‘I felt his soul departed at that moment’: Remembering Ayrton Senna 25 years later

On May 1, 1994 - 25 years ago today - the world was shocked by the death of three-time world champion Ayrton Senna when he crashed while leading the San Marino Grand Prix at the Imola track in Italy. Declan Colley recalls one of Formula 1's darkest days.

When the great Jim Clark was killed in a minor Formula 2 race at Hockenheim in Germany in 1968, the world mourned a genuine sporting icon.

The thing with Clark’s death however, was the feeling among his peers that if the Scot could be killed in a racing car — even at a time when motor racing tragedies were an almost weekly occurrence — that the rest of them had no probability of long-term survival.