{"id":20115,"date":"2013-06-03T09:26:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T07:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/rossi-disappointed-after-incident-at-motogp\/"},"modified":"2013-06-03T09:26:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T07:26:38","slug":"rossi-disappointed-after-incident-at-motogp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rossi-disappointed-after-incident-at-motogp\/","title":{"rendered":"Rossi disappointed after incident at MotoGP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Valentino_Rossi_2010_Qatar.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[3677]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"English: Valentino Rossi 2010 Qatar\" alt=\"English: Valentino Rossi 2010 Qatar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/454f1_300px-Valentino_Rossi_2010_Qatar.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valentino Rossi 2010 Qatar (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Valentino Rossi\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Valentino_Rossi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Valentino Rossi<\/a>\u2018s hopes of ending his three-year <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mugello Circuit\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=43.9975,11.3719444444spn=0.015,0.015q=43.9975,11.3719444444 (Mugello%20Circuit)t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Mugello<\/a> podium drought lay in tatters barely 30 seconds after the start of the Italian <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Grand Prix motorcycle racing\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grand_Prix_motorcycle_racing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">MotoGP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A bumper crowd lined the rolling hills around the Tuscan track to watch their national hero fight for a top-three finish, but they \u2013 like Rossi himself \u2013 would go home disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>The nine-time two-wheel world champion bumped fairings hard with <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"\u00c1lvaro Bautista\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%81lvaro_Bautista\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Alvaro Bautista<\/a> on the run to the third corner, the contact heavy enough to send both men into the barriers.<\/p>\n<p>Neither were hurt but both were frustrated, the crash ruled a \u2018racing incident\u2019 after MotoGP officials, joined by both riders, analysed video replays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the second corner I was on the outside already in front of Bautista,\u201d Rossi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, from the inside he opened the throttle to close the line so he doesn\u2019t lose another position but I was already in front so he came to me and took me on the boot,\u201d the Italian laying the blame at the Spaniard\u2019s feet.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista said he simply didn\u2019t spot Rossi on his outside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was on the inside and it is very difficult to see a rider on the outside from there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just a racing incident that leaves us both with a bitter taste in the mouth but neither of us is to blame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The crash prematurely ended a race that carried a great importance for Rossi. &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/motor-sports\/moto-gp\/motogp-officials-rule-valentino-rossi-alvaro-bautista-crash-at-mugello-a-racing-incident\/story-fn2ms4i4-1226656189622#.Uaw8s0CLB9g\" target=\"_blank\"> Fox Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aaj4488.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/02\/lorenzo-wins-mugello-motogp-rossi-marquez-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/454f1_174276095_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a 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A bumper crowd lined the rolling hills around the Tuscan track to watch their national hero fight for a top-three finish, but they \u2013 like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-20115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}