Rider suspended after 'terrifying' 250 km/h crash

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Moto3 rider Deniz Oncu has been suspended for 2 races aft a "terrifying" clang during this morning's contention successful Texas.

Travelling astatine implicit 250 km/h, Oncu chopped successful beforehand of Jeremy Alcoba, sending Alcoba crashing to the track.

Andrea Migno and title person Pedro Acosta had nary accidental to debar the carnage, and were sent flying done the air.

The contention was instantly stopped, but fortunately each 3 riders escaped superior injury.

"Absolutely terrifying what we've conscionable seen there," said Matt Birt successful commentary.

"Absolutely terrifying. Heart successful rima stuff, that is 1 of the worst-case scenarios."

The mishap occurred connected the backmost consecutive of the Circuit of the Americas track.

"Horrendous, precocious velocity crash," added chap commentator Steve Day.

"I cannot judge we are watching 3 riders locomotion distant unwounded, from what looked perfectly terrifying.

"That was genuinely shocking to watch."

Oncu has been banned from the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix aboriginal this month, and Algarve Grand Prix successful November.

"You were recovered to person caused a clang by swerving into the enactment of different rider connected the consecutive information of the way betwixt T11 and T12," the stewards said successful a statement.

"This contravenes the circumstantial instructions fixed to each team/competitors by email, and it is considered irresponsible riding causing information to different competitors.

"It is truthful an infringement of Article 1.2.1.2 of the FIM World Championship Grand Prix Regulations.

"For the supra reasons and the deliberate causing this superior incident, the FIM MotoGP Stewards Panel has imposed a suspension from participating successful the 2021 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix and the 2021 Algarve Grand Prix."

Safety successful the sport's inferior categories is precise overmuch successful the spotlight astatine the moment. This morning's mishap came conscionable a week aft 15-year-old Dean Berta Vinales died successful a crash astatine Jerez successful Spain.

Earlier this year, Moto3 rider Jason Dupasquier died aft helium fell from his motorcycle astatine Mugello and was deed by a pursuing rider.

And 14-year-old Spaniard Hugo Millan died successful July successful akin circumstances aft falling and being hit.

Speaking earlier the latest crash, Australia's MotoGP prima Jack Miller urged organisers to look astatine the reasons wherefore the deaths are occurring.

"The athletics is the sport; it's hard and it's brutal," helium said.

"That's portion of the quality of it. It's truthful raw. At the extremity of the time it's dangerous, and these things tin happen.

"There is nary casual mode astir that, but it's beyond unspeakable what is happening. It's atrocious this year, with truthful galore young lives being lost. Looking astatine Dean, calved successful 2006 – it's not agelong ago. The mediocre kid didn't get to unrecorded a afloat beingness and that's terrible.

"There has to beryllium a large measurement taken successful looking astatine the safety, astatine the mode these races go. This can't proceed on. This twelvemonth has been particularly bad, and this can't continue. We can't person 3 young kids losing their lives successful the abstraction of 9 months.

"I deliberation I talk for everyone erstwhile I accidental that I'm sick and bushed of going to minutes of soundlessness for kids that were so, truthful young."

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