The paddock in Jerez de la Frontera stopped today for a minute of silence for Dean Berta Maverick, who died yesterday following an accident during the Supersport 300 race, while his cousin Maverick cried on social media: "There are no words for this moment, it was a big blow to the family, I will always remember the challenges we had at every moment with anything. You are our 'little monster' and you will always be with us. I send you a huge kiss wherever you are. "

The death of the third teenager in a few months on the motorcycling tracks has shaken the conscience, so much so as to have induced the Italian Supersport rider Michel Fabrizio, 37 years of which almost 20 spent on the track, to leave. Raising your voice and asking you to do something to protect the "child" pilots.

"I refuse to run out of respect for human life. And I withdraw. It's time to say enough - Fabrizio writes on social media -. I do it to send a strong message of protest. So that the rules change".

Fabrizio returned this season to compete in the Supersport championship six years after leaving the Superbike World Championship, where he played over 200 races, "but - he explains in his post - I have seen this world changed. I have seen an indifference on the part of the Federation. international: line up 42 children in the Yamaha cup and another 42 in the 300 World Championship. Too many, too many riders with little or even very little experience and this does not happen only in the World Championship, but also in national championships, where to make money you take everything, up to last available seat ".

"In addition to this - concludes the pilot - the tracks that must provide better escape spaces must also be reviewed. It is time for the politics of each nation to intervene".

(Unioneonline / L)