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Adrian Newey: "I will always feel responsible for the death of Ayrton (Senna), but not guilty"
Adrian Newey recently published his autobiography, a book where he refers again to what he felt at the time of Ayrton Senna's death on May 1, 1994, saying he remains "haunted" by the event. At the time, Newey was Chief Designer of Williams, responsible for the design of the Williams FW16, along with Patrick Head, who was Technical Director.More than accepting the much talked about question of the possible breakdown of the steering column, which allegedly would have given up because it was modified at the request of the Brazilian, this has never been proven, but for Newey the feeling of guilt he feels goes far beyond that, since the The truth is that he never believed in this theory:"I was one of those responsible for a team that designed a car in which a great man died. No matter if the steering column caused the accident or not, it is impossible to escape the fact that it was a badly designed piece that should never have been allowed in the car. But what I feel is more about having 'lost' the car's aerodynamics because in the transition between the active suspension (1993) and the return to normal suspension, I designed a car that was aerodynamically unstable, with which Ayrton I was trying to do things the car was not capable of doing. If he suffered a bore, and simply passed faster in an aerodynamically unstable car, it would make the car difficult to control, even for him, "wrote Newey who was initially guilty of Senna's death along with Frank Williams and Patrick Head, all being absolved for years after:"I will always feel responsible for Ayrton's death, but not guilty," he said, referring to the Italian prosecutor's opinion: "The fact that the case of (Roland) Ratzenberger (died the same weekend in Imola a day before) had been so easily swept under the rug made me suspect that Passarini's main motivation was personal fame and notoriety. "
Adrian Newey recently published his autobiography, a book where he refers again to what he felt at the time of Ayrton Senna's death on May 1, 1994, saying he remains "haunted" by the event. At the time, Newey was Chief Designer of Williams, responsible for the design of the Williams FW16, along with Patrick Head, who was Technical Director.More than accepting the much talked about question of the possible breakdown of the steering column, which allegedly would have given up because it was modified at the request of the Brazilian, this has never been proven, but for Newey the feeling of guilt he feels goes far beyond that, since the The truth is that he never believed in this theory:"I was one of those responsible for a team that designed a car in which a great man died. No matter if the steering column caused the accident or not, it is impossible to escape the fact that it was a badly designed piece that should never have been allowed in the car. But what I feel is more about having 'lost' the car's aerodynamics because in the transition between the active suspension (1993) and the return to normal suspension, I designed a car that was aerodynamically unstable, with which Ayrton I was trying to do things the car was not capable of doing. If he suffered a bore, and simply passed faster in an aerodynamically unstable car, it would make the car difficult to control, even for him, "wrote Newey who was initially guilty of Senna's death along with Frank Williams and Patrick Head, all being absolved for years after:"I will always feel responsible for Ayrton's death, but not guilty," he said, referring to the Italian prosecutor's opinion: "The fact that the case of (Roland) Ratzenberger (died the same weekend in Imola a day before) had been so easily swept under the rug made me suspect that Passarini's main motivation was personal fame and notoriety. "
José Luis Abreu, de Portugal
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