The INSIDE Track - MONACO F1
Another Monaco crash Martin Brundle was involved in, but this time the Briton racer was not the victim.
This time it was Patrick Tambay racing for Lola-Ford.
When both Tambay and Brundle were approaching Mirabeau, Brundle shut the door on the French driver.This gave Tambay no time to react as his car flew over Brundle's Tyrrell-Renault.
Patrick Tambay – Crash - 1986
In 1988, 28-year-old Ayrton Senna was driving the McLaren MP4/4, the second car designed by Steve Nichols and Gordon Murray for Ron Dennis' team.
You have to cook with what you have. Unfortunately, that Sunday, Senna crashed out after leading for 67 laps. And the team had three theories about what happened at the Portier corner: He either understeered wide, clipped the inside barrier, or had a slow puncture.
One is more likely than the other two, but looking back, the true reason hardly mattered, since the rest of Senna's season worked out just fine, ending with him winning his first championship.
Aryton Senna – Crash - 1988
Lorenzo Bandini – Crash - 1967
On 7 May 1967 Bandini was racing at the Monaco Grand Prix, running second to Denny Hulme on the 82nd lap, when he lost control of his car at the harbour chicane.
He had just entered the chicane when his Ferrari's left rear wheel hit the guard rail, sending him into an erratic skid. It impacted a light pole and overturned. The car hit straw bales which lined the harbour side, rupturing the fuel tank, and sparks ignited the fuel as the car rolled over, with Bandini trapped beneath it.
Marshals flipped his car upright and pulled Bandini, unconscious, out from the flaming Ferrari. It is thought that, during the effort to right the overturned car, fuel leaked on the hot brake line or the exhaust pipe and exploded. A second fire occurred when the fuel tank exploded after Bandini had been pulled away from the Ferrari.
Tambay would retire from the race after 67 laps and so would Brundle later on in that lap due to the damage caused from the accident.
Bandini sustained third degree burns covering more than 70% of his body, as well as a chest wound and ten chest fractures.
Three days after the crash, Bandini succumbed to his injuries at Princess Grace Polyclinic Hospital in Monaco.