Tomizawa down.

And that's a bad thing. He (IMO) was a fucking great rider.

Commiserations to his family.

 

+1

 

Gutted. He's the one I was cheering on in Moto2, he was bonkers in the
first race. What a shitty way to go too.

 

Seeing him win in that first Moto2 race made me watch every Moto2 race
since.

 

As soon as it happened I thought it was a bad crash. Has there been
any word on Scott Redding because he looked in a bad way as well.

Those Italian marshals need educating on how to handle an injured
rider because they basically shoveled Redding onto the stretcher
without any bracing at all then proceeded to drop Tomizawa as they
carried him away.

Yep.

 

I think a few stitches in his arse. No broken bones.

It was a really nasty crash. I was pretty sure he bought it instantly.

 

He was dead in milliseconds, poor ****.

Great rider, too.

 

Nige escribió:

Um, he died during the next race.

 

His death was announced then, looking at the crash footsge Im with Nige
with this one, he died pretty much instantly.
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Gavin escribió:

Well, I don't know about there, but the commentators here were saying that
he was "between life and death" in hospital until about midway through the
GP race. But like you say, he wasn't going to live long after that accident.

 

Sad loss. Brought it home when they put his picture up at the end
of the MotoGP report -- 1990-2010. 1990? WTF? I must be getting old.

That too, but as Champ said, not really that much point in it.

I wonder if that's why the BBC seems to have withdrawn the iPlayer
footage of the support races? (It was shown as available for a while,
but nothing downloaded. Then it disappeared.)

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Not surprising - there were loads of gory slow-mo close-ups of the
crash.

 

Doesn't everyone? And it was better than saying "**** it, there'll be
another one along shortly".

 

Yup.

Seems like he lost the front exiting the corner though? I thought the
UKRM matra was this never happened? I know he was on the kerb at the
time, but even so.

 

Muslim, was he? Shame they didn't wait until Ramadan had finished
really.

 

I thought the mantra was "You never lose the front when you're on the
throttle"?

 

Well I'm not King Kenny, but I've never lost the front on the gas either, so
he could well have a point. And anyway, Tomizawa seemed to lose the back
before he went down.

 

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%
3A//www.quattrotempi.com/motomondiale-la-procura-indaga-sulla-morte-di-
tomizawa-ipotizzato-reato-di-omicidio-colposo-a-carico-di-ignoti-il-
dott-costa-e-stato-fatto-tutto-il-possibile/7645/
&hl=en&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie=UTF-8

English summary: public prosecutor considering manslaughter charges
against the marshals.

 

The article says that they are making inquiries as to whether or not
the volunteers were properly equipped. It could be that they are going
after the organizers for, in effect, negligence.

 

That won't help Tomizawa and it won't help them to get marshals next
time they hold a race there.

I'd be looking at who organised the meeting and how they ensured the
marshals were adequately trained. Mind you, I have a slightly biased
view on this because I was encouraged to go for proper training by the
TTMA yet they get slated by MCN.