It will be overturned. Dorna doesn't want to just hand Jorge the championship. They will turn it into a "racing incident". Rossi is to MotoGP as the Pats are to the NFL.

JLo apparently passed Rossi on a waving yellow as well. Hmm...maybe send him to the back too! 

Hate to say it coz I'm a Rossi fan but he may be a MotoGP pariah for the rest of his career.

Quote from: duccarlos on October 25, 2015, 11:06:42 AM
It will be overturned. Dorna doesn't want to just hand Jorge the championship. They will turn it into a "racing incident". Rossi is to MotoGP as the Pats are to the NFL.

Quote from: Triple J on October 25, 2015, 10:55:44 AM
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It's worth noting that the penalty is still under appeal.

Penalty is confirmed by the FIM, book is closed.
http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2015/Oct/151025c.htm

Quote from: Triple J on October 25, 2015, 11:10:58 AM
JLo apparently passed Rossi on a waving yellow as well. Hmm...maybe send him to the back too!  

Can't find a link at the moment, but the yellow was premature, thrown in error as Iannone and Pol ran wide, but not off.
Furthermore, thrown after JLo's pass.
Per Gavin Emmett, Race Direction looked at it.

What I have seen from slow motion videos, is MM helmet hitting VR leg, which till that time was in position, and after that VR leg opened up (maybe as reaction of being touched).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVXtJJUbpaA

What about Crutclows move on Dovi as well

Quote from: Raux on October 25, 2015, 11:28:46 AM
What about Crutclows move on Dovi as well

Both Dovi and Crutchlow say it was just a racing incident.

Are we going to start playing PC cards in moto racing? 

Quote from: ducpainter on October 25, 2015, 11:33:53 AM
Both Dovi and Crutchlow say it was just a racing incident.

Are we going to start playing PC cards in moto racing? 

Nope, all other passes were fine, including all of MM's passes on Rossi. Slowing down and going wide on purpose to push someone off track is not a pass, Rossi was already ahead. Simply a douchebag move. MM is simply doing to Rossi what Rossi has been doing to others for a long time, except that those guys, Stoner included, would not manage it the way Rossi did in Malaysia.

Has Ducati explained what happened to Iannone's bike? He wasn't riding well this weekend, but I would have preferred seeing him fight it out with Smith and Crusty.

Ducati said a rock poked a hole in Iannone's radiator.

I continue to be mystified by what appears to be Rossi's titanic miscalculation on how this was likely to play out.
Rossi's been in MotoGP a long time, and he's a smart and calculating dude.

He basically stopped just short of claiming that MM kicks puppies for fun.
MM is 22 years old and fundamentally fearless.
MM has nothing to lose in the championship, and Rossi's got it all to play for.

Quote from: OT on October 25, 2015, 09:11:59 AMAnnouncers said, early in the broadcast, that Marquez was having trouble with front tire grip, so it's not a big stretch of the imagination to conclude that Marquez lost the front and crashed...way too much drama.

I don't know what race youall were looking at, but in the one I was watching Rossi was trying to get up to dani, lorenzo, and marquez.  Marquez clearly drifted back from those two and then generally made a PITA of himself to slow Rossi down and, for at least two laps, made several close and clearly dangerous moves around Rossi.  Typical Marquez, trying to shove past another rider, this time on the outside, and he got caught cause Rossi was ahead and had blocked the position. Marquez banged Rossi twice on that lap, once on the inside and the second time when he fell.

If a brake lever was hit, hard to believe with all the protection around them, it was either when marquez banged rossi, or by accidentby marquez himself.

Marquez is far too talented a rider for me to believe that the jousting was part of the 'racing'.  IMO, Marquez should be penalized, because he clearly was harassing Rossi, period.

Could Rossi have become angry? Sure.  Did Rossi take marquez out? No way.  Whatever the final decision is, at least I hope its fair.

BULLSHIT, send me your copy of the race. Jousting = racing, I don't agree with banging fairings but passing is all good and up until Rossi deliberately pushed mm off track it was great racing

Freaking Iannone is magnet for wildlife and inanimate objects.

Needs to change his logo i tell you.

And now Marquez says to Rossi, "You will never win another race."  Instant karma.

I really can not stand Marquez - I'm a Rossi fan through and through but what happened today, coupled with the lead-up nonsense from Thursday, makes me wonder if it's not time for Rossi to sit down and have a long think about his GP future.  Is Rossi so jaded now that settling a score out weighs a World Title?  Just plain brainless and shamefully un-sportsmanlike.

#getwellsoonrossi

Just rewatched that lap or 2. Mm was messing with him cutting his line dropping back and then repassing and slowing. Rossi had a serious bobble and mm should have pulled away at that point but slowed to let him catch up!