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RIP Marco Simoncelli
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This has really affected me I really don't know why. So sad, he was a ray of sunshine in an ever dwindling field of bikes which is why I haven't really been pumped up about the last 3 seasons. But when this guy was on the screen you watched, he was exciting and there was always gonna be something to talk about when he raced. I can't see a way back from here, It will be hard to watch another race. I will watch the last race but thats it for me I used to deride anyone who was against racing, it's motorsport get over it, well I was wrong.
xx Liz
xx Liz
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Great post.
It was coming here to Powerslide that helped me get over the shock. To be able to communicate with others who have never met the guy and yet feel they have lost a friend is so important- sharing the pain is so much better than not being able to.
RIP Super Sic.
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Banner in Marco Simoncelli's hometown of Coriano
"Now go and teach the angels how to do a wheelie"
http://www.romagnanoi.it/news/723298/Coriano-non-vuol-dimenticare-il-suo-campione.html
Marco Simoncelli's funeral on Thu Oct 27 at Coriano church of Santa Maria. Coriano have also declared the 27th as a day of mourning.
"Now go and teach the angels how to do a wheelie"
http://www.romagnanoi.it/news/723298/Coriano-non-vuol-dimenticare-il-suo-campione.html
Marco Simoncelli's funeral on Thu Oct 27 at Coriano church of Santa Maria. Coriano have also declared the 27th as a day of mourning.
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For me, the tributes pouring in on this forum have been so touching and so consoling. So many great posts and memories. Yesterday, and for the large part of today I was simply unable to articulate what I felt - and am grateful that so many on here could.
On Sunday I had just returned home from a wonderful few days away with someone very special. I felt thoroughly rejuvenated as things have been quite exacting of late to say the least. I was expecting a few friends and had recorded the races on Eurosport to watch that afternoon. Jum texted me to ask if I was watching - and then again simply R.I.P. I didn't want to know who it was - I felt giddy and nauseous. Then Pete texted followed by my daughter who called with the terrible news. One by one people around me drifted away and in response I aimlessly drifted around the house in a state of distraught disbelief. I came upstairs, turned on my laptop and immediately unconsciously made a post on FB. I then logged on here and read all the posts and tributes for about an hour before my grief finally got the better of me. The camaraderie and intense spirit of the race and biking community on here was totally different to the indifferent impassioned electronic environs of FB and other unaffiliated network sites. I found it overwhelming - and simply couldn't bring myself to post.....just absorb the thoughts of others. A few of my PS brothers called and texted - we all shared this numb state confusion and bewilderment. How could this have happened? - As Dovi later said - we were used to Sic crashing, but he always got back up and dusted himself down . He was seemingly invincible. Why did I weep? - I didn't know him - the news broke of hundreds killed and buried alive in Turkey amid far more tragic circumstances, yet right then, these victims were faceless to me.......all I could see was Marco, all I could picture was that empty grid space, and the seasons ahead that were supposed to be. .... THIS!!!!!!!!!!!
John - brave, sincere and honest post. I remember years ago walking through the paddock at Donington with my partner and I pointed out a young Marco to her. She said he looked like the love child of Donald Sutherland
- At the time he was a 125 rider and I joked about how he was a complete liability but oddly many felt he was ultimately destined for great things - Vale included. A well written tribute in the Times today by Charlie Cox of all people recalled in the same pages as having described him as having the self control of a labrador pup on a polished lino floor. Vast speed, boundless bravery, but struggling to learn the limits. From our armchairs some of us poured scorn on this limitless erstwhile exuberance repeatedly watching him crash out prematurely on tepid 'stones - when he did this post Le Mans - ultimately collecting Lorenzo at Assen, the full fury of the paddock witchunt had already been unleashed and the resultant call for a ban was echoed by many on here. Several times I encountered him at Laguna this year and last in the paddock and was so tempted to accost him and implore him to calm down because if he didn't take himself out for good, worse still, it'd be one of his competitors. Who the .... was I to assume I understood or even to presume to pass comment? Leave that to the posse of embittered riders that had formed to lynch him. But then things began to change. As Cox wrote today - a man of huge natural ability, he was gradually overcoming the imbalance of his speed to recklessness coefficient. He finally had that podium at Brno....Marco was delivering.
Gaz - I thought precisely the same as you - and as great Simoncelli memories go look no further than the other week at Philip Island. Having ruthlessly stalked Dovi in the vile weather at Silverstone last June, Marco had closed the gap. When Andrea responded - himself a master of such atrocious conditions, Marco went down under braking in the standing water at the end of the International pit straight. At PI however, he methodically and systematically appraised Dovi on a similarly treacherous track and executed for me one of the moves of the season with clinical precision, finesse and guile. Marco it seems was finally coming of age in time for the reintroduction of the litre class - and I was finally coming round to his absurd level of latent natural talent yet to be fulfilled. My abiding Sic memory? - after that race in Parc Ferme he bounded over to Andrea his life long arch rival and clasped his hand in delight - not in defiant triumph or arrogance - but in pure Marco style unbridled enthusiasm over the race they had just run. Wonderful!
