feel the same way about that, Hamilton said he cried when Senna died, Alonso said he did as well, I cried too and probably billions of other people did too. And it was the day before my 9th birthday as well.