The Spaniard did a long interview with “As” and retraced what happened seven years ago: “Neither had more speed than the other, but we fought until one of us lost his temper”
October 22, 2022
Ait’s fine Marc Marquez is back to talking about 2015. He did it right here in Sepang where the close encounter with Valentino Rossi and the crash of 93 took place. The Spaniard did an interview with the journalist Mela Chercoles are As. Below are the parts in which the two discuss what happened in 2015 and still today ignites the discussion of enthusiasts.
If we went back to 2015 here in Malaysia, would you behave as you did that weekend when the war with Rossi broke out? It all started when I asked him at a press conference if he could see another race as beautiful as the Australian one and he said it was theater, because you had raced as Lorenzo’s bodyguard …
“Yes, and he came with the time sheets to the press conference. I remember perfectly. I didn’t understand anything, because it’s as if he said that last Sunday I had spent the whole race playing and overtaking and that in the end I passed Bagnaia while instead I didn’t want to overtake Rins. It wouldn’t make sense to say it “
Tadorning the question, if we went back to Malaysia in 2015, would you do the same things or change something?
“At 22 and how it all happened, yes, I would behave the same way again. I repeat, at 22 I wouldn’t behave differently, because the only thing I did was to fight more than normal in the competition. first laps, but Rossi did too. Neither had more speed than the other, but we fought for a few laps until one of us lost his temper. I think he would have handled the situation differently now, because it was he who lost his temper “
My theory, and I told Rossi once, is that you blew his nerves, but you had a reason to do it because of what Rossi said about you in the press conference, putting you in trouble and blaming you. of something very serious and meaningless. I think Rossi shot himself in the foot by saying this, thinking you would panic. What do you think?
“No. Reality is what it is. If I want to annoy him or do theater, I don’t do it passing Lorenzo at turn ten downhill”
Qhis in Australia, and we agree, but I’m talking about here, Sepang. Couldn’t you have left Rossi as he wanted?
“I don’t think so. If you look at the pace of the practice sessions, he didn’t have any more. Lorenzo and Pedrosa had more than everyone else, but the others didn’t. I didn’t have more in that race. I didn’t have more in that one.” race, but I repeat, for what happened and for what I felt before going out on the grid and for everything else, I would have behaved in the same way and I would have fought the race in the same way “
Qhis is a story that has plagued you and Rossi, and Rossi has caused it to plague us all. Did the sport change after that weekend in Malaysia? Being booed on the podium or being applauded for falls is the most pitiful and despicable thing I’ve ever seen on a circuit. Did that weekend seven years ago change motorcycling for the worse?
“We will never know if it has changed for the worse or if it has attracted more people. We do not know. In the end, morbid curiosity creates fans, on one side or the other. The biker fan of all time is there, and he is the most faithful of all, who doesn’t care about colors to see if something is right or wrong. When there is a controversy in a sport, it makes more news and people get interested and wonder what’s going on. I’m not saying it has changed, because I don’t know if it happened before, but these podium boos and cheers for the incidents happened and there was a person who could have stopped them, but he didn’t want to and that’s respectable. I decided to move on and he decided on his own”
HI told you several times that you would like to sit down and talk tomorrow and that their relationship would improve. Have you had any contact and progress in this regard since Rossi retired?
“No, and I don’t want him either. Years go by and I want him less and less and I don’t care about him anymore.”
The Valentino theme ends here. I already told you that I would ask you about him more than any other time.
“Certainly okay”
