Niccolo Canepa slaps a guy’s brake lever and becomes public enemy number 1. Rossi takes out Marquez and gets applauded for it “because Marquez deserved it” for breaking the unwritten rule of “lay down for the slower old man because you had your chance at the championship this season and wasted it”. Is that correct?

I call BS on the idea that MM93 intentionally grabbed a handful of lever on his own too. We’re talking about MotoGP, not premier league soccer. There’s no flopping in MotoGP.

I suspect that this would have been a lot less awkward if he was allowed to do it in Spanish instead of English.

I find it interesting how many motorcyclists will, with a straight face, tell you how they essentially consider the law to be a matter of their individual discretion while expecting everyone else to follow it to the letter. Just search for any number of YouTube videos with self-righteous bikers playing LEO with cell…