Even today we remember one of the great MotoGP riders, Marco Simoncelli. Many fans and colleagues of the Italian rider were shocked when Simoncelli’s fatal incident in Sepang occurred.
However, there were those who did not 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 had not realized until the moment of the accident of the Italian rider, Marco Simoncelli, that his life was at risk every time he got on his bike.
– In the end, life depends on the days. There are many occasions where we were on the brink of losing our lives and it did not happen. Or, on the contrary, we are unlucky that things happen that way. Bad luck and chance exist in life, but we should not dwell on them or depend on them. We have to think that we have everything under control and the more we control it, the better.
He also added: ‘I had respect, but you never really know if you are going to die. So, when Simoncelli died, I started crying, because I didn’t understand anything. How was it possible that in a race before I was recovering from an injury caused in 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’.
