RIP Simoncelli

[Porkchop]

Originally Posted by derf

It really looked like a crazy unavoidable accident. Sim just came straight across the line tucked under the bike. Edwards and Rossi both looked like they swerved to the right to avoid him just a little too late. I still don't even know where sim came from. The video I saw showed the 4 or 5 bikes ahead of them and Sim wasnt even there.

I heard Sim lost the rear but saved it by planting his knee. When the rear finally grabbed he rode the thing out, trying to save it, but it was arcing back across the track. Thats why it seems like he came back perpindicular to the track, and why he was so low. Just a case of wrong place wrong time. If he would have dumped it in the gravel, he would still be