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Look everyone that is saying this is some kinda MM93 ram fest is simply looking at this through yellow tinted glasses. The fact of the matter is there was NOTHING wrong with Marquez move in the chicane. Nothing. It was not punished, it was not wrong, it was not illegal. It was hard, and it should be, on the last lap of a GP with two hard riders. He would have made the corner with no contact, he had practiced it several times in the FPs.
There was also NOTHING wrong with Rossi's move to slam the door on Marc. Nothing. It was not illegal, it was not wrong, and it was not punished. It was hard. And it should have been. He tightened his line into Marc and squeezed him. He as in front, by a very small amount and would not have been for much longer had he not made the move, and it was his right to the line. Rossi didn't back down, Marc didn't back down and we had contact.
As much as I would have like to see Rossi come out losing on that one, he knew exactly what he was doing, knew he was going to cut the corner after contact, and knew it would not be penalized. It was Rossi's race craft and experience that won him that.
Kudos to Marc for putting together a sick last lap to give himself a chance, and kudos to Rossi for an excellent weekend. He was the benchmark all week. That encounter could have gone three ways, like it did with Rossi coming out, Marc winning, or Lorenzo winning. All three outcomes would have been fair play as the result of two of the hardest riders in history going for it in a final corner. Racing incident ..... end of story.
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