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Marc Marquez

This documentary Marc Marquez All In is worth the detour since it achieves its objective quite well of showing us what the eight-time World Champion is. And that he does not deny being, since, quite early on, he absolutely assumes being a “ bastard » (dixit) on the track. Upon his arrival in 2013 among the elite, he moved from words to action, making his place, literally and figuratively, among the established values ​​of Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa and Valentino Rossi. If he has kept good relations with the first two cities, they are asymptotes of zero with the last. Blame it on the 2015 season, but the crisis has been brewing since 2014…

Marc Marquez does not fundamentally focus on 2015, but as he recognizes, how can we leaf through the pages of his career while obscuring this episode which went so far as to shake the MotoGP house? So he gives his apprehension of the facts, a crisis which was born according to him in 2014 when Valentino Rossi invited him to his ranch in Tavullia. According to the official Honda, a challenge between the two men would have entered into to set the track record. And it was the Spaniard who would have won the duel. From then on, and he is certain of it, the relationship with Vale was different.

Then there is the rise in power in this season MotoGP 2015 where the Doctor found himself able to take this much-desired tenth title. But Jorge Lorenzo was also eyeing his fifth and was formidable, especially in the second part of the campaign where he seemed to take the advantage. A feeling agreed upon on screen Jorge Lorenzo et Marc Marquez on the theme that when you are sure of your strength, you do not get lost in controversies. Then there was Australia, who turned the spirits already heated from Argentina... A fierce race won by Marc Marquez. But interpreted by Valentino Rossi as a sort of diabolical agreement fomented by the two Spaniards against him.

MotoGP 2015, Argentina: Valentino Rossi wins after controversial clash with Marc Marquez

With Marc Marquez, Valentino Rossi did not come across a Sete Gibernau

An assessment that the Doctor put into the public arena in Malaysia. The conspiracy theory was launched, a charge that spread Marc Marquez like the villain in a suddenly truncated title race. The Italian press serving Tavullia hit the nail on the head, the public started booing the pilot Honda who, in the documentary, remembers wondering what was happening to him. Too much controversy.

And in fact, Marc Marquez remembers very well a changed state of mind after this brutal media assault: “ he attacked me, and when I'm disrespected, I respond and I have balls ". In Marc Marquez in the text. In this Malaysian Grand Prix, he wanted to respond on the track by wanting to be in front of the driver Yamaha who played the title at every turn. We know how it ended. With this bitterness of Marc Marquez : " if it hadn't been Valentino Rossi, it was a direct black flag ».

A sanction followed, but the irremediable damage was done. On the final in Valencia, Marc Marquez explain : " I could have attacked Jorge Lorenzo in the last corner for the victory. But to offer the title to a guy who had given me dirt after dirt? No ". Here is the Spanish version that gives this feeling: Valentino Rossi, so skilled in controversies in his career with Max Biaggi or even Sete Gibernau this time met a pilot who did not bend.

Rossi Marquez have thus sealed their relationship...

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