A special ceremony to be held on Friday afternoon at this weekend's Ger🎶man Grand Prix will see Jason D🙈upasquier's racing number (50) officially retired from further use in the Moto3 class.

The Swiss rider♛, 19, was tragically killed in a qualif🔯ying accident during the Italian GP event at Mugello last month.

The retirement of Dupasquier's number - which will take place in the Sachsenring press conference room in front of his CarXpert Prustel GP team - follows a similar mark of respect for Luis Salom (Moto3), Shoya Tomizawa (Moto2), Marco Simoncelli (MotoGP) and Daijiro Kato (MotoGP)൩, who also lost their lives on tr▨ack.

2006 MotoGP world champion Nicky Hayden's #69 was also retired following his tragic cycling accident, while the racing number🏅s for Loris Capirossi (#65) and Kevin Schwantz (#34) were retired when they stopped competing.

Dupasquier was taking part in only his second grand prix season and had scored points in every race lead💝ing up to Mugello, including a best of seventh place and just 1.043s from the race winner at Jerez.