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Originally Posted by Kennedy
Yea I saw all of the replays, just goes to show how a confliction of two different lines...and riders can be dangerous in this sport....I could have sworn Capirossi was gonna lay it down in those last laps.!
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true about the lines, but everybody, ESPECIALLY Rossi knows that whomever has the wheel out in front has right of way... so he shouldn't have been in that deep assuming Melandri wasn't going to stop it up short and turn it in. Rossi wasn't really even leaning when they crashed, so he wasn't anywhere near ready to turn it in. most of the time, you'll see a rider back off or line up behind the bike in front of him, but like Rossi said on the broadcast, HE made a mistake, because he didn't believe Melandri could brake and turn that fast.
as far as Capi, he almost bought it SEVERAL times trying to catch up to Biaggi, and one time he tried to pass Melandri and almost stopped COMPLETELY in a corner!
still, he had the speed and consistancy to pull it out, and the hard/medium tire compound to pull away from Biaggi when his medium/soft tires ran out in the closing laps.