Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa greet at Sepang yesterday.

MotoGP World Championship leader Marc Marquez has been given one penalty point following his Aragon Grand Prix collision with teammate Dani Pedrosa.

Furthermore, for its responsibility in Pedrosa’s crash, Honda has been stripped of the Constructors’ Championship points scored it scored as a result of Marquez’s race victory.

“In the end we need to respect that decision,” Marquez said. “We are ready and I want to be concentrated on this weekend. It will be interesting to see the track and my riding style, because my first real MotoGP test was here and now things have changed with the electronics and so on.”

Yet, when prompted about whether the penalty will change his approach to racing he added: “I will not change”.

Pedrosa, nursing a sore throat, was unwilling to share his thoughts on the matter.

“About today, no comment,” Pedrosa said. “I have no comment because it is something between Race Direction and Marc. I am only a side effect of what happened in Aragon.”

Fighting for second place on the sixth lap of the race at MotorLand Aragon, Marquez made slight contact with Pedrosa when he overshot the breaking point at Turn 12.

A touch from his left arm broke the rear wheel speed sensor cable on the back of Pedrosa’s bike, resulting in a loss of his traction control for the latter which saw the him crashing out of the race.

With Marquez having gone on to claim victory from Yamaha Factory Racing’s Jorge Lorenzo, it was confirmed after the Aragon race that the touch would be technically analysed by Race Direction on the Thursday ahead of the Shell Advance Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix.

Yesterday both Marquez and Pedrosa, plus representatives of Repsol Honda Team, gathered with Race Direction at the Sepang International Circuit.

Following a meeting of just over half an hour, it was announced that Marquez had been handed one penalty point (not a championship point) for his part in the Aragon clash, while losing the Constructors’ Championship points he scored for the MotorLand Aragon race.

The decision takes his total of penalty points to three for the 2013 MotoGP season, having previously received two for ignoring yellow flags during Warm-Up for the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.