Editing Imola Circuit (section)

==Tamburello ==<!-- [[Tamburello (infamous race track corner)]] and [[Tamburello (corner)]] redirect to here -->
Despite the addition of [[chicane|chicanes]] to several parts of the lap, such as the ''Acque Minerali'', ''Variante Alta'', and ''Variante Bassa'', the circuit was subject to constant safety concerns, mostly regarding the flat-out ''Tamburello'' corner, which was very bumpy and had dangerously little [[run-off area|room between the track]] and a concrete wall without a tyre barrier that separated the circuit from the Santerno river that runs adjacent to it.

In [[1987 San Marino Grand Prix|1987]], [[Nelson Piquet]] crashed heavily during practice after a tyre failure and missed the race due to injury. In [[1989 San Marino Grand Prix|1989]], [[Gerhard Berger]] crashed his [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] at Tamburello after a front wing failure. The car instantaneously ignited after the severe impact at {{cvt|300|km/h|mph|abbr=on}} but thanks to the quick work of the firefighters and medical personnel Berger survived and missed only one race (the [[1989 Monaco Grand Prix]]) due to burns to his hands. [[Michele Alboreto]] suffered a massive shunt whilst testing his Footwork Arrows at the circuit in 1991 but escaped injury. The following year, [[Riccardo Patrese]] also crashed at the same corner while testing for the Williams team.

In response to the deaths of [[Ayrton Senna]] and [[Roland Ratzenberger]] during the [[1994 San Marino Grand Prix]], modifications were carried out to the Tamburello corner to make it safer by converting it from a flat-out left hander to a left-right-left chicane.