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19 Mar, 2016

Rossi: Lorenzo deserves penalty

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Rossi says that Lorenzo deserves a penalty for blocking him during qualifying. Rossi had started a flying lap, found Lorenzo – who had just exited pitlane – at Turn 1. Rossi and Lorenzo exchanged hand signals, and appeared to continue the exchange after the chequered flag, while preparing for practice starts. Rossi:

He exited from the pit without looking at the track and when he arrived at the first corner, he tried to slow down but he was on the line…The problem is that I say, ‘why?’, and I expect, ‘sorry’, but he say to me like this [with hand motion], ‘what the f-ck do you want?’ The problem is that this situation happened exactly the same in Misano qualifying when I did the same mistake. He was very angry with me after that practice and at the end they gave me one [penalty] point. They don’t give him one point. I don’t know why.

Lorenzo:

In my opinion, he has no reason to complain, Everybody knows that when you exit the pits, you cannot stop to let them past because there was some riders entering the first corner and you are already in the corner. All you can do is try to stay in the white line. This is what I did, I could not be in the air, or in the gravel. What can I do? If he is still angry with me, I don’t know the reason.

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Harald

he did deserve a penalty… but hey moto gp is controles by spanish and Lorenzo is spanish so … no penalty…
i love rossy,,, and until november i lekes marques… but i am beginning to really have motogp Lorenzo maquez and spain… because i really have cheaters!

Moniq Mayahem

Sorry Jorge, as much as i love ya, i think you are off the mark with this one. Before entering the track a rider is responsible to look for traffic on track and if so, slow down to let them past before entering. Whether on a track or the street, it’s a simple but vital little rule called, “give way”.