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2 unusual facts about Parade lap


Parade lap

At the 2009 Valencian MotoGP, Ducati rider Casey Stoner crashed at the second turn of the Circuit Ricardo Tormo, and missed the race.

Any car which fails to leave the grid before the last qualifier has moved away is required to start from either the pit lane or the back of the grid, but in MotoGP and the Superbike World Championship, it is known as the warm-up lap.



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1988 Australian Grand Prix

Driveshaft failures accounted for the EuroBruns of Stefano Modena and Oscar Larrauri (Modena, who had stalled his car at the start of the parade lap and started from the back of the grid, had two spins).

Nathan Burke

It was also notable for the fact that the coaching panel of Richmond that day included fellow St Kilda teammates Danny Frawley and Stewart Loewe, who stayed on the ground in honour of Burke following his parade lap (with Alex Lloyd's "Amazing" played at the ground).