Marc Marquez, total attack on Valentino Rossi: “Nonsense”
Marc Marquez reopens 2015 World Championship wounds: ‘With Valentino Rossi I would behave the same way’
Marc Marquez in a lengthy interview with As returned to talk about the controversial 2015 World Championship, reopening old wounds. The Catalan rider recalled the Sepang press conference, when Valentino Rossi accused him of helping Jorge Lorenzo: “I remember perfectly. I didn’t understand anything about it, because it’s as if he said that last Sunday I had spent the whole race playing and overtaking and that at the end I overtook Bagnaia when I didn’t want to overtake Rins. It wouldn’t make sense to say that.”
Marc Marquez did not regret what happened at all: “I would act the same way again. I repeat, at 22 years old, I would not behave differently, because the only thing I did was to fight in the race more than normal in the first laps, but Rossi did that too. Neither of us had more speed than the other, but we fought for a few laps until one of us lost his temper. I think he would have handled it differently now, because he was the one who lost his temper. Lorenzo and Pedrosa had more, but the others didn’t.”
On fans attacking him: “In the end, morbid curiosity creates fans, on one side or the other. The biker’s lifelong fan is there, and he is the most loyal of all, who doesn’t care about color to see if something is right or wrong. When there is a controversy in a sport, it makes more news and people get interested and wonder what is going on. I’m not saying it’s changed, because I don’t know if it happened before, but these podium booing and cheers for incidents happened and there was one person who could have stopped it, but he didn’t want to. I decided to move on, and he decided on his own.”
