[kropotkin thinks...] - Another Moto2 Grid Change: Fonsi Nieto Announces Retirement

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If ever there was a rider who epitomizes the phrase "checkered career", it's Fonsi Nieto. The Spaniard - and nephew of the legendary 13-time 125cc and 50cc champion Angel Nieto - has ridden in every class but World Supersport over the course of his 14 years in world championship motorcycle racing, seizing any opportunity to ride that he was offered, his best result coming in 2002, when Nieto ended the 250cc championship in 2nd, behind Marco Melandri.

But now Nieto's career is at an end. At a press conference on Monday, Nieto announced that he had decided to call it quits, after struggling to return to fitness after his horrific crash at Indianapolis, and the aftermath of the surgery it required. The Spaniard fractured bones in his ankle and foot during practice for the Indy GP, and was being treated in a local hospital, when an adverse reaction to painkillers saw Nieto suffer a respiratory arrest, though he was revived almost immediately.

Source:
http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2011/Fonsi+retires




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