Senna's Death Trial


13 November 1997 The defense strategy of the lawyers for the management of the race track and for Roland Bruynseraede consisted of heavily attacking Nosetto, one of the prosecution consultants.

Causo (Bruynseraede's lawyer) said that the personality of the experts and consultants employed by the prosecution has strongly conditioned the trial. Nosetto was director of the Imola race track until 1998 and contraddicts his own work by saying that the track structures were not regular. If the prosecution argument is accepted, then the whole of the Imola race track should be destroyed and rebuilt.

Landi (lawyer for Sagis) said that Bendinelli and Poggi have had operational roles after 1980, that is to say when the changes to the track, requested and designed by Nosetto, had already been approved and had already started. Their activity has always been subject to the approval of FIA.

Tomorrow Newey's lawyers (Lanzi and Stortoni) will take the stand. The prosecution has asked for one year detention with parole for Newey.


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