By David Galton-Fenzi
Racing is
dangerous. It’s been a long time since the great Ayrton Senna died and it’s
still, thankfully, the last time a driver has died behind the wheel in Formula
One, but
that doesn’t mean the sport hasn’t come close since. You can’t relax,
not even for a second, or racing will bite you and sometimes you don't wake up.
Just
last year in the space of a week, the racing community lost Dan Wheldon and
Marco Simoncelli in two separate freak accidents. The drivers on this list are
the ones who all had their bell rung since that fateful day at Imola but can
still talk about it today, even if some of them still don’t quite remember the
fine details.
#9 Karl
Wendlinger
Karl Wendlinger
was a ferociously talented young Austrian driver who was making waves driving
for Peter Sauber’s team. Still reeling from the deaths of both Wendlinger’s
countryman Roland Ratzenberger and the great Ayrton Senna at the previous race,
the Formula One circus had rocked up at Monaco in a state of shock where Karl
came within a hairsbreadth of making it a terribly tragic trifecta.
