Maurizio Salvadori, father of the Italian bike racer Luca Salvadori, has posted a video to his late son’s YouTube channel that includes a reconstruction of the crash which led to his demise.
The video was posted on the finish of December and consists of an English-dubbed monologue from Maurizio Salvadori.
The video description reads as follows: “In the present day, on the final Monday of a 2024 that has deeply affected us, Maurizio has determined to share an vital replace with you.
“This video was created to reply your many questions, to make clear the dynamics of Luca’s accident and to share some reflections on the way forward for his channel and the neighborhood he created.
“Maurizio will speak to you in regards to the decisions made to honor Luca’s reminiscence, the undertaking to create an area devoted to him within the Trident Motorsport manufacturing facility and his authorized battle to make sure larger security in street bike competitions.
“He can even ask you for an opinion on a very vital initiative: the Basis in Luca’s title, to assist motorcyclists who’re victims of accidents.”
Salvadori had been racing within the Worldwide Street Racing Championship for the primary time in 2024, when he crashed on the Frohburg circuit in Germany in September.
The reconstruction proven within the video reveals how Salvadori crashed when making an attempt to keep away from a rider who fell in entrance of him in a nook that he entered at 250kph (155mph).
Salvadori hit the rider and fell himself, heading in direction of a barrier that was positioned round some timber, and which was perpendicular to the observe within the place the place Salvadori’s bike hit it.
Maurizio Salvadori says that as a result of the fences that made up the barrier weren’t mounted in place, they have been capable of be moved out of the best way by Salvadori’s bike, that means that when Salvadori himself reached the barrier he went straight by way of the hole and straight into the straw bales behind.
Mr. Salvadori mentioned his son reached the barrier at a pace of 102kph (63mph), and urged that the limitations used on this case weren’t match for function.
“It have to be mentioned that these air limitations will not be authorised,” Mr. Salvadori mentioned. “They weren’t mounted to the bottom per laws, and plainly they’re protecting limitations used for biking races.”
He continued: “It have to be added that straw bales — that are mechanically pressed, not like these used previously — have been banned since 2018. I feel there may be little so as to add to this case.”
The complete video might be watched beneath.
