I?ve seen some whopping crashes in my time, but MM93?s monster 100mph highside in yesterday?s MotoGP warmup session might have been the biggest crash I have ever seen.

And it came after a bit of a run of crashes. I?m not talking about his run of crashes spanning the last few years, when MM93 has crashed just about everything he?s swung his leg over. I?m just talking about this weekend in Indonesia. A crash in free practice secured his place in Q1, when he crashed another two times. So the get-off in warmup was crash number four.

If you watched any of the MotoGP practice or qualifying at the weekend, you won?t have seen Marquez putting his usual 110%. He was giving it 150%, minimum. As much as it was a sight to behold, and you?ve got to give the bloke some respect for putting it all on the line like that, it really isn?t a sustainable way to race a motorbike.
If you have four big, fast crashes (and they were fast) over one weekend, chances are at least one of them is going to be big enough to hurt. Or at least big enough to put you out of the running. He was lucky to get away with it for as long as he did.

His big highside didn?t come without warning. As well as the two fast front end crashes he?d had the day before, he had a massive rear-end slide that could have very easily gripped a bit more aggressively and chucked him over the highside; that one didn?t, but it was only a matter of time before one did.

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