MotoGP rider Marco Simoncelli dies in race accident

Bad news, Marco Simoncelli has died from the injuries he sustained in a crash on the second lap of the Malaysian Grand Prix.

He was taken by ambulance to the circuit’s medical centre, but at 4.56pm local time it was announced he had succumbed to his injuries.

Motogp official report ; I’m very sad to be here to report about the death of Marco Simoncelli, a friend. Because of the crash he had during the race, in which he was hit by other riders, he suffered a very serious trauma to the head, to the neck and the chest. When our medical staff got to him he was unconscious. In the ambulance because there was a cardiac arrest they started CPR (cardiac pulmonary resuscitation). Immediately in the Medical Centre, with the help also of the Doctor of our staff at the Clinica Mobile and local Doctors, he was intubated and it was possible to take off some blood from the thorax. The CPR was continued for 45 minutes because we tried to help him for as long as we thought it was possible. Unfortunately it was not possible to help him and at 16:56 (local time) we had to declare he was dead.

Simoncelli had established himself as one of the most exciting new stars in MotoGP this season, He had also secured works Honda equipment again with Gresini next season, ensuring he would have started 2012 as a potential MotoGP winner.

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