Dubs, you're talking to someone who has bitched endlessly about how safe motor racing has become at large.
I usually take the attitude you have with Simoncelli on MOST fatal racing accidents.
However, Simoncelli I don't share the opinion simply because it struck me as stupidity.
To me, what more matches your idea of Simoncelli pushing right up to the last moment, is what happened to Francois Cevert at Watkins Glen during practice of the United States Grand Prix in '73. Not sure how familiar you are with Watkins Glen, but after the first corner, you head towards the uphill Esses section of the circuit, and then after that you hang a fast right onto the long back straight. Cevert was pushing hard through the Esses, which is frankly a terrifying section in a soft sprung suspension race car, and is daunting to take flat-out even today in cars that do not have a lot of downforce. He unfortunately made a mistake trying to go faster, clipped the curb --and they were curbs back then-- then bounced off the barriers at 150MPH iirc, and went straight into the barrier on the back straight. He wound up getting cut in half by the barrier. But it was about trying to be the fastest as opposed to trying to save a low-side crash.
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"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, 'Wow! What a Ride!"
I dont understand what u mean by disposition. Honest question, because the Lorenzo of 250s is a different Lorenzo of GP, with a few exceptions, namely 2007 and one particular torpedo I remember he made on Nicky (sorry, chalk it up to obsession). Sic is a very interesting topic, and like Stoner, Rossi, Marc, a polarizing one. I happen to fall in the category that he was still too wild BUT I wholeheartedly believe he was poised to turn the corner. It's why im against riders skipping Moto2 (though obviously it's not a fail safe, see Marc). Regarding the specifics of his crash in relation to what might Lorenzo done, ive been racking my mind to remember the race that Lorenzo had a lowside and hung on to his bars. I see it in my mind's eye. I just cant remember right now. But suffice to say it's a racers reaction. Unfortunately it cost Sic his life.
