Supersic, the first book on Simoncelli

It's all there. There are images of the first days on two wheels that count. There is the story of the ride that led him to triumph in 2008 World Championship in the 250 class. There is the story of the pilot and above all that of the man who was able to garner appreciation at every latitude. And unfortunately there is also the memory of that damned fall Sepang which cost him his life. Supersic, written by Marco Evangelisti, correspondent of Corriere dello Sport, is also a photographic chronicle of the career and life of Marco Simoncelli. To put it in the words of the volume's editor, “Marco smiles. Still. She smiles always and everywhere. He smiles [...] on every photo found in the press and on the web, he smiles in the heads of those who remember him. […] He smiles, and this is why Italy – and much more than Italy – stopped to watch him go away, far enough to no longer consider him present, close enough to not erase himself”.

Closing the book are the words and thoughts of the web people. Whose, several weeks after Simoncelli's abandonment, continue to write condolence messages on social networking sites, on blogs and discussion forums. There is no desire to tell unconfessed secrets or to tell another truth. Far from it. As Evangelisti points out, "it's just a way to try to fill the void left by a great man from the world of sport, who was great on and off the track".

Published by Gargoyle with the collaboration of Paolo Sesti, number one of the Italian Motorcycle Federation, and the publisher Federico Pisani, part of the proceeds will go to charity to the “Rimini Autismo Onlus” association, already the object of Simoncelli's philanthropic attention.