I would say yes. High speed ramming is considered malicious. this ISN'T Robot Wars or something like that. The whole idea is not that robots be slamming into things and each other. It is that each robot alliance is to work together to complee objectives, and peacibly (tug of war = peace too
keep the other team from winning somehow.
I know If you rammed my robot at high speeds, and it wasn't from a crazy loss of control, I would consider it malicious. I don't like the idea of people seriously damaging other robots. People put many many many hours of work and tons of money into these things. It would be a shame to see their work destroyed by somebody's malicious ramming (except on shows like Battle Bots or something)...
Just my humble opinion.