it is not really ( traditionally ) very sporting to go dicing with and potentially ruining it for someone who has bigger fish to fry.. would anyone really want to be the one who blocked Rossi progress and possibly his championship just because they find them selves on a fast bike on the day...
that is the second of the main issues which help point the finger of blame,,,, i thot it would be blatently obvious to any bike sport enthusiast that MM was not racing with Ros, he was fkn him up,,,,,, Pedy , who has never really been faster than MM was leading the race easily but his faster team mate was stuck in racing 3 rd / 4 th place,,,,,,come on , how much clearer does it have to be...
Marquez antagonised Rossi for many laps, for many laps he put up with it, then he flipped. Marquez could have either slowed and cut to the apex, or kept wide and rode around Rossi. Instead he rode into him, Rossi pushed him off with his knee, and he either caught his front lever, or just knocked him off balance. Either way, Rossi didnt mean to knock him off, but enough was enough, either could have come off worse, but for Marquez, his luck ran out. Thats my interpretation anyway.
did this all become clear after rossi's pre race comments? or had you noticed this as far back as luguna seca 2013?
my memory is not that good , and didnt have internet to watch back then,,,,,, no it became obv about 4 laps before he smacked him
the camera wasn't on him long enough you saw a glimpse of him on the deck and the next thing was the camera showing Rossi looking round at him,then countless replays of the incident..how do you know he didn't get up and go mad??
in fact, Vally managed the whole thing with such expertise that when MM did hit the deck he was going so slowly that there was no way he was going to get injured, didnt even part himself from his bike,, just stopped and immed tried to lift it up,, personally i was a bit surprised that he didnt do his usual rain dance and get right back into the fray,, guess his day was a success .
thats another good point, either he was so shocked he didnt think about rejoining, or he had already set out what he meant to do! If he didnt feel he deserved it, maybe he would have gone after vale and rammed him off?
durring the countless replays from different angles/stages it pretty much covered him spinning out but staying with bike, getting out from under left hand still on the bar, picking it up, wheeling it backwards then getting a push start from the marshals. he did shake his head once when the marshals turned up but it looked like that was about them taking their time. he then rode on and pulled into the pits... didnt look to animated when he dismounted or even storm through the garage why didnt he carry on? anyone know the damage to his bike? looked ok.. normally he would carry on
Remind me not to ride with flatfish. Running someone off the road, road not track, is a fucking idiot thing to do. Full stop. Job done I'd say which is why he came into the pits
Agreed, Marquez was motivated to race him hard and not let him get into a rhythm. Nothing wrong with that. It's the same logic that Rossi has publicly stated is the way to beat Marquez, get straight past him after being passed and don't let him get into a rhythm. Marquez did it in spades and Rossi flipped as you say.
So Marquez deliberatly didn't qualify on pole? Is that why you are saying Pedrosa qualified fastest? The only thing on Marquez's mind this weekend was messing with Rossi?
