Today is a sad day for followers of Formula One. Twenty years ago, an F1 driver was killed in a race-track accident. It was his first season in the sport, and he'd only competed in a few races. He was a 33 year-old from Austria by the name of Roland Ratzenberger. He died in the qualifying session for the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, coming off the track and hitting a wall at almost 200 mph.
Despite this awful tragedy, the race went ahead on the very next day. As a mark of respect and to pay tribute to a colleague, one of the most famous drivers the world has ever known took an Austrian flag with him in his car, and had planned to wave the flag at the end of the race.
But, one awful day was followed by another, and that driver never made it to the end of the race, coming off the track on lap 7 and into a concrete wall at almost 150 mph.
That driver's name: Ayrton Senna.