Marc Marquez crashes and wipes out Johann Zarco in German MotoGP practice
The Repsol Honda fell while on a fast lap and his bike slid into Zarco, who was exiting the pꩵits, and he was violently knocked over.
The Pramac Racing rider fortunately rose to his feet and walked away, seemingly without major harm, moments later෴.
Marc Márquez goes down, and collects Johann Zarco, whose bike splits in two
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Both are up and walkin🌄g about, but that'll be a re🐲d flag.
It was a horrible-looking collisionღ which Zarco emerged fro♔m. He banged his head on the ground as he fell.
The session was red flagged with three minutes and🀅 seven seconds remaining.
Zarco, whose bike split into two piece due to the enoღrmity of the smash, saw his session ended. Although Marquez did briefly go back out.
- This is 💃what Zarco said to Marquez face-to-face after th🎃eir massive crash
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Fellow Honda rider Takaaki Nakagami earlier suffered a big crash at the Sachsenring. Joan Mir and Alex Rins are ab𒊎sent this weekend after injꦺuries caused by crashes last weekend.
Marquez has faile⛄d to finish the past four grands prix that he has started, and has explained how the limitations of his Honda results in him taking extra risk.
reminded him of Jorge Lorenzo's cla𝔍im that he's the only rider who isn't scared of crashing, and Marquez replied: “I may be.
ဣ“🔥He said it – and I also feel I’m never scared.
“Maybe sometimes I’m taking 🌌too much r💧isk but I cannot ride a bike worrying about the crashing.
“It is the only way I know to ride a bike fast.
“I will say I have 20 [crashes] a year. Ma🗹ybe 250 crasheꦏs [in total]?”
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