Motorcycle racing’s governing body FIM says data from last year’s infamous MotoGP clash between Marc Marquez and Valentino Rossi at Sepang will not be released to avoid further controversy.
There has been debate over whether Rossi kicked out at Marquez since Honda declared late last year that its data would prove exactly what had happened in the controversial collision.
But the organisation’s president Vito Ippolito says FIM and Honda have decided to keep the information private.
"The dispute was brought before the CAS [Court of Arbitration for Sport] and the case is now closed," he said.
"It is true that at the end of the season the polemics around the Rossi-Marquez case swelled to unprecedented levels.
"For that reason, we asked all the people involved, including the teams, to refrain from engaging in controversy about what happened in Sepang."
Ippolito added: "During the last competition in Valencia, team Honda informed us that they had all the telemetry relating to the incident.
"Now the data is in our hands, and Honda and the FIM have decided together not to release them so as not to fuel further polemics."
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