ROME – A terrible accident at Mugello that happened to Jason Dupasquier who is very reminiscent in the dynamics and unfortunately also in the consequences that in Malaysia where Marco Simoncelli died on 11 October 2011. A trail of blood that sees the two-wheel Circus as protagonist. does not stop despite all the safety measures put on and off the track. The Sic died after a slip in the curve at 200 hours, he tried to hold on to his bike by imprinting a strange trajectory, not noticing the fast approaching of Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi. In both cases the impact was very violent and inevitable.
The last in order of time to die in the World Championship was the Spaniard Luis Salom: on June 3, 2016, following a crash in the free practice of the Catalan Grand Prix in the Moto 2 class, he was hit by his own bike bouncing against the protections . Due to the seriousness of his condition, he was rushed to the nearby hospital in Barcelona, where he died a few minutes later from his injuries.
The period in which Simoncelli died was terrible in terms of lives lost in motorcycle races: in 2013 in a dramatic accident on the Latina track, during the tests of the Sic Supermoto, a race named after Simoncelli, Doriano Romboni died, who on 8 December he would have turned 45. Romboni raced in the World Championship (his debut in 1989 in the 125 class) winning six races, the first in 1990 in Germany. Before the tragedies of Romboni the previous summer on the Moscow circuit, during a race of the Supersport world championship, Andrea Antonelli. The unfortunate 25-year-old driver from Castiglione del Lago fell on the track made slippery by the rain and was violently hit by another Italian driver, Lorenzo Zanetti.
An accident similar to those of Antonelli and Simoncelli also happened on 5 September 2010, again in Misano. In the Moto2 race, 19-year-old Japanese Shoya Tomizawa crashed into the corners, and was also hit by two of the bikes following him at close range at nearly 200 per hour.
On April 6, 2003, the tragedy of the Japanese Daijiro Kato, great promise of the Motogp. He was part of the Gresini team, the same as Simoncelli. The accident occurred on the Japanese track of Suzuka: Kato lost control of his bike and crashed violently into a protective wall along the edges of the circuit, sustaining very serious injuries, and died a few days later in the hospital, without ever regaining consciousness.
On the other hand, the tragedy in which Renzo Pasolini and Jarno Saarinen lost their lives dates back to May 20, 1973. It was the Italian who first crashed during the GP of Nations (250 class) on the Monza circuit, involving other riders in the crash.