The 19-year-old Swiss was in his prime after spending the entire preseason in Barcelona. He fell into the fast turn 9 and Sasaki and Alcoba couldn’t avoid him.
The question is repeated. This Sunday the riders parked their motorcycles and asked if, in the 40 minutes they had been racing, someone had called from the Florence Hospital. There was no news. Until this Sunday in Mugello the Moto3 race ended, the MotoGP World Championship pretended nothing was happening. Then came the breakdown. Again a deceased young man. Again a run over. How it cried with the Italian Marco Simoncelli in 2011 or with the Japanese Shoya Tomizawa In 2010, another rider’s motorcycle ended the life of Jason Dupasquier, a 19-year-old Swiss boy in his second season in the Moto3 World Championship.
It happened on Saturday in the closing moments of the category classification session. When the timer had run out and all the contenders were hurrying their laps, Dupasquier lost control of his KTM when exiting Turn 9, the very fast Arrabiata 2, and fell on the asphalt. The organization of the championship offered few images of what happened -the usual protocol in these cases-, but according to what could be observed in these, the Japanese Ayumu Sasaki and spanish Jeremy Alcoba They did not manage to avoid him, they struck against his body and left him badly injured in the middle of the track. Due to the speed of the group and the harshness of the impact, the stewards quickly suspended the session and stopped the activity on the circuit.
For more than half an hour, the Swiss was treated on the asphalt, then the helicopter parked on the runway itself and, after an eternal time, took him to the Hospital of Florence. At the medical center he was operated on for cerebral edema and spent the night in the Intensive Care Unit. As the World Cup organization confirmed this Sunday, the intervention could not save his life.
In his prime
Dupasquier was enjoying the best moment of his career after a winter working in Barcelona. Fleeing the snow and the cold of his country, for the first time in his life he became emancipated, rented an apartment in Spain and spent several weeks training at the Montmel circuit, at the Vallgorguina Motocross Motor Park, in various kartings or by bike through Collserola. “In January and February I worked very, very hard and that changed me physically and mentally,” he commented to ‘Actumoto’, a magazine from his country, about the preseason that transformed him. After spending all of 2020 without scoring, accumulating races among the last, this 2021 he had rubbed shoulders with the best and even in Jerez he aspired to the podium. By her own admission, in recent weeks she was enjoying her own evolution.
Son of Phillipe Dupasquier, who contested the Motocross World Championship between 1993 and 2003, Jason was soon drawn to speed. At the age of 15 he was already champion of the NEC Championship, the northern European championship that is played between Germany, Austria and the Netherlands, and later he was trained in the Junior World Cup and the Red Bull Rookies Cup. Last year he appeared in the World Cup. Moto3 from the hand of the German Pruestel GP team, who had renewed him for this course.
His fatality is the continuation of the long scourge that overshadows the MotoGP World Championship. Since the start of competition in the 1950s, more than 60 pilots have died. Until this Saturday, the deaths of Luis salom, which hit his own motorcycle in Montmel in 2016; Marco Simoncelli; Shoya Tomizawa; or he is also japanese Daijiro Kato, which crashed into a wall in Suzuka in 2003, had been the last misfortunes mourned by the paddock of a competition that never stops. As happened on other occasions, this Sunday in Mugello the pilots will also compete, although they can only think of Dupasquier while they run on a motorcycle.
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