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Newey questions cause of Senna's death in 1994

Formula 1 design guru Adrian Newey questions whether Ayrton Senna really died as a result of a steering column failure, despite a lengthy investigation to that conclusion. The Italian courts claimed that a poorly designed column on the Newey designed FW16 resulted in the Brazilian's death, after he veered off track and hit the barriers at the high-speed Tamburello corner during the 1994 Imola Grand Prix. Newey, who admits he is still tormented by the crash, doesn't believe the steering column was the cause of the accident and subsequent death. "What happened that day, what caused the accident, still haunts me to this day," he told the BBC's Radio 5 Live. "The steering column...
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