Aidan Zingg, a motocross prodigy who just lately signed with Kawasaki’s prestigious Crew Inexperienced program, died Saturday at age 16 from accidents sustained throughout the Mammoth Mountain MX occasion in Mammoth Lakes.
Throughout a 250cc B class race, Zingg “went down in a nook,” based on business web site Dirtbikelover.com and was run over by different bikes.
Zingg, who grew up in Hemet earlier than his household moved to the state of Washington, gained the American Motorcyclist Assn. 2024 Novice Nationwide Championship in Supermini 2, held at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. He just lately certified for the championships for a seventh consecutive yr.
Aidan’s sister Alex Zingg, 18, on Sunday posted a tribute to her brother.
“It’s been a day and I really feel prefer it’s been a lifetime,” she wrote on Instagram. “My coronary heart is totally damaged. You used to joke that I used to be so previous and that I’d die first, I might at all times joke that you just have been loopy and also you’d be the primary. Now I’m sitting right here wishing with the whole lot that I’m that you just have been proper so I’d by no means should reside a day with out you.”
Zingg started racing in elementary faculty and shortly dominated the 65cc, 85cc and Supermini lessons. After signing with Kawasaki’s Crew Inexperienced, he confirmed immense promise on the 250cc class. His different sponsors included Oakley, Bell, and Renthal.
“It’s with heavy hearts that we mourn the passing of Kawasaki Crew Inexperienced rider Aidan Zingg,” Kawasaki Racing posted on X. “Zingg’s dedication and type demeanor will without end be remembered.”
Motocross journalist Donn Maeda was amongst these to pay tribute to Zingg on social media, writing that he was “a type of children that made an impression on you from the second you met him. I interviewed him for our race sequence years in the past when he was on a 65 and once I requested him how lengthy it’d be till he beat his dad [former racer Robert Zingg]. He smirked and stated, ‘Quickly, I’m positive.’
“After that, he at all times went out of his solution to say hey, even just lately when he grew into a quick large bike rider…. you realize; the age when teenagers get cocky and funky. Not Aidan.”
Zingg’s final social media put up got here 10 days earlier than his demise. A joint Instagram put up with MotoSport.com of Zingg racing learn: “Keep in mind the identify… @aidanzingg.”
