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Vinales: Brakes exploded, I had to jump off
Almost wiped out by the fallen bikes of Franco Morbidelli and Johann Zarco last Sunday, Maverick Vinales' traumatic Austrian adventure continued when he had to leap from his own machine at 230km/h as the brakes "exploded" in Sunday's Styrian MotoGP. Check out the Crash MotoGP YouTube channel - CLICK HERE
The Monster Yamaha rider had been seen raising his hand as he battled some kind of technical problem earlier in the race, but - just as with the slipping clutch one-week earlier - then seemed to recover. That's until he arrived at the braking zone for Turn 1 on lap 17 when his brakes suddenly failed, forcing him to jump off his bike. The Spaniard's M1 then destroyed an airfence,...
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