Yamaha’s Morbidelli and Repsol Honda’s Marquez spent Q💙1 at the Malaysian MotoGP 🍌on Saturday in a bout of gamesmanship.

Morbidelli ges🍷tured, clearly annoyed, as Marqu✤ez attempted to gain a tow.

Ultimately a poor 💜day concluded with Morbidelli finishing the sprint race 11th, and Marquez 21st.

Morbidelli theꩵn debated the changing attitudes, regarding Marquez’s tow tactics, to : “I was talking about this with Simon Crafar and he reminded 💝me that, when he was racing, if the rider in front expressed a desire not to act as tow for those following him, they would simply move on.

“However toꦗday that is not the case. In my opinion it’s simply how things are going today in MotoGP.  It’s neither good nor bad. It’s simply how thi♋ngs have developed today.

“If once the 🅷moment✱s of disrespect between riders were the last five laps of a race, today it’s like this since the first lap of the first free practice.

“Maybe the pressure has increased, we’re all closer, times ch⛎ange. I don’t know. But today it’s like this, and we play according to today’s rul🐠es.

“Marc wanted to attack because he thought it was right. I thought it was right not to make him attack in my slipstream because he often manageꦰs to get through the session 🍷by attacking.

“It didn’t seem wise to let me get screwed out of an extra qualifying posit🌃ion.”

Morbidelli stopped short of demanding a new rule is implemented, but di෴d say: “If Marc had gone through Q1 and put me out, I would have been really upset.”

Marquez’s reaction to✱ was: "We had a moment with Franco Morbidelli, I don't really know what gesture he made, I don't know what it meant. But these images are also funny for the championship.”