MOTOGP
2015 MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 18 / NOVEMBER 8, 2015
RICARDO TORMO CIRCUIT / VALENCIA, SPAIN
P42
gerous tactics when he knocked
Marc Marquez off at Sepang.
Rossi could do no wrong. It
was everybody else who was out
of step.
If he said Marquez had thrown
the race, then it must be true.
But it didn't look that way to
his millions of fans worldwide.
It mattered not if the prima facie
evidence suggested otherwise,
nor that race authorities had
ruled it was Rossi who had em-
ployed unfair, and indeed dan-
grid penalty at the last of 18
rounds of what had, until then,
been a fascinating battle.
Was the 36-year-old one-time
charmer of the series just a sore
loser?
It looked so.
Dani Pedrosa (29)
tried to put a move
on Marc Marquez
with two laps to
go, but the 99 was
having none of it.