Senna got out of his Williams car and went to the scene of the collision. On the Friday before the race, Senna's protégé, Rubens Barrichello, driving for the Jordan team, clipped a curb and crashed heavily at 225 km/h (140 mph) at the Variante Bassa chicane. Main article: 1994 San Marino Grand Prix Rubens Barrichello (pictured at the 1995 French Grand Prix) suffered a high-speed crash at the Variante Bassa chicane Benetton's Michael Schumacher was the championship leader entering the third race at Imola, with Senna trailing by 20 points. Senna had his worst ever start to a Formula One season, failing to finish or score points in the first two races (the Brazilian and Pacific Grands Prix), despite having taken pole in both. The problems continued as the season commenced. It makes you a lot more tense and that stresses you. Also, the car has its own characteristics which I'm not fully confident in yet. Some of that is down to the lack of electronic change. Going back to when we raced at Estoril last September, it feels much more difficult. We changed the seat and the wheel, but even so I was already asking for more room. Therefore I didn't have a single run or a single lap that I felt comfortable or reasonably confident. I have a very negative feeling about driving the car and driving it on the limit and so on. On debut for his new team during the traditional pre-season testing at the Estoril Circuit, Senna said of the Williams FW16: Williams was expected to contend for the F1 World Championship as they had in the previous two seasons with Prost and Nigel Mansell, albeit with cars that no longer had electronic aids, which had been banned for the 1994 season. In 1994, Senna left his longtime team McLaren, which he had joined in 1988 and won three World Drivers' Championships with in 1988, 19, to join Williams, replacing his former teammate Alain Prost. The Supreme Court of Cassation of Italy ruled that mechanical failure was the cause of the crash. This became a turning point in the safety of Formula One, prompting the implementation of new safety measures in both Formula One and the circuit, as well as the Grand Prix Drivers' Association to be reestablished. Ratzenberger and Senna's crashes were the first fatal accidents to occur during a Formula One race meeting since that of Riccardo Paletti at the 1982 Canadian Grand Prix, and were also the last until that of Jules Bianchi at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix. Several other collisions took place that weekend, including a serious one involving Rubens Barrichello. The previous day, Austrian driver Roland Ratzenberger had died when his car crashed during qualification for the race. On, Brazilian Formula One driver Ayrton Senna was killed after his car crashed into a concrete barrier while he was leading the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix at the Imola Circuit in Italy.
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