[Rassegna stampa] – The Misano weekend will not be special only for Valentino Rossi’s last race in Italy. In fact, on the day of qualifying, October 23, will be the tenth anniversary of the death of Marco Simoncelli, which took place on that cursed Sunday in Sepang. Two decades later, almost as a sign of destiny, the World Championship will be able to remember Sic on its home track, which is now named after him: the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli. To tell the figure of # 58, who died at the age of 24 during his second season in MotoGP, the correspondent of Republic Massimo Calandri went to Coriano, where the Simoncelli family still resides.
«Marco is always with us, he has never left: because if we keep laughing and joking at the table tonight there will be a reason, or not?». Yes, Sic is still here. In the house of Coriano. You understand it from the serene look of mother Rossella […] And you can understand it from father Paolo’s mustache, while they ripple to hide another smile: he serves a glass of Lambrusco to Carlo Pernat, the Genoese manager who was a kind of uncle […] of the pilot. And that after the Sepang tragedy, on 23 October 2011, he slept for a month in his room on the first floor, where they have now placed the urn with the ashes. Marco Simoncelli, the Sic. […]. «It was a wonderful 24 years with Marco. Of pure joy. I do not regret anything. We were very lucky parents »: Rossella gets excited, her eyes light up. Paolo is gruff, frowns: «But I have a regret: that day it was very hot, I saw that on the grid he had put on his head the wet towel with the number 58. But on the contrary. A presentiment touched me, I wanted to warn it. But there were only 2 minutes to go. Maybe nothing would have changed. Perhaps”. […]
Sunday’s race could also crown a new world champion in the premier class, Frenchman Fabio Quartararo. He, together with Marc Marquez and our Pecco Bagnaia, is one of the cover faces of today’s MotoGP. What undoubtedly could have become Simoncelli, who in 2011 before the Sepang tragedy had already won two pole positions and two podiums. Many are convinced that the then Honda Gresini team rider could have competed on an equal footing with all the great names on the grid at the time and arrived shortly after, from Rossi to Marquez himself. And the evolution of the means used in MotoGP could have helped him reach the top of the two-wheel world.
[…] “[…] who knows how many titles he would have won. Today he would still be number one », Pernat bets. “Nobody had his talent and his hunger.” Not even Valentino? “It would have been a good fight for a while. But as time goes by, guess who would have won? Also from the point of view of popularity. He was a real boy, and at the same time a kind of comic book ». Paolo claims that with the transition to MotoGP from 800 to 1000 cc, from 2012, his son – tall and heavy – would have made a big profit. «And we would have had fun, especially with Marc Marquez: they have the same way of running and thinking». That ‘hunger’ the manager spoke of, «something I no longer see in the paddock. As well as the personality, the desire to put on a show. These young drivers, on the other hand, seem to be mass-produced. Apart from a couple of Spaniards: Martin and the terrible boy, Acosta. ‘ […].
Sic, however, there was only one.
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