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There is no way to know for sure. I know what I believe, and nobody
has offered a more likely sequence of events in my opinion, than what
I personally believe after extensive study. You are welcome to believe
what you like, I'm not trying to persuade people, just to offer more
facts than they might already know.

If I told you I was an 'expert witness', would you believe me? If I
told you I was just guessing, would you not believe me? The facts are
the same whether a 5 year old kid tells you them or God himself tells
you them.

Thanks for that amazing piece of information. Who are *your* sources?
;-)

Not if you just said so without backing it up. That was my point. By all
means have an opinion, but please don't preach 'the truth'. It doesn't sit
well with the nature of usenet ;-)

I make it up as I go along ;-)

Malc.

Wasn't this rule introduced right after (and very likely because of)
Senna's crash?

Alex.

They were running very close to the ground then and small difference
in the line could have been the difference between bottoming out and not.
They might have been running higher. Or low pressure theory might be
correct and be the reason. Or both.
If memory serves me right, there were few very similar crashes
(Berger and Piquet?) several years before. That was one of the reasons
why organizers came under the fire, because the accident could have
been foreseen and prevented. Since then the minimal ride height was
increased and "wooden" plank has been introduced.

That's ok to bottom out when you don't need to turn (unless you end up
wearing off the plank beyond allowed limit). If you do it in the turn,
where you use all the traction tyres can provide, you will probably
lose it.

Alex.

Steering wheel is turning.
Power steering works.
-> Steering column was not broken

That argument is exactly the same as this:

I can turn my PC steering wheel.
GPL will respond to wheel inputs.
-> I can control GPL.

It's flawed, because the wheel connector might not be stuck in the
back of the computer. I can still turn the wheel, GPL will still react
to input, but it won't get any input because the wheel isn't plugged
in.

Just because a court believes it, doesn't make it automatically true.

Okay, how about some *** theories then? That seems to be the
Usenet nature...

1) The two black boxes (engine and car) were both removed. They were
scratched, but intact. Charlie Whiting ordered that the car BB was to
be given directly to the Williams team (to see if the cause might
affect Hill's car). The BB was not released by Williams for a month,
and when it was, it was 'destroyed'.

2) David Coulthard made a video showing the many centimetres of wheel
travel. The video had a sheet behind the wheel, so the viewers could
not see into the***pit. The steering column mount on the original
car was rigid (see photos), and the only movement would have been
slight bending of the column, maybe a couple of millimetres.

3) The FOCA stream of onboard footage from the incident, which has a
+10 second blank patch between switching off Senna's camera and moving
to another driver (Berger, IIRC).

4) Many teams were going to boycott racing in Italy if Williams were
found guilty.

5) The FIA were going to stop racing in Italy if Williams were found
guilty, meaning a loss of over 30 events per year.

Hehe, you can believe some, none, or all of the above. Believe me,
many people do. And you know what else, it might have been aliens :-D

BTW, I don't want anybody to be found guilty of manslaughter, I just
want to know the cause. If it was a steering column failure, I don't
want anybody at Williams to be hung for it.

lol.

This is the most ridiculous thing I have read in a Usenet group in a
long time. Does it also mean that OJ wasn't lying either since he got
off?

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If that's the most ridiculous thing you've read on usenet you need to get
about more ;-)

Malc.

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Malc.

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I'm assuming that wasn't a sound-only clip, but that's what it is for me.
Being codec-illiterate, any idea what I might need to get video?

Thanks,
Don