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hmmm.
If Rossi had kept his mouth and ego in check, Marquez would have gone out and just done his own race. he may even have come off as has been his habit this year.
I think the reaction Rossi was looking for was for everyone to jump out of his way so he could have a "straight fight" with Lorenzo. Especially after getting burned so badly in PI and having to scrap so hard. Of course, this suits Rossi as it means hes able to more easily contain Lorenzo and any points leakage.
Whoever advised him on this being a good idea is a fool and made a massive misjudgement of Marquez's character.
After being called out so publicly + the history of scraps between them such as Assen pretty much guaranteed the Sepang response from Marc. Getting shunted off the bike at Sepang pretty much guaranteed that Marquez was going to punish Rossi if he could. Marquez had nothing to lose and called Rossi's bluff in a big way. IMHO Marquez would probably have crashed Rossi if he'd caught up to him last night before letting him past. Im thankful that never happened because that would have taken this to NASCAR levels of stupid. What goes around tends to come around.
So now the big wall will go up again at Yamaha, this time at Lorenzo's bequest and any data that was going between the two will cease. Be interesting to see how Rossi deals with that.
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