The accident, for which Simoncelli was handed a drive-thru penalty as punishment, prompted an angry reaction from Pedrosa after the race, the Spaniard feeling as though his Honda counterpart’s aggressive outside pass left him with no choice but to go down.
Simoncelli, though sorry for Pedrosa’s injury, insists he wasn’t to blame. Simoncelli,雖遺憾Pedrosa的受傷,不過堅持他沒有責任。