Two separate major incidents have seen riders narrowly avoid disaster with Moto2 and MotoGP riders counting their lucky stars.

In one of the craziest crashes in recent memory, the first race in the Moto2 race stunned the racing world.

In the third lap of the race, championship leader Enea Bastianini was fifth in the race but when his bike slid into the middle of the track, he luckily slid away from his stranded vehicle. With the rest of the field coming around the corner, Bastianini tried to get off the track but it was in an awkward position with Malaysian rider Hafizh Syahrin slamming into the stranded machine with both shattering on impact and sending debris across the track.

It had been a blind corner as Syahrin came out of a slipstream at just the wrong time, sending the Malaysian rider catapulting down the track.