Marquez, Pedrosa agreement 'almost impossible'

'What needs to be understood is whether this could have been avoided - both the incident between the two riders and the accident itself - because those are the two important aspects' - Javier Alonso
Pedrosa crash, Aragon MotoGP 2013
Pedrosa crash, Aragon MotoGP 2013
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Dorna's Javier Alonso has admitted the chances of reaching a mutual agreement over the Aragon MotoGP incident invol🍰ving Repsol Honda's Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa will be 'almost impossible'.

A hearing on the incident is scheduled to take place next Thursday at Sepang after Pedrosa's fading MotoGP ti🔴tle hopes were all but ended when he crashed out of second place on lap six of the race whi🍃le under pressure from Marquez.

It later transpired that Marque🃏z had made contact with his team-mate's rear wheel, severing a sensor cable that disabled Pedrosa's traction control system.

Both riders have been summoned to appear at the hearing on the eve of the f൩irst 🐼practice session for the Malaysian MotoGP to discuss the incident.

Alons෴o told MotoGP.com: "This was a very peculiar incident with a very technical element to it. In fact, when we first saw it live we did not think anything had happened, as such; although it appeared 🐲as though Marc Marquez had touched Dani Pedrosa, we did not believe that there was any connection between the contact and the subsequent crash for Pedrosa.

"After the race, we knew that there had been a technical problem and that a cut cable had been the most likely cause of Pedrosa's traction control failure which in-turn c𒈔aused his retirement. That is when we decided to launch an investigation.

"However, we need to gather an amount of technical data and for this re꧒ason we 🍸chose to delay the hearing until Malaysia."

Pedrosa was critical ꦦof his young team-mate afterwards, saying he was riding 'on the limit' and Alonso has confirmed that the prospect of 'sanctions' being imposed on Marquez as a result remained a possibility.

"Everything remains open, ranging from sanction to no sanction," he said. "What needs to be understood is whethe♐r this could have been avoided - both the incident between the two riders and the accident itself - because those are the two important aspects.

"Once we understand allꦑ of this, if we are required to ♒take a decision we will take the most suitable one."

The apportion of blame in a one-off incident such as that which occurred at Aragon is a hot topic of debate and Alonso admitted Race Dire🅠ction faces a complex scenario.

"That is ver✱y complicated," he added. "If anybody believes they have an idea over how to regulate such incidents and to be able to define what can and cannot be done, a♍nd they are prepared to put it in writing, we are open to suggestions.

"Over all of the years in which my colleagues and I personally have beꦆen involved with Race Direction, we have never come across two identical incidents. Each and every incident is different to the next.

"Having witnessed the case of Marc and Dani, if a rider actually attempted to cut a cable on the rear of another bike by using an elbow or a clutch level, one would probably fail to do so a thousand times," he ad✃ded.

"Unfortunately, on this occasion that is precisely what happened. Intending to rea💃ch a mutual agreement over what is allowed and what is not in these situations is꧋ very complicated, if not impossible."

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