BSB » Suspended ban for Brookes

Just looked at the incident on youtube. To me, Guintoli turned in early at Melbourne Loop and straight into Brookes. Its obvious that their was quite a speed differential between the two, but it is a warm up lap, you can go fast if you want. Quite frankly, some of the comments about Josh on this website are outrageous,racing incident fullstop.Get well soon Guinters.

I think that the BSB organisers should now implement a speed limit on the sighting lap - something which is left to the riders - Josh has shown that he's not a sensible person so, once again, someone else has suffered from one person's stupidity. I think he should be banned for at least 2 meetings, and fined as well - hitting the pocket is always a good punishment. Hope the rest of the riders take note of this and take care in the future to avoid the likes of this happening again.

The seriousness of the penalty should suit the seriousness of the incident, and therefore Brookes should have had a longer ban. As suggested before, maybe this should have been the same length of time as Guintoli is out.
Brookes should also be penalised further for lying.
Guintoli has been a revelation so far in BSB, and the series will be much the poorer during his absence.

terry currey, I never said Guintoli SHOULD be on the racing line. What I said was that it appeared he turned in early, thus, off of the racing line. The rider alongside him appeared to take the racing line which makes Guintoli appear to turn in early. Brookes maybe saw them in front of him and expected them to stay on line and then the inevitable happened.

As I said, I'm not blaming any rider. I know it's hard to see properly in the video, but that's what I read from it.