Valentino Rossi stopped short of categorising aggressive r🔴iding styles in MotoGP as a by-product of the Moto2 class following a run-in with Jไohann Zarco in Texas.

Rossi received a penalty of 0.3 secondsꦑ after he gained time after being forced off track, when rookie Zarco attempted an overtake on his inside.

The nine-time world champion said back-to-back Moto2 champion Zarco needed to be 'more quiet♏' and criticised his riding style, but Rossi feels it is difficult to understand if Moto2 machines are cultivating more agg🌜ressive riders compared to the older 250cc two-stroke class.

"It's difficult to say, I don't know. For sure the Moto2 is different than 250 because more or less everybody has the same engine, the same tyres, same brakes - so to make an overtake is more 💝difficult," Rossi said.

"Always the races a🥀re very tight and it's difficult to make the difference: maybe it's that, but I don't know if it's the case in this case."

Dani Pedrosa, like Rossi a former 250cc world champion, said riders making the step up to MotoGꦍP have a lot of changes to contend with.

"I don't know if it's related to the class or not, but for sure from my experience, at the time when I changed to MotoGP, when you adapt to the weight and when you arrive to the speed, everything happens in different timing: the chicanes, ꧂braking.

"You arrive much faster and the weight is much more, the space is much less, and the rid🍨ers are much better, so you need to fig꧅ure out all these timings.

"Of course at the beginning you have a different approach to these moments and maybe it is a little bit th💫at."