Roland Ratzenberger
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Oct 19, 2026
speaker_4HOST
Really? Why an Austrian flag?
speaker_1HOST
He had planned to raise it at the finish line in honor of Roland Ratzenberger, another driver who had tragically died on that very track just the day before.
speaker_4HOST
And later that exact same year, in 1994, real life bloodshed was literally transformed into mass entertainment with the O.J. Simpson trial.
speaker_4HOST
You have the brutal murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
Mark HughesHOST
Mm.
Edd StrawHOST
It was very similar actually in terms of the, the, the deceleration to the Ratzenberger crash at Imola-
Mark HughesHOST
Mm
Edd StrawHOST
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Louis SuddabyGUEST
Jackie Stewart, I think, did initially set it up.
Louis SuddabyGUEST
It then broke down and then they reintroduced it after the deaths of Ratzenberger and Setner and Emler in 94.
Louis SuddabyGUEST
So the current version is 32 years old.
David EmmettHOST
Yeah, exactly.
Mark HughesGUEST
Mm.
Edd StrawHOST
It was very similar actually in terms of the, the, the deceleration to the Ratzenberger crash at Imola-
Mark HughesGUEST
Mm
Edd StrawHOST
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Jonathan SimonGUEST
I assume Senna was another one that you, you watched?
Richard ReadyHOST
Senna and Ratzenberger, yeah.
Jonathan SimonGUEST
Oh, yeah.
Richard ReadyHOST
Yeah.
David O'CallaghanHOST
However, it was also the year when tragedy struck the sport in the form of the devastatingly fatal accidents
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger at Imola.
David O'CallaghanHOST
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David O'CallaghanHOST
So that's Schumacher 94, The Birth of a Legend, which is now on Netflix.
Jason HassettHOST
We'll move on.
Jason HassettHOST
He'd been called up a month earlier to replace Roland Ratzenberger, who had sadly been killed at Imola on the same weekend as Airt and Senna.
Jason HassettHOST
90 minutes from the finish with Jeff Krasnov at the wheel, all drive disappeared.
Jason HassettHOST
A weld in the gear linkage had broken.