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Great result 😆
Miller making friends 😆
Misted up visor? Lorenzo's going to get a bollocking!
Well crap weather but great to be there and hear VR fan club cheer and then clap a certain fallen rider. 😆
Well who would of predicted that podium ?
Crazy race
Not me, 😆 Redding was on the deck for Gods sake 😯
Good for Rossi and the title
I hope this gives Redding a bit of a confidence boost, he hasn't done as well in motogp as I thought he would.
😕 Rossi messing with Lorenzos head during the bike swap over in this mornings practice or unsafe release by the 99 crew ?
Rossi messing with Lorenzos head during the bike swap over in this mornings practice or unsafe release by the 99 crew ?
Rossi knew what he was doing the cheeky little scamp 😉
Can't wait to see how these last 4 races pan out
As per the Moto GP itself was mundane compared to support races, Moto3 was amazing again!!! Gutted Mr Kent didn't use his head a bit more.
GP was the usual JL99 clear off and manage gap, shame for MM93 falling as we needed someone to fight Jorge but couldn't fault Dani's effot in stopping Vale. Not seen moves like that from Pedro in years!!!
being a cynic it is contract time in the Honda camp 😆
Can Rossi do it???? Not sure to be honest
What an incredible race this morning!!
Yes mind blowing race 😯 it was like GP3 but on the big bikes.
I've never seen Jlo look happy coming second before. The top 4 clearly loved every minute.
Best MotoGP race in ages! Hope Danny Kent is OK after his tarmac interaction.
Controversy. Decision from Race Direction will be interesting....
Did that just happen? 😯
Slap on the wrist for Rossi there I think!
Can't really belive what I just saw happen.
Think he's made a big mistake there
I hope that doesn't kill the championship.
Shouldn't to me it looked like Marquez tried to force it and Rossi wasn't getting pushed about. Racing incident.
If Miller can take out Crutchlow with nothing said Rossi will be fine
Wowsers 😯 Don't get me wrong, Marquez wasn't an angel in all that (some of his overtaking building up to it was VERY aggressive) but Rossi saw Lorenzo disappearing, got frustrated and the Goat kicked out. Race directive will have a lot to do but I think Rossi has blown his championship.
Rossi pushed him wide BUT Marquez turned in anyway knowing ful well Rossi was there and the line he was taking.
He expected Rossi to move - why would he? He had the correct line and Marquez didn't
Lorenzo going apeshit in race direction 😆
3 points in his race license and starts next race from back of grid
Lorenzo needs to beat both hondas to be [fairly] sure of the championship.
Why's Marquez trying to help Lorenzo win the title, 'coz Spanish?
Marquez was further into the wrong there, boy is getting much to rowdy IMO.
Why's Marquez trying to help Lorenzo win the title, 'coz Spanish?
MM thinks Rossi punted him off at one race and deliberately cut a chicane to beat him in another. It's personal, and nothing to do with Jlo.
Marquez shouldn't have been where he was in that corner though - he turned in deliberately there and when Rossi didn't move he turned in again harder.
Rossi's mistake was in lifting his foot off the peg in the manner he did.
Defensive wasn't it......what's the first thing you do when someone goes to hit you? You raise yer hands. That's all he was doing...kinda...
Another classless display by Marquez, Rossi is obviously above that shit 😛
Not sure I quite get this one now, Marquez made first contact, Rossi either deliberately barges him with knee or his foot is brought off the peg...either way too difficult to call....race direction should be penalizing Marquez as well at the very least.
I hope that if Rossi can't make his way up the field to a position that wins him the champs, that he at least does this again to Marc to shit him up for next season and make Marc wonder whether he's safe when ever he's near Rossi.
The cocky little scrote is going to get his comeuppance someday.
“Rossi's evidence is that his foot came off the foot-peg as a result of the contact. From all the video evidence there is no clear shot that definitely shows that his foot slipped off the footrest because of contact or that he deliberately kicked. I don't have that as a smoking gun if you like.Because Rossi, who went on to finish third, already has one penalty point he will be forced to start the Valencia season finale from the back of the grid. ”
Total joke, the championship is a farce. Do they not practice reasonable doubt in racing?
If nothing else the most boring class in bike racing has got people interested over the last couple of rounds.Should be fun in Valencia!! 😀
Meh, wish Super Sic was still about. He'd have been a good buffer for Rossi today
I've watched that several times, and still can't see anything which proves Rossi deliberately took his foot off the peg, or that MM came off as the result of a kick. Can't see anything to prove the opposite either, but it sure looks a lot more like MM coming off as a result of him contacting Rossi and the foot coming off because of his knee getting headbutted. How on earth can they penalise Rossi on the basis of that? Do they have a different angle we haven't seen which makes it look different? I'm hoping that sense will be seen at the appeal, because it sure as heck wasn't Rossi who initiated the incident, that is beyond doubt.
I used to love watching the 250's.Anyone else remember Capirossis's move to win the championship on the last corner of the last lap? 😯
Actually I've now watched it again in slo-mo, and I'm sure that MM is already going down before Rossi's foot comes off the peg. He goes down because he tries and fails to lean on Rossi.
Yeah, +1 aracer. It's bollocks, are Yamaha still appealing? Or has the appeal been decided? Can they correlate telemetry data with the video feed do you think?
The only possible reason I can see for race direction doing this, is increase viewership/and grab headlines. I can see Moto GP losing lots of viewers ebcause of this though.
The BBC news story says that they will appeal. Who will any appeal be to? I've got no idea about this sort of thing in MotoGP, but in F1 based on the evidence I'm seeing I'd expect an appeal to be successful.
https://twitter.com/CormacGP/status/658209502383071232
Lorenzo passing Rossi under yellow...no penalty.
After what Lorenzo has said about Rossi and his tantrum with race directions decision, then I hope Rossi makes sure Lorenzo has the book thrown at him.
Such a dirty race, I think Rossi is right....ever since he quit Honda....Honda have made it policy to give the number two works Honda and satellite riders a gloves off order to hold him up.
Here's what race direction had to say..
http://www.crash.net/motogp/news/224594/1/motogp-race-director-explains-rossi-punishment.html
Remember the incident between Pedrosa and Marquez a couple of seasons ago where the contact took a sensor of Pedrosa's bike and caused him to crash further up the straight.
That was virtually identical, Pedrosa took a deliberate line and slowed in the corner to force Marquez wide so he could take the advantage coming out of the corner.
Only that time it was deemed Marquez's fault.
I used to love watching the 250's.Anyone else remember Capirossis's move to win the championship on the last corner of the last lap?He's the safety rep and was in the hearing about Rossi today. I imagine he just saw a racing incident 😆
Also with Capirossis's history,notably when all the Italians ganged up on Hans Spaan so he could win the 125 Championship http://www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics/1990/AUS/125cc/World+Standing
He's not best placed to comment on the Spanish riders favouring JL... 😉