I thought you were a fan of the sport. Watching the race I found it remarkable that MM employed such clean racing moves in the Sepang duel given his past history of recklessness. Rossi made equally hard moves, but "that's racing", and the essence of the sport. Rossi had the option of accepting he couldn't take the position as Lorenzo did at Motegi 2010, a race in which I had no problem with Rossi not conceding the position btw even though he was actually Lorenzo's team-mate.
As I said, MM has been reckless but not recently, and has never deliberately taken another rider out, and the argument that Rossi was justified because he was acting pre-emptively is the most ludicrous one I have heard thus far. Again, what he did was illegal, no moves of MM's were. The whole business of racing involves riders having the expectation that other riders will not make non-racing moves such as slowing from race pace, going off their own line and deliberately riding into them. I have never known MM to do that.
MM shouldn't have got away with the last corner pass in 2013 imo btw, but RD couldn't do anything because they had let Rossi get away with a similar but far more blatant move at Jerez 2005, the only incident which rivalled the Sepang 2015 incident as a WTF moment for me.
