Jason Dupasquier died, he was only 19 years old. The Swiss driver was involved in a terrible accident during qualifying on Saturday, an accident that cost him his life. It was immediately clear that his condition was extremely delicate. The news of his death unfortunately became a reality in the late morning of Sunday 30 May and Dupasquier unfortunately joins a very long list of riders who lost their lives during motorcycle racing. The last one before Dupasquier was the Spaniard Luis Salom, before him M had tragically diedSimoncelli arch, in the 2011 Malaysian GP.
Fatal accidents in the World Championship
The World Championship is in mourning, but it can be safely said that all motorsport is crying today. This is how it is every time a rider loses his life and it is more so when unfortunately a boy leaves this land only 19 years old. Fatal for Dupasquier was the accident on Saturday that took place in the tests of the Mugello race. The Swiss joins the list of dead riders in the MotoGP. Until this morning the last rider to lose his life in a race weekend was the Spaniard Luis Salom, who died in Barcelona in 2016. Before that the great ‘Sic’ died on the track, Marco Simoncelli in Sepang, in a few months they will be ten years have already passed.
The total number of riders who died during a race weekend is very high, 104 are those who died due to an accident in the race or tests of the MotoGP. Among these also the myths JArno Saarinen and Renzo Pasolini, who lost their lives in the 1970s. The deaths of the Japanese Kato, who was reigning world champion, and the Japanese Tomizawa, who died on the Misano circuit in a Moto2 race, are also remembered in recent times. Safety has made enormous strides, as Valentino Rossi also said on Saturday, in the last twenty-seven years five riders have lost their lives on the track because obviously the dangers are always many and the risk can never be completely erased.
