Motocross. Mancini forced to retire due to eye problem

Lady Luck is not with us in this challenging part of the start of the season Simon Mancini, the young pilot of motocross Cingolano busy with Team FanticFactory Emx in the maximums Italian and continental championships. Mancini, 17 years old, making his debut in the 250 cc class of the Senior category, started theEuropean disputing in Cozar the Spanish Grand Prix. In race 1 he was forced to retire due to a electronic problem to the motorcycle apparatus. During the phase-2 he was increasing his performance from the seventh place, when (the competitors had been forced to take off their glasses due to the layer of mud that was splashing from the track) he was hit in theright eye from a handful of stones that had been released from the wheels of an opponent's motorbike. Mancini, immediately after the accident, was treated in the first aid of the implant, he underwent an eye examination which confirmed that the eye had suffered significant consequences, however he is improving due to the treatments he is undergoing. He then returned to Italy, to the Lombard residence where he lives. Saturday and Sunday, on the motocross track of Saint Jean d'Angeli, near Bordeaux, the second round of theEuropean: Mancini will compete if, as everything suggests, he has recovered his visual conditions as best as possible.

Gianfilippo Centanni