Drag bike racer Filippos Papafilippou has miraculously escaped injury after colliding with his opponent at more than 200 km/h during a race.

The Greek racer was competing in the quarter mile at a European Drag Bike racing event in Bedfordshire, England when things took a turn for the worst.

As he was hurtling down the track he appeared to clip a lane divider before crashing into rival racer Steve Woollat's motorcycle.

The collision flipped him from his bike, but miraculously, he landed perfectly on the wheelie bar attached to the back of Woollat's bike, and the Englishman managed to complete the quarter mile without crashing.

Papafilippou only suffered a minor ankle injury, but his bike wasn’t so lucky, sliding on its side down the Santa Pod Raceway track.

The wheelie bar is designed to prevent a motorcycle from flipping at high speed, but in the case of Papafilippou, it may have saved his life.