Like many minor bikers before him, a 15-year-old teenager lost life during a race, September 25, in Andalusia. Without the leading authorities of this very popular sport try to stop this fatal mechanical.
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“Fourteen years, it’s not an age to die. All a mowed life …” Thus had reacted the head of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, on Twitter, when the young motorcycle pilot Marcos Garrido Beltrán had found the Death on the Jerez circuit after having fallen into a turn in the last round. It was in March 2019, and this creepy kid at the bouille of child was participating in a race of the Supersport 300 category of the Andalusia Championship. It overlap a Yamaha R3 motorcycle of 321 cm 3 , weighing 170 kg and capable of reaching a speed of 185 kilometers-hour.
On September 25, on this same circuit of Jerez, Dean Berta Viñales, 15, died in turn in similar conditions. He too was considered a hope for this sport. His uncle Maverick Viñales, MotoGP driver boosted to put gasoline in the baby bottles of the family.
In July, it’s another 14-year-old Spanish teenager, Hugo Millán, with a poupon, who died during an open junior event from 12 years old. It was only 7 years old when he had entered the Cuna de los Campeones (“The Cradle of Champions”), the Motorcycle Chest school, near Valencia, where children are initiated at the age of 4 years . At 10, future motorcyclists can start competition on speed circuits. At age 14, they participate in the Supersport 300 Championship. In June 2018, Andreas Pérez was only 14 years old when he lost his life, too, on the circuit of Montmeló, Catalonia.
Indignant reactions
After the death of Dean Berta Viñales, the reactions soon did not in the press. “Not one more”, Involve the specialist website Solo motorcycle , while Motor PASION MOTO estimated that the risks taken are “unbearable” . On a daily basis, even if he was “anxious”, the President of the Spanish Motorcycling Federation (RFME), Manuel Casado, resumed the usual argument: “Everyone knows that motorcyclism is a sport to High risk. “It would still consider backing the age at which pilots have access to large circuits, currently set at 12 years, and reduce the number of participants. Because on September 25, no less than 42 motorcycles have taken place on the starting line alongside Dean Berta Viñales.
But, with this last tragedy, the controversy has risen from a notch, fueled by the statements of the pilot Michel Fabrizio, 37 years old. On Facebook, the very evening of the accident, when he announced his retirement, the Italian champion evoked “a hecatomb”. “I refuse to compete given the lack of respect for human life. It’s time to say Stop,” he published, before calling “the indifference of the International Federation of Motorcycling (FIM “Who” does not play his role as protector but prefers to do business “, with” 42 children in the Yamaha Cup and still 43 in Supersport 300: too many drivers with little or no experience “.
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