Rog - I was thinking the same. The frustration over the circumstances surrounding Shoya and Daijiro lead us to vent fury on race control. It's so natural when in the face of something so tragic to be unable to process what has happened and resort to irrational anger, blame, denial, or extreme grief before reaching acceptance. Yesterday, I found myself cursing the dubious grip at Sepang, the loathsome 800cc formula, even Bridgestone.
Marco was like Icarus - we always felt disaster was looming, but despite the warnings we loved to watch him soar. This sport is gladiatorial - we all know that, and we are appalled but similarly thrilled by the associated risks.
Oost you are so right that Sic polarised the paddock, a hero and a villain in equal measure. But in the face of a seemingly endless paddock procession of p/r platitude fed, faceless and uncharismatic cloned midgets - he was a giant in personality character and larger than life both on and off the bike.
Pete, Liz, Levi, Wills, Oost amongst many others - outstanding posts...thank you for sharing your thoughts.
God Bless you Marco - and if indeed you flew too close to sun.....well, you ......' dazzled and blinded us all in the process.
R.I.P
On Sunday I had just returned home from a wonderful few days away with someone very special. I felt thoroughly rejuvenated as things have been quite exacting of late to say the least. I was expecting a few friends and had recorded the races on Eurosport to watch that afternoon. Jum texted me to ask if I was watching - and then again simply R.I.P. I didn't want to know who it was - I felt giddy and nauseous. Then Pete texted followed by my daughter who called with the terrible news. One by one people around me drifted away and in response I aimlessly drifted around the house in a state of distraught disbelief. I came upstairs, turned on my laptop and immediately unconsciously made a post on FB. I then logged on here and read all the posts and tributes for about an hour before my grief finally got the better of me. The camaraderie and intense spirit of the race and biking community on here was totally different to the indifferent impassioned electronic environs of FB and other unaffiliated network sites. I found it overwhelming - and simply couldn't bring myself to post.....just absorb the thoughts of others. A few of my PS brothers called and texted - we all shared this numb state confusion and bewilderment. How could this have happened? - As Dovi later said - we were used to Sic crashing, but he always got back up and dusted himself down . He was seemingly invincible. Why did I weep? - I didn't know him - the news broke of hundreds killed and buried alive in Turkey amid far more tragic circumstances, yet right then, these victims were faceless to me.......all I could see was Marco, all I could picture was that empty grid space, and the seasons ahead that were supposed to be. .... THIS!!!!!!!!!!!
John - brave, sincere and honest post. I remember years ago walking through the paddock at Donington with my partner and I pointed out a young Marco to her. She said he looked like the love child of Donald Sutherland
Gaz - I thought precisely the same as you - and as great Simoncelli memories go look no further than the other week at Philip Island. Having ruthlessly stalked Dovi in the vile weather at Silverstone last June, Marco had closed the gap. When Andrea responded - himself a master of such atrocious conditions, Marco went down under braking in the standing water at the end of the International pit straight. At PI however, he methodically and systematically appraised Dovi on a similarly treacherous track and executed for me one of the moves of the season with clinical precision, finesse and guile. Marco it seems was finally coming of age in time for the reintroduction of the litre class - and I was finally coming round to his absurd level of latent natural talent yet to be fulfilled. My abiding Sic memory? - after that race in Parc Ferme he bounded over to Andrea his life long arch rival and clasped his hand in delight - not in defiant triumph or arrogance - but in pure Marco style unbridled enthusiasm over the race they had just run. Wonderful!
Rog - I was thinking the same. The frustration over the circumstances surrounding Shoya and Daijiro lead us to vent fury on race control. It's so natural when in the face of something so tragic to be unable to process what has happened and resort to irrational anger, blame, denial, or extreme grief before reaching acceptance. Yesterday, I found myself cursing the dubious grip at Sepang, the loathsome 800cc formula, even Bridgestone.
Marco was like Icarus - we always felt disaster was looming, but despite the warnings we loved to watch him soar. This sport is gladiatorial - we all know that, and we are appalled but similarly thrilled by the associated risks.
Oost you are so right that Sic polarised the paddock, a hero and a villain in equal measure. But in the face of a seemingly endless paddock procession of p/r platitude fed, faceless and uncharismatic cloned midgets - he was a giant in personality character and larger than life both on and off the bike.
Pete, Liz, Levi, Wills, Oost amongst many others - outstanding posts...thank you for sharing your thoughts.
God Bless you Marco - and if indeed you flew too close to sun.....well, you ......' dazzled and blinded us all in the process.
R.I.P
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siebenbürgen süße heimat!
agreed, thanks to everyone for posting, it is comforting for me to know other fans feel the same way
great pics curve,keep up the good work
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Liz Don't stop watching.
I understand and feel your pain but I will be there in Valencia to send our brother off. He was my chosen one.
I can't put into words how empty I feel right now.
But rest assured I will be watching, this year, next year, and hopefully many years after that.
Come with me and we can be brave together.
Lil Red
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