Today we still remember one of the great MotoGP riders, Marco Simoncelli. Many fans and professional colleagues of the Italian rider were shocked when Simoncelli’s fatal incident at Sepang happened.
However, there were those who didn’t realize the risks involved when competing in MotoGP, one of those people being Jorge Lorenzo. The former Spanish rider spoke on the podcast “The Wild Project” about how he didn’t realize until the moment of the accident that the Italian rider, Marco Simoncelli, risked his life every time he got on his bike.
– In the end, life depends on the days. There are many occasions when we’ve been on the verge of losing our lives and it hasn’t happened. Or, on the contrary, we’re unlucky enough for things to happen that way. Misfortune and chance exist in life, but you shouldn’t think about them or depend on them. You have to think that you have everything under control and the more you control it, the better.
He added: ‘I had respect, but you don’t really know that you’re going to die. That’s why, when Simoncelli died, I started crying, because I didn’t understand anything. How was it possible that one race earlier I was recovering from the injury caused at the Australian GP when the bike fell on me? I was recovering in Barcelona, with my mother, and in front of the television I saw Simoncelli die. I remember crying, calling Carlos Checa, who was a great friend at the time, and talking about it, also in shock’.