Rossi and Vinales narrowly avoid Morbidelli’s crashed MotoGP bike

Bike racing, particularly at the speeds MotoGP bikes on a regular basis hit, is inherently risky. This point was as soon as again verified in excess of the weekend at the Red Bull Ring in Austria as Valentino Rossi and Maverick Viñales narrowly averted hitting the runaway motorcycle of Franco Morbidelli right after he collided with fellow rider Johann Zarco when slowing down radically from close to 200 miles per hour into Flip 3. If you haven’t nevertheless seen the crash and subsequent slim escape, you seriously need to have to view the video clip up higher than ahead of you continue looking through.

Whew. That’s definitely terrifying. Just request Rossi, who experienced a significantly closer view of the broken underside of Morbidelli’s Yamaha than he absolutely at any time wanted. “I was with Maverick when we entered Flip 3  and I felt anything coming in direction of me. I imagined it was the shadow of the helicopter because in some cases it crosses the race keep track of,” said the 41-calendar year-old racing legend to ABC Information in Australia. “But then Franco’s bicycle passed me at an amazing speed and also the bicycle of Zarco jumped in excess of Maverick. We have been pretty lucky, but we hope this sort of incident is a lesson for riders to improve their actions in the long term.”

Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso went on to earn the race right after a restart next a purple flag to apparent the keep track of of particles next the crash. Rossi went on to end in fifth put right after starting off in 12th when Viñales came in 10th. Each Morbidelli and Zarco have been evaluated by health-related personnel ahead of becoming unveiled.