Marco Simoncelli 1987-2011

In this dark week of motorsport we lose another driver. This time in Moto GP.

Marco Simoncelli was just twenty four when he was struck by Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi at the Malaysian GP.

Marco was really up and coming in Moto GP and was definitely one to watch for the future.

It was such a gruesome crash that Sky news didn't even show it and when I did see the crash in full on Euro News. I actually felt physically sick.
Seeing Simoncelli without his helmet, whilst laying lifeless in the middle of the track is something I will never forget.

Now I don't watch Moto GP very often and I know that motorbikes are infinitely more dangerous then other forms of motorsport but it's still a shock to the system to have another driver die within a week.

I don't know how Moto GP can ever really be safe, after all when the drivers have an accident they don't have a monocoque to protect them. Only themselves.

The scariest thing is that Marco was the same age has me. Twenty Four.

That's no age to lose a life, especially when life hasn't truly begun.

My thoughts go to Marco Simoncelli's family and friends.

In the blackest week that motorsport has faced in years.

Dan Wheldon 1978-2011

This post will seem a little late in coming, but without the internet at my new home. I have had to travel back to my old house to steal it.

The next part of this post was written down ready to tell you now.

"It's half twelve on Sunday the 16th of October and I'm laying in my bed writing this down.
At about half past ten. I saw on facebook on my phone that there had been a 15 car pile up in Indycar race in Las Vegas.
From the looks of the footage it was a bad one, I was also told that Dan Wheldon was seriously hurt.
The next thirty minutes was a flurry of trying to find any news I could about the accident without the internet. Twitter on my phone was down and Sky news had nothing about the crash on its sport segment. Funny enough the only place I found some infomation was on Aljazerra TV. (Strange)
Then as I went to bed at midnight, I checked my phone to find out that Dan Wheldon had died aged just 33."

In that moment I dropped my phone and burst in tears and at that moment a little part of my heart died.

I may not know much about Indycar but I do know one thing. That no matter what the motorsport. No race should ever end in a lost of a life. Ever.

Two deaths in five years in Indycar. This figure should of been none.

Any big crash or even a fatality should be a massive reminder that safety in motorsport can never stall or be made light of.

In this dark day in motorsport.

My thoughts are with Dan Wheldon's wife, two children, his family and his friends.
Gone but never forgotten.