Marc Marquez: “I didn’t want to touch Valentino Rossi rivalry again - but you have to”
Marquez spoke in-depth about the notorious incident ܫin Sepang in 2015 which left him💧 on the floor, his feelings as Rossi failed to win the MotoGP championship that same year, and the clash in Argentina in 2018 which resulted in their respective teams publicly arguing.
But his Amazon Prime Video docuඣmentary ‘Marc Marquez: All In’ required him to revisit the nasty rivalry even if he preferred to leave it in the🗹 past.
"If you do a docu-series, you have to deal with every moment,” he said to ahead of the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Portuguese MotoGP this weekend, the 2023 season-opener.
“It has focused more on last year, logically, but it has also touched on the Jorge Lorenzo theme, the Dani Pedrosa theme, but what happens is that it was not of such m🔯agnitude. Because Valentino is Valentino.
“So, a little more time is spent on Valentino than on Lorenzo and Pedrosa, because there was𝓀 not much more to explain.
“But everything has to be touched. If you make a docu-series you have to tell everyth🦹ing, to be open. And I didn't want to touch it, but you have to.”
He also revealed his discontent at Honda’s lack of competitiveness in 2022, a season interrupted by his latest sur🌜gery.
Marquez arrives in Portimao fully-fit for the first time꧂ in three years but with question marks over the machinery that he hopes will power him to a se🌱venth premier class championship.
He said about Honda: "I was g✃oing to say a marriage movie. It's like a 𓆏marriage. A marriage is not always happiness.
“There are some [downs], times when it goes better; moments when it's worse, moments 🌄w💞hen you do everything together, moments of 'let me breathe a little'.
“Hopefully it will be a marriage, with ups and downs, but🥂 it will be lasting.”
Marquez has two years remaining on his lucrative contract. He has always reaffirmed his commitment but that bond could be tested if Honda 💛cannot deliver him a bike capable oಌf fighting at the front this season.
"At 🐻the moment, two years,” he said about his future with Honda𒆙.
“Now I have two years of contract, I have to t🧸ell you that yes, I hope i𝔍t will be lasting. 'The Neverending Story'? Maybe…”
Marquez remains among the favourites for t🍰his season’s title, particularly in the eyes of his fellow riders who see his remarkable talent beyond the limitations of his Repsol Honda machine.
He has recovered from his latest surgery and said: “In two years I have maturꦡed more than in 10.
“I have matured more from 27 to 28 than from 20 t🐭o 25.”
MotoGP’s other riders have been warned…
James was a sports journ🌳alist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
