Amongst the deluge of messages of support received by Marc Márquez on Sunday, there was one very special one, and it came from the president of the Spanish government, Mariano Rajoy. The political leader took a dim view of Valentino Rossi's attack on the Catalan rider during Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix.

The president took to his Twitter account to share his view that,"in the sporting world, as in politics, not everything goes". The president's take on the incident is in line with the general consensus at MARCA, as expressed in Sunday's editorial column on MARCA.com.

Rajoy signed off with the following words: "Our support goes to Marc Márquez". In a further tweet, the president didn't allow the controversy surrounding Márquez and Rossi to overshadow an excellent race from Dani Pedrosa, for whom he had words of congratulations in the wake of the 30-year-old's victory, posting: "You star Dani Pedrosa!"