MotoGP | Jerez | Spain |May 4-6 | 2018

That's a tough call. Dani & Jorge (as much as I am negative on him currently), were both neutral in their post-race comments and clearly call it as an unfortunate, and unusual "racing incident."

Dovi (as much as I like him) was quick to cast blame, mostly upon Dani, but also upon Jorge. That's too bad - - his PR would have been far better served by saying little, attributing the unfortunate and unusual incident to bad luck, and going on. I know he had the most to lose, and did in fact lose a lot, but . . . .

Cheers,

Dave

 

If there's ANYone at "fault" (IMO there isn't it was %100 racing incident), it's Dovi. His bonzai pass cause the whole chain reaction. Without that, it never would have happened. But still a racing incident.

 

Damn, Pedrosa can't catch a break. Even when he crashes, people make short jokes.

 

That's 'cause the f@ckos around here are heightists!!!!

 

More proof that you're out of your god damn mind.

 

So, you're Dani Pedrosa...

 

Talking about blame??
Well after Crashlows and Rins wrecks they mentioned Dovi getting lucky with damage limitation with his gifted positions.

So definitely this was the commentators curse!
To add, Simon Crafar was on the mic when the incident happened. Just sayin'!

Blame the commentators

 

Every time you do this, he wins a race or gets a contract. Thank you.

 

Afyer watching it again hard to tell exactly from the angle but looks like George cut inside pretty abruptly and Pedro was as inside as he could’ve been. Blame= George. I’d love to blame Pedro as I can’t stand him but he’s innocent. George going to BBS jail.

 

Alot of people would be better off if they learned to stay of Twitter.

 

Even though your statement is 100% truth, if you're talking about Dovizioso, he wasn't on twitter. The tweet I posted has a link to the website where the article is written. Think of it as a headline, if you will.

 

Watch the video on Motogp.com. He blames everybody else, even jorge's pit crew for not telling him there wasn't a third rider lol. His head is seriously in a different orbit than everybody else's sometimes.

This reminds me of another incident a couple years ago (last year maybe?) where his post race interview made it seem like he was talking about a different incident altogether he was so far out to lunch.

 

It all started with Dovis pass however Lorenzo is next line for blame. Pedro was exiting the apex and obviously can’t see what’s going on to his left however Lorenzo should’ve been able to see Pedro. Unusual situation.

 

Dovi's comment about Lorenzo's pit crew is actually the only thing I agreed with out of his whole statement.

Most of the top riders have the number of riders immediately behind them displayed on their pit board when there is a group following. One can assume it is to prevent incidents exactly like this. If Jorge knew that there was a third rider behind him, I doubt he would've tried to get back to the apex so aggressively.

Pedrosa was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time (only in racing can the right line end up being the "wrong place"). Dovi/Lorenzo opened up a door that two bikes could've easily fit through side by side. Pedrosa took a tight racing line through and was carrying on about his business.

It's definitely a racing incident, as validated by race direction. But if you HAD to blame someone, it definitely shouldn't be Pedrosa.

 

Proof that I’m 100% correct? Thanks. I’ll take the compliment.

 

For sure it was just a racing incident but we have to blame someone so I’ll blame George. You are right about Pedrosa, he seems the only guy this would happen to.

 

Race Director Mike Webb speaks, affirms Lorenzo was ahead and Pedrosa tried for a gap that wasn't there.

"A very similar incident years ago [2012] in Barcelona with [Marc] Marquez and [Pol] Espargaro, with a rider running wide and then coming back on track. I wasn’t Race Director at the time, but I remember it was penalised, and I remember also that the penalty was overturned by the FIM saying, that’s not a fair penalty. The rider was ahead.

https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/895413/1/pedrosa-disappointed-race-direction-after-fall

 

There was a gap a semi could drive through there. Lorenzo slammed into a rider that was on the race line, holding his line. Lorenzo fucked up. Game, set, match.

 

Maybe in your world but according to the rules you are wrong.