Movistar Yamaha Press Release: A dramatic Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix saw Movistar Yamaha MotoGP‘s Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi claim Yamaha‘s tenth double podium of the season at the Sepang International Circuit. Lorenzo had a good start off the line at the beginning of the Sepang battle, but found himself squeezed out by Andrea Iannone and Andrea Dovizioso and emerged from the first corner in sixth position. The Majorcan immediately went to work and needed only half a lap to recover to fourth in pursuit of his teammate. Lorenzo soon arrived at the back of Rossi and smoothly passed him after two laps to move up to second when Marquez made a mistake in turn four and the Majorcan took full advantage. Lorenzo quickly moved on to chase Dani Pedrosa, but was unable to win ground and finished the race in second, trailing 3.612s. As of today‘s race Valentino Rossi holds the record of most starts in Grand Prix history with 329 starts in what is probably his most dramatic as of yet. The Doctor had a good launch from third on the grid and kept his position as he settled behind Pedrosa and Marquez into the first turn. As Lorenzo started to move up the order, Rossi tried to respond, but was forced to let the Majorcan pass with nineteen laps to go and soon found himself trailing Marquez and one of the most heated scraps of the century ensued. For four laps the Italian and Spaniard bashed fairings and overtook in almost every corner. The fight was decided when with fourteen laps to go Marc crashed as the result of the two coming into contact at turn 13. Rossi continued the race in third place in a lonely ride and held his position over the line, 13.724s from the front. Lorenzo‘s comeback from second row to second place earns him 20 points and leaves him second in the championship standings with 305 points. Rossi‘s performance sees him take 16 points and leaves him still leading on 312 points, just 7 points in front of his teammate in the battle for the World Championship Title. Following the incident in turn 13, Race Direction has decided to impose 3 penalty points to Rossi, who will start the next Valencia race from the back of the grid. The following appeal by the Team to the FIM (Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme) has been rejected. 
JORGE LORENZO #99: It was a very hard race. I gave the maximum to keep Dani‘s rear wheel as close as possible, but to be honest his pace had been unbelievable. He was so quick and consistent and picked up the bike in a perfect way, so it was very difficult to overtake him on braking. I could only finish in second place, which is important because we recovered points. When I saw the battle between Marc and Valentino I was really surprised because the action was huge and I have to respect race direction‘s decision. 
VALENTINO ROSSI #46: Marquez knows it wasn‘t red mist that caused the incident. It‘s very clear from the helicopter footage that I didn‘t want to make him crash, I just wanted to make him lose time, go outside of the line and slow down, because he was playing his dirty game, even worse than in Australia. When I went wide and slowed down to nearly a stop, I looked at him as if to say ’what are you doing?‘. After that we touched. He touched with his right underarm on my leg and my foot slipped off the foot peg. If you look at the image from the helicopter it‘s clear that when my foot slipped of the foot peg, Marquez had already crashed. I didn‘t want to kick him, especially because, if you give a kick to a MotoGP bike, it won‘t crash, it‘s very heavy. For me the sanction is not fair, because Marquez won his fight. His program is OK because he is making me lose the championship. The sanction is not good, especially for me, because I didn‘t purposefully want to make him crash, I just reacted to his behaviour, but I didn‘t kick him. You can‘t say anything in the press conference, maybe it changes something, but to me this was not fair, because I just want to fight for the championship with Jorge and let the better man win, but like this that‘s not happening. Like I said, I didn‘t want to make Marquez crash, but I had to do something because at that moment Jorge was already