MotoGP bad crash

Anybody watching the MotoGP race at Malaysia on TV? They just had a nasty crash, and it appeared someone's helmet flew off in the process (I had caught the tail end of the crash). I hope to god nothing bad has happened.

The looks on the pit land too just look eerily similar to when Wheldon crashed. I don't think this is going to be good

Update: They canceled the race. The rider in question is Marco Simoncelli.

Colin Edwards reportedly has a dislocated shoulder, while Simoncelli is fighting for his life

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/23102011/58/simoncelli-fighting-life-crash.html

Thanks for the update. Was looking at the MotoGP site, and they had nothing about it, or at least anything regarding the race.

It's Over.. Simocelli Died as results of his injuries.....
R.I.P Marco

RIP Marco Simoncelli

It's bad enough when it happens once, but in the span of 7 days?!?

RIP Marco

Edit (something to add): I'm not trying to make funny, or mock the situations or anything of the sort. The odd thing with the past week has been, the very night before Dan Wheldon's death, something drew me to read about the Dale Earnhardt and Ayrton Senna deaths. This past week, I had a dream that I was watching a motorcycle race on TV (not this exact one, but just one in general), and something like that happened in my dream. As I said, not trying to make funny or mock the situation, but it's just generally freaky with all of that.

Unfortunate timing creates a double tragedy.

RIP Marco Simoncelli.

Nascar9fan wrote:

PYLrulz wrote:It's bad enough when it happens once, but in the span of 7 days?!?

RIP Marco

Like I said with Wheldon's crash, racing is becoming unsafe with the high speeds & lack of safety for the high speed crashes in most veichles.

RIP Marco

The thing was, with Simonelli's crash, it wasn't as much the speed (it happened in a slower corner), it was just one of the drivers (Edwards I believe) that couldn't react quick enough. I can't imagine being him right now. I would think it's one thing where you trigger an accident (through no fault of ones own, due to racing conditions) that eventually took ones life, but to be the person that (obviously unintentionally) took the life of a fellow competitor. I just can't imagine the feeling he could be going through right now)

Another Tragedy falls upon the motorsports community, and in the worse possible timeframe.

RIP Marco Simoncelli.

Nascar9fan wrote:

PYLrulz wrote:It's bad enough when it happens once, but in the span of 7 days?!?

RIP Marco

Like I said with Wheldon's crash, racing is becoming unsafe with the high speeds & lack of safety for the high speed crashes in most veichles.

RIP Marco

As what PYLrulz said, speed was not a factor at all in this crash. Simoncelli came back on the racing line at the wrong time and Colin Edwards had nowhere to go but to unfortunately drill Simoncelli in the head. Edwards as you can see jams his arm between something on Simoncelli's bike and dislocates his shoulder in the process. Again as what PYLrulz said about being Edwards at this point, I would not want to be him in any way.

PYLrulz wrote:It's bad enough when it happens once, but in the span of 7 days?!?

RIP Marco

Edit (something to add): I'm not trying to make funny, or mock the situations or anything of the sort. The odd thing with the past week has been, the very night before Dan Wheldon's death, something drew me to read about the Dale Earnhardt and Ayrton Senna deaths. This past week, I had a dream that I was watching a motorcycle race on TV (not this exact one, but just one in general), and something like that happened in my dream. As I said, not trying to make funny or mock the situation, but it's just generally freaky with all of that.

the day before Vegas i suddenly got the urge to go through youtube a watch various fatal crashes over again. it was eery going through my viewing history because it all lined up. mark porter, mike burgmann, then dan wheldon. now marco simoncelli.

this has been a terrible past week. dan wheldon, rick huseman, marco simoncelli. i'm not sure how much more we can take

There wasn't much speed involved,the extent of the wreckage was not huge.It was just like what happened to Shoya Tomizawa(killed last year at Misano).Just an innocent victim making a small mistake that led to tragic consequences.Had that happened in the back of the pack,he would have slid into the barrier,stood up and walked away.just a shame that Edwards and Rossi had to be there at the exact time he made the little error.

R.I.P Marco Simoncelli

R.I.P. Marco Simoncelli. I never watched MotoGP, but its still sad to see someone go before their time.

Gosh, that's sad. I never watched MotoGP, but those guys have a lot of guts in order to race those motorcycles.

My thoughts go out to Marco Simoncelli's family and friends.

R.I.P. Marco Simoncelli.

teamwhiper wrote:There wasn't much speed involved,the extent of the wreckage was not huge.It was just like what happened to Shoya Tomizawa(killed last year at Misano).Just an innocent victim making a small mistake that led to tragic consequences.Had that happened in the back of the pack,he would have slid into the barrier,stood up and walked away.just a shame that Edwards and Rossi had to be there at the exact time he made the little error.

R.I.P Marco Simoncelli

Same thing that happened to Peter Lenz, that 14-year-old who was killed warming up at Indy the week before Tomizawa's fatal crash.

R.I.P. Marco Simoncelli

I watched MotoGP enough to know Casey Roderick was my favorite driver. Regardless, rest in peace. Man, they just keep comin.

Nascar9fan wrote:Like I said with Wheldon's crash, racing is becoming unsafe with the high speeds & lack of safety for the high speed crashes in most veichles.

RIP Marco

Has racing ever been safe? There's always the chance of injury or death when dealing with heavy machinery. It's just a part of the sport, like it or not, and people need to accept that if they're going to watch it.

I don't really watch MotoGP all that often but it was surprising when I heard that Carrottop (Simoncelli) died. It was a horrible accident, but he went out quickly and probably didn't feel a thing which is what most people would prefer to have as their death, plus he was doing what he loved to do. Rest In Peace Marco Simoncelli.

Dang, two fatalities in one week.
R.I.P. Marco Simoncelli

RIP Marco Simoncelli

F1V1 wrote:
Has racing ever been safe? There's always the chance of injury or death when dealing with heavy machinery. It's just a part of the sport, like it or not, and people need to accept that if they're going to watch it.

you speak the truth, but when was the last time we lost two drivers in the span of a week? 1994?

Mystrsyko wrote:

F1V1 wrote:
Has racing ever been safe? There's always the chance of injury or death when dealing with heavy machinery. It's just a part of the sport, like it or not, and people need to accept that if they're going to watch it.

you speak the truth, but when was the last time we lost two drivers in the span of a week? 1994?

Agreed. With stock cars, Indy cars, race tracks, you can do a lot, but with motorcycles, it's pretty much man, track, and bike, and only the track can be made safer under certain situations. This, like I said, was one of those deals where no matter what you do, the consequences were probably going to be deadly no matter what.

You've got to be F&^$#)ing kidding me.
2 in one week?
I thought racing was safe but apparently that doesn't go for all of racing.
RIP Dan Wheldon(1978-2011), Marco Simoncelli(1987-2011)

Mystrsyko wrote:

F1V1 wrote:
Has racing ever been safe? There's always the chance of injury or death when dealing with heavy machinery. It's just a part of the sport, like it or not, and people need to accept that if they're going to watch it.

you speak the truth, but when was the last time we lost two drivers in the span of a week? 1994?

Yeah it's been a long time since we've had this much tragedy in the same week. Interesting note about Simoncelli, he suffered two preseason testing crashes at Sepang shortly before last season, the second of which cracked his helmet. Looks like Sepang wasn't nice to Marco :/