Cable Forum - RIP: Shoya Tomizawa

i posted elsewhere about this. saw what happened and my stomach nearly turned inside out when you realise the gravity what's just happened. reading the general list of injuries shoya suffered - i think he was just about lost as soon as it happened. i would like to think that he didn't suffer in any great way (not that i would have want him to suffer anything), i would have thought that the first impact would have rendered him unconscious and he wouldn't have known anything about the second.

this is the second death in consecutive weekends. back at the indy gp, a 13 year old starlet named peter lenz crashed if memory servers right it was on the warm up lap on one of the local races that precursor the main event.

ultimately, they know what they are doing and what goes with it. nobody forces them to do it - just their love of the sport & chasing the dream, although with more risks than most.

but it's a risk that they all accept regardless of age. youngsters bradley smith and danny webb were only 16 & 15 when the started in the 125gp's and then there is scott redding who is only 17 himself. i saw an interview with his dad last night, and he said he was cut up about it (goes without saying really) and didn't know if he was going to carry on.

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Originally Posted by Ravenheart (Post 35086010)

Was gutted to hear this during the MotoGP coverage. In the Moto2 race looked like he went slightly wide coming out of one of the turns, and hit the astroturf next to the apron, being hit by the 2 riders behind him certainly won't have helped. (Scott Redding and Alex de Angelis)

Sad day my thoughts are with Shoya's family, and it's only a week since we lost Peter Lens too :(

R.I.P guys.

looking at it, it looks like his front lost all traction/grip on the rumble strip thus front end ducked under and was then curtains before the tragedy unfolded. weather he was carrying to much speed out of the corner or misjudged his exit angle remains to be seen and will no doubt come out in the subsequent investigation - i sure that telemetry and sensors will be able to tell something.

there was absolutely nothing that de angelis or redding could have done to avoid him as they were that close to each other. whats more amazing is that redding only needed 10 stitches for a cut on his back and de angelis walked away unscathed - weather by luck or something else i can't say.

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Originally Posted by Caff (Post 35086008)

Seems to me from the report that he may well have been too inexperienced.
Sad.

in what way? he had nearly 30 gp races under his belt and no doubt will have come through the ranks in japan. so will have had a lot of experience of bike racing. if the admins don't think you're up to it they wouldn't let you race - i assume that you'd need the equivalent of f1's super licence to race in motogp at any level.