We all love a trier, and nothing says effort more than a tumbling mass of man and machine.
1: Randy de Puniet
You know something is wrong when Randy hits the same stretch of race track twice. Randy likes to explore any circuit, and as consequence tends to fall over more than your average racer – taking MotoGP honors year after year. He’ll go down in history!
2: Carlos Checa
Doctors at the Clinica Mobile recently remove Carlos’s crash gene, meaning that he stayed on his machine of late, but scroll back a few years and it’s easy to see why he was given the “Careless Chucka” label.
3: Ruben Xaus
Large of the limb and big bounce, Ruben Xaus has been marshal bothering his whole career. It hasn’t mattered what machine he’s on, be it Ducatis in supersport. Superbike or MotoGP, Yamaha’s in the big league or the unruly BMW in WSB. If there’s gravel about, xaus sticks the magnet on and hones in on it horizontally.
4: James Haydon
Not many racers in the UK can claim to have been on the national news for crashing, but that’s exactly what James Hayden did when he managed to run himself over in a convoluted smash. When James later joined the Crescent Suzuki squad alongside Shakey, paddock wags dubbed the team ‘Crash and Byrne’ – for obvious reasons.
5: Dani Pedrosa
It seems that lil’ Dani can’t have an injury free crash, Whenever the half pint Spaniard hits the deck, he hits it hard and usually ruptures this or dislocates that.
6: Jorge Lorenzo
Gorgeous George got all his crashing out the way for his victorious 2010 championship campaign, but the previous year saw Lorenzo entering orbit with disturbing regularity before crashing down to earth in ignominious fashion plus this this season he got a title “Man of steel’ after broken his collar bone, went to surgery and finish fifth in the race!
7: James Toseland
During the up phase of his career. JT’s arse was velco-ed to his seat. But now his plateaued, Toseland has been playing catch-up – the start of every vicious circle.
8: Alex Debon
Alex Debon broke his collar bone 12 times during his career, and if that record doesn’t suggest a different path than perhaps during those dozen crashes there were a few knocks to the head too.
9: Rob Frost
Frosty single handedly kept fairing frabicators and paint sprayers in business and it was a dark day when he announced his retirement from racing in 2009.
10: Dave Croxford
Dave Croxford is the father of crashing, managing to part company with his bike on an amazing 189 occasions throughout the sixties and seventies – he kept count carving notches in his walking stick!
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