Valentino Rossi stopped short of categorising aggressive riding styles in ಌMotoGP as a by-product of the Moto2 class following a run-in with Johann Zarco in Texas.

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

The nine-time world champi🍸on 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 aggressive 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 be🧸cause more or less everybody has the same engine, the same tyres, same brakes - so to make an overtake is more difficult," Rossi s🍨aid.

"Always the races are very tight and it's difficult𒀰 to make the difference: maybe iꦬt's that, but I don't know if it's the case in this case."

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

"I don't know if it's related to the𝐆 class or not, but for sure from my experience, at the time when I changed to MotoGP, when you adapt to the weight and whe𓆉n 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 riders are much better, so you need to figure out all these timings.

"Of course at the beginning you have a different approach to these moments and maybe it is a litt💛le bit that."