MOTOGP
MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 14/OCTOBER 25, 2015
SEPANG/SELANGOR, MALAYSIA
P50
BY MICHAEL SCOTT
PHOTOGRAPHY BY GOLD & GOOSE
D
ani Pedrosa's Repsol
Honda took an imperious
second win in three races
at the Malaysian Grand Prix.
Movistar Yamaha's Jorge Lo-
renzo was a steadfast second,
drawing closer in the champion-
ship.
And Valentino Rossi? He got
away with murder. Speaking
only figuratively, of course.
The victim of his assassination
attempt, Repsol Honda's Marc
Marquez, didn't die. He didn't
even sprain an ankle. And Race
Direction took a sufficiently mild
view of Rossi's killer move to do
no more than dock him three
penalty points and start him
from the rear of the grid for the
title decider in Valencia.
The major casualty, how-
ever, was something intangible,
something that belonged exclu-
sively to the third-placed Movis-
tar Yamaha—his reputation.
Rossi's name as a good
sportsman and hard but fair
competitor took a savage blow
when he, apparently quite
deliberately, lifted his bike
and slowed radically into the
The moment it all comes crashing down. No one could
have predicted the off-track talking would result in this.
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