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2011 WSBK Donington – Race 1 – Maxime Berger Crash

April 27, 2011 by pbik  
Filed under Bike racing


The most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen in bike racing occurs to Maxime Berger’s Ducati, thankfully at the slowest corner on the track. Apparently his rear wheel shattered and broke off.

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18 Responses to “2011 WSBK Donington – Race 1 – Maxime Berger Crash”
  1. 2wheelsteve says:

    Thats the trouble with using a tyre thats too big for the rim haha, no harm done ;-)

  2. satyaiueo734 says:

    horrible!!

  3. TheSeventiethSeven says:

    @bassgodtraining Wasn’t funny at all.

  4. bassgodtraining says:

    Click the 1911 button for huge laughs.

  5. Zsolti000 says:

    the wheel overtakes the bike :D :D:D

  6. rico46davis says:

    sack the manufacturer and thank the lord that it happened when it did. beyond that. just laugh your nuts off.

  7. calotxe says:

    sabotage!!! ahah

  8. 29300754 says:

    輪胎跑掉= =”

  9. wheelsnumberone says:

    Benfoxmra95 your observation is correct, and is not the first time that wheels of this manufacturer collapse due to torsional / flexural stress; previously this wheel had done only Australian race.

  10. Benfoxmra95 says:

    The center section broke out of the wheel.

    The mechanic was not a fault. It was a wheel manufacturing/design failure.

  11. Fudmottin says:

    I’m sure Berger was all WTF over that one. I would be ready to use that wheel as a necktie for the guy who was supposed to X-ray the casting!

  12. TheMSPhotography says:

    @jackobcooper
    Wells spoken :)

  13. chuofmilk says:

    only tire?

  14. Zeebo1uk says:

    If you look closely the hub has come away from the rim, must have been using them mag wheels for too long

  15. MrDGonzalez5 says:

    i bet the guy was like…. WHATAA FUCK HAPPENED!???

  16. Brett140 says:

    Never seem a WSBK Series broke, or lost a rear wheel.

  17. jackobcooper says:

    some invisible pikeys stole his wheel lol

  18. Sazabi69 says:

    Well, what to say… Talk about unexpected.

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