{"id":2781,"date":"2011-10-23T13:11:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T20:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2011-10-23T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T22:28:00","slug":"r-i-p-marco-simoncelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2011\/10\/r-i-p-marco-simoncelli\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Marco Simoncelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asphaltandrubber.com\/racing\/marco-simoncelli-death-malaysian-gp-motogp\/\">Asphalt and Rubber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Marco Simoncelli has tragically died today, after crashing in a horrific accident during the second lap of the Malaysian GP. Trading corners with Rizla Suzuki rider \u00c1lvaro Bautista and battling for fourth place, Simoncelli began the race in Sepang with his usual full-of-heart riding style. Certainly a podium contender for the day, the Italian lost control of his motorcycle in Turn 11 after losing the front. Propping the bike on his knee in order to save the slide, Simoncelli heroically but unfortunately stayed upright, cut back across the track, and collided with fellow racers Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi.<\/p>\n<p>While Rossi rode away unhurt, and Edwards injured only his shoulder, Simoncelli suffered the brunt of the impact, and lay helmetless on the track after the incident. Despite the best efforts of the medical staff at Sepang, Simoncelli could not be resuscitated and succumb to his injuries at 4:56pm local time. Accordingly the Malaysian GP has been cancelled. Asphalt &#038; Rubber joins the MotoGP paddock in mourning the loss of one the most beloved riders in series, and send our thoughts and prayers to Marco\u2019s family, friends, team, and loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>Ciao Marco, SuperSic forever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Marco-Simoncelli-MotoGP-Wallpaper-San-Carlo-Honda-Gresini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Marco-Simoncelli-MotoGP-Wallpaper-San-Carlo-Honda-Gresini-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Marco-Simoncelli-MotoGP-Wallpaper-San-Carlo-Honda-Gresini\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2782\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Marco-Simoncelli-MotoGP-Wallpaper-San-Carlo-Honda-Gresini-600x337.jpg 600w, http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Marco-Simoncelli-MotoGP-Wallpaper-San-Carlo-Honda-Gresini-900x506.jpg 900w, http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Marco-Simoncelli-MotoGP-Wallpaper-San-Carlo-Honda-Gresini.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Honda_RC212V_2011_Gresini_Marco_Simoncelli.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Honda_RC212V_2011_Gresini_Marco_Simoncelli-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Honda_RC212V_2011_Gresini_Marco_Simoncelli\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2794\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Honda_RC212V_2011_Gresini_Marco_Simoncelli-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Honda_RC212V_2011_Gresini_Marco_Simoncelli-900x675.jpg 900w, http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Honda_RC212V_2011_Gresini_Marco_Simoncelli.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/simoncelli.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/simoncelli-600x468.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"simoncelli\" width=\"600\" height=\"468\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2784\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/simoncelli-600x468.jpg 600w, http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/simoncelli.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Only 24 years old, he was a rising and fearless star in MotoGP, yet to realize his full potential. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from Asphalt and Rubber: Marco Simoncelli has tragically died today, after crashing in a horrific accident during the second lap of the Malaysian GP. Trading corners with Rizla Suzuki rider \u00c1lvaro Bautista and battling for fourth place, Simoncelli began the race in Sepang with his usual full-of-heart riding style. Certainly a podium contender for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2795,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}