Two days ago the death of the Dutch driver Victor Steeman, victim of a terrible accident during the Supersport 300 race 1 in Portimao in Portugal.

He was 22 years old.

Today the news of the cardiac arrest of his mother, Flora van Limbeek.

According to Dutch media reports, in particular racesport.nl, the woman was found lifeless yesterday in her home in Lathum, the Netherlands.

She was 59 years old.

The Kawasaki rider, before dying, had been hospitalized in very serious conditions in the intensive care unit of the Portuguese hospital in Faro.

He had suffered a head injury in the violent impact at Turn 14 of the Algarve track.

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The MotoGp riders and the paddock family remember Phil Read and Victor Steeman in the media center with a minute of silence during the previews ahead of the Australian MotoGP