I love how everyone glossed right over what I wrote here before. It makes your "kick" theory seem very improbable if not impossible, so everyone ignores it.
What I'm saying is, Rossi was looking away, leaning into the corner when Marc went down, also, marks entire upper body was leaned on that leg, now, I'm not sure what kind of bionic man you believe Vale to be, but to move his foot off the peg he would have had to move Marquez's entire body with the strentgh of his outer thigh muscle, that's quite a feat, then he would have to lift his leg to clear the peg, move his foot out from where it was pinned, and still hit that small target.
What are the chances that with Marc leaning on VR, trying to keep himself on the track, ran his hand into some part of Rossi's bike? I think thats a much more probable cause of the crash, was it a dirty move by VR to run him wide? Possibly. I come from an MX background where if you leave the door open you're liable to get your front wheel cleaned out just because. So IMO with the way Marc was making passes within inches at high speeds, cutting across VR's front wheel at high speeds, running him out to the rumble strips etc. that kind of thing will get you punted in MX. Maybe my view is different because of the type of riding I do, but I think that running him wide was justified. In retrospect, he did take it a little too far, but I still firmly believe the moves MM pulled were more dangerous than Rossi slowing the pace and putting him on the ground on the outside of the corner.
If Vale's front wheel had touched MM's rear wheel when he cut across his nose just before Rossi got mad, both riders would have had high sides at a much higher speed than the crash Rossi caused. The anti-Rossi people will say MM was in front, its his track, his line, but if thats true, then you have no right to complain about VR taking a wide line.
