Marc Marquez apologised to Alex Rins for the incident that ruined Rins's Indonesian Grand Prix sprint - as the Yamaha MotoGP rider cooled off after seeing a replay.
Marquez lunged Rins for fifth place at Turn 4 on the opening lap, and both quickly regretted it as the resulting contact took Rins well out of the points and relegated Marquez to seventh.
Long Lap Penalty for @marcmarquez93 after this Lap 1 contact with @42rins ⚠️#IndonesianGP 🇮🇩 pic.twitter.com/Rk9SSUd86e
— MotoGP™🏁 (@MotoGP) October 4, 2025
A long-lap penalty followed to further damage the 2025 champion's race, though he recovered to sixth in the end - while Rins remained out of the points and finished 12th having qualified fourth, his best start for Yamaha.
But while a big opportunity had gone begging for the Yamaha rider, who has struggled so badly for so much of the year, Rins was relatively blasé about the incident in the end after reviewing the details.
"After the race I was so angry with Marc because he destroyed my race, and I was [up] there, but looking then at the images, he didn't have enough wind [air] to stop the bike with [Luca] Marini, that was in front of him," Rins said.
"One time can happen to me, one time can happen to him. This is racing, no?"
Marquez's overtaking attempt was indeed compromised by the sudden closing speed between himself and Honda's Luca Marini on the same part of the track up ahead, though a review of the footage ultimately suggests Marini was going through the corner at appropriate opening-lap speed.
And Marquez himself didn't point to the Honda's presence as being completely exculpatory.
"I did that mistake on the first lap, I already said sorry to Alex, but I couldn't control on that first lap on the first hard braking point, I jumped in on the dirty part a bit, started to slide the rear - plus the slipstream of the front riders [in front]," Marquez explained.
"Me and Rins, we were both of us a bit wide, but I was inside and I couldn't stop, because if I jumped more in Marini was there.
"So, yeah, I touched him [Rins], he went in the run-off area - when you do that, you need to receive a penalty. I saw a long-lap, I respect it, I did it."
Rins's other clash
Rins himself was caught up in a more significant incident after rejoining the race - as he played a part in Enea Bastianini's fast crash coming up to Turn 16.
Bastianini simply described it as contact with Rins and a "really dangerous" corner to crash but didn't accuse Rins of anything.
It is thought that, while there may have been contact, Rins had the right to the corner following a mistake by Bastianini through Turn 15.
But the angst is at VR46
Instead, the most publicly aggrieved party in the aftermath of the sprint, when it came to other riders' conduct, was VR46 rider Fabio Di Giannantonio - who felt his race was compromised by team-mate Franco Morbidelli.
The two have already had run-ins this year that left Di Giannantonio miffed, but he was much firmer on this occasion.
"Unfortunately my team-mate ruined, again, one of my races, with stupid overtakes," Di Giannantonio said after finishing one place behind Morbidelli in eighth.
The full extent of their battle isn't clear, but the most prominent moment came when Di Giannantonio attacked Morbidelli at Turn 10 and Morbidelli countered at Turn 11, with Di Giannantonio seemingly trying to turn in too early from the outside or just misjudging the corner and having to run out wide.
Morbidelli did struggle for pace more than Di Giannantonio at that point - he had started behind but got a much better start so was running ahead - but didn't feel he was so slow as to just let his team-mate go.
"Probably I was a bit slower, and he was trying to overtake me, but I got him back every time. So, I mean, I was slower, but he struggled to overtake me, probably he wasn’t much quicker than me," Morbidelli mused.
