All through the week, Repsol Honda’s Dani Pedrosa had looked in great form. The Spaniard defied high track temperatures at the Sepang racing track in Malaysia by taking top podium finish ahead of Movistar Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo. But Pedrosa’s superb victory was overshadowed by an unseemly controversy involving a ferocious fight between Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez. The pair fought for third place behind Lorenzo and passed and re-passed each other multiple times. Rossi accused Marquez of trying to help compatriot Lorenzo win the world championship with the decider at Valencia is now the only contest left this season. The once cordial relationship between Rossi and Marquez had already