We all have our opinions on the Rossi-Lorenzo clash on and off track at the Motegi GP, but what did two former World Champions of the caliber of Wainey Rainey and Wayne Gardner who were no strangers to hard racing, think about it what they saw?

Here’s their thoughts on the duel that certainly revived a somewhat boring race, until those final two laps.

“I just think it was good hard clean racing,” Wayne Rainey said. “OK, they bumped. That’s the way I remember it, the way you’re supposed to race. I don’t know everybody’s saying, but I just thought it was a great race.” and “That’s the way racing should be, the way I see it, I think if you’re going to race hard. I just see that as hard racing. OK, it happens to be between two teammates, but Lorenzo decided to race Rossi there at the end and it looked like Rossi saw there was an opening and he went for it and then they bumped.”

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