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TIL that, during the 1994 San Marino GP, Austrian driver Roland Ratzenberger lost his life after a crash. On the very next day, world champion Ayrton Senna died on the same track. Among the wreckage of Senna’s car was an Austrian flag which he intended to raise after the race to honor Ratzenberger.

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