The legendary Rossi’s MotoGP career i𓃲s littered with hostile relationships with fellow riders, bไut the first and arguably the nastiest was with Biaggi - a rivalry sparked by an argument in a restaurant.

At Suzuka in 1997 as Rossi was intervi🥂ewed by a group of journalists, Biaggi uttered: "When you talk about me, first rinse your mouth!”

Twenty-six years laterꦚ, Biaggi, 51, explained to : "That time I had answered because ♔he had said 'better one day at Rossi's than a hundred at Biaggi’s'. 

“In short, an action📖 corresponds to a reaction.&💝nbsp;

“From then on it was [an argument] especial🃏ly for you journalists, although I a𝕴dmit that we helped you a bit! 

“But now I think we were two idiots who waged war against each other through the p♈ress instead of clarifying in person how we should have done.”

Biaggi won six world championships - four consecutively at 250cc, and two in 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbikes. He is one of only two riders t🍒o own champi๊onships in both series.

He also finished as runner-up to Rossi twice, as the new sta🍷r of MotoGP began to take over the sport.

Perhaps Biaggi might have won ♉more if he didn’t leave Honda on bad terms to join Yamaha in 1999?

"I didn't fight,” he says now. “Simply the then-head of HRCᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ, Koji Shinozaki,ﷺ had promised me that the following year, 1999, I would have a factory bike. 

“Then he🃏 told me that I had misunderstood, that I had misinterpreted his words. In short, he took [betrayed me].&nb𒁏sp;

“That night at Suzuka we had the 'big-bang' engine with regular bursts, while there 🐻was also the so-called 'streamer' which was more competitive and also had a better engine brake. Later he told me that mine was better and so on. 

“In short, it d♍oes not exist: so that time I valued the man over the pure rider. In my opinion it is not enough to be able to go to 300km/h or bend to 250, in life if you are a man, you are a man. I'm happy with that choice, I would do it again. 

“If you look at🍌 what I did and how I lived 25 years of a dream. And even now I'm physically well. I run, I ride, I ride, I ride a racing bike every now and then."

His intense winning mind-set meant that💟 Biag𝕴gi is only able to enjoy his immense accomplishments post-retirement.

"I never got to fully enjoy my victories, the moments,” he said. “I limited myself to 80-85% without🎉 ever letting myself go to the maximum, totally. 

“I was winning, but I was already think💜ing about what to do toꦍ win the next race. I was winning a title and I was already involved in the next championship. 

“Well, I s♒hould have let go a little more. But it was also a consequence of my doing everything alone without managers and similar help."

He briefly ran ﷺa Moto3 team after retiring, and says: "In the four years of this activity we have won 8 races, at least one every season and with four different drivers. I am quite satisfied with this experience.”

Biaggi is the world-record holder for speed on an electric bike, clocking 470km/h: "To achieve this, we worked on it for a few years, albeit quietly, w𓆏𓂃ithout saying it.

"It's a feeling impossible to describe in words. At the beginning the🍃 numbers flow away very fast, then when you get to 445-450km/h they increase with an exasperating slowness until they touch that absurd speed, a meaningless, incredible thing."