When three million people lined the streets of Sao Paulo to say farewell to Ayrton Senna at his state funeral on May 5, 1994, one of F1's most important figures was notably absent from the service.
Max Mosley, then head of the FIA, motor racing's governing body, did not attend. Instead he traveled to the low-profile service of remembrance for Roland Ratzenberger.
On April 30, 1994, the day before Senna's fatal accident, Ratzenberger crashed during qualifying for the San Marino Grand Prix, held at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari circuit on the outskirts of Italian town Imola. He became the first person in 12 years to be killed at a grand prix.
The Simtek driver was nothing near the icon Senna was, competing in just the third race of his rookie F1 season. The crash was horrifying, Ratzenberger's car plunging straight off the track at the flat-out right-hand Villeneuve kink, pitching nose-first into the wall at 306 km/h (190 mp/h) due to a suspected front wing failure.
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The Austrian was killed instantly. The severity of the crash was immediately obvious to everyone watching, as shown by the reaction of Senna himself in the 2010 documentary film that shares his name.
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Mosley would later say: 'I went to Ratzenberger's funeral rather than to Senna's where all the great and good of Formula One were because I felt somebody needed to support him and his family.'
But what would have perhaps been the finest tribute to Ratzenberger never became a reality. When Senna was pulled from his wreckage the following day, alongside him in his cockpit was an unfurled Austrian flag he planned to wave when he crossed the line in tribute to a man whose death had made him seriously consider his own mortality.
F1 doctor Sid Watkins saw the state Ratzenberger's death had left a tearful Senna on that Saturday afternoon; Watkins suggested Senna quit the sport there and then, and that they should go fishing together instead. Senna's response, 'I cannot quit, I have to go on,' is haunting, given the following day Watkins was knelt next to Senna at Tamburello corner, treating his friend for a head injury, knowing he would not survive.
Ratzenberger's crash has become part of the story of perhaps the darkest weekend in Formula One history, one which his Simtek team-mate David Brabham would later remark 'just all turned to s---' from the moment the teams arrived in Imola. It began with Rubens Barrichello's crash at 225 km/h (140 mp/h) during practice on Friday -- Barrichello miraculously walked out of hospital shaken and with his arm in a cast, but without life-threatening injuries.
Then came Ratzenberger's crash on Saturday. The images of Watkins attempting to resuscitate the Austrian next to his wrecked car were broadcast to the watching world, shocking a sport that had grown used to, and even slightly complacent about, being fatality-free for so long.
The Grand Prix Drivers' Association (GPDA), which still remains in force today, was reformed on the morning of the race with a view to improving safety in F1. Senna was named director, along with Gerhard Berger and Michael Schumacher, at what would turn out to be his last drivers' briefing.
Though Ratzenberger's name will always be associated with Senna's because of the timing of their deaths, the contrast between the pair is quite staggering.
Senna came into the San Marino Grand Prix with three world championships, 41 race victories and the reputation as one of the finest racers in the sport's history, while Ratzenberger had just one F1 start and an 11th-place finish under his belt. Senna's talent would surely have propelled him to the top of the sport, regardless, but his career had always been supported by his family's wealth, while Ratzenberger had risen to F1 with barely any financial backing -- 'by his own work,' to again quote Mosley. Senna had made his debut four days after his 24th birthday, whereas Ratzenberger did not achieve his dream of competing in F1 until the age of 33.
The post-Imola tributes paint Ratzenberger, quiet and unassuming, as a man who was well liked around the paddock.
His friend Johnny Herbert would later say: 'He was a wonderful man .. it was very rare to see him not smiling'.
The Simtek team would run the tribute 'For Roland' on its airbox for the rest of the season, while that summer Eddie Irvine took his seat in the Toyota that Ratzenberger would have driven, and which still had his name written on the door, as it finished second at the Le Mans 24 Hours.
Since then, that weekend in Imola has been largely remembered as when motor racing and Brazil were robbed of Senna, perhaps understandable given the legacy he left behind. We will never know what Ratzenberger could have achieved in F1, but we can be certain he was tragically killed before he could fully reap the rewards of a job he spent his whole life working toward.
