Originally Posted by thunder
. Walter Godefroot thought it was Cooke's fault he went down last year after Bettini rode him into the barrier.
It
was Cooke's fault that he crashed.
As you'd expect, there was plenty of debate here about that when it happened, so I watched the tape of the crash about 20 times on slow-mo. Bettini obviously impeded Cooke's progress, slowed him right up, and veered him toward the barrier, but there was no contact when the crash occurred. What happened was Cooke went to whip his hand off the bar to do old "protest wave", and he lost control of his bike.