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On May 1, 1994, three-time Formula 1 champion Brazilian Ayrton Senna got into a fatal accident at the Italian track in Imola in a race. Austrian driver Roland Ratzenberger dies in qualifying the day before. The black weekend claims the lives of two pilots at once and radically changes the approach to safety issues in motorsport.

The law in Italy requires an investigation into any fatal accident, whether it happened in everyday life or on the race track.

The cause of Ratzenberger’s accident is established fairly quickly. But the case does not reach the court. The investigation comes to the conclusion about the tragic combination of circumstances. But as for Senna, the proceedings initiated by the Italian justice eventually dragged on for several years.

Many of you probably know that there was a trial. However, the details of the case were not widely publicized, nor was the trial itself. Perhaps most of all they told you in Italy, whose judicial system was investigating.

There is not much information in the English-language British press. Often it does not contain details and usually ends with phrases that all the accused in the case are acquitted.

Although the most famous video to date, telling about the Senna accident, was originally created just in the UK and shown to the British rank lfo in 2001. Subsequently, it was re-released on the National Geographic channel and is now known as the film the death of Ayrton Senna, in a documentary series of programs" The moment that shook the world.»

But again, there is very little detail in it. And the opposition of the Williams team is taken as a basis.

Today we will try to dive into the chronology of the investigation and the main stages of the investigation. In order to have a broader picture of what actually happened then in Imola, based on the materials of the case, the conclusions of experts and the position of each of the parties to this process.