“After the serious accident that occurred during midday today, Saturday, at the Gully Racing activity, the Circuit Ricardo Tormo regrets to announce that the amateur driver Andrea Bergamelli has lost his life,” indicated the circuit in his statement this afternoon.

“The Italian driver has been involved in a multiple accident in the middle of the straight line of the Cheste. Bergamelli was treated immediately on the track and was transferred to the Circuit’s medical center where he died,” the same statement explains.

Finally, The Valencian facility has also conveyed its condolences: “The Circuit Ricardo Tormo deeply regrets the loss of Andrea Bergamelli and extends its deepest condolences to his family, friends and the Gully Racing organization. Andrea Bergamelli was born in 1988 and lived in the Italian town of Torre Boldone next to Bergamo.”

Gully Racing is a private organization that organizes free testing sessions. motorcycling divided into several categoriesas reported on its own website, and which it performs on different European routes.

This activity offers timed runs on circuits such as Cremona, Misano, Mugello, all of them in Italy, but also on Ricardo Tormo, in Jérez or in Aragón. According to the organization’s website the price for the rounds on the Spanish circuits, higher than that of the Italians, It is between 590 and 700 euros and in the case of the Valencia event the available places were sold out..

Ten years later

It is not the first time that a pilot has died in Cheste, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2024. Although he had gone a decade without a tragic accident. The previous one, in 2014, when a 35-year-old pilot also lost his life during a ‘shoot’ organized by a private company after colliding with another pilot.