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Below is a (partial) transcript of the press brief following the death of Shoya Tomizawa during the Moto2 race at Misano:
Claudio Macchiagodena: We want to speak about the accident today, a very bad accident involving three riders who crashed and immediately had a serious problem. But one of the riders, Alex de Angelis, got up. The second [Scott Redding] was no problem. We have only one very serious problem, and as you know this was Shoya Tomizawa. Immediately the first idea I think is if it's possible to stop the race because it's dangerous, but the people with the stretcher immediately arrived and when you remove the rider from the track for my medical decision I do not ask Race Direction to have the red flag because this does not help my job, because we delay the intervention for the ambulance. The people with the stretcher took [Tomizawa] back behind the track protection, and here we had one ambulance with the respirator inside and we started immediately all the intensive care for him. I didn't ask for the red flag because I didn't need it.
After, the rider came to the medical centre, and I had some people asking me why it took a lot of time. The intensive care started behind the protection at the turn. Normally when you have only a broken arm, the ambulance is the same as a taxi: you put the rider inside and he is coming [to the medical center] quickly. Now it was very important to have infusion, ventilation and more, and inside [the ambulance] we have two doctors at the trackside.
When he arrived at the medical centre the condition was very critical, and immediately we continued the intensive care. We had a lot of doctors but the situation was very critical. Some time we find the heart is stopping and it was necessary to have some process to reanimate him. We started it again, but it is not totally [normal]. We checked with the scanner an abdominal trauma because it was a very serious situation not just for the cranial trauma, but for the chest and abdominal trauma. And we have inside [the chest] a hematoma in the blood. One of these was also in the heart - they told me in the hospital - and the muscle of the heart is very difficult, and though [Tomizawa] was young, the heart restarted, but it did not restart enough.
So we then decided it was better to transfer him to hospital in Riccione because it's very near and because we have two doctors in the ambulance who continued the reanimation. If he went by helicopter, it was very far and it was not possible for this process [of reanimation]. When he arrived in hospital in Riccione we continued for ten minutes or more, and afterwards they informed this was not necessary because he also had a lesion on the heart. I'm sorry, but I think it is very impossible to change the outcome for Tomizawa.
Claudio Macchiagodena: We want to speak about the accident today, a very bad accident involving three riders who crashed and immediately had a serious problem. But one of the riders, Alex de Angelis, got up. The second [Scott Redding] was no problem. We have only one very serious problem, and as you know this was Shoya Tomizawa. Immediately the first idea I think is if it's possible to stop the race because it's dangerous, but the people with the stretcher immediately arrived and when you remove the rider from the track for my medical decision I do not ask Race Direction to have the red flag because this does not help my job, because we delay the intervention for the ambulance. The people with the stretcher took [Tomizawa] back behind the track protection, and here we had one ambulance with the respirator inside and we started immediately all the intensive care for him. I didn't ask for the red flag because I didn't need it.
After, the rider came to the medical centre, and I had some people asking me why it took a lot of time. The intensive care started behind the protection at the turn. Normally when you have only a broken arm, the ambulance is the same as a taxi: you put the rider inside and he is coming [to the medical center] quickly. Now it was very important to have infusion, ventilation and more, and inside [the ambulance] we have two doctors at the trackside.
When he arrived at the medical centre the condition was very critical, and immediately we continued the intensive care. We had a lot of doctors but the situation was very critical. Some time we find the heart is stopping and it was necessary to have some process to reanimate him. We started it again, but it is not totally [normal]. We checked with the scanner an abdominal trauma because it was a very serious situation not just for the cranial trauma, but for the chest and abdominal trauma. And we have inside [the chest] a hematoma in the blood. One of these was also in the heart - they told me in the hospital - and the muscle of the heart is very difficult, and though [Tomizawa] was young, the heart restarted, but it did not restart enough.
So we then decided it was better to transfer him to hospital in Riccione because it's very near and because we have two doctors in the ambulance who continued the reanimation. If he went by helicopter, it was very far and it was not possible for this process [of reanimation]. When he arrived in hospital in Riccione we continued for ten minutes or more, and afterwards they informed this was not necessary because he also had a lesion on the heart. I'm sorry, but I think it is very impossible to change the outcome for Tomizawa.
