On social networks there are words that are repeated: “Now Fausto you are with Sic, say hello to us”. Fausto is Fausto Gresini, one of the pillars of the world championship dead, at just 60, due to the consequences of Covid. He had been hospitalized at the Maggiore hospital in Bologna since the end of December and seemed to have recovered, but a rapid deterioration in recent days led to the death of the two-time 125cc world champion in 1985 and 1987.
Yesterday evening the wrong news of the death, denied by his son Lorenzo who had kept fans and friends updated over the weeks, today the confirmation of his Team with a message also reported on Twitter and Facebook.
The news we would have never wanted to give, and that unfortunately we are forced to share with all of you. After nearly two months battling against Covid, Fausto Gresini has sadly passed away, few days after turning 60. #HelloFausto❤️ pic.twitter.com/mHMsDgunmb
– Gresini Racing (@GresiniRacing) February 23, 2021
He remained in the world championship even after he stopped racing. For everyone it was only Fausto. He spent 36 years in the paddock. Everyone knew him, he knew everyone. Perhaps he was even more famous as a manager than as a driver. He came from Imola, on the border between Emilia and Romagna, a land of riders, many grown up in motorcycling by him.
The first was Loris Capirossi and still Gresini ran. Arriving at Honda at the end of his career he helped him to his debut and in that 1990 Capirossi won his first world title. His experience as a “guardian angel” of fellow countryman Loris was the origin of the future Team Gresini.
“At a certain point in my career,” he said, “I had to choose whether to become an old driver or a young manager.” He chose the second way and did it to the fullest, creating an often winning private team. There was before Daijiro Kato, Japanese who became world champion of the 250. His fate, however, marked by a fatal accident in Suzuka in 2003. There would have been another, equally painful, for Gresini, the death, on 23 October 2011, of Marco Simoncelli. «Marco was special, he was pure. I’ve never seen him angry, never a moment over the top. I had many champions but he was unique, he knew how to work as a team, he always had a word for everyone. Nothing will be as before without him ».
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