Six years without Luis Salom

Yesterday June 3, 2022 was fulfilled six years after the death of Luis Salom. Six years in which the Circuit de Barcelona remained in a deadly silence.

Everyone knows that motorcycling is a dangerous sport, where life is at stake every day. However, you never stop thinking that the time may come when you need to say goodbye to a pilot. Unfortunately, that day came, the pilot known as the Mexican left a huge loss to the Spanish motorcyclist and especially to his family.

Luis Salom is in his eighth year at the world championship, third in Moto2. During his time in the lower categories, he fought to the end for the World Cup in 2012 and 2013 and now he continues to hold records that no one has been able to beat. He left with nine wins and twenty -five podiums in the eight seasons he has been in the elite, having achieved the latter at the Qatar GP the same year.

Everything went normal, like any training session on Friday, in the second training sessions of the Catalonia GP. Luis rode like the other day, but on turn 12, a point where you reach high speed, approximately 150 km per hour, he loses control of the bike. Both went to the ground and strangely enough they continued on the same trajectory. Una, the motorcycle hit the protections with such bad luck that when it bounced it collided with the young Majorcan rider.

At that time, no one expected the outcome to be announced a few minutes later. The pilot was treated on the track and taken to hospital by ambulance, as it was safer than by helicopter and speed was something that forced him to try to recover a bruised Salom. But unfortunately there was nothing to do. Luis Salom died and was added to the list of pilots who died in the last century on a circuit with Daijiro Kato, Shoya Tomizawa, Marco Simoncelli and later Jason Dupasquier.

His charisma, closeness and joy means that despite his dismissal at the age of 24, Luis continues to be inspired on all circuits. But If anything is remembered about him, beyond his religiosity and tattoos, it is his complicity in what is his right hand, his mother María.who did not leave his side. Lots of anecdotes and displays of affection both displayed in front of the cameras. María Horrach is a charming and intimate woman at Paddock, though if there’s one thing that stands out at all, it’s her long curly hair with which her son has devotion and with her she leaves forever, since the day of the funeral she appeared to be shaved because her curls went into her son’s hands.

such as pilots Maverick Viñales or Ana Carrasco continue to carry it every time they ride a bike. The Moto3 rider showed off a special helmet for the home Grand Prix where he continues to remember Luis. It is also possible to see Pol Espargaró approached the mural paying tribute to him with a bouquet of roses, which was also attended by Alex Márquez.