English
Italiano
Histrionic, unruly, a life spent for and in two wheels since the 1970s at Piaggio. Carlo Pernat, absent from Thailand, site of the first GP of the 2025 MotoGP season, for health reasons, nevertheless did not fail to speak out on the subject, and in an exclusive interview with the newspaper Il Secolo XIX he not only dwelt on contemporary news, but also went backwards, to the most significant and painful moments for him.
One of these was the accident on the Sepang circuit that took Marco Simoncelli from us on October 23, 2011. "I miss his smile ," he began the story, " When he died I lived two months at his house, with his parents. I never told anyone, but I wanted to quit and so did his dad Paolo. We saved each other. We both continued, me with my work and him with his team."
Not quitting would have been just what the pilot from Coriano would have wanted. "In six years we created a foundation that today raises two million euros annually," he said proudly, before dwelling on Sic's talents and the event that changed Rossi's life.
"They called him 'The Patacca' because he was naive, a friend to everyone, especially Valentino, who, however, never came to see the family for two months - the memory of the aftermath of that terrible Malaysian day that had the same emotional impact in MotoGP as Ayrton Senna's disappearance in Formula 1 in 1994 - Since the last blow with the wheel was given to him, he felt guilty for killing him. He has not been the same since then. In my opinion, he is still carrying it around with him."
Automatic Translation by DeepL
