With Marco Melandri taking his first exciting World Superbike win in race 1 at Donington Park, many may have overlooked the incredible thing that happened to Superbike newbie Maxime Berger, the rear rim shattered and the whole wheel fell off! Fortunately for the Supersonic Ducati rider it happened at low speed or the consequences would have been a lot worse.

Maxime Berger said, “I’m disappointed and incredulous. I never had to stop twice for so two strange reasons. The ring broke and I was lucky because it broke into a slow corner. I found myself on the ground without knowing what happened.”

What happened to Berger brought back memories of what happened to Robert Dunlop during the 1994 TT. Check out the video after the jump.

Continue reading: Maxime Berger loses his wheel in Race 1 (w/video)

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Michael Dunlop took his first TT win yesterday in the delayed Relentless Supersport Race 2 on his privately entered Street Sweep/Marlow Construction Yamaha.

Dunlop can now add a TT win to those of his father Robert and uncle Joey. Dunlop lead the race from start to finish with a 31 second advantage. Second place went to Bruce Anstey and third to Connor Cummins.

John McGuinness, winner of Monday’ race could only finish 11th after suffering two slides that fortunately did not throw him from his Honda, but left him struggling. Ian Hutchinson who won both Relentless Supersport race 1 and the Royal London 360 Superstock TT on Tuesday finished in fifth.

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