SBK From Saarinen to Antonelli: the dark days Sunday, 21 July 2013 18:17 by Luca Semprini - SBK The incident that has deprived us of Andrea Antonelli brings to mind painful memories . Fresh, neighbors, but often set aside in a seemingly safe place when the thrill of racing takes over. Motorcycling is a dangerous sport by definition, and the risk has always been part of its charm. However, whenever we are shown at its most cruel, the mind tends to bring out the dramas already lived, as in a sad deja-vu . In the circus of the Superbike, the last to lose his life was the 17 year old Oscar McIntyre last year in Stock600 test at Phillip Island, hit by the contenders Luke Burgess and Michael Lockhart to return to the track after an exit at the first corner. The latest tragedy in the Supersport only goes back five years ago, when the British rider Craig Jones lost his life in the stage of Brands Hatch. The weather and track conditions were substantially different, but the dynamic is depressingly similar: a trauma to the skull caused by the impact with racing motorcycles. It can not, in this case, do not resurface the memory of Shoya Tomizawa and Marco Simoncelli, they too are victims of similar incidents in Misano and Sepang respectively. Or the accident at Monza in 1973 at the same time deprived us of Renzo Pasolini and Jarno Saarinen . Or what happened to the 13 year old Peter Lenz during the test of the trophy Moriwaki in Indianapolis in 2010, which prompted the Federation to raise the minimum age of the participants. A similar drama happened el 1980 Patrick Pons while in a race of 500, the Grand Prix of Great Britain. The French rider fell and was hit in the head by Michel Rougerie. He died in hospital in Northampton two days after the Grand Prix, August 12, 1980. Irony of fate in the trials of the GP of Yugoslavia, the following year, 1981, Michel Rougerie got an excellent fifth place, but at the end of the first lap of the race slid in a curve. Falling to the ground, got up, but he was hit by Roger Sibille, dying instantly. And how can we forget the incident Franco Uncini (now fundamental character of the Securities Commission of the FIM) at Assen in 1983? The then-reigning champion was beaten by Wayne Gardner but then miraculously recover from the coma. The 25 year old of Castiglione del Lago is thus added to a list that just because there is already too long. A little later and apply the senni of the controversy over the safety. Or almost. Because, on the one hand the mind tends to look back, we must also look ahead. To improve, where possible. Of ideas, today, we have emerged: the possible creation of a Safety Commission as one that operates in MotoGP to criticism of Melandri, who talked about race not play due to bad weather and drivers just heard, through the critical Badovini asphalt seemingly little draining the circuit Russian. For these, however, you can wait until tomorrow. Today there is only room for pain. Hopefully it is the last time we have to remember, unfortunately, certain events. Godspeed # 8! Read more: gpone/en/2013072110950/Da-Saarinen-ad-Antonelli-i-giorni-piu-neri.html#ixzz2Zlz9synb
Posted on: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:30:48 +0000