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Yeah, I remember that day. I had taped the race because I had to go to work early that morning (pumping gas to pay for college), so I was looking forward to watching it when I got home.
The first customer in that morning says "Hey, are you an F1 fan?" and went on to tell me that someone was killed in the race that morning. I figured he was talking about Roland Ratzenberger who had been killed the day before in practice so I took what he said with a grain of salt, although he did mention that he thought it was Senna. He didn't sound like that big of a fan, so I thought he probably just heard something on some sports radio show in his car and had gotten the facts mixed up.
I was still thinking about it a couple of hours later when a friend and fellow F1 nut drove in. He never dropped by so as soon as I saw him I knew that what the guy had told me earlier was correct.
When I got home I didn't really want to watch the race, although I eventually did. Very sad.
That was a pretty bad couple of weeks for F1. Ratzenberger and Senna killed. A couple of other big crashes at San Marino, including one by Barichello in practice, and Wendlinger's crash and effectively career-ending injuries in Monaco. It was a tough time to be a fan.
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