This week marks the 20th Anniversary of the deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna at Imola, Italy. I remember very clearly watching Qualifying with my housemates while at Coventry University, going cold after Roland had crashed and they zoomed in on the wreckage, this coming just 24hours after a horrendous accident for Rubens Barrichello during practice. Roland was a very gifted and under-rated driver. Like his team mate David Brabham, he was sure to go onto better things and had been relatively successful in Japan in sportscars, having driven for Toyota and the SARD team. Continue Reading
