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“The news that we never wanted to give you and that we are forced to write. After two months of covid fights, Fausto Gresini leaves us with only 60 years, Ciao Fausto ”. So the Gresini Team announces the death of the former driver and coach of the team that bears his name.
The news that we never wanted to give, and that unfortunately we are forced to share with all of you. After nearly two months fighting Covid, Fausto Gresini sadly passed away just days after his 60th birthday. #HelloFaust pic.twitter.com/mHMsDgunmb
– Gresini Racing (@GresiniRacing) February 23, 2021
Fausto Gresini, therefore, did not succeed. After nearly two months of fighting in the hospital, living in a frenzy of hopes for recovery and a sudden deterioration, Covid defeated him and took one of the most important and well-known personalities of Italian motorcycling. Two-time world champion as a driver in the mid-eighties, with the 125, 60 years old on January 23, as a boarding school, after retiring he had a career as a two-wheeler top manager, founding the team that bears his name from which He was a team manager: he triumphed in Moto3, 250, Moto2 and MotoE and is now present in MotoGp with Aprilia. Marco Simoncelli was racing for him, with Honda, when he died in Sepang in 2011.
A much loved member of the MotoGP family has sadly left us
Fausto Gresini was a colleague of many, a friend of all and we will miss him deeply. Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones.
Rest in peace Faust pic.twitter.com/qWfP34BIpa
– MotoGP ™ (@MotoGP) February 23, 2021
He has always had a special relationship with the Coriano driver and his Gresini family. Born in Imola, a city of motors, Gresini made his debut in the world championship participating in the 1982 GP of Nations, which did not end due to retirement. He has always competed alone in the 125cc, winning his first world title in 1985. The following year he won four GPs (in Spain, Europe, Sweden and Germany), but was outmatched, one of his biggest regrets along with never having raced in 250, only 12 bodies by Luca Cadalora, who became world champion.
The rematch in 1987, when he won 10 of the 11 races on the calendar. He divorced Garelli in late 1988 and moved to Aprilia, then Honda.
Injuries did not spare him, but he finished two more times second overall, in 1991 behind his teammate Capirossi and in 1992. He announced his retirement before the 1995 season. In 1997 the team was born in his name, based in Faenza . Among the drivers of his team, over the years, Alex Barros, Tony Elias, Loris Capirossi, Marco Melandri, Sete Gibernau, Alex De Angelis, Jorge Martin, Matteo Ferrari. Victories, but also grief: Daijiro Kato, who died in Suzuka in 2003, then Simoncelli. Del Sic, in a recent interview, referred to Gresini as “a true warrior, he liked to fight, he liked melee, he never backed down. He enjoyed these things, even if he took the door, he couldn’t.” angry, he laughed. He said: ‘Oh, I got it, I’ll give it back tomorrow.’ “On the other hand, he said of himself that he felt like a” different young man, always on the attack, always in the front line, always with new projects. Always with some dreams in the drawer. I always say that when there is nothing left in that drawer, I change my profession ”. Covid struck him in December and after a few days in the Imola hospital, his condition required hospitalization at the Maggiore in Bologna, in intensive care. Constant updates from the team on social networks, with a birthday party organized online, a presentation of the team with the mind set on him and his son Lorenzo to serve as a link with friends and fans.
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