MotoGP Champ Marc Marquez Violently Thrown From Bike In Terrifying Crash

MotoGP champ Marc Marquez is VERY fortunate to be alive … he just crashed during a practice run Friday — and the scene was HORRIFYING.

The 28-year-old was heading around a turn at a high rate of speed during preparation for this weekend’s Dutch TT in Assen … when all of a sudden his bike bucked him.

Footage from the track is absolutely terrifying … you can see Marquez was thrown feet into the air while his motorcycle skidded across the pavement underneath him.

Marquez eventually crash-landed into some gravel … where he rolled several times before sliding to a stop.

Somehow, though, he said he avoided any sort of serious injury.

“I have to say I feel lucky to escape in a good condition overall, these kinds of crashes can be very hard and very dangerous,” Marquez told media members afterward.

“It’s painful, but nothing is wrong. It was a strange crash because I didn’t think that I was over the limit and I was riding like I was in the morning.”

Marquez continued, “In this corner we rely on the traction control a lot, but it wasn’t there, and when I shifted the rear started sliding and then I fell.”

If this all sounds familiar for Marquez … it’s because it is — remember just last year in July, he broke his arm in a similar accident in Spain.

In that crash, Marquez was thrown from his bike in nearly an identical fashion.