MotoGP: Rossi: 'My Sepang comments changed nothing'

Valentino Rossi 'thinks' he is over the disappointment of 🎶losing th⛦e 2015 MotoGP title at the very final round.
But that doesn't mean he has softened his stance on the controversy 🐟with Marc Marquez during the closing races of the season.
Speaking during Monday's Movistar Yamaha launch, the only clarification Rossi made was addressed to those who🐻 feel the Italian lit the ⛦fuse for his own downfall by attacking Marquez in the Sepang pre-event press conference.
"I don't agree with those who say Marquez acted against me after the press conference at Sepang," Ross♔i 🌃said. "He had already decided to do everything possible so that I did not win the title. My statements did not change anything."
Rossi accused Marquez of trying to help Jorge Lorenzo in Australia, adding that the Honda rider was "angry and thinking like a child" following their earlierꦡ clashes and saw a title win for Lorenzo as "the lesser evil."
Against that backdrop, Marquez and Rossi then battled furiously over third place in the Malaysian race, until Rossi lost his cool aওnd forced Marquez wide. Contact was made, leaving Marquez on the ground and Rossi with three penalty points.
Due to an earlier penalty point, the Yamaha🐎 rider was demoted to last on the grid at Valencia, where he lost the championship to tea🌸m-mate Lorenzo.
Marquez rejected Rossi's claims, declaring he was managi𓃲ng his front tyre in Australia - where he passed Lorenzo for victory on the last lap - and that he was trying to break away from Rossi at Sepang.
The double MotoGP champion was again in Rossi's sights after finishing a close second to𒈔 Lorenzo in Valencia, where Rossi stated the Honda rider "wꦇanted to finish his work and protect Lorenzo".
"If the target was [to help Lorenzo] I would have stayed ten seco♓nds behind and not taken any risks... When people say you didn't try to win the race, I feel insulted," Mar𝔍quez responded.
Rossi and Lorenzo briefly shook hands at the 2016 Yamaha launch, the nine time world champion explaining they are "team-mates and must be professional ཧenough to put personal problems aside and work together at Yamaha."
But he has no n♛eed for such a relationship with Marquez: "⛎Fortunately, Marquez is not in my team!"

Peter has been in the 𝕴paddock for 20 years and has seen༒ Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.