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    #11
    RIP maico...sad news indeed. we were riding around the track 3 months ago * clark speedway. i was shocked when my buds told me the sad news.




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    #12
    hindi ko rin gaano kilala ang batang to. na-curious lang ako at tinignan ko ang thread about him sa mcp forum. and dito rin sa youtube, nabalita na sa 24oras (see video) few months back..

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmNDpfTo4rQ"]YouTube - Maico Buncio at GMA 24 Oras News[/ame]

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    RIP Maico. :pope:
    Last edited by KERSMcRae; May 16th, 2011 at 01:51 PM.

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    #13
    follow-up post:

    hindi lang pala kalsada sa bansa natin ang bulok ang pagkakagawa, maging ang racetrack (for international competitions).

    from:
    http://www.topgear.com.ph/utilities/...ki-philippines

    Maico died due to damaged kidney and liver when a protruding steel bar from an unfinished barrier punctured his body.


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    RIP maico..

    we used to race this kid when im in underbone racing in BRC.. sayang batang bata pa.. sayang ang talent at husay malayo pa sana mararating nya.. nawala yun pag asa natin magkaroon ng pilipino sa MOTOGP.... may GOD be with you.. maico..

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    #15
    Quote Originally Posted by KERSMcRae View Post
    follow-up post:

    hindi lang pala kalsada sa bansa natin ang bulok ang pagkakagawa, maging ang racetrack (for international competitions).

    from:
    http://www.topgear.com.ph/utilities/...ki-philippines

    Maico died due to damaged kidney and liver when a protruding steel bar from an unfinished barrier punctured his body.

    Very sad indeed. RIP.
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    #16
    Condolences to the family.

    I read also it was due a steel bar in one of the barriers in the run off area and not due to injuries from the actual crash itself. If that is proven to be the case then the track can be liable for that.

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    #17
    Buncio's death: Who's responsible?
    By Abac Cordero (The Philippine Star) Updated May 18, 2011 12:00 AM


    MANILA, Philippines - Maico Buncio had a great future ahead of him.

    He was a skillful rider. He had four national titles under his belt. He was supposed to become the first Filipino ever to compete in the tough Suzuki 8-Hour Endurance Race in Japan. He was well-liked on and off the circuit even his competitors always wished him well.

    He was 22.

    Last Saturday, tragedy struck the youthful superbike champion when he crashed out of a slight turn, a kink, along the Clark Speedway Racing Circuit. He’d been in many crashes before, two of them at the famed Sepang International Circuit only two weeks ago.

    But this one, during the time trials at the CSRC, was too much for him to withstand. He was slowing down after running a stretch at easily 200 kph, on board his 600cc Suzuki GSXR bike, when he spun out, ejected, and flew ahead of his bike as it madly rolled on the track.

    He slammed his body hard against an unfinished wall along the circuit, against protruding steel bars. He took the hit to the right side of his body, and from afar, those who were at the track saw Maico almost on his knees, his hands barely on the ground.

    “It was as if he was trying to get up, trying to pick himself up. But he was skewered into the steel bars, two of them penetrating the right side of his body, damaging his liver and kidney,” said Miguel Ripoll, a former rider who had known Maico for over 10 years.

    “Then help came, and they yanked Maico out of the situation, only managing after a couple of pulls,” said Ripoll, a former safety officer of the National Motorcycle Sports and Safety Association or NAMSSA, the body governing the sports in the country.

    Ripoll said Maico’s father, Yoyong, narrated to him that Maico was conscious inside the ambulance that rushed him to a hospital in Mabalacat, Pampanga, after the crash. But it was at the Santo Tomas Hospital in Manila where he succumbed to his injuries the following day.

    “Maico even phoned his girlfriend from inside the ambulance,” said Ripoll.

    “But it turned out the internal bleeding was so bad and the following day his blood pressure suddenly went down and he passed away. It was a waste because he was so young and full of promise. We all liked him,” said Ripoll, also an organizer of motorbike races.

    Here come the difficult questions. Who should be held responsible for Maico’s death?. Should it be NAMSSA? Should it be the owners of the track? Should it be the race organizers?

    “It could be one and all,” said Ripoll.

    “Had they all followed the proper procedure, the status and the codes of safety that race would not have been sanctioned because of that unfinished wall with those protruding bars,” he said, recalling a very similar incident that killed singer-actor Ric Segreto in 1998.

    “Ric was also a friend of mine. And he died on the night (of Sept. 6, 1998) at the Buendia Flyover in Makati. He crashed on his bike, his body landing on the protruding steel bars of a concrete slab. It was almost the similar fate suffered by Maico.

    “We should all go back to square one regarding safety in these races. We should all go back to the basic stuff. We can look at the absence of rumble strips in some corners of our race tracks,” said Ripoll, just as shocked as the country’s racing community.

    “And tire barriers should not be used in motorcycle races because if you ram these tires it’s almost as hard as ramming a wall. Worse, they put these tires together with metal bars. And the guys who left that portion of the track unfinished?

    “They should have done better than leave those metal beams protruding, with or with no race coming up. Maybe they should have bent them or cut them off. It all boils down to safety, if we don’t want anything like this ever to happen again,” said Ripoll.
    http://www.philstar.com/SportsArticl...bCategoryId=69

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    #18
    The doctors said that the medical attendants may be liable for making the situation worse when they pulled him off the bars. Standard procedure was not to remove, but to saw the bars and take it with the impaled patient. The medical services was contracted to AeroMed...

    Speed kills...on or off the tracks.
    Last edited by Monseratto; May 18th, 2011 at 10:55 AM.

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    #19
    RIP mr Buncio


    Another life taken, because of the pwede na yan mentality of pinoys...

    Pwede na yan..sabi ng construction worker na naglagay ng mga bakal
    Pwede na yan sabi ng organizers di naman siguro aabot dito ang riders kahit na tumilapon sila
    Pwede na yan sabi ng mga medics basta importante madala sa ospital, bahala na mga doktor

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    #20
    Actually... if the track owner weren't thinking about safety, they wouldn't have been building the barrier, in the first place. They should have ensured it was finished before renting that part out...

    The onus is on the race directors to ensure that the facilities meet their needs. If there are sections that are dangerous, they should have put in chicanes in those areas, or not used that part of the track.

    Sad, sad, thing... was shocked, actually... as there were no such construction areas at Clark when we went there last October.

    Still... racing is dangerous. Clark Speedway is a wonderful place to race, but let's be honest... there's never going to be enough money in the Philippine racing scene for miles of runoff like you see at more modern European or Asian tracks, and the cost of deformable barriers would far outstrip the total capital value of the track as it is, already.

    It's already got more runoff than the absolutely deadly Subic Raceway (how I'll miss bombing down into that hairpin at over 160 km/h with about five meters of run-off!) and it's not as ridiculously tight as the Carmona Circuit... and there are no carabaos crossing the track like at Batangas.

    Could be better... but Clark is far from the most dangerous circuit in the Philippines.
    Last edited by niky; May 18th, 2011 at 12:29 PM.

    Ang pagbalik ng comeback...

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