OneSizeFitsAll
Wizard
Just watched Moto 2...what a cluster fu*k that was with the delays. Good racing in the last few laps.
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That was incredible, what a race!
The Black Sheep
With Rossi winning, Márquez in second, and Lorenzo struggling with his tires, the championship would have tightened up considerably. But Andrea Iannone taking Lorenzo out in Turn 10 made a much bigger difference.
Iannone was penalized for the incident, and will have to start from the back of the grid at Assen. Viewed in isolation, that is a rather harsh punishment for what was basically a silly mistake, but given Iannone’s previous incidents this year, especially in taking out his teammate in Argentina, Race Direction imposed a stiffer penalty upon him.
It was not stiff enough for some people. Unsurprisingly and understandably, Jorge Lorenzo said he felt Iannone deserved a race ban. Not so much for the incident, as to teach Iannone a lesson.
“In soccer, you get a red card,” he told reporters. He referred once again back to his own race ban back in the 250GP days, which gave him time to think and consider his crimes. That would be the only lesson which might actually sink in.
What had irked Lorenzo the most was that the first thing that Iannone had said to him after the crash was to ask if there had been some kind of problem with Lorenzo’s bike. He had not expected Lorenzo to brake the way he did, and so he found himself closing too quickly.
That was why Iannone felt he had done nothing wrong, the Italian saying he had braked at precisely the same point as in previous laps.
It's up to the rider behind not to hit the rider in front is it not? If you run up someone's arse on the road, who's fault is it?It would be interesting to know if Lorenzo had over slowed or if Ianonne really was in there too hot. It happened so fast it was hard to tell if Iannone had a chance to go to the outside of Jorge.