Rossi’s legendary career yielded seven premier class championships, mainstream appeal which elevated the entire sport, and multiple feuds with fellow riders that ﷺspanned different generations.

Marquez was perhaps his last true rivalry - and it continues to this day - but Rossi has cho๊sen not to include the Repsol Honda rider among the top three conflicts that define his career.

“I would say 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Lorenzo, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Casey Stoner and Max Biaggi,” Rossi said.

“The one with Biaggi was tough from the start because we never liked ℱeach other anyway. 

“Then I arrived  - a bit of a stupid young man. I immediately started pissing him of🧜f!

“Now this one wh༺o was the 250cc📖 [championship] said ‘what the f***!’

“And the one that comes from the 125cc already pisses ꦐhim off. So it started badl𝐆y right away, and it was a rivalry to the end. 

“We fought for the las🌟t 500cc wo💯rld championship and that was nice.”

﷽The personal animosity with riders w🎀ho could also challenge for the top honours followed Rossi. 

“The rivalries with Stoner and Lorenzo were different. Because with [Biaggi] I was the young man who had to beat the old man, and instead with Stoner and Lorenzo I was the old man and 🍬they had to try to beat me.

“Lorenzo and Stoner were stronger than Biaggi. In the sense th𓂃at there was is an evolut𝓀ion of the species, an evolution of the riders. 

“So the yoﷺunger I am, the stronger I go. So afterward it's always more dif🧸ficult.”

Rossi reminisced on why these rivalries developed on the track over so many years: “[The sport] is dangerous, you tend to have more respect for your opponent🐟 and perhaps more than the two who meet inℱ a football match. 

“You know that if you play football, almost nothing usually happens, and instead, with the bike🎀s, you still have to keep a bit of a leeway. 

“Here, however, it is an individual sport. It's already different and it's a contac♔t sport.”

Rossi’s decision to ignore the name of Marquez when asked to list his three top rivalries will divi♓de MotoGP fans.

Arguably, the ferocity that piqued at the end of the 2015 seඣason remains the defining feud of R♒ossi’s tenure.

It is something that he has spoken of this year, calling Marquez’s actions “a greatဣ injustice” and revealing a back-story about a previously unknown conversation they had in Sepang.

READ HERE: Raging Rossi told Marquez: “What the f♍***, they will remember you only for this”