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R.I.P Tomi

My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends.

Once again another talent taken away far too young!

And as others has said, questions need to be answered in the way the marshalls treated those involved, it should have immediatley been red flagged. The whole incident was treated so poorly, and who knows, the way the marshalls treated Tomi could have resulted in his injuries becoming worse resulting in his death.

I just hope there will be a full and in depth investigation.

Get well soon Scott.

i think dorna and gp's has had its day Where was the red flag  they dont care about anything apart from being better than world superbikes and making a big fat payday its sutch a shame when u see riders being treated like that just to keep the show going hang your heads in shame dorna it was a disgrace all the best to family's of the riders in the accident .

sad day

 id just  like to extend my sincerest  condolancses to shoyas family and friends at this very sad time .    He left an endearing mark on our sport for someone so young .Not only with the way he road a motorcycle on track but the way he conducted himself of of it .   He was a credit to his family and to  the sport we love so much .  many thanks tomizawa san for gracing our sport with your presence. god speed and RIP.

Dorna

I read on another article "The official news of his death had not filtered through before the start of the MotoGP race, so the event went ahead." Under FIA regulations any death at an event results in immediate cancellation. Without getting into a conspiracy theory, it is feesible that the powers that be knew before the face began.. Nonetheless, today was a very sad day for all lovers of the sport. RIP Shoya.

According to Reuters, Shoya was declared dead at 14.20 local time, 20 minutes after the Moto GP race started. Whilst emotions are running very high on this sad day, might I respectfully suggest we should be more concerned that the marshall's actions at the scene of the accident should be thoroughly investigated, and that Alex de Angelis and Scott Redding are being cared for. My view is that stopping the Moto GP race would have served no purpose.

I would also like to protest to the administrators of the Eurosport Yahoo website for not doing anything like enough to deal with the hideous, offensive and tasteless comments being posted by some on their forum.