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It’s that time of the week again: time for us to look at the past teams that made an exit from the sport of Formula One, having scored no points. This week, we remember Simtek.
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Simtek was a motorsport research and design company that was created in 1989. The company had many clients including the FIA, the F1 team Ligier, teams from Formula 3000 and teams from IndyCar. Having been hired to design Formula One cars for various scrapped projects in the early ‘90s, Simtek made the decision to create their own team for the 1994 season.
Jack Brabham was a shareholder of the team, meaning that his son David would be the team’s first driver. Various names were thrown around for the second seat on the team. Andrea de Cesaris, Gel de Ferran and Jean-Marc Gounon were among those names, but the team eventually decided upon rookie driver Roland Ratzenberger.
Simtek hired just 35 employees to work for the team, the lowest staff count on the grid at the time. The car was heavier than the competitors’ cars and its Cosworth engine was underpowered. The suspension system had to be designed twice because the original design featured the active suspension system, which was banned prior to the 1994 season. The team was able to gain MTV as a title sponsor.
The season opener in Brazil was not good for Ratzenberger, as he failed to qualify. Brabham narrowly made it onto the back of the grid. He finished in P12, the last of the running cars. Both cars qualified for the Pacific Grand Prix, although Brabham only ran a few laps before retiring because of a technical issue. Ratzenberger finished the race in P11, again the last of the running cars.
With pressure to qualify for the San Marino Grand Prix, both drivers were eager to make it to the grid. Ratzenberger’s out-lap had not going ideally, running off of the track. Despite the off, Ratzenberger continued for a flying lap. When reaching speeds of over 300km/h, the front wing, which had been slightly damaged during the out-lap, failed and caused Ratzenberger to lose control of the car. Ratzenberger was killed after the car hit a wall with severe speeds. The traditional course of action would have been for both cars to have been withdrawn from the race, but Brabham made the decision to race the following day. The Australian didn’t complete the race after spinning off of the circuit.
Brabham ran the sole car at the following race in Monaco. He qualified in front of other cars, unlike the times before. However, another mechanical failure prevented him from finishing. With a second chassis ready to go in Spain, the team hired Andrea Montermini to drive alongside Brabham. However, the Italian racing driver crashed heavily during practice, leaving the car and himself damaged. Brabham finished in P10.
After another single entry in Canada, the team had the chassis repaired for the French Grand Prix. Jean-Marc Gounon was given the drive and gave Simtek their highest finish in front of his home crowd. The British Grand Prix was the only race in which both cars finished, but the following race in Germany was also the team’s first double retirement. The cars qualified for all of the remaining rounds in the season.
Domenico Schiattarella bought Gounon’s seat for the European Grand Prix, while Taki Inoue bought the seat at his home Grand Prix in Japan. Inoue crashed only three laps into the race. Schiattarella returned for the final round of the championship, but neither car finished the race.
Despite the poor showing in the first season, Simtek resumed their Formula One programme the following season. Rather than providing money to the team, MTV gave the team commercial slots on the MTV channel, which was then given by the team to other sponsors. Brabham left the team to pursue a position in the British Touring Cars Championship.
He was replaced by Jos Verstappen and Schiattarella kept the other seat. Hideki Noda had also paid a deposit to the team, guaranteeing him Schiattarella’s seat for the second half of the season. The drivers suffered mechanical failures in the first three rounds of the season, with a single finish by Schiattarella in Argentina.
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However, poor performance was the least of Simtek’s problems. The team had collected quite a large amount of debt during its existence and when a large sponsor left the team, it but the team over the edge. The team skipped the Canadian Grand Prix while it frantically searched for a new sponsor. The existing sponsors on the team had agreed to increase their funding if a new sponsor were found.
No new sponsor was found and an earthquake left Noda’s financial backers without the money to fund his drive. Simtek withdrew from the season, auctioning off its assets to pay creditors. The motorsport research and design portion of the team also declared bankruptcy as a result of the debt.
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Points are a difficult thing to obtain in Formula One. In this weekly series, we will look back the past teams who gave it their all, but fell short.