Should Senna's FW16 be restored to normal?

Yoong Montoya · 20 Apr 2002, 20:58 (Ref:265888)

If Ayrton Senna's FW16 were to be put in a museum, I think they should restore it to the way it was on the grid before the start. I mean, you couldn't show the car in its state after the crash. What do the rest of you think?

nameless · 20 Apr 2002, 21:11 (Ref:265898)

i personally dont think they should display the car at all,
if they were to restore it then it would be no different to another fw16 surely they have others.....and anyway i find it quite disturbing that people should want to see a car that a person died in............

Mr V · 20 Apr 2002, 21:20 (Ref:265911)

there is no way the williams team would ever display that car, so restoring it is not an option in my opinion!

paulzinho · 20 Apr 2002, 21:32 (Ref:265918)

No way can they restore it, it shouldn't be displayed at all. Williams are doing the right thing by hiding it away.

RIP Ayrton.

Baby Spice · 20 Apr 2002, 21:53 (Ref:265931)

No.

f1truestory · 20 Apr 2002, 22:43 (Ref:265962)

destroy it i would suggest!

Wrex · 20 Apr 2002, 22:50 (Ref:265967)

As above - the display would only benefit people with a morbid curiostity.

Any FW16 can be viewed.

Lee Janotta · 20 Apr 2002, 23:25 (Ref:265988)

Hell no. Don't touch it, don't do anything to it. Patrick should throw a tarp over it and hide it someplace only he and Frank know about. Let it decay peacefully.

Gt_R · 21 Apr 2002, 02:13 (Ref:266037)

Restore it? Why? When they have so many more FW16 chassis...why make another damaged one to look like it and losing the significance?

Display it for public? Nah...its no good either...

But neither do i think it should be destroyed or hide...but to be kept at Williams as a memory of a great driver, and also a reminder of the dangers of F1.

BootsOntheSide · 21 Apr 2002, 02:37 (Ref:266047)

Destroy it. This is one piece of history we all want to forget. No sane person can want to remember the day when the greatest driver of the modern age was taken from us.

Sato san · 21 Apr 2002, 07:16 (Ref:266107)

no way , should it be on display , leave it and put it away , or destroy it .but dont play with it whatever.

Number Juan · 21 Apr 2002, 07:20 (Ref:266111)

theyve already done it. the car and helmet were released by the italian authorities to Williams and it they were both incinerated on that day. thank god, IMO.

Sato san · 21 Apr 2002, 07:52 (Ref:266125)

you sure ???...i think you will find it was only the helmet that was destroyed , as that was the property of the senna family , unlike the chassis which obviously belongs to frank and patrick.

f1manoz · 21 Apr 2002, 08:16 (Ref:266131)

The chassis has NOT been destroyed.

Number Juan · 21 Apr 2002, 08:38 (Ref:266139)

Quote:

from this week's Autosport The Williams FW16 which Ayrton Senna was driving when he was killed at imola 1994 has been destroyed by the Williams team. Helmet manufacturer Bell has returned the helmet the three-time world champion was wearing at the time of the accident at imola last weekend. It was incinerated last week

there we are.

paulzinho · 21 Apr 2002, 09:32 (Ref:266173)

There are conflicting reports about whats happenned to it. Didn't a Williams spokesman say they were still deciding what to do with it? I think Autosport have got it wrong.

Sato san · 21 Apr 2002, 10:15 (Ref:266202)

its all confusing with different reports. If they have destroyed it , well , i dont blame them at all.

Kex · 21 Apr 2002, 11:00 (Ref:266227)

It definitely should be destroyed. What's the point of hanging on to things that just bring back bad memories? Who would want to go and see it in a museum? Well not me anyway.

What happened to the car Roland Ratzenberger (the poor guy that died the day before) was driving?

calais · 21 Apr 2002, 11:04 (Ref:266234)

it shouldnt be destroyed, but then again they shouldnt restore it either.
what would be the point??? they should leave it the way it is

Kex · 21 Apr 2002, 11:09 (Ref:266240)

OK...so why shouldn't it be destroyed?

calais · 21 Apr 2002, 11:21 (Ref:266249)

why should it be???
it is an important piece of F1 history and should be preserved as just that. a lot of you are letting emotion get in front of common sense

paulzinho · 21 Apr 2002, 11:27 (Ref:266252)

I wouldn't know what to do with it but I disagree with your comments about common sense calais.

Emotions drive our lives and so what if the car is a bit of history if the owners dont want to be reminded constantly of that event then who says they can't destroy it. His families emotions need to be taken into account too. How would you like it if someone wanted to parade a vehicle that your relative died in? The ultimate decision will come down to those who were close to him as they are the ones who will be affected most by it. I personally don't mind what they do with it as long as it isn't displayed or money made from it. That leaves either destroying it or locking it away for ever.

calais · 21 Apr 2002, 11:43 (Ref:266257)

i agree about the part stating that it shouldnt be displayed,but if i owned the williams team, i would keep it locked away somewhere as a remeinder of the teams history, both joyous, and in this case, tragic.

Sato san · 21 Apr 2002, 12:06 (Ref:266263)

what ever frank and patrick decide is alright by me , i mean ,we dont have to live with the consequenses do we .

also , what did ever happen to Ratzenberger's Simtek chassis ? , does anyone know ?

J.McClane · 21 Apr 2002, 12:49 (Ref:266290)

Sick, sick, sick.
Like i have sid in a previous post, use the car for research on the Senna film.....then destroy it.

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