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
Bautista crashes after wheelie, Czech MotoGP 2009
© Gold and Goose

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...

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