There are “factors” that make up a great race.
Riders use the bike’s technology to gain the advantage, by being faster on the straights, turn better in the corners, they use the slower riders to increase the lead. Using their own physical and mental strengths to ride around boundaries set by the physical laws that govern us. Lastly, they use “LUCK” it can be best described as when conditions in a race allow for possibilities to happen, an almost unnatural prospect that accounts for supernatural beliefs like miracles. Racing is about overcoming those limitations, riding in a perfect world, all the while never losing our cool, our composure, our beliefs of being better than we are.
An aspect of racing is “rubbing,” when physical contact is condoned due the aggressive nature of road racing. It happens when the lines of contesting racers intersect without causing another to crash, who is to say whether it was intentional or not? The risk is equal to both participants losing that gambit, so events are allowed to play out. We expect to hope for that kind of tension near the end of a race, like at the penultimate lap.
With that interpretation, Marc Marquez evidently rode within the “rules”, didn’t you enjoy the breathless pressures of each daring pass, each lap, till the crash? We ask for the excitement, but wail when it’s results don’t favor our supported riders, all the while claiming unethical practices and demands that sanctions must be made.
Marquez applied massive aggression right from the start of the race, with all his attention focused on one rider, that being Valentino Rossi.
Imposing that much pressure onto one single person is unprecedented in MotoGP.
I must say Valentino handled quite well, instead of launching into a violent track version of “Road Rage” he decided to slow things down. Exactly inverse of what Marc probably expected. He wanted an crescendo to his opus of mutated sportsmanship, by using the rules to dismantle Rossi’s fight for the championship in Malaysia. Just because we don’t see it, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. He said it happened in Philip island and it was going to happen again in Sepang, because he had known something would happen and people had to know it wasn’t perchance, it was intentional, it was pre meditated.
Do you think there was collusion of goals between the Spaniards?
How do you prove it?
Even if we could, what rule does it break?
It breaks the unwritten rule of FAITH and TRUST in your heroes. Are they heroes? Should that be the new standard to aspire to? There is a new breed of racers, who practice a “bloodlust immaturity” by using the unwritten gentleman’s rules to win races. Unless others match this new ferocity, it will remain unchallenged and they will own the championships.
Things have changed, for the better? Only with acceptance by the Governing body, the Organizer, Promoters, the Racers, their teams and lastly you. – Jake Swann