Superbikes at Philip Island.

[mangell6]

Yeah, watched the moment s l o w l y and Alex missed his head and struck the hump. Scary stuff though.

[DemonWolf]

Yeah it looked rather dodgy how he got hit.. but it looked like his hump took most of the force.. even though in saying that.. he'll have one hell of a sore neck\body!

[Colapop]

I missed the second race but the first was a real cracker. When Bayliss got out to around 6 seconds clear, I thought it was all over. But I suppose that's the beauty of racing - it's not over til the checkered flag waves. Some great defensive race riding to keep Barros out. I'll have to check listings for the replay of the second one...

[gav]

His head glanced off the side fairing. Push his head out of the way just enough that it didn't get collected by the foot peg - which went on to trash his aero hump.

Lucky, very lucky. Was close to that infamous accident many years ago where Mick Doohan (think it was him) collected some guys head. No way to avoid it.

Doohan? Nah. Wayne Gardner...in fact his very first GP, he hit Franco Uncini who was the reigning 500GP world champion at the time. Uncini's helmet actually came off in the impact. He survived and was back racing soon enough.

[Deviant Esq]

Sure was some good racing, enjoyed watching that. Though Corser getting collected as Barros went through just chilled my bones, really glad to hear he's okay. It looked pretty bad especially when he got caught hard enough to spin him around again. And the poor guy had to scramble and somersault his way off the racing line and away from his stricken Gixxer, which ended up just skidding off to the other side of the track.

Definitely good racing though, shame the next round's so far off!

[gav]

MotoGP starts March 26th, might fill in time until the next WSBK race......