Marc Marquez returns to Mugello booing

Marc Marquez gave an interview to DAZN in which he talked about how he managed, immediately on his debut in MotoGP, to put his rivals at the time, primarily Valentino Rossi, in trouble, and then, heedless of criticism, never changed his riding.

“I’ve had my share with Pedrosa, with Lorenzo, I’ve had my share with Valentino. They’re colleagues, but they’re also rivals, and what I emphasize, or what I’m proud of, is that when you get into your 20s, it’s easy for certain statements to affect you,” Marquez said.

“And they have not changed me, neither in my character nor in the way I ride – continued the world leader. I drove by instinct, and I continue to do so. The interviews, the celebrations, by instinct, because I don’t like to prepare anything.”

Finally, referring to the booing heaped on him by the Mugello crowd ten years after the hotly contested duel with Valentino Rossi in Sepang, Marquez concluded thus, “With rivals, in the end, you have to accept both the good and the bad. When they say bad things to me, they motivate me.”