Jason Dupasquier didn’t make it. The 19-year-old Swiss rider died following the very serious injuries sustained in the dramatic accident he suffered during the Moto3 qualifying of the Italian GP at Mugello on Saturday afternoon. Despite the desperate attempt of the doctors of the Careggi hospital in Florence who operated on his chest in the night between Saturday and Sunday due to a vascular lesion, the very young Swiss centaur lost his life on Sunday 30 May 2021.
Who was Jason Dupasquier: the son of a driver who died in the tragic accident at Mugello
And from today, Sunday 30 May 2021, Jason Dupasquier is also among the youngest to enter this tragic list. The young Swiss rider born in 2001 still had to turn 20 years old (he would have turned them on 7 September) and was only in his second season in the Moto3 class of the World Championship. The 19-year-old was a son of art, his father Philippe was in fact a motocross rider, and precisely for this reason Jason’s approach with two wheels had arrived at an early age, starting to race first on dirt and then on the track. After getting noticed in the Rookies Cup he then joined the Red Bull riders and in 2020 the great chance arrived with the CarXpert PrüstelGP team that entrusted him with a KTM RC 250 GP in the Moto3 team. The same team with which he took part in the 2021 World Cup in the lower-displacement class and with which he raced at Mugello in his last time on the track before he died for that terrible accident at Arrabbiata-2.
Dupasquier is the latest victim of the world championship in a long list
Jason Dupasquier therefore joins the unfortunately long list of MotoGP riders who died on the track. Before him in 2016 the same epilogue had touched Luis Salom who died at 25 following a crash in the Catalan GP, while five years earlier the Italian Marco Simoncelli had died following an accident on the track. after the fatal crash in the MotoGP Malaysian GP. And even before that, the MotoGP paddock had cried Shoya Tomizawa (2010), Daijiro Kato (2003), Noboyuki Wakai (1993), Renzo Pasolini and Jarno Saarinen (1973).
