https://blog-imgs-111.fc2.com/2/6/p/26p ... 33030e.jpg
http://26pokorin.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-1343.html
The article talks about some Japanese riders of the 80s, including some who have died in a crash (Morio Sumiya, Iwao Ishikawa, ...).
The accident in the image could be serious, since, at the bottom of the page, there are two images of the rider (one on the bike, and another one on the podium), like the magazine is "remembering" him in some ways.
What do you think?
EDIT: Ok, thanks to a website that can recognize Japanese texts thanks to OCR, I translated the title.
It seems to say something like "Sumiya Le Mans" or similar.
Maybe it shows Morio Sumiya's fatal accident at Le Mans, 1975?
http://motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ms&n=3894
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The text at the top says:
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The rest of the text is far too blurry to make anything out. So it could be his fatal crash.Honda ace rider
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The riders didn't have numbers on their backs in the 1975 Bol d'Or. That does not prove or disprove anything, in and of itself.
However, you'd tend to wonder why someone would wear a racing #, testing for an endurance race, during which the participants weren't required to do so. Was #15 Sumiya's rider number in the 1975 season? Then it stands to reason he perhaps used his ordinary outfit on that occasion. If not, then I'd say this is not Sumiya's fatal aftermath. Because the rider has a number on his back.
However, you'd tend to wonder why someone would wear a racing #, testing for an endurance race, during which the participants weren't required to do so. Was #15 Sumiya's rider number in the 1975 season? Then it stands to reason he perhaps used his ordinary outfit on that occasion. If not, then I'd say this is not Sumiya's fatal aftermath. Because the rider has a number on his back.
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Revised this topic title to: "1975 Morio Sumiya's Fatal Aftermath at Le Mans/Bugatti Circuit? (PHOTO)". Hope you don't mind.