Niklas Ajo, running eighth at the Dutch GP, gets bucked from his seat and saves his bike from crashing while crossing the finish line on his knees.
"Want to win? Hire a Finn..." So ran the motto of rally teams back in the 1970s. Today, the BBC's Top Gear suggests that motto be updated to: "Want to watch a bloke finish a motorbike race heroically sliding along the tarmac on his knees? Hire a Finn..."
The frankly ridiculous clip you see below stars Niklas Ajo, a Finnish motorcyclist who races a KTM in the Moto3 World Championship.
At last weekend's race in Assen, Holland, Ajo pulled off one of the most amazing saves we've witnessed in any form of motorsport, ever.
Getting a serious high-side wobble into the last corner on the final lap, the iron-willed Finn somehow clung onto his bike despite a significant excursion onto the grass. Better still, Ajo coaxed the KTM back onto the track, crossing the finish line in seventeenth place, adopting a pose we believe is known in riding circle as “the Cossack stance”.
“I was really lucky not to hit the wall," said the grinning Ajo after the race. "I just wanted to save myself and, in the end, I was just a few meters from the finish line, so I just finished it..."
Rico says that, among other things, this is something he'll never do...
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