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2003 First full season in 125cc
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Photo by: Richard Sloop
2003 Valencia, ahead of Stoner who ended up winning the race
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2008 Portugal with the Gilera 250cc
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2008 250cc World Champion, together with Di Meglio (125cc) and Rossi (MotoGP)
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2010 Sepang test in February with the MotoGP Honda
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Photo by: Hazrin Yeob Men Shah
2010 French GP
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2011 Aragon, 4th place
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2011 Malaysian GP
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Valentino Rossi continues to wear Marco Simoncelli’s 58 on his helmet.
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The tribute and memory of the friend, the teacher and his inspiration, Valentino
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Mattia Pasini paid tribute to Simoncelli at the last San Marino GP by wearing a replica of his helmet
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Team members mourn the pilot at the point where he died.
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Photo by: Hazrin Yeob Men Shah
Ferrari and F1 pay tribute to Marco in Malaysia
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Tribute to Marco Simoncelli in the Team Gresini box
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco’s father and manager in Malaysia
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Marco’s father and girlfriend after hearing the sad news
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With his father, playing cards. It was usual to see him like this in the paddock.
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The Italian in the Circuit de Catalunya
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Marco Simoncelli, always happy, always joking
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, always in our hearts
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Flag of Marco Simoncelli
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli
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Marco Simoncelli
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Podium: Race Winner Casey Stoner, Repsol Honda Team, Second Place Andrea Dovizioso, Repsol Honda Team, Third Place Marco Simoncelli’s San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli makes cheese
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Marco Simoncelli
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Andrea Dovizioso, Repsol Honda Team finishes third ahead of Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini, Randy De Puniet, LCR Honda MotoGP
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini, Valentino Rossi, Fiat Yamaha Team
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini, Andrea Dovizioso, Repsol Honda Team
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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Marco Simoncelli, San Carlo Honda Gresini
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This was the death of Marco Simoncelli in Sepang 2011
It was lap two of the 2011 MotoGP Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang when Marco Simoncelli, struggling from the front, lost control of his white San Carlo Gresini Team Honda on the exit of Turn 11.
Far from accepting the fall, the Italian clung to the handlebars of the motorcycle, crossing the track from side to side, leaning on the asphalt at high speed. That trajectory to the right instead of to the loopholes on the left would end up being fatal.
In the heat of the first laps, Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi passed by. The American’s Yamaha hit Simoncelli’s neck and Rossi, a close friend of ‘SuperSic’, hit him. Such was the impact that Simoncelli’s helmet came off, and he was lying on the ground, motionless.
Edwards went to the ground and Rossi managed to avoid the fall, not knowing that what was left behind was the body of his beloved Marco Simoncelli. The race was immediately red-flagged and #58 was taken to the medical center, where nothing could be done for him. And at 4:56 p.m. (local time in Malaysia, which was 10:56 a.m. in Spain), he passed away.
The motorcycle world championship doctor explained that Simoncelli had suffered “very serious injuries to the head, neck and chest.” When the doctors arrived to meet him on the track, he was unconscious and in cardiac arrest.
“At the medical center he was intubated and a little blood could be drawn from his chest. The CPR that had started in the ambulance continued for 45 minutes. But unfortunately nothing more could be done.”
10 years without you and we still remember you every day, Marco. A rider with as much character off the track as talent on it.
