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Let me put some context to the video posted of Rossi's deliberate block of Viñalez last year. When was the last time this was penalized in MotoGP? Marc must race under a different set of unwritten consequences. You're citing penalties to build up your case (as has all of Marc's detractors) with this notion of progressive consequence not even questioning FIRST were these penalties ......... Why not start penalizing Marc for exceeding the paddock scooter speed limit? I'm sure he violated that. Didn't Dorna say they were going to issue penalties for riders talking in a way to bering disrepute to the sport? Why hasn't Rossi been penalized? It's easy to cite a bad call and conclude, you see he was wrong. Yet bad calls are made all the time. What about missed calls? The logic you're applying Is this: no call for violation means no guilt, and in reverse, a penalty must mean guilt. Wasn't it you Rossi fans who said he was treated unfairly for the penalty of Sepang and demanded through petition (with three-quarters of a million signatures) to correct an undeserved penalty?
I would argue the only penalty Marc 'may have deserved' and even this is debatable given the confusion of the start procedure, was a penalty for the start. But the two penalties subsequent were ......... The penalty for Espargaro is problematic for two reason, one, no penalty was issued to Petrucci, therefore the message is, these incidents pass acceptable racing incidents, and second, the drop down position was not issued to Rossi and rather conveniently only given a time penalty at Austin against Zarco. There that penalty against Marquez was ......... The third penalty against Rossi is problematic because no penalty, not even a review, was issued in the incident of Zarco causing Pedrosa to crash (which was a far worse incident). The message from race direction is again, this is within acceptable racing incident norms, therefore the penalty Marc received was ......... In other words Vuu, you and everyone pointing to the plurality of penalties to then argue he deserves another (for something rarely penalized, and no less not penalized in Q1) is completely build on ........ created by Race Direction’s inconsistency.
Let me put it this way, if Race Direction correctly do not issue the 2 penalties at Argentina, you wouldn't have anything to base your plurality of offenses argument. The fact is, as I pointed out above, in both cases the penalties were issued inconsistently.
The incidents must be looked at in isolation, and when you do that the picture that Marc is treated unfairly begins to emerge. Either penalize this .... all the time, consistently, or the penalties against Marc come out looking embarrassing to the credibility of the sport. Sure it makes you happy, like Schwantz saying he should be on probation, but dig a little deeper into logic and credibility, then it doesn't sound so sane.
Context: Rossi did the same .... last year to the exact same rider. No penalty. Not even reviewed. Why? Rossi is the most experienced rider on the grid. And Rossi's baulked lap of Viñalez was far more obvious because Viñalez had just come off 2 wins and was looking to challenge for a 3rd, making Rossi look bad. Rossi got desperate, as usual, and resorted to dirty tactics. This is exactly what you're missing.
If you live in a glass house don't throw rocks.
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