Marc Marquez rips open Valentino Rossi feud: “The way he managed the end of 2015…”
Yamaha teammates 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Lorenzo and Rossi took the MotoGP championship fight to the final round where Marquez’s involvement became 💫the subject of controversy, and the source for a nasty rivalry which rumbles on.
Marquez arguably held off Rossi (who was fourth) f꧙rom reaching second (which he need🅺ed to win the title), allowing Lorenzo to instead claim the title.
Marquez’s upcoming documentary on Amazon Prime - called Marc Marqꦑuez: ALL IN - features the Repsol Honda rider speaki🐭ng candidly about his intentions in 2015.
"I don't openly admit it," he told . “It's not that I didnꦯ't want to overtake [Lorenzo], but overtaking him meant taking a very big risk.
“What I openly recogniz𝓀e in the documentary, what I explain, is what I lived thro🌌ugh those weeks.
“From therﷺe, whoever wants to see it black will see it black, and whoever wants to see it white will see it white, but whoever wants to put themselves in the situation of a 22-year-old boy who has lived through all that, will see it grey.
“That is, I have character, but don't touch me 🎃when you don't have to touch me ಞbecause then it will be worse.
“People often ask me what I would change about 2015, and I think what 🦂would change is the way Valentino managed the end of th🗹e year.
“When you are not the fastest on the track, you look to ༒mix things up to see what you can catch.”
Marquez and Rossi notoriously clashed at the Malaysian MotoGP in Sepang in one of the sport’s most iconic moꦇments.
Marquez 🐻retired from the race after being knocked off his bike during a duel, and Rossi was punished by having to start at the back of the gri𒀰d for the season-finale Valencia MotoGP, where he was seemingly held off by Marquez and denied the championship.
They had fought wheel-to-wheel all year and Rossi had accused Marquez of intention༺ally trying to thwart him, and aid Lorenzo’s title hopes.
Rossi recently𒉰 reflec💎ted on 2015: “I missed the title twice at the last race of a season. That's why I think I deserved a 10th."
The legeꦯndary Italian retired with seven premier class titles. Marquez can equal that tally in 2023.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering eve♋rything from American sports, to football, to F1.
