The 🦩Pistard team in Italy’s National Trophy 1000 has withdrawn from the final two rounds of the 2024 season to ensure the late Luca Salvadori is crowned ꦑchampion.

The motor🐎cycle racing world was stunned last weekend after popular racer and social media personality Salvadori was killed following an incident in Germany.

Salvadori was competing in the Frohberg round of the International Road Racing💎 Championship when the fatal accident happened.

A long-time racer in the national scene in Italy, Salvadori also raced with👍 Pramac in the MotoE World Championship last year.

His death has promp♕ted an outpouring of tributes from the racing community.

However, the Pistard 🏅team - who fields Filippo Rovelli in the National Trophy 1000 - has made the biggeꩵst gesture towards Salvadori.

With two rounds remaining in the series for 2024, both team and rider - who were Salvadori’s direct competitors - have elected tꦫo withdraw in order to allow the late Italian to be crowned a posthumous champion.

Gianluca Galesi Milella took to h🎀is social media to say: “Something very ba🧔d happened, which I can hardly believe.

“Our𓆏 direct rival as a team for four years, with [Robཧerto] Tamburini, [Gabriele] Giannini, and this year with Filippo Rovelli, has died.

“Luca was a great guy, good, sweet, nice, sunny. Those like me who had the pleasure and good fortune to meet him in pers♔on know who Lꦯuca was.

“The last time I saw him we also talked about this race he was supposed to run in Germany, he was undecided whether to go to save the bike. I🌼nstead he went and never cam🍨e back.

“With Filippo Rovelli we talked aꦬbout whether or♍ not to go to Imola.

“We will not be present🅠 in either Imola or Cervesina to hold the races. We will only be present there to pay our respects to Luca.

“With this gesture we want to make sure that Luca, even though he is gone, from up there can celebrate the National Trophy 1000 title, which he had been chasing for so many years an𒈔d came close to.

“⛄This year that he could have won it because he had four 🅰wins out of six, unfortunately he will not be able to celebrate it.

“The only way for us🎃 to say goodbye🙈 to him is to not participate in the last two races so that he can win the title.”