WOW

I'm a disgusted Rossi fan..... Reminds me of Schumacher v Damon Hill incident.... Great race up until that....beer consumption thus stopped

Gobsmacked. I'm still trying to believe the best (least bad), but.... hard to find a camera angle that tells me that story.

Wouldn't want to be Rossi walking in to Valencia.

Valencia is a great place to have a championship decided. Marc and Dani may could clear out and Jorge will just have to see how far Valentino can make it up the results ladder. Jorge may not shoot for a race win as it would be a bit more risky. It will interesting to see if Valentino looses the championship if he blames every single rider he passes through the race of holding him up from moving ahead enough to win the championship. In this case his conspiracy theory will place the whole grid as accomplices in the act of creating Lorenzo champion. Rossi the profit at Rossi's loss

What made it worse was listening to his excuse in the interview when he was talking about taking a wide line for better entrance. I kind of just hoped he'd be quiet. Thought he was better than that for sure.

rossi has been doing this shit for years playing mind games and intimidating people on the race track but this time it failed because of all the new cameras and because marquze can out ride him , he has all ways been dirty and a sook and had race direction rapped around his finger will be interesting to see how the appeal goes

Watched two last races again and must say I'm with Rossi here. In my opinion Maq was fighting with Rossi without need to do so, as he had pace to be on the front. When I heard Rossi's statement for the first time I thought that he is joking, but Sepang did make me curious. Maq possibly take his words personally to the level, where he decided to prove something to Rossi and that's why it happened. Front left camera clearly shows, that Rossi's leg didn't caused Maq crash, as he is falling already just before you can see leg movement. So personally I would be carefully with statements here.
We must remember that after all every single rider on the track is just a human being and every one can be frustrated to the level where cannot take anything more.
Shame, as this is not the way I expected this season to end. I expected direct Rossi vs Lorenzo fight, not Rossi starting from back of grid. Shame again, this just killed the show and title goes to J.Lo this year.

That's just my personal opinion.

I may be a bit naive, it did not dawn on me that Marquez was screwing with Rossi during the Phillip Island race as Rossi and now others had said. Nor while watching the Sepang race was i seeing anything that looked like other than racing, Albiet racing that should be held to the last laps. Rossi's "come tag along with me " gesture was probably what Marquez would have been wiser to concede but at this point the younger bull was raging and this gesture was only fanning his fire and desire.
I have wanted a Jorge Lorenzo champion all through this season so the need for a few riders between Jorge in front of Rossi these last few races have been more the hope of mine. Race direction stated that Marquez had been guilty of provocation but not any punishable violations and in my opinion the spirit of racing along with the letter of law of racing was broken by the both of them. In hindsight it would have been fair to black flag the both of them for a ride through penalty and leave Valencia the pure race it was clearly heading towards being. Rossi's will on and off the track is a force few can contend with in an almost magical way. To the point where Rossi looks like everything is calculated for future events. It will not surprise me if Rossi has not put himself in a better position for the last race than the position he was in of lap seven in Sepang.
I for one will be waiting for Valencia like a kid waits for Christmas. Well I do have a World Series to snatch my attention away from the slow moving hands of time in the interim. Go Royals

He did kick, intentionally. But only after Marquez decided to turn and shove his head into him. The video shows Marquez going down before Rossi's leg lifted off his footrest.

Either way, BOTH riders broke the rules and BOTH should have been penalised. But Valencia should have been left for Rossi and Lorenzo to fight it out head-to-head.

It would appear that Lorenzo has managed to make himself look a bit of a dick as well; allegedly having a tantrum with Race Direction, demanding the Rossi be disqualified and lose yesterday's points. JL had plenty of opportunity to keep quiet and dignified and respond to any questions by saying that Race Direction are sorting it out and he needn't have got involved, instead he grasps the opportunity to lose all his dignity and credibility by ranting like a petulant child. He's an absolutely breathtaking rider, but a bit of a dickhead with it.
How much stock value has the GOAT lost over this whole incident? It was curious enough following his comments in the Press Conference - maybe it was an attempt to goad Marquez into clearing off and leaving him and Lorenzo to scrap things out between them but, as one of the TV commentators aptly summed it up; he lobbed a grenade and it rolled back under his own car. Marquez was obviously riding very provocatively but VR rose to the bait and lost his rag. I don't believe that he intended Marquez to crash at all, but he should have known better.
Marquez: looks like a choirboy, rides like an axe-murderer….

Discuss.

fark whats wrong with all of u playing in to poor rossies hand ,phillip island was the race of the decade they say every one was on the edge of there seats
what a great race except for fuckkking rossi who had a big sook being of the podium then came the bomb shell that marq was helping lorenzo why did rossi say this to start his mind games again the truth of the matter was rossi got the biggest hiding in history from three young riders the only reason nothing was said to ione because there best friends and put your self in marq shoes he said he would not get involved with mine games but let his riding do the talking now and thats what he did wouldnt you do the same if u had been called a cheet publicly marq was just as fast as rossi and rossi could have tucked in behind marq the truth of the matter rossi can see the world championship slipping away and knows it will be alot hard next year

As usual Rossi can do nothing wrong with the Rossi fanboys.
Not a fan of him as when it goes his way it's all goat but when not its dirty tricks!

He pulled this one of before with Stoner and others. He mostly gets away with it due to the amount of (paying) spectators he pulls.
I have nothing against him neither but here he lined MM up, got almost passes slowed and pushed him. His eyes are not where they are supposed to be, e.g. in front where he supposed to go!

This is deliberately causing a fall which can result in very bad consequences, the sport is dangerous enough without them!
Neither MM or any other rider has team or any other orders to follow to let him pass, except when you're a back marker getting lapped it's a given.
His mouthing off probably has created a few sore toes and no wonder they don't do him any favours.

Regardless, no words or actions before the incident justify putting someones life in danger, the penalty is way to mild!

Very sad to pull this off and probably retire soon after a successful career, I wouldn't want to be remembered like that.

I like how everyone, well, almost everyone is overlooking Pedrosa in all this, who arguably just had the ride of his life. Defaulting to what we think MM is going to do, or what he might do - when he couldn't pace his "teammate" any better than Rossi could his - is kind of silly, no?

Dani always rides his own race and speculation was ensued that others have not. Dani was forgiven way back in 09 and I have emulated his bike angle lifting at corner exit on many an occasion. Dani is on fire and I will be happy to see him back next year. 46 and 93 not so much.

By the way when I stated "leave Jorge scrambling for all the points he can get" I was leaving the door open for other racers to cross the finish line before Jorge and this most surely includes Pedrosa.

Long, but worth to read, especially for those with higher blood pressure after Sepang clash. Some good points and facts there.

https://motomatters.com/analysis/2015/1 ... who_h.html

Some comments from riders and ex-riders, wonder what Rossi's done to upset Ago. Got to laugh at some of them, there's a fair dollop of hypocrisy from some riders.

http://www.cycleworld.com/2015/10/27/wh ... SOC&dom=fb