HRC vice-president Shuhei Nakamoto has hit back at Valentino Rossi’s claims that Marc Marquez deliberately helped Jorge Lorenzo in the title-deciding MotoGP race at Valencia. Lorenzo took his third premier class crown with victory at the Spanish circuit, with Marquez sticking close to his tail throughout but never making a serious attempt to pass. This provoked accusations by Rossi, whose fourth place finish was insufficient to deny Lorenzo the title, that Marquez had acted as Lorenzo’s “bodyguard”, preventing third-place man Dani Pedrosa from launching an attack – a charge vehemently denied by Marquez. It followed Rossi revealing at Sepang that he felt Marquez was riding to help...
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