PICS: Dani Pedrosa falls, title chance ends
Dani Pedrosa crashes out of the lead of the Australian MotoGP, ending his 2012 MotoGP title hopes.
Pedrosa crash, Australian MotoGP 2012
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This is the moment when Dani Pedrosa's 2012 MotoGP title hopes came to an end.
The Repsol Honda star, who needed to beat Jorge Lorenzo to at least take the fight to the final round, lost the front of his RCV at the slow Honda hairpin while leading on lap two.
See below for a full sequence of the incident, from two different angles...
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