Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez’s spat is one of the greatest rivalries in the history of Grand Prix motorcycle racing, and both protagonists of the conflict have not been the same since.
What started as a mutual appreciation between Valentino Rossi And Mark Marquez He turned hostile in the blink of an eye.
The doctor After realizing that the Spaniard was working against him during his title fight in 2015 George LorenzoThings have reached a boiling point in the final stages of the season Rossi taking action on Marquez at Sepang.
The MotoGP icon missed his last chance to win a tenth world title in Grand Prix motorcycle racing, and Marquez was booed and reviled by Italy’s favorite tifosi. Rossi kept the media ‘wrapped around his finger’.
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Juan Martinez outlines how Marc Marquez has changed since his feud with Valentino Rossi began.
Fast and curious season PodcastJuan Martinez, Rossi’s former engineer at Honda, has touched on the Italian MotoGP icon’s exit from the sport.
MartÃnez shared his frustration with Rossi’s results cut, while praising the way Marquez has adapted to different bikes in recent years.
He said: “Even if everything (Rossi) has been successful, I feel it’s a bitter taste in a way, and it shouldn’t be, because at the end of the day he’s got to be very comfortable with what he’s done.”
“In the end, obviously everyone can have their own opinion. The world championship was mine.” Max can say some of Vale’s world championships are his and Seth can say some of the world championships are his.
“Those things are part of what I’m talking about, but I think he needed a little bit of a different approach, not just for the championship and things like that.
“I think at some point the people around him didn’t realize that Valentino wasn’t the Valentino they’d known all their lives. Valentino definitely made me change from Heat to Race, Valentino not being there, other things.
“And Mark, for example, seems to be doing all that speculation on this. He needs a new Mark.”
“In fact, in the confrontation with Valentino, Mark understood that he did not want to expose himself publicly. He did not want to. He did not want to measure himself and in the end he behaved differently.”
Marc Marquez is likely to withdraw from MotoGP, as is Valentino Rossi.
Before ending his career in the premier class, Rossi endured 12 consecutive campaigns without claiming another title. He finished in third place three times.
The way MartÃnez spoke about Rossi bowing out is unlikely for Marquez, as he has previously hinted at retirement.
What’s more? Marquez dethroned Rossi as the reigning MotoGP champion. At the age of 32 in modern times.
In the year The Spaniard’s body took a heavy beating, with his right shoulder the main cause of his three-year injury nightmare ahead of his switch to Ducati machinery in 2023.
Marquez is focused on winning anything he can get his hands on and has made it clear that once the winners’ trophies stop rolling in, the premier class paddock will no longer be normal.
