MEMORIES can fade over three decades.
But Rubens Barrichello never recalled the crash that killed his great friend and mentor Ayrton Senna to begin with.
Triple champion Senna died 30 years ago today in a smash while racing in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix at Imola in Italy. Two days before, Barrichello had barely survived his own crash first of three huge accidents on the darkest race weekend in Formula One history.
He was dead for several minutes before medics managed to revive him. Rookie Roland Ratzenberger, right, whose fatal crash occurred in qualifying on the Saturday, and were not so lucky
The impact suffered by Barrichello was so hard that he cannot remember those deadly accidents - or being a pallbearer at Senna's funeral four days after his death.
"Quite honestly, I think I'm the lucky one," said Barrichello.
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