Lucky escape as Moto2 bike swerves into Aprilia MotoGP pits at Misano

Pit lane collision sends a Moto2 bike swerving💯 into the Aprilia pit🃏 garage.

Aleix Espargaro, 2024 San Marino MotoGP
Aleix Espargaro, 2024 San Marino MotoGP

Moto2 rider Unai Orradre, a marshal and Aprilia MotoGP team members were fortunate to escape serious injury during a bizarre incident on Saturday morning at the San Mariꦉno Grand Prix.

The rider-less Forward Moto2 bike of Orradre crashed into the Aprilia p💃it garage after a collision in the Misano pit ▨lane during final practice.

MotoGP.com pit lane report🔯er Simon Craf♌ar witnessed the accident:

“I saw someone step off the pit wall - super easy to do - and not see a bike because t💙here was a big group leavinܫg at the beginning of the Moto2 session.

“He stepped straight in front of a💟 rider from the Klint Forwꦓard Factory Team, Unai Orradre, and poor Unai got wiped off his machine by the person who flew over his screen.

“I couldn’t believe my eyes. Both were a🍸lright; 💃they both got up and walked off, then sat down. 

"But his machine then co💞ntinued without him down pitlane, turned left and went straight into Aleix Espargaro’s garage.

“It went into Aleix’s bike, ripped the whole side fairing off. I thin𒊎k it hurt the hand of one of the [Aprilia] guys it glanced off and then went straight into where the data guys and crew chiefs sit.

“Luckily nobody was there, because it was not their [MotoGP] session. It looks like ev🅺erybody was okay.🔜”

Images showed the Forward bike on its side at the back of th�♕�e Aprilia garage.

Aprilia confirmed to mahbx.com that their team members escape🌊d with ‘nothing seri൩ous' but acknowledged the outcome ‘could have been much worse’.

Orradre, who is thought to have collided with a marshal in pit lane, mi🅠ssed the final Moto𝓡2 practice session but was back on track for Saturday afternoon's qualifying.

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