The epilogue of the 2015 MotoGP season, forever sealing the relationship between Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez, is still remembered. It will remain for better and for worse in the history of Grands Prix. Marc Marquez, in his documentary series, could not avoid the subject and gave his version. That of the Doctor was requested in the same context, but he refused to give it. However, he did not stay silent for long, the proof...
The end of the 2015 season, which remains in the memories as the beginning of a still current conflict between Marc Marquez et Valentino Rossi, while it is above all the conquest by Jorge Lorenzo of his fifth and final world title, was mentioned by the pilot Honda in his documentary series revealing him as he is. “ If you're making a documentary series, you have to talk about every moment “, he declared to Marc before the Portuguese Grand Prix which kicks off the MotoGP campaign this weekend. “ We focused more on last year, logically, but we also addressed the theme of Jorge Lorenzo, the theme of Dani Pedrosa. But with them, it wasn't the same intensity as with Valentino. Because Valentino is Valentino. So, we spend a little more time on Valentino than on Lorenzo and Pedrosa, because there wasn't much more to explain with them. But everything must be touched. If you make a docuseries you have to tell everything, be open. And I didn't want to touch it, but you have to ».
However, has everything really been said? In the absence of the version of Valentino Rossi, No. Precisely, the Doctor responded to the microphone of Gianluca Gazzoli's show 'Pass from BSMT', an intervention relayed by Motoracing. And worth the detour. “ It was totally different with Marquez, it wasn't just a sporting rivalry on the track. At one point, he decided to make me lose the championship by making someone else win who wasn't even his teammate. He made up excuses, but in reality for him it was me who had to be destroyed, the myth to be destroyed so that he could take my place ».
Valentino Rossi: “2015 was a great injustice that will never leave me"
Eight years later, it’s a wound that still bleeds, never healed. As we continue his story we sense anger and bitterness in Valentino Rossi. " We have never seen a driver, especially a champion, racing to help another win. In professional sport, this has never been seen. It was awful because it didn't give me the chance to do the challenge with Lorenzo. I could have become ten times world champion and put that icing on the cake. A very great injustice that will never leave me ».
« What happened was something predicted. The organization failed to control it, they could have done much better. I told him and the commissioners that in Valencia he would behave like this and act as Lorenzo's bodyguard " has followed Valentino Rossi. " In Malaysia he bothered me throughout the race, at the end I squeezed him and He says I kicked him, but that's not true. I thought they would have made him leave last, instead they penalized me... It should have been managed better, it's a big disappointment for me but also for the championship ».
Finally, he reveals a conversation after the events to clarify this whole affair: “ I talked to him. I told him 'You realize what you're doing, you look like shit. You understand that it will be like this forever, they will remember you for this thing... Is it worth breaking the bank to make me lose the world championship? But he looked at me blankly... ».
