Britain's James Toseland has received further criticism for his hard overtaking style at Le Mans - this time from Andrea Dovizioso who claims the Tech3 Yamaha man used him as a berm.
The pair clashed ion lap three yesterday's MotoGP race and, as a result, Toseland crashed out but Honda rider Dovi claims Toseland ran into the back of him - something Toseland disputes.
Dovizioso said: "I was soon moving through the field when I caught up with James Toseland. We overtook each other a few times, but when I was in one of the downhill corners, I was accelerating when James hit me very hard from behind.
"Thank God I didn’t crash but his front tyre hit my body and my leather suit shows marks from his tyre and also the bike has some black rubber marks on the rear part of it. For this reason I lost a lot of time and probably without this fact I could have done even better by the end of the race."
Toseland gives this version of events: "I got a great start and really wanted to try and get away with the leaders but I lost a couple of places when John Hopkins came by with a hard but fair move. Andrea then made a small mistake and went slightly wide at the fourth corner and as I tried to go underneath him he came back on line and took my front wheel. It was just a racing incident but very disappointing because after that good start I felt like I could have got a good result."