Marc Marquez reopens wounds: “Tactical to be Valentino Rossi’s friend, but I’m not like that”

Marc Marquez has added flames to his never-ending rivalry with Valentino Rossi by claiming that “it would have been better to pretend” to be friends but “I hate pretending”.
Marquez, Rossi, Dutch MotoGP
Marquez, Rossi, Dutch MotoGP

💙Perhaps MotoGP’s fiercest feud continues verbally to this day, and new insight is 🉐included in the Honda rider’s book ‘Being Marc Marquez: This Is How I Win My Race’.

Marquez looked back at the 2018 Arg𒆙entina MotoGP when he knocked Rossi off his Yamaha, one of many notorious collisions between them.

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Marquez admitted he considered playing nice in a book extract via : "I definitely thought, 'you know what? Forget🎀 it'. 

“He has a lot of fans and it meant antagonising them, but what choཧice did I have? 

“Being unfaithful to myself? Of course not. 

“I hate pretending, being dishonest. 

“Fo⭕r tactical reasons, it would have been better to pretend to be Valentino's friend, but I'm not l𒐪ike that.”

Marquez also mentioned his infamous passꦜ of Rossi at the Corkscrew, at Laguna Seca, in his rookie year of 2013.

He went unpunished for running off track w🤪hile overtaking, and even Rossi admitted the similarities to his own move against Casey Stoner from 2008.

"I would be lying if I said that I had planned that manoeuvre,” Marquez wr💫ote in his book. 

“There was no intention or geni🦹us. I don't care wh🔴o was in front of me at all. 

“And I didn't want to f✨ight, I just wanted to overtake as fast as possible.🐼”

Marquez crashes behind Rossi, Malaysian MotoGP
Marquez crashes behind Rossi, Malaysian MotoGP

Surely the na♓stiest moments between Rossi and Marquez were in 2015.

Rossi was publicly ꦓaccusing Marquez of trying to assist Jorge Lorenzo in꧙ winning the title.

In Malaysia, Marquez fell when they clashed and later accused R෴oss♛i of kicking him.

✃Rossi lost out on the title to Lorenzo at the final roꩵund.

"The battle between Valentino and I got so bad that we lost respect for each other,” Marquez wr🍌ote. 

“He had been🗹 my hero and in a few months he became [a ꦐrival] for me, and he remains so to this day. 

“Between🐓 Australia and Malaysia in 2015 he accused🐼 me of absurd things and in the press conference it went too far. 

“In 💯no case was 🃏it a Spanish conspiracy against the Italian.”

Marquez explained his 🍸mentality to rivals in Moto𒁃GP: "If I have to go through a wall, I go through it. It's that easy. I'm completely unwilling. 

“If someone has b🎶een better than me, I respect it. But so the rival is not confused, that's not𓃲 friendship.”

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