Alex de Angelis has had a tough 2010 season, between crashes, injuries and being dumped by his Scot Racing team and then the joy of finding a new ride with JiR Racing for his home race at Misano, but all these problems were nothing compared to his coping with the death of Shoya Tomizawa.
In an exclusive interview with Italia 1’s XXL show, the Sammarinese admitted that after the incident that saw him involuntarily part of of the accident, he thought of quitting.
De Angelis said that he learned of Tomizawa’s death while watching the MotoGP race on TV and finds it very hard to explain his feelings and in the days following the accident, some moments are worse than others.
His thoughts turning to the Japanese rider and has had trouble holding back his tears, but with the help of friends and family, who stayed with him constantly to get through the first two difficult days, has helped him come to grips with what happened.
In this very touching video, De Angelis admits that his first thoughts were about quitting, giving up racing, but realized that as a person who loves and was born to race, he has to get back on his bike as soon as possible and try to ride, but confesses what happened has touched him very deeply and that Tomizawa’s death will haunt his dreams for the rest of his life.