However, if the Court of Arbitration for Sport does remove the penalty or at least one point from it, Rossi will be allowed to take part in the Free Practice and Qualifying sessions. CAS will make a ruling by November 6.
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He was sanctioned by Race Direction after appearing to kick out at Marquez, who subsequently lost control and crashed out of the race at the Sepang worldwide Circuit.
Following the Sepang MotoGP incident, the nine-time World Champion Rossi was penalized three points.
The 22-year-old Marquez won consecutive MotoGP titles from 2013 to 2014.
The row has also taken on a national dimension, with Italian media at loggerheads with their Spanish counterparts and fears there could be ugly scenes when Rossi turns up in Spain after initially indicating he might stay at home.
By Friday, 544,000 people had signed a petition entitled “Remove the penalty from Valentino Rossi and bring back integrity to the Championship”, logged on change.org by British fan Nicholas Davis.
On the seventh lap of the race, with Marquez and Rossi immersed in a battle for third place that involved several overtaking moves between the two, the Italian – in an absolutely intentional action – dealt an unsportsmanlike kick to the Repsol Honda rider that knocked him to the ground.
“Justifying your decision by stating that there is no rule to deal with the actions of Marc Marquez is as absurd as saying there is no rule to prevent riders shooting at other riders with guns”.
The outcome of the appeal could determine the destination of the 2015 MotoGP title. They are the only riders still in contention.
Dorna and the FIM have summoned all the MotoGP riders to a meeting on Thursday regarding “the events that occurred at the Malaysian Grand Prix and further developments over the following week”, cancelling the usual pre-event press conference.
Both a race day Repsol press release and Monday’s statement by HRC vice president Shuhei Nakamoto spoke of the kick being made, as did Marquez himself.
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But Yamaha issued a statement on Tuesday which refuted the claims, underlining the fact they were not proven by race officials in Malaysia: “Yamaha would like to express its disagreement with the words that have been used to report on the incident between riders Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez“, said the statament. “We have to respect the decision, but I don’t share it”.
