Nani Roma, about her son Marc’s accident: “I called the mechanic and he told me ‘he wasn’t moving his legs'”

How many days before the start of a new edition of the Dakar Rally (from January 3 to 17), the pilot Nani Romethat in this edition He will join a Ford and be Carlos Sainz’s teammategave a new lesson in optimism and knowing how to deal with all the problems that life gives.

And it was that after being diagnosed with a bladder tumor in 2022he double champion of the Dakar Rally (in 2004 on motorcycles with KTM and in 2014 on cars with Mini) this year concerns His son Marc, 15 years old, had a serious accident while competing in the European motocross championship in Lugo.

Seven months after that fall, Nani Roma declared, in an interview with the RAC1 program ‘Via Lliure’ how he found out what happened, when he was traveling.

“I felt like something in my stomach… I started calling like crazy. And in the end I called the mechanic and he told me: ‘Holy shit, I’m already here with Marc, who’s on the ground.’ said: ‘It is he who does not move his feet”, explained.

Even youThe whole family tries to handle it in the best possible way.Rome makes sure it’s not easy: “There are days that are complicated. But because we can’t change what happened… we just have to move forward. Yesterday is the past, tomorrow we will see. Today we are here.”

Their son’s accident and all the suffering it caused them Nani Roma is not mad at motorcycling. “To hate the profession because of what happened to Marc is fraud, in the end we are all wiser”he assured.

“When you are in Guttmann (hospital specializing in neurorehabilitation) you realize how fragile we are. There are spinal cord injuries worse than Marc falling from the bathtub”added legend of Dakar.

About Marc’s recovery, it is more visible in his daily lifeNani Roma believes that anything can happen in the future: “We are not naive or naive people. And tomorrow he will not go to play football, but we do not know what will happen. .”