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You guys are all wrong. Even the stewards are getting played. Alex knew he was putting a bold move on Pecco which would influence the championship. These guys are professionals and know exactly what they’re doing. Despite what Alex says to the press, it’s in his DNA to be blindly aggressive. His brother is notorious for these kinds of moves and the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree as they say. Alex deliberately put a hard move on Pecco as a “favor” to his brother as a psychological scheme for next year when his brother arrives to the team.

Alex should’ve relinquished the position. Pecco rode the correct line through T12/13 complex and should have right of way. Alex bungled T12 and went off course and gained an advantage for T13. That’s why you see him have the inside for 13 and making time into Pecco.

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The stewards need to penalize Alex for trying to make a pass while not knowing where the other rider is. That’s just dangerous and dumb. A bad combination to have with 300+ hp bikes. This incident could’ve ended much worse with Pecco getting trapped under a bike. Lucky he came out without any major injuries.
 
You know what they say about opinions.... luckily the panel of professionals who do this for a full time job, who have access to all the data, video etc and who have interviewed the riders have ruled it a racing incident. No fault, no penalty, as you were etc. Pecco made an error of judgment in relation to his task of winning the championship regardless of who was in the wrong. He has done this many times with big "dont you know who I am" energy resulting in multiple crashes.
 
Interesting discussion on Ducati’s domination. First I’ve heard of this “smart wheel” but makes sense. Also good analysis of The Incident. Makes sense when you see it through Salvadori’s eyes.

 
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Paul G said:
You know what they say about opinions.... luckily the panel of professionals who do this for a full time job, who have access to all the data, video etc and who have interviewed the riders have ruled it a racing incident. No fault, no penalty, as you were etc. Pecco made an error of judgment in relation to his task of winning the championship regardless of who was in the wrong. He has done this many times with big "dont you know who I am" energy resulting in multiple crashes.
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So, Pecco is past AM, but you think that Pecco should have just slowed down and let AM repass, all in the same moment/corner, because Pecco is supposed to know that he is racing with someone who is not afraid to crash into others, and because he wants to protect his place in the Championship. If you carry that, Let the bully win, philosophy a little farther, you literally run into the end of All things.

I think the “panel of professionals” as you call them is rather only politically motivated, and has nothing to do with the corrections of wrongs, no matter what they say when they take the microphone after they have “analyzed all the data.”
 
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If he was “past” him, how was there contact?
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Bully was too strong of a word. If AM is on the inside and slow, why not just keep turning. Running wide and slowing down, and you just cut back into the racing line? I’m really surprised at the way AM rolled Pecco and yet there is no penalty what-so-ever. If nothing else, the announcers should have been calling out AM for being an idiot. (Yes, I know they can’t say that). But they do call it right out, “AM has taken out the World Champion.” It’s all on AM.
 
craig bush said:
If he was “past” him, how was there contact?
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So now you have to be completely passed to have right of way? Pecco’s front wheel was ahead so therefore has the line to the apex and AM should relinquish the corner and get behind. But it’s a Marquez and they seem to be entitled to barreling through other riders for position. I’m not even a Pecco fan and can clearly see that this was 80% AM/20% Pecco’s fault
 
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pecco seemed really disappointed today despite the weekend being much better for his comp w Martin than he could have reasonably expected (also, wtf was Martin thinking... not champion thinking).

wonder if he knows his real rival is that much closer already
 

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