Briefly...
Social media was in Valentino Ros-
si's sights, after a storm on the Italian
networks had included barely veiled
threats against Andrea Iannone for
robbing him of points at Phillip Is-
land. For the victim, "90 percent was
positive…and the other is just an
opinion." But Rossi waxed lyrical on
the evils lurking anonymously in the
Twittersphere. The bad comments
made in his name, he said, were from
those "in reality not my real support-
ers. It is a great shame. These peo-
ple are very stupid. This is the time
of social networks where everybody
can say his idea, even a very stupid
idea. They like to speak badly about
guys who are more lucky than them,
and with more talent, and more hap-
py because they can do what they
want. All the time on my Facebook,"
he continued, "everyone has stupid
guys who speak bad about your life,
or your mama. Unfortunately you
cannot speak with them, you only
lose time. I am very sorry for Andrea.
He did his race, and it is normal that
he tries to beat me."
Forest fires in neighbouring Indone-
sia took the blame for dense smog
blanketing not only the circuit, but
much of Malaysia. At times it was
barely possible to see clearly from
one end of the straight to the other.
Visibility was not so bad as to cause
problems by grounding the medivac
helicopters, and flights continued
at the adjacent international airport,
but Andrea Dovizioso found himself
grounded when he tried to fly down
from a short beach break at Lang-
kawi island, and had to catch a ferry
and face a long car drive to get to the
track in time.
VOL. 52 ISSUE 43 OCTOBER 27, 2015 P51
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THE CLASH
and Valentino Rossi declared war on
Malaysia in one of the most dramatic
MotoGP history. Dani Pedrosa won the
talking about it.
