I can't watch your video here in Australia, so I'm not sure what angle it's from.
The ones Gaz posted show Rossi pass on the brakes as MM was lining up for the right hander at Turn 5, then in the second half of the hairpin MM tries to come inside Rossi, and his fairing hits VRs body/knee at the apex of the corner. This causes Rossi's Yam to twitch and drift away from the apex allowing MM to get alongside on the short run down to turn 6, but not past. This is the initial contact and you are saying VR instigated it?!
Really? Maybe your video shows a different angle, but watching Gaz's, especially frame by frame, I cannot see how you think VR instigated that. Firstly VR was cleanly and completely past into the first part of the hairpin. That is the clean pass I was referring to.
MM then tries to come back up the inside. MM's bike hitting VR causes the lunge you describe - you can see VR's foot on the left footpeg bounce at the point of contact and then the Yamaha's trajectory changes, drifting away from the racing line as it would if pushed wide by the contact. No-one at the time analysed this part of the incident and said it was VR's intiation of contact, because the evidence simply isn't there.
You say MM had enough corner speed to pass without the contact, but he was on the outside for the next corner - he have needed to have huge amounts more corner speed to pull that one off from where he was, cleanly, and the videos do not bear this out.
After that VR casts a very rapid glance to the side where he had just felt the impact from Márquez, and sees MM drifting back behind him. I would guess that he assumed MM would tuck in behind from there, but instead MM doesn't. For VR to have planned the 2nd contact he needed MM to do something unusual, ie leave his front wheel level with Rossi's rear, in VRs blind spot, knowing Rossi needed to drift right in order to follow the racing line and aim for the apex of Turn6.
According to David Emmett on MotoMatters at the time :
If you are basing your whole argument of VR being a dirty rider and hence planning on taking MM down in Sepang, on VR causing the initial contact in Argentina, I think your agrument is, at the very least, flawed. If you are referring to the 2nd contact, then there is no real way of knowing if VR deliberately moved into the space MM was in, but it's a risk that VR didn't need to take as the ensuing tangle could have taken both bikes down. I think both were racing incidents, TBH.
Deliberately causing a rider to crash is very rare as AntG says, and there is no evidence that VR has done, or tried to do, this before, so it's a hard argument to make for either Sepang or Argentina IMO.
Finally, you state making contact during an overtake is something that has "happened far too many times with Rossi for it to simply be just a racing incident." with a reference to him doing so with Hayden in Australia, 2010. I can find nothing on the net about that - I remember the battle for 3rd in the final laps, but nothing about any incident, contact or controversy.
If it really has happened so many times, as you state, surely the evidence would be easy to present. It does happen as "rubbing is racing", but personally I don't recall VR being any more likely to cause contact on an overtake than any other rider out there, now, or in the last 30 years
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