Yamaha appeal as Rossi says legs have been ‘cut off’

KUALA LUMPUR: Yamaha have offered against Valentino Rossi's punishment for a crash at the Malaysian Grand Prix with the Italian asserting it has "cut me off by the legs" in front of the MotoGP title decider. 

Title pioneer Rossi denied kicking out at guarding champion Marc Marquez and sending him sliding out of the race amid a strained battle for a vital third-place complete at Sepang on Sunday.

Rossi was downgraded to the back of the lattice for the last race of the season at Valencia one month from now with adversary for the title Jorge Lorenzo only seven focuses behind.

The episode has reignited stewing ill will between Rossi, a nine-time motorcycling champion seeking after his first title subsequent to 2009, and his adversaries, including Yamaha colleague Lorenzo.

Rossi, the sport's stupendous old man at 36, beforehand said Marquez had plotted to help his kindred Spaniard Lorenzo win valuable focuses at the Australian Grand Prix.

"It's unmistakable from the helicopter footage (at Sepang) that I would not like to make him crash, I simply needed to make him lose time, go outside of the line and back off, on the grounds that he was playing his grimy diversion, far more atrocious than in Australia," Rossi said.

The footage demonstrated a clearly irritated Rossi backing off and sticking Marquez toward the outside of the track.

Their bicycles touched, and after Marquez slid off the track Rossi's foot can be seen off its peg. "It's reasonable that when my foot slipped of the foot peg Marquez had as of now slammed," Rossi said in remarks on Yamaha's group site.