Moto2: Morales makes light of accident

Sunday's Spanish Moto2 race came to a shocking conclusion when Kenny Noyes and Carmelo Morales touched wheels on the flat-out charge to the finish line.
Morales, Catalunya Moto2 Race 2010
Morales, Catalunya Moto2 Race 2010
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Sunday's Spanish Moto2 race came to a shocking conclusion when Kenny Noyes and Carmelo Morale𒅌s touched wheels on the flat-out ch🍸arge to the finish line.

Moments earlier, Noyes had snatched seventh place from Morales on entry tꩵo the final tur🍸n, in a move made famous by Valentino Rossi in the 2009 MotoGP race.

The American thus emerg💜ed just in front of Pons s💛tand-in Morales, who then attempted to regain the position by pulling out of the slipstream within sight of the flag.

But the Spaniard clipped Noyes' rear wheel, sending Morales i🎃nto an enormous acci🐼dent that saw his motorcycle cart-wheeling around the fallen rider and bouncing high off the fence in front of the home grandstand.

Amazingly, Morales escaped with bruising and was later able 🃏to joke about the inꦏcident with Noyes, whom he raced with in the Spanish Championship.

"We swapped the lead t🦩hree times [on the last lap] and that left me with only the final corner where I saw Rossi make that pass on Lorenzo last year," said Noyes, who was being cheered on by team sponsor Antonio Banderas.

"So I threw it in there on the inside, pushed the front but hung on and once I was on the st𓃲raight I was sure he couldn't get back by.

"I felt something and when I looke🥀d back after I crossed the line I didn't understand what had happened," he said of the crash. "As soon as I found out I went to the clinic and Carmelo and I ended up💫 laughing about it."

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