The Dutch family is being tested in an indescribable way.
Victor Steeman photographed on the Magny Cours track in September. Italy Photo Press
According to the German Bild, the track motorcyclist who died the other weekend by Victor Steeman the family has faced a new grief.
Bild says that the Dutch rider’s mother Flora van Limbeek59, had a heart attack at home and the emergency personnel who were called to the scene were unable to save him.
The sad news comes just days after Victor Steeman died of head injuries sustained in the race at a hospital in Faro, Portugal. The 22-year-old rider who represented the MTM Kawasaki team had a mass crash in the Supersport 300 class race, which was run on the Portimão circuit last Saturday.
– Something that we have always feared as parents of motorcyclists has now happened. Our Victor was not allowed to win his last race. Despite the unbearable loss and pain, we are very proud to say that the death of our hero saved five other people with the help of organ donation, the family said in a press release.
Steeman is the second fatality in the Supersport 300 class in just over a year. Only 15 years old in September of last year Dean Berta Vinales died in a competition organized in Jerez, Spain.