Valentino Rossi Admits Marc Marquez Controversy Still Haunts Him 11 Years Later
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More than a decade after the most scandalous episode in his rivalry with Marc Marquez, Valentino Rossi has admitted that what happened at the Sepang circuit is not yet in the past. The nine-time world champion said that the memory of the 2015 season continues to torment him. “Marquez fought to make me lose, and he succeeded. It still hurts,” Rossi said on the TV show “Che Tempo Che Fa,” hosted by Fabio Fazio. The interview was given in connectio…
The Italian remembered that fateful 2015 season in which he had the last chance to be MotoGP champion.
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There are defeats that will never be erased, that survive the passage of time as an imperishable footprint. For Valentino Rossi, the 2015 one occupies a very uncomfortable place in his memory. The Italian again points to Marc Márquez as responsible for having thwarted his tenth world title, an accusation that keeps intact eleven years after the battle that both starred in Sepang. “He was only fighting to make me lose, and in the end he got it,” …
Rossi reopens the 2015 controversy eleven years later: Marquez did not fight for the title, he says, but for making him lose. The wound is still open. The Rossi entry reopens the 2015 war with Marquez: "I was just fighting to make me lose" was first published in What!.
More than a decade after the infamous incident at the Malaysian Grand Prix, legend Valentino Rossi admitted that his on-track collision with Marc Marquez continues to weigh on him to this day.
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