Moto Dominos: Nine riders go down in Moto2, race restarted [w/video]
 

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<div style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><sma ll>Moto2 crash at Jerez - Click above to watch the video <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/05/06/moto-dominos-nine-riders-go-down-in-moto2-race-restarted-w-vi/#continued">after the break</a><br />
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The very same properties that make oil perfect for lubricating the high-speed engine internals inside racing vehicles makes it extremely dangerous on the actual racing surface. No shock there... we all know oil is slippery. When racing goes from four wheels to two, though, that slippery surface can have especially disastrous results.<br />
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Such was the case last weekend during the Moto2 race at Jerez. <span class="meta-categories">A crash that sent Shoya Tomizawa and Simone Corsi to the ground spilled a fair bit of crankcase oil onto the track, which in turn caused a domino-like array of low-slides directly behind. In total nine riders went down in the wake of the spill.<br />
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</span>Fortunately, the race was red-flagged and nobody was seriously injured. Dorna safety delegate Franco Uncini reportedly said after the race that the management group would likely make carbon fiber crankcase covers mandatory moving forward to prevent such issues in the future. Check out the video <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/05/06/moto-dominos-nine-riders-go-down-in-moto2-race-restarted-w-vi/#continued">after the break</a>.<br />
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[Source: <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd5r9y_moto2-saison-2010-jerez-crash_auto">Dailymotion</a>]<p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/05/06/moto-dominos-nine-riders-go-down-in-moto2-race-restarted-w-vi/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Moto Dominos: Nine riders go down in Moto2, race restarted [w/video]</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;backgr ound:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/05/06/moto-dominos-nine-riders-go-down-in-moto2-race-restarted-w-vi/">Moto Dominos: Nine riders go down in Moto2, race restarted [w/video]</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.autoblog.com">Autoblo g</a> on Thu, 06 May 2010 19:39:00 EST. Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/05/06/moto-dominos-nine-riders-go-down-in-moto2-race-restarted-w-vi/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19463031/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/05/06/moto-dominos-nine-riders-go-down-in-moto2-race-restarted-w-vi/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>

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