Eight years ago, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valentino Rossi and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez clashe🔯d in a moment so vitriolic that it still divides fans - and remains a source of antagonism between the great rivals.

Before the Sepang 2015 race, Rossi staggeringly accused Marquez of trying to deny him the title by aiding 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Lorenzo’s bid.

Days later in the grand prix their infamous ‘collision’ ended with Marquez hitting the deck, and Rossi, who was accused of kicking him down, slapped with a back-of-the-grid start for the season-finale which ultimately cost🃏 him the title.

As MotoGP returns to the scene of the crime, what are Rossi and Marquez’s lat🌞est thoughts?

Valentino Rossi: “There is a very deep wound, I think about it too much”

“If I think about those last three races from 2015 now, I have exactly the same feeling as when I cross✨ed the finish line in 2015,” Rossi said on a podcast at the beginning of this year, the most recent time he has publicly discussed the incident.

“There is a very deep wound, I think about it t🌳oo much.

“Fortunately I have done many other things tha🔜t make me happy with my career but…

“In💫 Malaysia he bothered me the whole race. H🌊e tried to throw me down. Then after the straight we touched.

“He says I kicked him. But I didn’t.

“Anyway, he crashed. After the race I went [to the stewards] and thought they would startꦺ him last - instead they started me last.&nb🅰sp;

“He ruined a crucial💖 race for the world championship, the penultim🙈ate race of the championship.”

Marc Marquez: “Disrespectful, intimidation”

The rivalry was reopened by Marquez’s Amazon Prime documentary earlier this 🍸year.

He first mentioned the pre-race press conference in Sepang in 2015, when Rossi shared his claims of a conspirac🌄y.

“The Malaysian press conference arrived and instead of taking me aside and speaking he attacked me publicly, it was disrespectful. I think it was intimidatio𝓡n,” Marquez said.

The documentary captured Rossi saying “bravo” sarcastically, and Marquez sꦅaying “💦beautiful kick” after their incident.

Marquez reflected oꦗn it: “Some people still say that I threw myself again﷽st his bike.

𒆙“‘He didn’t kick you, he only pushed his foot out a bit!’

“Whatever, he cornered me into the side of the track. Didn’t give me any room🉐. An꧒d when he looked at me, he poked his foot out.

“It was also ♌a mistake from the race director. If it isn’t Valentino Rossi, it’s a black flag and it’s over.”

The Amazon Prime director 𝓡of Marquez’s documentary insisted that Rossi rejected the chance to have his say.

"We consulted Valentino, but he did not🔥 want to participate,” director Jaime Perez told . 

“We had a d🔜ocumentary by Marc Marquez, but we also talked about events involving Lorenzo or the first years with Pedrosa where he said strong things. 

“We went to them, we explained it to them and both, with all their righꦉts, said yes, and Rossi, wit🍨h all his rights, said no."

Jorge Lorenzo: ‘When you feel strong, you don’t talk about this stuff’

Lorenzo, 🌞Rossi’s rival and his Yamaha teammate, profited from the incident by winning the 2015 title.

“I think Marquez understood that Valentino did it on purpose,” Lorenzo says of⭕ the kick incident in Sepang.

Lorenzo added about Rossi’s feisty press conference: “When you feel strong and you know you’re going to win eve🍸ry race? You don’t talk about this kinꦐd of stuff.”

Marquez responded𓆏: “Lorenzo is right. If you’re fast then nothing bothers you and you don’♚t have time for nonsense. 

“If you aren’t fast and you f🍌eel inferior, feeling like you’re going to lose, you st💙art looking for problems.”

‘He is still angry’

“He hasn't talked about it much with me,🌌 but I'm sure he's still angry,” 🍷Rossi’s brother Luca Marini, who was 18 at the time but now rides for the VR46 MotoGP team, said.

Aleix Espargaro recently touched on the topic for his social media channel: “I think Marc should have had a little more class, with Valentino playing the world championship, and not hinder him so much in that race in Malays𓆉ia. 

"Valentino's action is clear: Valentino takes him of💃f the track and should ha𓂃ve been sanctioned in that same grand prix.

🧸“I think everything that happened was negative for our sport.”