• Tragedy Swiss Jason Dupasquier dies after being run over in Mugello

No scene better sums up MotoGP's coexistence with death than the way in which fans found out this Sunday about the death of Swiss rider

Jason Dupasquier

. Just after the Moto3 race at Mugello, three teenagers got off the podium broken and one of them,

Gabriel Rodrigo

, burst into tears in front of the cameras. "I want to dedicate it to Jason's family, who I just found out that he has left us," he commented distraught in a moment usually reserved for euphoria. Minutes after a podium, with their flags, with their anthems, the spectators fell into sadness. The two faces of motorcycling.

Then neither the International Federation, nor the World Cup, nor the Careggi Hospital in Florence, where Dupasquier was admitted, had reported his death and it was still some time before the officialization came. The blow for the death went through the paddock, where the teams and riders ran to improvise tributes to the Swiss, on their motorcycles, on their helmets. It may seem strange outside its borders, but inside no one was surprised that Moto2 and MotoGP races continue to be held. As it had happened other times, the show had to continue and so it was with a minute of silence as the only change in the planning and the feelings of the pilots as the main tribute to Dupasquier.

"It was a very strange day. Before the race I could feel the emotions and, during the race, every time I went around the corner of the accident I thought about Jason. This victory goes to him. It is a very bittersweet feeling to get a victory on day in which we lost one of our friends ", declared

Fabio Quartararo

after winning in MotoGP and extending his leadership. Now he has 24 points over the second, his compatriot

Johann Zarco

, and in just one week in Montmeló, his fetish circuit, he will have the possibility to continue in that line. His career this Sunday, like the whole day after the tragic news, did not hold much interest.

Thanks to the power of the Ducati,

Francesco Bagnaia

, perhaps the only one who can dispute the title, snatched the first place in the opening laps, but his early fall left Quartararo alone in the lead and he only had to worry about rolling, rolling and roll.

Behind there was some emotion until

Miguel Oliveira

and

Joan Mir

occupied second and third places and, among other things,

Maverick Viñales

could only finish eighth and

Marc Márquez

added another abandonment to his black season.

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