James Walsh has tragically handed away from accidents sustained throughout final Saturday’s Tandragee 100 highway race.
Walsh, who received the junior help race, was concerned in an accident within the senior help race and was airlifted to the hospital.
A press release from North Armagh Motorbike and Automobile Membership stated:
“It’s with deep disappointment that we will verify that James Walsh handed away in hospital after being airlifted from an occasion final Saturday.
“We’re fully heartbroken by this tragic loss and all the membership is mourning a very valued member of our racing neighborhood.
“Street racing is a sport constructed on shared ardour and powerful bonds, and a loss like this deeply touches the hearts of all riders, officers and followers.
“Our ideas, prayers and heartfelt condolences go to his accomplice Claire, mom Geraldine, the remainder of his household, associates and his personal membership members at this extremely devastating time.
“We want to specific our big gratitude to the MCUI UC medical staff, air ambulance crew and medical workers who fought so laborious to save lots of him.
“Out of respect for his household as they undergo this unfathomable grief, we ask everybody to respect their privateness and permit them the time and house they want.”
Walsh is the primary rider to die within the Tandragee 100 since Italian Dario Cecconi in 2017.
