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Talk about stuffing a guy, talk about punting a guy, talk about taking the law into your own hands.
Race officials call this clean, no penalty next week.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y0s8Uv0oK3I
That's crazy.
He ran him off the track, into the grass, look where MM ends the turn, made sure there was no room.
You have to wreck for a rough riding call?
Rossi could have gassed it, pulled the front in also, but chose to ride it out.
So could have the Honda rider.
Selective officiating at Dorna, you guys don't see that, get your eyes checked.
It's over a week now, one more to go. Looking forward to 20 more pages of the same repeating arguments
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Rossi was/Is leading the points.
His post makes it sound like he was 20th.
Stay tuned, CAS decision sometime this week.
And he was getting mugged by all the other riders on the track, even Iannone at PI.
He turned his focus to something petty and stupid. Started accusing others of conspiracy, etc, when nobody had said it before, and started a war. Knowing he has at least half of MotoGP insiders and fans to support him.
Was it smart, angering Marquez and Lorenzo? Claiming that the focus (instead of his poor performance the last few races and dwindling championship lead) should be on that Lorenzo was winning because Marquez was helping him? Should he have expected any courtesy on-track from Marquez? Hell, no. Maybe he even welcomed it - he asked him for it.
So the shitstorm he started, and is ripping apart MotoGP, is his own device, creation. Honestly, it was going to be tough for him if he finished 4th at Sepang, and only held a 4-point lead going to Valencia. With the his lack of pace from the last 4 races, and his lack of pace at Valencia in general, he knew it was coming.
I personally hope he wins his appeal, and let the racing happen. Not because he was right - he should have been black flagged, just like reed - but such that the racing lets it decide the outcome, and the championship isn't cheapened by the stupid turn of events from Sepang.
Then, either way, he should GTFO of motoGP, obviously he's too big for it. Hopefully the Ducs can run with the factory teams and we have more than a 4-rider field next year. And give the factory Yamaha ride to someone deserving like Bradley Smith or Pol Espargaro - or take a chance with someone like Redding. Smith and Redding impressed beyond anyone's expectation at Misano.
Funny how Pedrosa always rides fast the last few races and Honda always keeps him. Honestly, his time has come too, no matter how much bad luck or arm pump surgery he has had.
Would be a real treat if they bring them all in the pre-race press conference again - I can't see how they can't.
Smith is awesome but the guys you mentioned should be factory Yamaha over Rossi? That is straight up crazy talk.
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On 25th October 2015 during the MotoGP race of the Shell Malaysia Motorcycle Grand Prix, rider #46 Valentino Rossi deliberately ran wide on Turn 14 in order to force another rider off line, resulting in contact causing the other rider to crash.
This is considered to be irresponsible riding causing danger to other competitors and is therefore an infringement of Article 1.21.2 of the FIM Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix Regulations.
Valentino Rossi was requested to attend a Race Direction hearing. Both riders involved were present at the hearing, both gave testimony, and video evidence was reviewed.
The decision of the Race Direction is to impose on rider #46 the addition of 3 penalty points on his record, according to Article 3.2.1. of the FIM Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix Disciplinary and Arbitration Code."
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Article 1.21.2 reads:
"Riders must ride in a responsible manner which does not cause danger to
other competitors or participants, either on the track or in the pit-lane.
Any infringement of this rule will be penalised with one of the following
penalties: penalty points - fine - change of position - ride through – time
penalty – drop of any number of grid position at the rider’s next race –
disqualification - withdrawal of Championship points - suspension. "
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It will be pretty hard to convince that he was actually being threatened by Marquez, and all the on-track riding, while hard racing, was quite fair.
It simply looks like his argument is he felt that Marquez should have let him through because he was leading the championship.
I'm curious what else he can bring to the table. I can't see how his diagram of lap charts could actually help - he was slower than Lorenzo before and after he was passed, and never achieved a faster lap than Marquez 2nd lap either. For all intents and purposes - it was a fair fight at best. And likely he was headed for a 4th place finish.
If I was trying to form an argumentation and was a lawyer (which Im not),
I would attack the "Valentino Rossi deliberately ran wide on Turn 14 in order to force another rider off line, resulting in contact causing the other rider to crash." First I would establish what part of that sentence caused the race officials to deem it irresponsible riding. Was it
1. The "deliberately ran wide on Turn 14"
2. The "in order to force another rider off line"
3. The "resulting in contact causing the other rider to crash"
......or a combination of the three.
I THINK establishing that the first two is common place and normal and a part of racing (educating the CAS guys with thousands of hours worth of footage of how overtaking takes place)...is relatively easy (establish that judgement is subjective and that this like case law in the UK)
Then, with the aid of the video footage from the accident, I would show that the 3rd statement is simply false. MM lent into Rossi, and MM had the option of going straight or stopping. It was his judgement (i.e. Rossi didn't make him turn in), therefore his fault. So no penalty was needed.
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Having written that...I think, in a court, MM would have more of an argument for the Argentina crash, the way Rossi cut across his front end...(kind of like what MM did it to Thomas Lutti in Moto2). To me in MotoGP cutting across someone's front end is the equivalent to cross-jumping in motocross. At those speeds its crazy. What makes this all a bit...ridiculous is that we are putting the word 'responsible' in a sport where the guys are a little crazy no? CAS is probably gonna laugh at the idea...ure all crazy!
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Why is it on Vale? He was in front and Marquez ran into the back of him, two times no less... If you're gonna ride that close and a change of direction is coming you take a risk... He was just setting for the next corner no?
That said, it is obviously just my opinion, but I think defining it this way "On 25th October 2015 during the MotoGP race of the Shell Malaysia Motorcycle Grand Prix, rider #46 Valentino Rossi deliberately ran wide on Turn 14 in order to force another rider off line, resulting in contact causing the other rider to crash." is just totally wrong. The fact that Rossi ran him a bit wide did not cause the other rider to crash, how marquez reacted to being run wide caused him to crash.
http://www.foxsports.com/motor/story/motogp-honda-claims-rossi-kicked-m…
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