Deputy team principal of Williams, the founder's daughter Claire Williams, revealed her father has never spoken of the tragedy and still can't confront the pain the May 1 day brought. He got into his heart, got into his mind, and he always wanted to put him in his race car. He internalises and keeps it all in. That is how he has been brought up, but you can see the pain in his eyes every time he thinks about the accident.
More than 30, are expected to celebrate the life of the F1 great in his home town of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Not long before the crash. Senna expressed a desire to start a project to help bring quality education to those crippled by poverty in Brazil. I remember reading somewhere about the car being released back to Williams. There is one on display, but wasn't sure if that's the same car Senna was killed in, or just the spare from that season.
Re: The whereabouts of Senna's FW16 Post Fri Jun 07, am The one on display it's certainly not the car we're talking about, it is just a car used in that season. As you can see, Senna's car has the right side pretty much destroyed with the chassis being broken and so on, and I don't think Williams were so cynical to repair and display the car in which Ayrton was killed.
The crashed car is probably stored somewhere away in the Williams factory or it has been destroyed. It's my understanding that Frank oversaw that activity. On another note, I think it very very cool that Williams continues to display the "Senna S" on every car to this day. The car is held in an Italian Prosecution Evidence Storage facility somewhere in Milan the last time i heard, the chassis and all the bits that were retrieved from the scene are held in a large wooden box similar to the opening scene to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Williams have only been able to take pics of the chassis as well as get the data of the 4MB memory of the Magnetti ECU. At Senna's request, adjustments to the column had been effected the night before the race. The Williams team, and in particular Frank Williams, have always rejected this charge, arguing throughout the trial that a variety of factors - over-steering, faulty tyre pressure, driver error - could all have contributed to Senna's death.
In his final summing-up at the end of a trial which began last May, state attorney Passarini had asked for the charges against Frank Williams, the Belgian Forumula One official Roland Bruynseraede and the Imola track managers Federico Bendinelli and Giorgio Poggito to be dropped.
Magistrate Passarini had, however, recommended a suspended one-year sentence for two members of the Williams team, technical director Patrick Head and former designer Adrian Newey. Commenting on yesterday's judgement, a Williams team spokesman described it as "the only just conclusion possible". That spokesman probably spoke for much of the Formula One community which has always regarded the trial as a pointless exercise in bureaucratic folly, given the obvious risks run by Formula One drivers every time they get into a racing car.
The decision to press charges against Williams and the others, taken almost exactly one year ago, had provoked angry reaction from senior Formula One figures. Veteran team boss Ken Tyrell and Benetton boss Flavio Briatore both threatened a boycott of Italy's two grands prix at Imola and Monza , if the trial resulted in convictions.
Lawyer Max Mosley, head of the sport's world governing body, FIA, had also suggested that, unless Italian manslaughter laws were changed, the precedent established by bringing charges against Frank Williams and his team could make it difficult to persuade non-Italian teams and officials to participate in future Italian grands prix.
All of those fears have, to some extent, proved unfounded. Given the legal precedent established by a similar case into the death of Austrian driver Jochen Rindt in at Monza, it was always probable that all six defendants would be acquited.
What still remains unclear, and indeed may forever remain unclear, is just why Ayrton Senna died? How come one of the most intuitive drivers in Formula One lost control so disastrously?
One very obvious consideration is clear, however, namely that Formula One motor racing, for all its greatly improved safety standards, inevitably remains a highly dangerous sport. As Benetton boss Flavio Briatore said yesterday: "Fatality is part of the game".
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