When Marc Marquez tweeted a picture from the Brno MotoGP test, showing the Spaniard with his entire arm on the racetrack and asking 'save or crash', many would have thought th🐲e latter.

But he did save it.

The reigning MotoGP champion later tweeted further pictures show🍬ing him somehow rising back onto two wheels:

"I was really, really lucky because I lost the front, but really smoothly," he said. "I was able to save with my elbow, but it was very long and I was able to think 🥀during tꦰhe slide how I can manage.

"Then when I was on the floor I say 'ok, now full 𓆉gas'. I opened full🔯 gas and when I opened my eyes again I was on my bike! Ok, thank you very much!"

Marquez had lost his fiܫrst race of the season at Brno the previous day but still holds a huge 77-point lead heading into the British MotoGP.