RIP Marco Simoncelli (62 posts)

  • Profile picture of rampante rampante said 1 year, 8 months ago:

    Ciao Marco, Sei un Grande!!!!!

  • Profile picture of Bradley Downton Bradley Downton said 1 year, 8 months ago:

    Motorsport is a family. No matter which forms you like, and which you don’t. No matter whom you support, and who you don’t. We are all family. In the last 8 days we have lost 2 motor racing greats. Brit Dan Wheldon (33) in the tragic 15 car Indycar pile-up at Las Vegas and Italian Marco Simoncelli (24) in a horrifically terrifying MotoGP accident at Sepang, Malaysia. Both were greats in their respective fields, Wheldon had at least had a chance to show talent in Indycar with 2 Indy 500 wins and one Indycar Championship. Simoncelli was just coming on strong, he picked up his best ever result (2nd) just a week ago and just a lap before the accident, was being typically Simoncelli’ish against Alvaro Bautista. Both were very freak accidents and both are deeply saddening. As a family we all need to pull together in these darkest times to support the families and closest friends of the two motor-racers, and also to support each other.

    Here’s hoping we’ve all had enough tragedy for at very least the next few years.

    R.I.P Dan Wheldon – 22 June 1978 – 16 October 2011 – Indycar
    R.I.P Marco Simoncelli – 20 January 1987 – 23 October 2011 – MotoGP

  • Profile picture of Oli Peacock Oli Peacock said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    A tribute ive found on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gbpxmNqoBk&feature=feedu

    I cant add anything more to the comments before, but MotoGP wont be the same and nor will motorsport. He was the character and the soul the sport, and died doing what he loved to do. A black week in motorsport

    Ride in Peace Marco

  • Profile picture of Zazeems Zazeems said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    I very much feel for Colin Edwards in this situation.

    It was clear watching live that he was uttetly distraught (not to mention injured himself).

    It’s also overwhelmingly obvious that there was nothing he could do to avoid Marco, but there are always those awful ‘laying the blame’ sort of people. I hope he’s feeling okay and will pull through. When this sort of thing happens I always remember an interview I saw with Jim Clark, where he spoke candidly about how he felt about being villified after his accident with Von Tripps at Monza.

    Anyway, my best wishes to Colin, and Marco’s friends ans family.

  • Profile picture of Dane. Dane. said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    Very sad about Marco. He brought us some exciting races & was always entertaining to watch on & off the track. He would have been one of the best

  • Profile picture of Keith Collantine Keith Collantine said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    Have had a question from a reader on why there isn’t a separate article on Simoncelli’s death on the site. For the benefit of anyone else who might have wondered, here’s my response:

    http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2011/10/23/2310/comment-page-2/#comment-867423

  • Profile picture of electrolite electrolite said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    I’ll never complain about the safety measures taken in Formula 1 again after this past week. It’s time other series caught up. R.I.P. Marco Simoncelli

  • Profile picture of Pink Peril Pink Peril said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    Watching this accident was just spine chilling. I hope never to see a sight like it again. As much as I love my motorsport, I don’t ever want to tune in to watch people dying on track in front of me. As soon as I saw his helmet fly off, I knew the news wouldn’t be good. Such a sad waste of a truly talented rider who had all the potential to be a great champion. RIP Marco, we will miss you and your crazy sideshow-bob-hair.

  • Profile picture of phil9079 phil9079 said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    I’ll sy it also in here what I said in the RBR blogcummunity:
    “my thought about motogp isn’t a pleasing 1. It’s the most dangerous sport of all motorsports. You can die easely in here. 1) you are riding on 2 wheels, you could well lose your balance, even when you drive with safetyclothes on, you can have severe damage… and 2) you’re not sitting in a cockpit. In an F1 car or any other motorsport with cars, you don’t crash so easely since you are in a cockpit. From the looks of the crash, you were indeed right to think he would die instantly. Those other 2 drivers litterarly drove against his body at what is it 100mph? It would mean a miracle if he initially stood right up without scratches… I’m sorry to say this, but I think motogp will stay this way. So it needs to be ended in order to don’t see such horrible crashes. I never was into motogp but I knew all the time that it takes BALLS, real BALLS to do this. so if I would get the chance to do this sport, I would instantly reject it…”

    “I learned from school that if someone has an accident with a helmet on, you must let the helmet on at all costs, cause the neck can brake. This must be the cause of his death. 1 of the drivers hits the helmet, helmet comes of and neck brakes. Awefull indeed but as karne said, he didn’t suffer so… “

  • Profile picture of xivizmath xivizmath said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    An unbelievable and cruel twist of fate has made all of the motorsport fans witness one of the worst weeks in motorsport since a long time. Rest In Peace, Marco, MotoGP will never be the same without you.

    @phil9079
    I believe Road Racing (like Isle of Man TT) is, by far, the most dangerous of all the motorsports.

  • Profile picture of George George said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    Yeah motoGP is actually very safe in terms of the tracks, it’s only freak accidents like this where riders get hit by others/their own bike that are overly dangerous. When you think of how often they throw it down the road at 100mph+ and walk away it shows how safe they are with the back protector and various pads. As they say it’s not the speed that kills you, but the sudden stop, which is why bike tracks use gravel runoff rather than tarmac.

    All motorsport is relatively dangerous, you cant just single out bikes. Off the top of my head I think drag boat racing is probably the most dangerous, but that doesn’t stop people wanting to do it.

  • Profile picture of phil9079 phil9079 said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    WOW, now that I see it, it’s indeed more dangerous then motogp. motogp is still on a gp, not on the streets.

    @George I’m not so sure. Water isn’t so hard as ground IMO.

  • Profile picture of m m said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    Marco’s death has been hard to come to terms with. Not only was he about to be a force in MotoGP and potentially a world champion but he was guaranteed to take over from Valentino Rossi as the coolest man in motorsport. He was actually likeable unlike most people in motorsports that come off as boring robots. Go to the formula1 website and read Petrov’s ‘fantasy’ column and tell me you would ever want to spend even 5 seconds with him. Marco had the talent and the charisma that all of motorsports needs.

    RIP Marco Simoncelli

  • Profile picture of 3v3r10n9 3v3r10n9 said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    Marco Simoncelli was a true racer. He never gave up and didn’t want to let go of his bike when he lost control and it cost him his life. Rest in peace Marco.

  • Profile picture of Keith Collantine Keith Collantine said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    Just seen this troubling development in the story of what happened to him: Simoncelli was dropped by marshals after crash

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