MotoGP riders have been summoned to a gathering earlier than the ultimate race of the season amid a "damaging" feud between its two greatest stars.
Championship chief Valentino Rossi is interesting in opposition to a penalty imposed for allegedly kicking defending champion Marc Marquez, who got here off his bike on the Malaysian Grand Prix.
The sport's president Vito Ippolito described the atmosphere as "poisoned" earlier than Sunday's race in Valencia.
Rossi begins behind the grid.
However, the Italian 9-time world champion has taken his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas), in search of annulment or discount of the penalty.
Rossi, 36, holds a slender seven-level lead over Yamaha workforce-mate Jorge Lorenzo and should end second if the Spaniard wins the race, as a way to win the championship.
Before the race in Malaysia, Rossi accused Spaniard Marquez of intentionally making an attempt to impede him in the course of the Australian Grand Prix on 18 October with a view to assist compatriot Lorenzo.
A assertion from the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM) stated a gathering, to additionally embrace workforce managers, has been referred to as "given the distinctive circumstances".
Shuhei Nakamoto, vp of Marquez's Honda staff mentioned on Monday that he hoped Rossi would "suppose it over and perceive his mistake".
Ippolito beforehand warned the game was "shifting away from the custom of satisfaction in sportsmanship that's a part of the heritage of motorcycling".
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