MotoGP rider Romano Fenati has been fired by his team and quit the sport altogether after the 22-year-old Italian rider grabbed the brake of a competitor while traveling 140 miles-per-hour.
MotoGP rider gets fired and quits sport after grabbing competitor’s brake mid-race
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Fenati was given a black flag and disqualified from the the San Marino GP before being banned for two races for irresponsible riding and attempting to harm a competitor. Stefano Manzi, who had his brake lever grabbed in the incident, said he felt like Fenati was trying to kill him, but in an interview Fenati said otherwise.
“Mine was the gesture of someone who wanted to say: ‘stop, look, if I want to, I can make you fall off.”
Fenati’s team, the Marinelli Snipers, have dropped him as a result and the disgraced rider is saying he’s leaving the sport all together.
“That world is closed to me, I’ll not race anymore. It isn’t my world. There is too much injustice. I was wrong, that is true, but nobody cares about my pain.”
He went on to defend his actions, saying “I was unable to control my anger but Manzi could have killed me too.”
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