Lucky escape for Moto2 racer at Catalunya

Carmelo Morales uninjured after horrific crash at the end of the Moto2 race at the weekend

These are the remnants of Carmelo Morales' Moto2 bike following a huge crash on the start/finish straight at the end of the race.

The sickening crash occured when Morales clipped the rear tyre of Kenny Noyes whilst trying to slipstream him over the line in a battle over seventh position.
 
Thankfully the 31-year-old, who was making his Moto2 debut onboard the Kalex Pons machine was uninjured apart from a scratch to his hand and bruising to his shoulder. He joked with Noyes in the Clinica Mobile following the race.

The course workers had a busy hour with an abundance of crashes that included a pile-up at the first corner and Niccolò Canepa's Scot Honda bursting in to flames.

Morales appeared to misjudge the distance between himself and Kenny Noyes as he attempted to exit the slipstream to draft past him to the finish. What resulted was a collision between the front and rear tyres of the two machines.

The beginning of Carmelo Morales' and the Kalex Pons cartwheeling at the side of the front straight. Morales' was fortunate to not get tangled with the Kalex chassis as it bounced next to him.

As the Kalex Pons Moto2 racer flipped end of end bits of the machine disintegrated in to shards of aluminium, engine pieces and fibre glass.

Noyes celebrates a hard fought seventh place whilst Morales tumbles short of the finish line to be registered on the results sheet as a DNF

Reports from the Clinica Mobile stated that Morales didn't suffer any major injuries from the severity of the crash, with only brusing to the shoulder and a scratch to his hand. When he came to a standstill at the side of the track Morales was said to be struggling to breath after being heavily winded in the fall.