Gone too soon - The tragic career of Marco Simoncelli

[@casperi2]

He is still missed to this day. He diffently was a spicy racer but he had to be. He was up there racing factory teams guys. That's no simple task if anyone is wondering. If He didn't have the speed he would brake insanely late , if he couldn't brake late he was one of the few that was testing just how far these bikes could lean. Just a true racer that was able to take good equipment and put in the top 5 fight. He personality was infections, in the era or list your team and sponsors first before being able to talk like everyone else , even today. He would skip all that and answer the questions and then let the corporate gragion come out afterwards. Thank you for making this video, honestly it was really well done. I

[@NLcommentatorclips]

My grandparents passed away in 2011, and my "therapy" was watching racing, it was 2 weeks after the passing of my grandmother, I saw both Dan and Marco their accidents live on tv, i was 10 years old back then, took me a full year untill I could watch motogp again, Marco was so fast, always wondered What if he could get on a faster bike

[@Zippy994]

I watched this race live and remember how long the wait seemed and how quiet and still the crowd and the paddock were as we waited for word on Marco. I think about it quite often. A terrible, terrible day. Heartbreaking.

[@StoffelDilligas]

Thank you for a great video. And a special thank you for having the decency and respect not to show the incident.

[@statto300]

Sadly, I decided to watch this race live having watched MotoGP infrequently over the years, and just a week after getting woken up by my parents before school to tell me that Dan Wheldon had passed away in a major accident. October 2011 was a dark day for Motorsport.

[@william5159]

Honestly, Marco was an inspiration, loved by almost everyone. His life was more heroic than tragic. Death is not a tragedy, it comes for us all. One who dies loving what they do and who are so brilliant in life has a heroic end, not a tragic end. I know many, if not most, may disagree with me, as we so automatically call a young death a tragedy. I see it more as an angelic gift to humanity, even in death. He is legend. God Bless Marco, for sure.

[@pionelpessi707]

Unfortunately I remember watching the race live. This was back when MotoGP was on the BBC.

[@timothyfalkowski6007]

that same weekend, in practice, marco had the same type of crash. but, that time he was able to right the bike and kept going with not stopping, was a super great save. in the race, his rear wheel grabbed while the bike was still on its side, and he was still gripping of the handle bars.

[@RetroSuperbikes]

Such a tragic loss 😢

[@jituraniboruah7035]

How I wish, how I wish you were here.. We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl Year after year Running over the same old ground, what have we found? The same old fears, wish you were here...❤❤

[@left-hand-threaded]

Please do Ian hutchinson 2010 TT and the subsequent injury / victories !😊

[@roninfr4666]

🙏 13 years

[@tuilmann97]

In my time watching motorsports I recall the Jules accident and the Antoine Hubert one. I always make the analogy that noise is the calmest thing in motorsport, because that day at Spa (I was watching on the TV... not actually at Spa) when the Antoine Hubert accident happened, I remember three things: 1. No replays 2. That the split second the accident scene was on display before the camera switched I remember thinking "fuck that car doesn't look good" 3. Silence and the commentators without information. When the broadcast is majorly silent is a very weird feeling and to them (commentators) I imagine is even worse because they excuse themselves for not talking but they also are waiting for an official report. Silence in motorsport is awful. We live in a world in which thankfully motorsports are in their safest eras, but when things like that happen the next time you tune in it feels weird to me at least. I support AC Milan and I understand Simoncelli did as well, so one time I had an uni project with Photoshop that was to design a t-shirt and since Marco was a rossonero and the color palette of his number 58 had 3/3 colors of the color palette of AC Milan I did a little "Marco Simoncelli Forever Rossonero" spiral design as background to Simoncelli doing a wheelie framed by the oval shape of the AC Milan badge and that was my tribute for him. Never watched since I was too young in 2011, but he always seemed a good guy and everyone remembers him fondly.

[@quantro65]

R.I.P Sponge Bob . You were a great rider & would of been world champion.

[@NoorArmando]

R.i.P SuperSic58

[@dougiequick1]

Very sad such a race loving rider dies but I cant see how he in particular is that remarkable.....not to take anything away from those who loved him but I mean quite a few more stellar racers have also died racing and dont get tracks named after them...just saying I dont get his popularity in particular? It almost seems like someone really influential pushed to have his memory made particularly special? Maybe being run over by Valentino Rossi in his death made much of the difference....VR46 himself would have had enough voice to have the Italian race named after him maybe? again NOT to take anything away from this very cool man or his tragic loss ....I am just saying there have been other racers with far better race results and world popularity that died without getting the long term attention as this man does have ...otheri than that? Hey more power to this for his family sake ....hey I am not complaining just a bit mystified is all I keep hearing the Italin GP track referred to an Mco Simoncelli and I honestly had to look the name up!.... his best motogp result being a 2nd? Ahh! mystery solved! Although many beloved gp champions have passed away or been paralyzed etc it turns out very very few over the years actually have died racing including Dario Ambrosini in 1951, Leslie Graham in 1953, Rupert Hollaus in 1954, Tom Phillis in 1962, Bill Ivy in 1969, Jarno Saarinen in 1973, Daijiro Kato in 2003, and Marco Simoncelli in 2011. Well that is heartening! And explains why one does not to be world renowned VR46 level of fame dying while racing, just need to be one amonst the grid that earned th right to be running with the best

[@gabrielecalogero]

Why JW? I don’t think your god is happy for what you are doing.

[@DiegoMartinezCoria]

Still miss him.