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

Marc Marquez has added flames to his never-ending rivalry with Valentino Rossi by claiming that “it would have been better to pretend” to be friends but “I hate pretending”.
Marquez, Rossi, Dutch MotoGP
Marquez, Rossi, Dutch MotoGP

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.

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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.”

Marquez crashes behind Rossi, Malaysian MotoGP
Marquez crashes behind Rossi, Malaysian MotoGP

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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