The today’s race finished with Pedrosa victory but the stewards didn’t finished because they had to investigate Rossi for his contact with Márquez. The Italian received a 3 points of penalty in his driver license, which means, that he will start last at Valencian Grand Prix.
The Malaysian Grand Prix of this 2015 season will be remember for every of us, not for Dani Pedrosa victory, if not for Valentino Rossi and Marc Márquez clash.
All happened at lap 6 of the race. Pedrosa was leading ahead of Lorenzo but the battle was behind for third place between Márquez and Rossi. They passed and repass for 14 times, and this made them lose a lot of time which makes the Italian angry, following the declarations of on Thursday:
“He prefer Lorenzo to take the victory because he is angry with me since Argentina, it’s a personal thing. Since then he is acting like a baby: If I don’t win you won’t too” says Rossi in Thursday press conference.
“Márquez played with me at Philip Island, that’s for sure. The most important thing is to let him know that I know about that. I’m very worried, he has disappoint me a lot, I didn’t expect his positioning for Lorenzo.”
Márquez answers him with a non-unequivocal words:
“If I did anything it was to help him, we all know that Valentino is the number one in physiology but I don’t get any pressure to me, because this has to do it with Lorenzo and not with me.”
All happened in an amazing side by side battle in the early laps of Malaysian Grand Prix where Valentino asked Márquez to stay calm in the race, an unexpected situation from “Vale” who didn’t ask for this in Motorland Aragón battle with Pedrosa.
But let’s back to Sepang clash again. All happened at lap 6, Márquez overtook Rossi by outside, but the Italian took the inside and ride to outside line where Márquez was. The Yamaha rider look twice the Catalan and kick him, who crashed and damage the bike.
Meanwhile the helmets responsible of Rossi, argue with Márquez young brother and Marc Márquez engineer piss off like Marc’s dad.
Finally, Rossi would have finish third the race to take 15 points. Then Race Direction penalize “Il doctore” with 3 points in his rider license, which means that he will start last in season finale at Valencia.
Afterwards, all the paddock had his opinion about the accident. Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo spoke about that in the post-race press conference which Rossi didn’t take part.
“I think Valentino should be here to tell you what happened. Racing is racing and we should drive more calm. Looks like Rossi has changed his opinion about that, may this be for championship pressure.” Says Dani Pedrosa, the Grand Prix winner “this is a learning moment, but a championship is a good one when you win beating another rider.”
Championship contender and Yamaha driver, Jorge Lorenzo comment about the penalty that received his team mate:
“I don’t think this penalty will be the solution, because Rossi takes 16 points and Marc any. When I watched I didn’t believe it, I would never plan to do that. It’s incredible to see that this things can happen, I don’t share race direction decision. At least he should have finish with the same points that Márquez finished”.
The victim, the reigning world champion, Marc Márquez in a press conference at Honda hospitality said what he thinks about that manoeuvre:
“It’s too easy to explain what happened, there was a lot of cameras and a lot of points of view. I feel I could fight with the top riders. I saw that Rossi overtook me and he keeps straight and too slow. He saw me twice and I didn’t know what I have to do at that moment. I had to block my breaks and I crashed”.
“In my whole career I had a lot of battles but it never happened this to me. Put the leg out of the bike to cause a crash of a rider, I never saw that” comment Márquez who luckily didn’t have any injury afterwards.
“I already said what I think about the accident and it’s not only a race accident. I don’t know how a rider inside the helmet can think to put out of the track another rider. I’m very disappointed with this action”.
But Rossi doesn’t accept the penalty and still blaming Márquez for what he has done:
“Unfortunately I doesn’t want to take this to this phase. I would like to fight the championship with Lorenzo. Márquez confirmed what I said yesterday. I think He should think about that but what happened today is even worst that what happened in Australia”.
“My intention wasn’t to crash him, I just tried to put him out of riding line to lose him some time. It’s not true that I kick him. From Helicopter side you can see that is him who touch my handlebars and he I had to react.
“I know this action happened following Thursday words. And again Márquez has won with this sanction, he don’t want me to win the championship and he has do it again perfectly.”