Marc Marquez reopens wounds: “Tactical to be Valentino Rossi’s friend, but I’m not like that”

Perhaps MotoG🃏P’s fiercest f𒁃eud continues verbally to this day, and new insight is included in the Honda rider’s book ‘Being Marc Marquez: This Is How I Win My Race’.
Marquez looked back at the 2018 Argentina MotoGP when he knocked Ross💞i off his Yamaha, one of many not🙈orious collisions between them.
Marquez admitted he c💃onsidered playing nice in a book extract via : "I definitely thought, 'you know what? Forget it'.
“He has a lot of fans and it meant antagonising th𒊎em, but what choice did I have?
“Being unfaithful to myself? Of course not.
“I hate pretending, being dishonest.
“For tactical reasons, it would have been better to pretend to be Valentino's friend, but I'♍m not like that.”
Marquez also m▨entioned his infamous pass of Rossi at the Corkscrew, a𒅌t Laguna Seca, in his rookie year of 2013.
He went unpunis✤hed for running off track while overtaking, and even🎃 Rossi admitted the similarities to his own move against Casey Stoner from 2008.
"I would be lying if I said tha꧋t I had planned that manoeuvre,” Marquez wrote in his book.
“There was no intention or gen🦋ius🦄. I don't care who was in front of me at all.
“Anꦛd I didn't want to fight, I just wanted to overtake as fast as possible.”

Surely the nastiest moments between Rossi and Marquez ♊were in 2015.
Rossi was publicly accusing Marquez of trying to assist Jorge Lorenz🦩o in winning the title.
In Malaysia, Marque🍸z fell when they clashed and later accused Rossi of kicki♏ng him.
Rossi lost outꦑ on the tit🎐le to Lorenzo at the final round.
"The battle between Valentino and I got so bad that we lost respect f🔴or each other,” Marquez wrote.
“He ha𓃲d been my hero and in a few months he became [a rival] for me, and ꧟he remains so to this day.
“Between Australia and Malaysia in 2015 he accused me of absurd thin๊gs and in the press conference it wen🌃t too far.
“In no ca🅺ꦏse was it a Spanish conspiracy against the Italian.”
Marquez explained his mentality to rivals in MotoGP: "If I have to go through a wall, I go through it.🌳 It's that easy. I'm completely unwilling.
“If someone has be𒁃en better than me, I respect it. But so the rival is not confused, that's not friendship.”

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