[redbird1]

May 1st 1994, San Marino Grand Prix in a corner called Tambarello. Ayrton Senna died. The next year the infamous corner is replaced with a chicane. Although this chicane is still quite quick, it has always bothered me that they changed it just because of a freak accident. For some reason I have always felt that this does some kind of disservice to Senna. This corner, although very fast, was in no way any less safe than say turn 1 at Indy. They should only have repaved it to remove the bumps and changed the wall layout to make it safer. It was a very exciting corner and is now just a boring chicane. I have wanted to vent on this since the next race at the track the following year. I'm grateful that this forum has granting me the opportunity. Aryton Senna was then and will always be one of the hero's in my life.

Steve

[LT4Firehawk]

I agree, one of the top 5 races in the last 7-8 years.

On the passing issue, I also think something really needs to be done. It's kind of crazy though, that with all the technical expertise in F1 they are going at it in completely the wrong way. They keep trying to limit tire adhesion (first with grooves, now with requiring one set for the entire race) when they should be going in the opposite direction: More mechanical (tire) grip, and less aero grip. They somewhat tried to address that this year with new aero regulations, but over the off season the teams developed the new cars to have just as much downforce as last year with the new regs.