That was the whole point of LS08 for Stoner, when he calmed down a little.
It was then he realised Rossi operated by different rules, both because of how he was treated by officialdom and because he was prepared to push things further than others and take advantage of the professionalism and ethics of others.
You can be very sure Rossi would not have contemplated the Jerez 2005 and LS 08 moves if he was racing Tony Elias. Stoner actually said he could have crashed into Rossi rather than putting his bike in the sand in the incident which put him out of contention in that race which would have helped his title chances and for which no-one could really have blamed him, but that he could not contemplate not avoiding an avoidable collision.
This is what makes Rossi’s recent stuff so hypocritical, both the LS08 Corkscrew thing and the Jerez 2011 thing, to say nothing of Sepang 2015 which was deliberate, were orders of magnitude more reckless than MM’s move on him in the recent Argentinian race.
