Sepang: What began as a verbal volley on Thursday, eventually ended as a volley quite literally in football terminology yesterday when Movistar Yamaha's Valentino Rossi kicked Honda's Marc Marquez out of the race in the Shell Malaysian MotoGP at the Sepang International Circuit.


Victim: Marc Marquez

For the first five laps, Honda's Dani Pedrosa led the show with Yamaha's Jorge Lorenzo overtaking Marc Marquez for second place. Enter Rossi, and the battle for third and fourth place begins hotting up with both riders refusing to give each other an inch. Rossi moved up to third at one stage before Marquez overtook him from the inside, but the Italian returned the favour moments later and gestured towards the Spaniard that he didn't appreciate the way he had gone past him.