Marc is far from an angel and has frequently demonstrated he has no problems causing contact with another rider. Anything Rossi would deliberately do on a race track, Marc would happily do as well. Anything Rossi or Marc would deliberately do on a track, Max Verstappen would happily do 3x worse.
As has already been said he races hard and stuffs it up the inside of others when he can. Yes there is sometimes contact.
MM would similarly deserve a suspension if he did something similar.
I have not seen Rossi slam into the back of another rider at the end of an FP1 session like Marquez did to Wilairot. That was also NOT racing. Marc didn't deliberately do it, but it was a result of his recklessness and he should've been disqualified from the championship for it.
The discussion was specifically shifted to this clearly labelled thread so anyone reading additional posts should have known what the discussion would likely be.
And the big difference is it was not deliberate.
He was deliberately being reckless. Even a child could recognize the end of a practice session and notice riders just cruising back to the pits.
The outcome is nowhere near the same level but the action is intentional and immature.
The Willairot incident remains indefensible, although why his pit crew sent him out also remains a mystery. Jumkie rightly dubbed him Murder Marc over that incident, although of course as has been said it wasn’t a deliberate attempt to hurt Willairot. The Sepang 2015 thing certainly wasn’t an attempt to injure MM either.
Crap he was deliberately being reckless;
You were expecting Marc to admit he was reckless? Do you have any statements from Wilairot? There is no excuse, none of the other riders (same age as him) were slamming into each other at the end of the session. Marc stands alone.Crap he was deliberately being reckless;
"When the session was about to finish I went out to do a lap and check that everything was fine after the [first] crash." explained Marquez. "When the session was over and after the finish line, I was finishing the lap to go back to the garage when in the third corner - which is very fast - I saw a rider.
"I was not going too fast, but the track is very fast and in that corner, which is normally taken in fifth, I was maybe on fourth. When the other rider got out of the way I saw that Wilairot was behind him and I was not able to brake.
"I hope he is fine, because it was a hard crash and I was not seriously injured, so I wish him the best."
Moto2: Marquez punished for Wilairot collision
Moto2 World Championship leader Marc Marquez will have to start Sunday's Australian Grand Prix from the back of the grid for causing a big accident in Friday morning practice.www.crash.net
A far cry from the intentional cheating actions VR took.
Ridiculous to even draw the analogy imo.
Further he was 18 at the time not mid 30s.
You are apparently using the crash of an 18 year old, that whilst reckless was not deliberate, to reduce the blame of a rider who deliberately ran another rider off the track.
Marc received a light punishment for almost killing Wilairot, Rossi received a light punishment his non-racing manuever on Marc in Sepang. Both may have deserved more of a punishment, but nothing said now is going to change it. You're attempting to paint Marc as an innocent competitor who's always clean just to make Rossi's actions that caused him to crash in Sepang look worse. It's not going to work, we've all watched Marc race and are well aware he isn't shy about causing contact with other riders. Condemn Rossi all you want, but Marc is not a clean rider by any stretch of the imagination. I guess you could say Rossi committed a dirty act on another dirty rider.
Nope I am saying Marquez did not deliberately cheat. Rossi did.
I'd argue Marquez' incident with Wilairot was more dangerous and likely to result in a career or life ending situation than Rossi blocking Marc at Sepang. I agree Marquez wasn't trying to necessarily trying to cheat, but he was being deliberately being reckless and decided that trying to get one more fast lap in was more important than his safety or the safety of the other riders on the circuit.
Sure he was 18 and yes it was stupid, dangerous and reckless. Thankfully he appears to have learnt from it.
I guess you have to take the bad with the good. Rossi did a lot for sport and continues to contribute with his rider's academy and team. He isn't perfect and neither is Marquez. I imagine if Marquez doesn't do well this year, he wont be around much longer in any capacity.
There is certainly no doubt MM was going too fast in the Willairot incident, otherwise there would not have been a Willairot incident.
