Marc Marquez admits he didn’t want to “help” Valentino Rossi at controversial 2015 MotoGP finale: “If someone disrespects me…”
Marquez has delivered the explosive truth about his nasty re🍰lationship with Rossi in his new Amazon Prime Video documentary, ‘Marc Marquez: All In’, detailing their fall-out and their most controversial moment.
Rossi publicly accused Marquez during the 2015 season of trying to thwart his title hopes by assisting 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Lorenzo. In the final race, Marquez was accused of not fully challenging for the win and allowing Lorenzo t🦄o cruise home to claim the championship.
“Could I have risked it on the last turn without knowing what would h𒈔appen? Yes,” Marquez now says.
“But the thing is, this person had done all this to me just because I passed him. Was I going to help him win ꩲa titl𒁏e? No.
“I wasn’t motivated because of what he created. Because of wh🥃at I lived during those two weeks. I don’t wish that on anybody, le🐼t alone at 22 years old.
“ꩲ‘Just know that Valentino has a lot of powe🦩r in the media, and people will be against you’.
“If someone disrespects me, I’ve got the personality and the 🐠balls.”
Rossi started at the back of the grid at the season-finale in Valencia and was denied the second-place finish he needed to become champion by Marquez and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Dani Pedrosa, behind leader Lorenzo.
Rossi was at the back as punishment for argu🐟ably MotoGP’s most infamous incident - when he caused Marquez to crash as they made contact in Sepang.
The ne𒀰w documentary captures an awkward exchange post-race where Ros🦹si sarcastically says “bravo”, and Marquez replies: “Beautiful kick”.
“Some people still say that I threw myself against his bike,❀” Marquez says now. “‘He didn’t kick you, he only pushed his foot out a bit!’”
Marquez’s explanation of that incident was: “Whatev💖er, he cornered me into the side of the track. Didn’t give me any roo♛m. And when he looked at me, he poked his foot out.
✤“It was also a mistake from the race director. If it isn’t Valentino Rossi, i💎t’s a black flag and it’s over.”
Marquez and Rossi had scrapped, argued and collided throughout 2015. The Spaniard was a two-time MotoGP champio🧔n and the reigning title-holder. Rossi was on a five-year drought since winning his seventh premier class title - ultimately, he would never win another championship in the final 12 seasons of his career.
But this fierce rivalry truly began a year earlier in Tavullia, Rossi’ꦰs hometown, when Marquez was among a group of yoไung riders invited to the legend’s ranch.
“We were ther🔯e for a day,” Marquez remembers. “We were competing over who could beat the record on his track.
“Starting from that day, I think something chang🐭ed. The relationship coolled off a bit. I don’t know why.
“Maybe he was b🔴othered that I beat his track record,🎉 I don’t know. The word on the street is that it was one of the reasons…”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for ꦏa decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
