I'll tell you what happened in SEPANG!
A lot of people still have no idea what really happened in Sepang
between Marquez and Valentino. I'll explain it to you, starting from
what the riders said after the incident:
Now then,
Valentino is fed up of the useless battle they've had up to that point and cuts across
slows down while looking at Marquez to say:"what the F are you doing?"
Marquez sees him coming and picks up the bike.
It's very clear from the gyroscopic camera at the
back of his bike.
From the helicopter:
Marquez's knee goes IN. He saw Valentino coming,
picked the bike up and put his knee back in.
They have slowed down and are now both up straight.
There's a moment when nothing happens. Marquez said it in the
interview: "I was just waiting" This is it.
A few moments where they don't do anything.
What's next? Well, Marquez said that after this he got a kick
from Rossi. This is simply not true, because the next thing
that happens is this: Marquez puts his knee back out and goes toward
Valentino. From the front: notice that Valentino is
absolutely still at this point, no movements whatsover. Not his body, not his leg
Let's pay attention to his body leanguage:
Turns his head to look ahead and...
releases the front brake! The fork comes up as a result
He was getting away from there! He slowed Marquez down to look at him
as if to say "What the F?" and the footage confirms
his account of the story.
But at this very moment Marquez hits him with his head/body/arm
Valentino's knee is pushed against the fuel tank.
It's very clear. From the back: there's space between
Valentino's calf and the bike, until Marquez hits him. This is not
a groundbreaking discovery. All you need to do to see it is
looking at the screen. It's nothing like the Higgs boson!
anyways... Marquez hits him and Valentino immediately opens up
his knee to push him away. Valentino's foot is still on the
foot peg though, he's pushing on it.
Valentino's knee is at its maximum extension now, let's move on...
As Marquez's front wheel starts to "go", VR's leg makes a strange twich
it's unnatural, it seems dragged by something.
maybe Marquez's faring, but we don't know for sure.
We also see that Valentino's foot is off the foot peg at this point.
And then, Marquez goes down while Rossi carries on.
Why did Marquez's front wheel lock? Why did he fall?
Let's ask those who have been considered the victims
of the incident: Marquez and Honda. Nakamoto said that:
"The data from Marc’s bike shows that even though he was picking up the bike trying
to avoid contact with Valentino his front brake lever suddenly received
an impact that locked the front tyre, which is the reason for his crash"
Then he adds:"We believe that this pressure was a result of
Rossi’s kick". So, Marquez went down because
His front tyre locked. Honda is telling us that! What caused it?
A kick from Rossi. I have two problems with this theory:
First is that there's a lever guard in the way.
which was introduced specifically to avoid these sort of things.
I think it would be difficult to kick backwards avoiding the guard
while wearing boots and leathers. But if Honda says it's possible
we believe them and move to the second, bigger problem:
from this exact frame, Marquez's front wheel is locked.
Look at the white marking on the side of the tyre and at the
spokes of the rim. We can't see VR's foot at this point. So this might as well be
the moment when Valentino kicks MM's front brake lever.
Let's go forward one frame and see what happens:
we start to see Valentino's foot but the wheel
is still locked. One more: we see the whole leg
but the wheel is still locked. One more: Valentino is one metre
away, Marquez is down but the wheel is still locked!
Brembo-Wireless perhaps? There's even some smoke!
The wheel is locked, the tyre skidded on the tarmac and started smoking.
One more frame, wheel still locked and Valentino two metres away.
Last frame, wheel still locked, Marquez on the ground and
Valentino almost out of the shot.
What does this all mean?
Well, it means that Marquez is a liar.
It means that Marquez had his hand on the brake lever
and it means that he squeezed it on purp... GM:"Who squeezed what? Marquez??
What could have happened is that once they made contact, his front brake lever
touched Rossi and the wheel locked. Are you actually saying
that Marquez squeezed his brake to go down on purpose?
That's crazy, unthinkable: NO!" YES, Guido! He went down on purpose.
That's why the wheel was locked that long.
That's why it was smoking. And that's why they'll never show us the telemetry...
...because everything would be crystal clear otherwise.