He died yesterday when he was involved in a wreck on the 2nd lap of the race. We watch all these races because the man is huge Moto GP fan. Well, we record all of them...some of them happen live in the middle of the night our time.
Anyway, it was pretty apparent seconds after the wreck, that he was dead. So so sad. But the reason I'm bringing this up is because of the lack of media attention. Not that he died, but that Moto GP, even when the race was red flagged and all the other riders were in the pits, waiting, never showed his lifeless body again. They showed part of the crash with the other riders, but they never showed Marco Simoncelli again. On the news yesterday, during the sports reviews, they spoke of Marco Simoncelli and the wreck, but there was no video.
I'd like to commend Moto GP for not releasing the video to be shown a hundred times.
When Indy car driver Dan Wheldon was killed in that crash, I'll bet there were a thousand opportunities to see the video. I don't know who has the rights to Moto GP broadcasting but I'm happy that they don't care soooo much about publicity and $$ that they are willing to forgo any sense of respect and what's right. Oh it's out there...on youtube and a couple other places, but it's not prevelant.
It's enough to know that the young man died.
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