Rossi penalty weight, Held 1 Million Petition Support

Yamaha rider, Valentino Rossi, severe punishment as a result of the incident with Marc Marquez. Penalties for The Doctor was unexpected to be heavy.

Rossi Marquez was involved in an incident with the Malaysian MotoGP. Currently, for third place at the Sepang circuit on Sunday (25/10/2015) afternoon local time, Rossi is considered knocking Marquez until he fell.

Malaysian MotoGP events that occurred on the seventh lap. Rossi was actually able to secure the third position.

Rossi eventually given three penalty points, plus had to start from the rearmost position while the last series in Valencia. By doing so, a chance to champion Rossi arguably already exhausted.

Rossi is currently still in the first position, which stood at 312 points. Instead, she just is seven points ahead of Jorge Lorenzo in second position.

Problem penalty for Rossi, the boss of Dorna Sports, Javier Alonso, leave a comment. He considered that the sanction was too severe.

"Marc did not do something illegal, but he pushed the situation to the limit makes sense only little used and therefore Rossi did what he did, although it cannot be justified," Alonso said in the Gazzetta World.

"But, we do not believe that the action Rossi was cause greater punishment," he added. Four days after its release, a petition supporting the lifting of penalties Valentino Rossi has reached over 500,000. The petition is now targeting one million of support.

Up to three hours and the number of people supporting the lifting of penalties Rossi petition has reached 495 577. It means living need support 4,423 more to meet the initial target of 500 thousand.

But not until noon that number had jumped to 500,000 more. Per the morning at 10.45 am today the number has reached the number 504 080.

Because the support is still a big entrance, an online petition has now increases the target. The numbers increased two-fold to 1 million.

With the race in Valencia was held one and a half weeks away, Sunday (11/08/2015), a wave of support for the repeal of the penalty Rossi believed to still be great.

Rossi was sentenced to a penalty starting from the rearmost position for the final race in Valencia. The sanction was given after he was involved in an incident with Marc Marquez and culminate with the fall of the Honda rider in MotoGP Malaysia.

Start from the rearmost position would turn down the opportunity Rossi captured his tenth world title. Rossi is currently still at the top of the standings, but his lead on Jorge Lorenzo only seven points.