Winning a race means leaving the competition behind, but when they're rolling at 150 mph (240 km/h), this business becomes a very serious one.
That is because if you fall behind it will be really hard to make it past each one of your opponents back to the leading position, but also because of the incredibly small space available for maneuvers... at such speed.
Call it crazy, call it nerves of steel and a hand as sure as a surgeon's one, call it whatever you like, but for the Moto2 riders, this is just a day's work. And in case you ask yourselves what's with the 93 bike... that is Marc Marquez, one of the Honda Repsol MotoGP riders for 2013, Dani Pedrosa's team mate. That's how he made it to the riders' elite..
Call it crazy, call it nerves of steel and a hand as sure as a surgeon's one, call it whatever you like, but for the Moto2 riders, this is just a day's work. And in case you ask yourselves what's with the 93 bike... that is Marc Marquez, one of the Honda Repsol MotoGP riders for 2013, Dani Pedrosa's team mate. That's how he made it to the riders' elite..