PICTURES: Alvaro Bautista's embarrassing back-flip!
This is the moment when 250GP title contender Alvaro Bautista lost control of his Aspar Aprilia - whilst celebrating third position on the slowdown lap after Sunday's Czech Republic Grand Prix at Brno.
"I tried to do a wheelie and instead I did a back-flip!" smiled an embarrassed Bautista.
See below for the full sequence, shot from two different angles...

Bautista crashes after wheelie, Czech MotoGP 2009
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This is the moment when 250GP title contender Alvaro Bautista lost control of his Aspar Aprilia - whilst celebrating third position on the slowdown lap after Sunday's Czech Republic Grand Prix at Brno.
"I tried to do a wheelie and instead I did a back-flip!" smiled an embarrassed Bautista.
See below for the full sequence, shot from two different angles...