MotoGP

Opinions wanted:

After watching all the replay segments on the Pedrosa and Simoncelli
incident... I can't help but feel that Simoncelli was hard done by
with the ride through penalty.

Johno

Sorry for being on topic in ths group

Beer anyone?

 

Not sure about Simoncelli, but I reckon Rossi should have been penalised
25 points for taking out Stoner.

 

ABSOLUTELY!
Had it been one of The Aliens doing it to him it would've been forgotten
immediately!
I reckon he *did* leave Pedrosa enough room but Pedrosa chickened-out,
stood it up and tried to brake instead.
Simoncelli did phenomenally well to finish 5th after the ride-through.
(No ride through for Rossi at Estoril eh?)

 

It's probably an incident which wouldn't have raised many eyebrows *IF*
in the press conference at the last round Simoncelli hadn't made such a
big deal when Lorenzo accused him of reckless riding and causing other
riders to crash.

I reckon if Simoncelli cuts Pedrosa off, and then forces him to take an
even tighter line than what Simoncelli himself took, what happened to
Pedrosa was ultimately caused by Simoncelli so he has to take what's
coming to him and he should be thankful to get off with a ride through
penalty instead of a DNF and broken collarbone.

Moto2 seems to have lost a bit of the edge it had last year. The racing
doesn't seem to be as competitive this year... but this weekend the
125cc race was the one to watch. What a finish from Vinales!

Nev..

 

Thunderdome.

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Onya bike

Gerry

 

I think his line was too tight but I only saw it from 2 angles so it was
hard to tell. Pedrosa's wheel was in front prior to the corner so by my
reckoning Simoncelli should have backed off, or gone right around rather
than around and into Pedrosa. Given prior events, he probably should be
even more careful than normal.

I don't know that the ride through penalty was enough. In this sort of
case, I think Pedrosa should have been given whatever points Simoncelli
scored, and Simoncelli given zero, and no ride through. Otherwise you
could theoretically do the same thing to the remainder of the field and
come first. Similar should have happened to Rossi last race. Sure I've
seen him do exactly that before.

I haven't paid too much attention to MotoGP prior to this year though.

tl;dr Simoncelli should have given way so deserved some sort of penalty.
Pedrosa should have received some form of recompense.