Death in the morning
Gregorio “Yoyong” Buncio tried hard to stay sober and clinical, but it was clear that his eyes remain trapped in sorrow, as he painfully re-created the horrifying event that abruptly snuffed out the life of his son Maico. Maico Buncio, 22, was the country’s king of the motorcycle racing circuit and the fastest Filipino on two wheels.
Like a surgeon slicing through the body of a patient, Buncio gave a detailed account of what transpired one normal day in what was supposed to be the merry month of May at the Clark International Speedway inside the gigantic former American base.
The 53-year-old Buncio never imagined, not even in his wildest imagination, that his son’s back-breaking journey to put the country on the international racing map would end in blood and tears.
Maico’s fans also flooded his Facebook accounts with prayers and expressed shock at the accident that has raised questions about safety guidelines governing the sport.
“His rear tire skidded off some sandy patches (on the racing circuit) and he slid some 50 meters from his bike,” recalls Buncio. “I know the difference between a good fall and a bad fall – and it was a good fall.”
He was at the pit area when his son took the skid during the qualifying race, he adds. The teary-eyed Buncio knows what he’s talking about. Having raced with the likes of former motorcycle demons Jovie Saulog, Jolet Jao, Butch Chase and Ernie Leongson during his prime, Buncio had witnessed lots of spills.
Maico, four-time National Superbike Champion, Golden Wheel Driver of the Year awardee and feted by the Philippine Sports Writers Association as the country’s fastest man on two wheels, was riding for Team Suzuki Pilipinas and was navigating a fast curve when the spill happened.
It wasn’t a big deal, as far as Buncio was concerned. Maico, whom his father named after a motorcycle brand in Europe, collided with Malaysian rider Ahmad Nashrul Baharudin during the first leg of the Asian Road Racing Championship (ARRC) on May 14 at the Sepang International Circuit. He escaped unscathed despite a high speed crash that detached the sub-frame of his Suzuki GSX-R 600 race bike and wrecked the bike.
But the next scene at the Clark Speedway Saturday afternoon was heart-pounding for Buncio. “From a distance, I felt something was wrong when my son didn’t get up to pick up his bike. He remained stationary. As I ran nearer, I thought he was trying to pick himself up from a face-down position or that he was trying to free himself from two protruding bars on top of him,” he recalls. “Then I saw another racer, Richard Morgan, who was also in the qualifying round, waving frantically, and I knew that this was bad.
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