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 relationship with Rossi in his new Amazon Prime 🏅Video doℱcumentary, ‘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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Lorenzo. In the final race, Marquez was accused of not fullᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚy challenging for the win and allowing Lorenzo to cruise home to claim the championship.
“Could I have risked it on ♛the last turn without knowing what would happen? Yes,” Marquez now says.
“But the thing is, this person had done all this to m𒆙e just because I passed him. Was I going to help him win a title? No.
“I wasn’t🔯 motivated because of what he created. Because of what I lived during those two weeks. I don’t wish that on anybody, let alone at 22 years o🎶ld.
“‘Just know that Valentino has a lot of power in the media, and people will🀅 be against you’.
“If someone disrespects me, 💖I’ve got the personality and the ball🌼s.”
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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Dani Pedrosa, behind leader Lorenzo.
Rossi was at the back as p🐬unishment for arguably MotoGP’s most infamous incident - when he caused Marquez to crash as they made contact in Sepang.
The new documentary captures an awkward exchange post-race where Rossi sarcastically says “bravo”, and Marquez rꦚeplies: “Beautiful kick”.
“Some people still say that I threw myself against⛦ ꦕhis bike,” Marquez says now. “‘He didn’t kick you, he only pushed his foot out a bit!’”
Marquez’s explanation of🃏 that incident was: “Whatever, he cornered me into the side of the track. Didn’t give me any room. And when he looked at me, he poked his foot out.
“It was also a mistake f𒐪rom the race director. If it isn’t Valentino Rossi, it’s a black flag and it’s ov🍌er.”
Marquez and Rossi had scrapped, argued and collided throug🔴hout 201🌱5. The Spaniard was a two-time MotoGP champion 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’s hometown, when Marquez was among a group of young riders invited to the legend’s ranch.
“We were there for a day,” Marquez remembers. ♑“We were competing over who could beat the record on his track.
“Starting from that day, I think something changed. The relationship coolled off a bit꧟. I d🍃on’t know why.
“Maybe he was 💦bothered that I beat his track record, I don’t know. The word on the street is that it was one of the reasons…”
J♒ames was a sports jouꦰrnalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
