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Video: Valentino Rossi talks about his relationship with Marc Márquez: "To get along with him I will need 20 or 30 more years"
2024 Author: Nicholas Abramson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-10 16:34
Valentino Rossi is in his last races as MotoGP riders and no longer mince words. The British television channel BT Sports, which owns the broadcasting rights in Great Britain, has subjected Rossi to a curious test in which he reviewed all his rivals in the world championship, a total of 175 pilots.
Rossi has had words for the most relevant and, of course, has stopped at Marc Márquez to explain what the state of their relationship is. It seems like the two biggest legends on the current grid aren't even close to reconciling after what happened at the end of 2015, when Marquez got in the way of Rossi's path to his 10th title.
Rossi praises Stoner and criticizes Yamaha for signing Lorenzo as a teammate
" Márquez has been a great rival and is really fast, one of the best. But with him I don't feel comfortable on the track, "says Rossi, who when asked about how long it will take for him to have a good relationship with Márquez again, replied that" I think I will need 20 or 30 years."
The relationship between Márquez and Rossi, which was initially very good, withered after that 2015 season in which they had several clashes and ended with the Italian losing the title in favor of Jorge Lorenzo, with the invaluable collaboration of Marc Márquez himself, who no longer had options.
Rossi also has words for Lorenzo, and he takes the opportunity to leave a message for Yamaha: " I didn't deserve a teammate like Lorenzo after everything he had done for Yamaha ", says Rossi, alluding to the good level the Mallorcan had. It is clear that if Yamaha signed Lorenzo it was against the will of 'Il Dottore'.
Rossi's best words are reserved for Casey Stoner, the driver he fought against in the 2008 World Cup. "It was one of the most talented and hard-to-beat drivers. From a pure talent point of view, he was unbeatable, just like Lorenzo, "says Rossi about a driver with whom he also had his squabbles.
Rossi has highlighted two other names from that list of 175 drivers. The first, that of the Brazilian Alex Barros, from whom "I learned to brake and enter the curves," and the second his friend Marco Simoncelli, who he says "was a real disaster, even the way it all happened. A shame".
In addition, BT Sports subjected him to a curious game so that Rossi would discover who was the only rider he had met in MotoGP and who had not won. It was Garrett Gerloff, his partner at Petronas in the Assen race this year, where Rossi fell, and has not participated in any more.
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