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OK, I watched my PVR'ed race last night again, and herewith my impression.

Pratt Marquez did not put up a fight when Whore Hey passed him, infact he almost ran off the track, so much room he gave Whore Hey. There was no immediate "fight back for his spot" reaction by Pratt.

Once he made sure it was VR behind him, he started "racing" again, fighting hard to stay ahead of VR. Everytime VR passed him, he would pull some kamikazi move to get ahead of VR again, and then you can clearly see he slows down a fraction.

You could see VR's frustration growing, he even gesticulated at Pratt once or twice.

 

The incident itself, looking at it from the front, it does seem that VR lifts his knee after Pratt heatbutted his knee. Pratt then pulled a move that would fit in nicely with the Soccer League. Can be said that VR pushed him away.

Looking from the back, it looks like Pratt fell of his bike all on his own, as he lost the front end after diving in so deep to headbutt VR's knee.

No foul, no cry.

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He had problems in turn 4 the whole week-end, don't tell me that he gifted JL the pass, unless you think him and JL arranged it before hand that turn 4 will be the place ...  :wacko:

 

So a normal hard pass is now a kamakazi move ... if Rossi did not say anything Thursday, you would have thought it was a normal hard pass like any other seen 1 million times. In fact it was clean passes considering what he has done in the past.

 

I agree that he did interfere with Rossi and probably deserved what he got after Rossi got frustrated, but he only broke some "unwritten" rule, not an official rule. There are various other times in bike racing that this has happened, in particular by a guy named Capirossi in his time. Does not make it right though.

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@Kraggie There is no official rule that you can't run someone wide either.

 

I know that, the official rule Rossi broke was irresponsible riding causing another rider to crash, as per Race Direction. Same as Simoncelli did to Pedrosa for example.

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