[Sport] Fausto Gresini, two-time world champion, in extremely critical situation

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Two-time world champion 125, Fausto Gresini, has worsened in his health due to Covid and according to reports on social networks, his team is "in extremely critical condition."

The first hospitalization dates back to December 27, after his condition worsened as soon as he contracted the virus. Gresini alternated moments of improvement with worsening, caused by the complications of the important interstitial pneumonia caused by the infection. This past weekend, after a promising improvement, in which he even dropped out of ICU, conditions suddenly worsened.

Gresini made his debut in 1982 and always competed in the junior class of the world championship, the 125cc. The first world title came to him in 1985 with Garelli: three victories (in Austria, Belgium and San Marino), five poles and 109 points.

In 1987, however, the season of the masterpiece: he won 10 of the 11 races on the calendar (all except Portugal, in which he suffered a puncture while in the lead) and became 125cc champion again after scoring 150 points again with the Garelli.

In 1988 an injury kept him away from racing and finally, the transition to Honda in 1990 with which he competed until 1994, did not bear the expected results, being the last season of his career in which he achieved 21 victories, 27 poles and 47 podiums.

In 1997, in the vein of one of his great rivals, Jorge Martínez Aspar, he went over to the leadership of his own team, Gresini Racing, a paddock classic among independent teams.

Gresini, a much-loved guy and classic self-made man, stands out for his contagious enthusiasm driven by intelligence and humility to start a new challenge every time a goal is reached and the ability to involve - through rationality. and passion - to your business partners.

"At a certain point in my life I had to make a decision: to be an old driver or to become a young coach." The results speak for themselves: 5 titles won in 2001 with Daijiro Kato (250cc), 2010 with Toni Elías (Moto2), 2018 with Jorge Martin and Del Conca Team Gresini (Moto3), and 2019 with Matteo Ferrari (MotoE), the 55 victories and 170 podiums won, and also the MotoGP runner-up titles achieved three consecutive seasons, in 2003 and 2004 with Sete Gibernau and in 2005 with Marco Melandri plus 2018 with Fabio Di Giannantonio (Moto3). Gresini Racing has also been home to world-class champions like Alex Barros, Loris Capirossi, Colin Edwards and Marco Simoncelli.

The last presentation, a few days ago without his presence, gave birth to two very different projects, but with a common denominator in the Italian-Indonesian flag for both categories, thanks to the partnerships with MP1 and Federal Oil, Moto2 and Moto3 with the Spanish Jeremy Alcoba as official driver.