So have I, initially I thought Rossi pushed Marquez but on closer inspection Marquez accelerates and rides hard into Rossi who then while actually being lent on, reacts and pushes back with his knee. IMHO If not 6 of one and half a dozen of the other, Marquez was forcing the issue and more to blame than Rossi.D-Rider wrote:Forceful knee into Marquez and his bike forcing him to crash.mangocrazy wrote:How did he cheat?D-Rider wrote:Hopefully not at all - shameful cheatfatboy wrote: Be interesting to see how sympathetic all the other riders are to Rossi in Valencia when he starts at the back
Running someone wide is done in every race class in every racing discipline worldwide. Just watch the first corner in last weekend's Austin F1 race - no sanction applied there. And that was the sum total of Rossi's misdemeanour.
Watched it time and again from angle after angle - the live broadcast and post race coverage was showing it over and over again.
I wasn't swayed by the commentators - I saw it with my eyes before they even noticed it.
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My view exactly. Rossi's move with his knee was an instinctive 'get off me' reaction in response to being leant on by Marquez. Whether Ross's knee or an action of Marquez ultimately caused the crash is open for debate. The camera doesn't show that level of detail.HisNibbs wrote:So have I, initially I thought Rossi pushed Marquez but on closer inspection Marquez accelerates and rides hard into Rossi who then while actually being lent on, reacts and pushes back with his knee. IMHO If not 6 of one and half a dozen of the other, Marquez was forcing the issue and more to blame than Rossi.D-Rider wrote:Forceful knee into Marquez and his bike forcing him to crash.mangocrazy wrote:How did he cheat?D-Rider wrote:Hopefully not at all - shameful cheatfatboy wrote: Be interesting to see how sympathetic all the other riders are to Rossi in Valencia when he starts at the back
Running someone wide is done in every race class in every racing discipline worldwide. Just watch the first corner in last weekend's Austin F1 race - no sanction applied there. And that was the sum total of Rossi's misdemeanour.
Watched it time and again from angle after angle - the live broadcast and post race coverage was showing it over and over again.
I wasn't swayed by the commentators - I saw it with my eyes before they even noticed it.
The only way to know would be if Honda released telemetry details for the period up to and including the crash, but I can't see them doing that any time soon, as it would almost certainly incriminate Marquez.
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Please. Forceful knee? Marquez ran into Rossi. Period. He made contact first, all I saw was Rossi lifting his knee after Marquez smacked into it with his helmet. The most that did was stand Marquez up, not make him crash. The only person that made Marquez crash was MarquezD-Rider wrote: Forceful knee into Marquez and his bike forcing him to crash.
Watched it time and again from angle after angle - the live broadcast and post race coverage was showing it over and over again.
I wasn't swayed by the commentators - I saw it with my eyes before they even noticed it.
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Well said Fiirestarter.
The helicopter view clearly shows Rossi bringing his leg forward after being knocked backward by the broadsiding Spanish pirate.
Had Rossi decided to bootMM off then his leg would have been forward of the foot peg.
There is no way that Rossi could have had the time to consider to kick backward with sufficient force to Marquez off, he mastered his own downfall
The helicopter view clearly shows Rossi bringing his leg forward after being knocked backward by the broadsiding Spanish pirate.
Had Rossi decided to bootMM off then his leg would have been forward of the foot peg.
There is no way that Rossi could have had the time to consider to kick backward with sufficient force to Marquez off, he mastered his own downfall
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To each their own opinion. Personally, I don't buy the whole "Rossi made Marquez crash on purpose" thing especially when Marquez clearly made first contact, but l saw what I saw from watching the (presumably same) various replays.D-Rider wrote:Nope, sorry, don't buy it.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think Rossi is a saint, I go with my previous unsportsmanlike comment. But If Marquez had have dropped in another degree or two, probably they'd both be off and we'd now be saying how Marquez cost Rossi the championship.
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Its all a bit 1588 and that. The truth will never be known as Marquez is spanish, Dorna is spanish, Repsol is spanish and like most things spanish they have the rock of Gibralter on their left shoulder. Of course not forgetting that the drone in the Yamaha team is catching up, who happens to be spanish as well.
However I do think Rossi was goading him and imo its not good for a sport.
However I do think Rossi was goading him and imo its not good for a sport.
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