Oil is slippery; that much we know. And while its pretty dangerous to be riding motorcycles on a patch of road that's been spilled with oil, the danger becomes much more magnified when you're in a pretty intense motorcycle race, as was the case during a recent Moto2 race at Jerez.

The incident started when two racers - Shoya Tomizawa and Simone Corsi - got tangled up with both riders losing control of their motorcycles, which spilled a pretty significant amount of crankcase oil onto the track. The resulting spill caused a number of riders behind the two to ride straight into the patch of oil where, naturally, they all ended up sliding helplessly as well.

If there was any good that came out of this domino-like slip and slide, it's that everybody came out of it relatively unscathed with the Moto2 marshalls also doing the prudent thing by red-flagging the entire race, which, incidentally, still had 25 laps to go.

Check out the video of the incident courtesy of the Daily Motion.

.