Marco Simoncelli, an oak to never forget

The circuit already bears his name and all the times you read it on the signs and in the stands, on any sheet you cross it is always a leap to the heart. The name brings to mind that unforgettable cascade of curls. It runs here, a Misano Adriatico, on the 10th anniversary of the death of Marco Simoncelli. It gives the idea that he would have liked a silent memory with a special gesture. An oak was planted in the mound behind turn 8, Sic will recall.

It is the tree that for his father Paolo has always taken on the traits of his son: a strong trunk to embrace and a thick crown like that of the driver who died in Sepang on 23 October 2011. He also has one in his garden. “Marco is there. The oak is a robust, sincere tree, which represents it perfectly»Said Paolo Simoncelli.

And the curve more complex than the circuit, but also the one that gives the most satisfaction, the one that entertains drivers and fans. There was already an oak here, but now the thought can only go to Marco. Nobody has forgotten it. Everyone has had a thought for him these days.

“Sometimes I wonder if one becomes a legend for what he has done in life, or for how he is remembered. Sometimes about the interviews, a little at a time because it’s hard to see them all at once, I realize that Marco was extraordinary, he transmitted a great charge in the way of speaking, he transmitted something»Recalled the father interviewed by Sky. He always says he was a happy boy and kept up with his son’s habit: Marco hugged everyone.

“Ten is just a number,” he told al Corriere della Sera, “There is no anniversary that holds, because our son Marco is the lowest common denominator of our lives every day, from morning to night”. It is a thought very close to that of Valentino Rossi who was a mentor and friend of Sic: «Ten years have passed in which many things have happened, but it doesn’t seem to me that I haven’t seen him for so long. Sometimes I dream about it I think I only saw it two months ago. It’s a good feeling ».

On the other hand, the sensation of seeing Rossi racing his last MotoGP Grand Prix on Italian soil on the weekend of the tenth anniversary of Marco’s death, on the circuit that bears his name, is strange. Friendship united them, a way of life and thought still unites them. “First or last doesn’t count, the important thing is to give your best every single lap”. It applies to motorcycles and to life.

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