MotoGP series leader Valentino Rossi says he didn’t mean to cause today’s crash involving Marc Marquez at the Sepang MotoGP round but had the intention of slowing the reigning champion as he was ‘playing his dirty game’. Rossi and Marquez spent much of the race passing and re-passing with the frustration visible in The Doctor’s body language and it all came to a head when the pair collided on lap seven and down went the Repsol Honda man. “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...
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