Valentino Rossi: “Marquez ruined his image to make me lose the World Championship”

Right after the fight with Miguel OliveiraAt the beginning of Portuguese GPon social networks resumed shooting an old video in which Valentino Rossi denounced the danger on the track of Marc Marquez. “He points his leg at you and enters, he doesn’t care”. The Doctor is back to talking about his former rival on the track in Gianluca Gazzoli’s “BSMT” podcast. Valentino focused in particular on the 2015 Sepang GP, “a deep wound that I think too much about”. He reopened in recent months by the Spaniard, who reiterated that he was intimidated by the Italian champion earlier in the press conference, accused of helping Jorge Lorenzo in the world championship sprint, and then on the track.

Valentino: “Marquez tried to throw me off the bike”

A version that Rossi immediately rejected: “In Malaysia Marquez bothered me throughout the race, he tried to throw me down. At that point I squeezed him and we touched. He says I kicked him but I didn’t It is true”. Valentino also recalls the complicated post-race, starting with a conversation with Marquez himself: “I said to him: ‘Do you realize what you’re doing? You’re ruining your image. Do you know they’ll remember you just for this? It’s worth worth ruining you to make me lose the World Cup?’ But he just looked at me distractedly.” Then the cold shower for the choice of race direction: “I thought the marshals made Marc start last in Valencia, instead they punished me”. Rossi lost the World Championship by five points.

Rossi: “For Marquez, I was the legend to be destroyed”

Rossi becomes a raging river when it comes to that season. “Marquez decided to make me lose the World Championship, favoring another rider who wasn’t even his teammate and inventing various excuses. You’ve never seen a champion behave like this. In reality, for him, I was the myth to be destroyed in so that he could become what I was. He didn’t give me the opportunity to go all the way for the title with Lorenzo. He prevented me from putting the icing on the cake of my career. Is that a great injustice for me? If I had won Would I have retired? No”.