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WATCH: Scary Crash That Led to 14-Year Old MotoGP Hopeful Hugo Millan’s Tragic Demise
In motorsport, authorities have taken many steps to ensure the safety of competitors, marshals and spectators. However, there are occasions where ‘freak’ accidents occur, which either injure someone or have worse consequences. Sadly in the CEV Repsol championship, tragedy struck when 14-year-old Hugo Millan died in an accident.
At his home race in Motorland Aragon, the teenager was running in the leading group. However, he suffered from a high-side that pitched him off the bike. Admittedly, this is a fairly standard crash in motorbike racing. Unfortunately, there was still an element of danger because Hugo Millan was in the middle of the track on the racing line.
The rider evidently realised that he was in a vulnerable spot. So he tried to get up and move away, but it was too late as another bike struck his bike and body. Later on, news broke that poor Hugo Millan had succumbed to his injuries. At the age of 14, the young Spaniard had his whole life ahead of him, and to see it cut short is pretty cruel.
Hugo Millan was not the first casualty
Millan’s tragic passing comes barely two months after Moto 3 rider Jason Dupasquier died in a crash. It is also worth noting that Millan’s crash was frighteningly similar to Franco Uncini’s accident in 1983. Around that time, Uncini high-sided off his bike and tumbled off.
He knew that he was still in the middle of the track and tried to scamper out of the way. Unfortunately, he came right in the path of Wayne Gardner, whose bike stuck Uncini in the helmet. Somehow, Uncini survived the impact and in a spot of coincidence, he currently serves as the FIM Safety Officer in MotoGP.
Obviously, several tributes poured in from the motorsport community when news broke of Millan’s tragic passing.
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