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MotoGP Championship leader Marc Marquez has been docked a penalty point for careless riding in last week's race at Aragon.
Marquez was deemed at fault following a mid-race collision with fellow Honda rider Dani Pedrosa, who crashed out of the race shortly afterwards.
The 20-year-old rookie blamed "bad luck" for the incident, but Pedrosa insisted Marquez had caused the collision which damaged his traction control sensor, leading to his crash.
MotoGP officials have now handed Marquez his third penalty point of the season, and one more transgression will relegate him to the back of the starting grid for the next race.
The incident at Aragon has also led to Honda losing all of their 25 points, cutting their lead over Yamaha in the constructors' championship to just one point.
Sanction
MotoGP issued the sanctions after a Race Direction hearing at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia, with Marquez, Pedrosa and Honda team officials all present.
The hearing found that "a touch from Marquez's left arm broke the rear wheel speed sensor cable on the back of Pedrosa's bike, resulting in a loss of his traction control for the latter which saw him crashing out of the race".
Marquez was hit with a two-point penalty at Silverstone earlier this season when he was deemed to have ignored yellow flags during the warm-up.
He now leads the title race by 39 points from defending champion Jorge Lorenzo heading into this weekend's Malaysian MotoGP - the 15th of 18 meetings this season.
Seb, we could do with BMW and any of the others who are not there right now to be in Moto GP I'm sure. As for the CRT bikes, I'll be surprised if they do scrap them, but if they are planning to do that, I can't see that happening until other manufactures with full on works bikes are on the grid. That's probably what you meant by as soon as financially possible.seb421 wrote:Ive herd whispers that BMW will be looking to take on MotoGP with there own project in the next few years
Suzuki was originally planing a 2014 return but iirc rules and changes meant they was better going for 2015
Shame kawazaki puled out too and even that hyatie thing that was basically a black kwak that melandri was racing was doing so well as well at the time they pulled the plug on that as well.
iirc they plan to scrap the CRT as soon as financially possible
Also i wish they had left world superbikes as 750 inline 4's vs 1000 cc twins that was the best era for it, seems daft to have two world championships both running the same capacity engines
Those were the days I agree with the inline 750 fours and the 1000cc V twins
Chris.