And with that Gerhard Berger and Ayrton Senna walked away. The two men agreed there was nothing that could be done about the wall. “Look,” he said, “we can’t move the wall, there’s a river behind it”. His companion pointed towards the Santerno. Flames engulfed his car, but men with fire extinguishers quickly arrived at the scene and saved his life. One of the men had crashed at the corner five years earlier. They had been testing their cars at the circuit, rounding the corner at over 300kph (186mph), and had become concerned about the concrete wall which separated the bend from the river. In April 1994 two men who had raced at the circuit many times before looked down at the river from the first of the track’s 15 corners: Tamburello.
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