gone. The championship is not over yet, but this sanction cut me off by the legs and made Marquez win. MASSIMO MEREGALLI - TEAM DIRECTOR: It‘s a shame to see such a beautiful championship, that was supposed to result in one of the most exciting battles between the two Yamaha riders, be affected and almost compromised by another rider. We should be here today dealing with Jorge‘s amazing performance on track and his second place, as well as another thrilling battle among top riders but unfortunately this is not the case. We made an appeal to the FIM stewards against the penalty issued by the Race Direction because whilst we respect the infringement, we felt 3 penalty points were too harsh. We have since heard that the appeal has been rejected. We respect this final decision. GRAND PRIX OF MALAYSIA - RACE RESULTS: 1. Dani Pedrosa (SPA) Repsol Honda Team 40'37.691 2. Jorge Lorenzo (SPA) Movistar Yamaha MotoGP + 3.612 3. Valentino Rossi (ITA) Movistar Yamaha MotoGP + 13.724 4. Bradley Smith (GBR) Monster Yamaha Tech3 + 23.995 5. Cal Crutchlow (GBR) CWM LCR Honda + 28.721 6. Danilo Petrucci (ITA) Octo Pramac Racing + 36.372 7. Aleix Espargarò (SPA) Team Suzuki Ecstar + 39.290 8. Maverick Viñales (SPA) Team Suzuki Ecstar + 39.436 9. Pol Espargarò (SPA) Monster Yamaha Tech3 + 42.462 10. Stefan Bradl (GER) Aprilia Racing Team Gresini + 44.601 11. Scott Redding (GBR) Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS + 47.690 12. Yonny Hernandez (COL) Octo Pramac Racing + 52.112 13. Hector Barbera (SPA) Avintia Racing + 52.360 14. Toni Elias (SPA) Forward Racing + 53.619 15. Alvaro Bautista (SPA) Aprilia Racing Team Gresini + 53.631 16. Nicky Hayden (USA) Aspar MotoGP Team + 1'01.431 17. Jack Miller (AUS) CWM LCR Honda + 1'02.828 18. Mike Di Meglio (FRA) Avintia Racing + 1'05.075 19. Eugene Laverty (IRL) Aspar MotoGP Team + 1'09.877 20. Anthony West (AUS) AB Motoracing + 1'24.749 21. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA) Ducati Team N.C. (10 laps) 22. Marc Marquez (SPA) Repsol Honda Team N.C. (13 laps) 23. Loris Baz (FRA) Forward Racing N.C. (18 laps) 24. Andrea Iannone (ITA) Ducati Team N.C. (19 laps) 25. Damian Cudlin (AUS) E-Motion IodaRacing Team Not starting WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP CLASSIFICATION RIDER: 1. Valentino Rossi (ITA) Movistar Yamaha MotoGP 312 2. Jorge Lorenzo (SPA) Movistar Yamaha MotoGP 305 3. Marc Marquez (SPA) Repsol Honda Team 222 4. Dani Pedrosa (SPA) Repsol Honda Team 190 5. Andrea Iannone (ITA) Ducati Team 188 6. Bradley Smith (GBR) Monster Yamaha Tech3 171 7. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA) Ducati Team 153 8. Cal Crutchlow (GBR) CWM LCR Honda 118 9. Danilo Petrucci (ITA) Octo Pramac Racing 107 10. Pol Espargarò (SPA) Monster Yamaha Tech3 103 11. Aleix Espargarò (SPA) Team Suzuki Ecstar 97 12. Maverick Viñales (SPA) Team Suzuki Ecstar 92 13. Scott Redding (GBR) Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS 83 14. Yonny Hernandez (COL) Octo Pramac Racing 53 15. Hector Barbera (SPA) Avintia Racing 33 16. Alvaro Bautista (SPA) Aprilia Racing Team Gresini 29 17. Loris Baz (FRA) Forward Racing 28 18. Jack Miller (AUS) CWM LCR Honda 17 19. Stefan Bradl (GER) Aprilia Racing Team Gresini 17 20. Nicky Hayden (USA) Aspar MotoGP Team 16 21. Eugene Laverty (IRL) Aspar MotoGP Team 9 22. Mike Di Meglio (FRA) Avintia Racing 8 23. Hiroshi Aoyama (JPN) Repsol Honda Team 5 24. Toni Elias (SPA) Forward Racing 2 25. Alex De Angelis (RSM) E-Motion IodaRacing Team 2 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP CLASSIFICATION CONSTRUCTOR : 1. Yamaha 382 2. Honda 335 3. Ducati 247 4. Suzuki 129 5. Forward Yamaha 35 6. Aprilia 34 7. ART 2 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP CLASSIFICATION TEAM: 1. Movistar Yamaha MotoGP 617 2. Repsol Honda Team 417 3. Ducati Team 341 4. Monster Yamaha Tech3 274 5. Team Suzuki Ecstar 189 6. Octo Pramac Racing 160 7. CWM LCR Honda 135 8. Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS 83 9. Aprilia Racing Team Gresini 46 10. Avintia Racing 41 11. Forward Racing 30 12. Aspar MotoGP Team 25 13. E-Motion IodaRacing Team 2 For more information: www.yamahamotogp.comGadget Reviews: mamaktalk.com
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