Wild Ride: Watch As The Back Tire Of Loris Baz’s MotoGP Bike Blows Out At 180 Miles An Hour!


Wild Ride: Watch As The Back Tire Of Loris Baz’s MotoGP Bike Blows Out At 180 Miles An Hour!

(Lead photo: @EyzalAmriz) Blowing out a tire at 180 miles an hour is a bad deal, I don’t care what that tire was attached to. Plane, car, whatever…your day has just gone down the tubes with a flush the second a tire calls it a day at that kind of speed. On a motorcycle, you’ll be lucky if you even get to recount just how bad your day went at that speed, and that’s where MotoGP rider Loris Baz is finding himself. A bruised elbow and a stiff back are all that he suffered when the soft-compound Michelin tire that he was testing at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia up and let go at speed.

In Baz’s own words: “It was my second run and I had the new tire just to make the lap time. Going into the last corner I heard something strange, but I just wanted to finish the lap. At the beginning I thought it was the engine or the gearbox, but looks like it’s just a tire problem. So maybe the tire touching the bike, maybe that was the noise I was hearing. But no strange feeling, no chattering, nothing – so I couldn’t expect that the tire was going to explode like this on the straight.

The rear locked really fast. So I tried to take the clutch, that’s the first thing you do, but you know that you’re going to crash. I knew I was going to crash and when you are sliding you just hope that you’re not going to hit the wall or someone hit you from behind… Really lucky to be here.”

Dude, you’re really lucky to be anywhere right now. Make sure you send one hell of a thank you note to the people who provide your helmet and riding gear, they earned their pay.

(Courtesy: Lanesplitter)


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