Covid-19, Fausto Gresini is very serious

The two-time world champion of the 125, at the head of the homonymous team, is always in very critical condition at the Maggiore in Bologna due to the complications caused by the Coronavirus. He has been hospitalized since the end of December but is fortunately still with us: his death has been denied

Fausto Gresini is always very serious and connected to the machines at the Maggiore hospital in Bologna but still struggles between life and death contrary to the first news circulating in the environment on the night of 22 February. The first hospitalization dates back to December 27, after his condition worsened as soon as he contracted the virus. Then the treatment, with various press releases provided by his team, to the homonymous team managed by him and currently engaged in the MotoGP World Championship with Aprilia. Gresini alternated moments of improvement with worsening, caused by the complications of the important interstitial pneumonia due to the infection. Last Friday and Saturday, after an improvement that bodes well, the conditions suddenly worsened, forcing doctors to new sedation and therapies to combat severe lung inflammation.

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The carreer

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Gresini made his debut in 1982 and has always raced in the junior class of the world championship, the 125. The first world championship title came in 1985 on Garelli: three wins (in Austria, Belgium and San Marino), five pole positions and 109 points. The following year he won four GPs (in Spain, Europe, Sweden and Germany), but was overtaken by only 12 points by Luca Cadalora from Modena. In 1987, however, the masterpiece season: he won 10 of the 11 races on the calendar (all except the one in Portugal, in which he had a puncture while he was in the lead) and became the 125cc champion again after collecting 150 points. In 1988 an injury kept him away from racing. Then the move to Aprilia, with which he only raced an unhappy year. Finally, the move to Honda in 1990 with which he competed until 1994, the last season of his career: with the Japanese team he won two races in 1991 and one in 1992, seasons which he finished in second place.

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L’omonimo team

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As team manager of the homonymous team, founded in 1997, he won the world title in the 250 class with the Japanese Daijiro Katoh and with Toni Elias in 2010 in Moto2. Long participation in the MotoGP World Championship, held continuously from 2002 to 2020 (until 2014 with Honda, from 2015 with Aprilia). So far the best seasons ever in the queen coffers have been 2004 and 2005, which closed in second and third place with Sete Gibernau, Colin Edwards and marco Melandri.

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