THE GASSITS
SAVE OF THE YEAR
In the absence of Marc Marquez, jaw-dropping saves have been few and far between but the save of the year goes to Marc Marquez.
The opening round of the MotoGP World Championship was just five laps old. The reigning champ had just picked Maverick Vinales’s pocket for the lead and was desperate to put some air between himself and his countryman. It was turn four when his front tyre screamed no more, and turn four where he left a 40m-long skid mark as he mustered every one of his cat-like reflexes to not only keep his RC213V from washing away from underneath him, but get the thing back to something resembling upright before barrelling into the gravel at a hell of a speed and opening the gas to flat track his 270hp-machine out of the kitty litter, rejoining his first and last race of 2020 in last place.
SPECIAL MENTION to Lewis Hamilton who, even though he may not have actually saved Valentino Rossi’s YZR-M1 from crashing, no one actually saw it. So did it even happen? If anything, he may have saved a bit of face.
