You mean apart from the reasonable speculation that he was quite possibly told by RD not to put any risky moves on championship contenders after all the brouhaha surrounding the Sepang race?
What is factual is what Rossi did, and admitted doing, in the Sepang race. All else is speculation, particularly what Rossi said about the PI race, which cheapened Jorge's eventual championship win and blackened MM's character, to the extent that it may blight his entire career.
My own speculation is that MM did nothing untoward at PI in winning that race, and by his own standards anyway didn't put any risky moves on either contender. He was extremely annoyed at Sepang, and decided he wouldn't be passed by Rossi, and that he would turn Rossi's time honoured tactic back on him ie immediately re- pass when passed. In his situation at Sepang he is absolutely entitled to try to beat Rossi imo, but some of his moves were probably while legal too hard given he does in my view have some obligation in the circumstance not to take out a contender with a rash move.
At Valencia given the nature of the track he would have had to put on a hard move to pass Jorge. Whether he might have been more prepared to put a hard move on Rossi is another question.
Bottom line is that after a great season Rossi had insufficient pace in the last 3 races, which happened all to be dry, after several earlier races had happened to be wet
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Agree, Rossi’s accusations are so powerful as to skew many people's perceptions of racing and worse the sense that intention and integrity is easily dispelled. Weak minds. I've repeated this often, but none of these supposed enlightened people after the Sepang press conference had any inkling that Marquez was deliberately screwing up Rossi’s championship. Yet are now convinced he did. Its simple, no accusations, no sudden enlightenment. I can understand a bunch of boppers and other weak minds being susceptible to such McCarthyism, but to hear even otherwise sound journalists claim Marquez was being a "...." at Sepang is disappointing and fascinating. Our human condition is so easily swayed by suggestion! None, absolutely none of these post-accusation Marquez-guilty verdicts came forward after PI, why? Their smoking gun is spirited CLEAN passes, their motive, ROSSI'S ACCUSATIONS. That's it. Nothing more. When pressed, the best they can come up with is: well just look at how many passes Marc put on, as if Rossi's motives are so pure in retaking him. Why can't the alternate narrative co-exist that Rossi deliberately caused an exchange to give credibility to his act of taking Marc out by fabricating JUSTIFICATION?
Therefore, lets us debate (as I'd like to see the logic behind disproving the following): Rossi is guilty of fabricating justifiable cause by deliberately creating an exchange sequence with Marquez to make it appear he was being attacked. Which also served to give credibility to his baseless accusations. Premeditated, based on his paranoia that Marquez was trying to thwart his title, and knowing he was not fast enough to beat Pedrosa nor Lorenzo, his best chance was to create a situation where he was guaranteed a 3rd place. So he TOYED with Marquez, baiting him, allowing himself to be overtaken, clearly running wide, giving Marc the space. This served to create a sense in the minds of the susceptible audience, that the world's longest block pass was JUSTIFICATION and warranted, and created a sense this was partly reasonable racing tactics. It was all clearly Rossi's plan and INTENT. It worked too, as he comfortably finished in 3rd rather than 4th, preserving his chances at a title.
The empirical evidence and observable facts as follows:
Rossi undeniably overtook Marquez aggressively over 10 times in 7 laps! Absurdity, that never happens in a "normal" race. Clearly Rossi had a dubious motive.
Rossi undeniably believed Marquez was out to get him, and so Rossi had several days to plan his mastermind manipulation and catch Marquez by surprise. Nobody, including Marquez, would ever expect such a Machiavellian tactic, to dupe not just riders on the track but his malleable audience. He certainly got this message when the masses were ready to eat Iannone's future children. So he began to plan his attack between the time from the Australian GP to Sepang, all premeditated, from the press conferences, to his lap charts, to his attack on the track to fabricate a sense of victimhood, to successfully finish on the podium.
It is an observable fact that Rossi's lap times did not change significantly, and so Rossi, the most experienced, knew that the other three of the top four were likely to beat him. He also knew from previous experience, that he could employ the same tactic he used successfully at Laguna 08, that is, disrupt the rhythm of the rider in front of him, by overtaking aggressively, and not allowing him to escape, then use a premeditated tactic to eliminate the rival, either by brake checking or in this case, pushing the rider out to an unstable surface, toying with the throttle, and positioning his machine to throw the rival off balance. It worked.
Rossi is guilty of race fixing! Guilty of intentionally fabricating a situation on the track for the purpose of eliminating rivals by means other than good faith racing. Rossi has a history of employing such mastermind tactics, which have served him well, this was another example in a long illustrious career of using such Machiavellian schemes, strategy, and ploys. The observable facts and empirical evidence lead us to this undeniable conclusion.
