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RIP Marco Simoncelli

I just sent in my sase with a little cash for the materials. Thanks a ton, Mike.
 
Lotsa great writeups --- I am hoping Rossi can do one more season to keep the Sic spirit alive
 
Here is one with some friends from Laguna. Ironically the only rider picture I got. RIP Marco.

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Ill take one or two Big Mike Ill try and swing by today or tomorrow!
 
number_6 said:
BBC's Matt Roberts wrote a piece.
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thanks for another great write up.
Just a little concerned of this phrase in the statement.

Born with talent but raised with humour, humility and good manners, Marco is a credit to the grief-stricken family left to mourn him. His father Paolo was at Sepang, as he was at every race, a chest we are so used to seeing bursting with pride now so devastatingly deflated by unthinkable hurt. For his son to depart at the age of 24, fatally struck by his hero and mentor, is a grave injustice to all of them.
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They say the good die young. In addition to being a racing fan of his, the more I read about him the more I like him. I haven't read or heard a single negative thing about Sic off the track. Not one and that's rare.
 
Bowling4Bikes said:
fuck me...as a father these words just wrench at my heart.
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flying_hun said:
+1 Yep, I've got a son the same age as Marco. :(
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They do wrench at you. For me it is a different reason though. I'm roughly 5 weeks older then Marco and looked up to him. He was someone I would like to be like but I also have a great relationship with my father who got me into racing and motorcycles. I can't imagine how hard it will be for his father, family, GF, and whoever else in the next coming weeks.
 
I was thereabouts, but Marco was dead already. I was 10 metres away, but Marco was already dead, it changed nothing.
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I know he's being nice - but damn. I would have probably still been angry.
 
BBC's Matt Roberts wrote a piece.
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Wow, I did not know this bit:

Sepang was a bruising weekend with several crashes, including those of Pedrosa and Ben Spies adding to those of Moto2 riders Marc Marquez, Bradley Smith and Axel Pons, who remains in hospital in Kuala Lumpur under observation for a sub-cranial haematoma.

Man, what a dark weekend. Reminds me of the fateful weekend in 94 with Barrichello, Ratzenburger and then Senna...
 
Thanks for the stickers Mike :thumbup Very cool of you.

Watching the video from the eu yahoo article it says Gresini will be not be racing Valencia. I wouldn't hold it against any team for not racing Valencia. This whole thing is just gut wrenching.
 
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