I'm always amazed at how easily people will subscribe to the finding of a court for no other reason than it is a court.notApineapple wrote:Forget what Newey said.GitanesBlondes wrote:Read what Newey said.
He was on manslaughter charges based on the accusation that the steering column broke. Of course he is going to have another theory.
Looks all pretty normal to me.GitanesBlondes wrote:And also consider where Senna was in the corner, as well as the line he was taking.
Didn't seem to trouble him on the lap before.GitanesBlondes wrote:Further, consider the effect of the underside of the chassis dragging on the ground and the effect it has on steering.
Italian law being what it is is more interested in assigning blame to someone no matter what. As I mentioned earlier, Colin Chapman had to avoid Italy after Jochen Rindt was killed due to the mentality that exists there. Italian "justice" is suspect at best. One only has to look at any number of farcical trials that have occurred there.
The degree of which the front wheels were turned were minimal. People keep trying to make it sound as if they were turned tremendously, which they weren't. I posted the video of Nelson Piquet's onboard as a comparison to show that the number of degrees the front wheels would turn in Tamburello was not a tremendous deal especially compared to Tossa, Rivazza, Traguardo, etc.
Michael Schumacher himself who had front row seats to the entire thing mentioned Senna almost lost it on lap 6 when going through the corner. So in spite of the lap time he set, it's more than obvious that things were not on the up-and-up on lap 6, which so many people casually assume. Senna's onboard camera while interesting and useful, were nowhere near as useful as Schumacher's onboard at the beginning of lap 7. That camera shows things far more important than Senna's onboard. Even Damon Hill's onboard showed just how bad the surface was in the corner.
