The year 2015 was one of the most tense in memory in MotoGP. Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi they fought face to face for the championship and Marc Márquez he became an unexpected guest. That kick in the middle of the race is already part of the history of the competition.
Márquez has referred to that fact on many occasions. He has now done it again in an interview with ‘GQ’, in which they ask him if he would change anything about that and his ‘no overtaking’ in Cheste. And the man from Cervera is very clear that he would like to change Valentino’s attitude.
“It’s not that I didn’t want to overtake it, but overtaking it meant taking a very big risk. What I openly recognize in the documentary, what I explain, is what I lived through those weeks. From there, whoever wants to see it black will see it black, and whoever wants to see it white will see it white, but whoever wants to put themselves in the situation of a 22-year-old boy who has lived through all that, will see it grey.” says the Repsol Honda rider.
And he affects the “management” that the Italian did: “People ask me many times what I would change about that 2015, and I think what I would change is the way Valentino managed the end of the year. When you’re not the fastest on the track, you’re looking to stir things up to see what you can catch.”
“A phrase that defines it very well is ‘I have character, but more eggs’. In other words, I have character, but don’t touch me what you don’t have to touch me because then it’s going to be worse,” says the eight-time motorcycling champion.
In that season the relationship with the one who had been his idol was completely broken. Rossi never forgot it and has referred to these episodes on countless occasions. He even already retired from the competition. The exchanges of statements and the tense joint press conferences became a regular thing.
In the documentary that Márquez presents, ‘Marc Marquez: All in’, We will go into detail about this rivalry and also his pluses and minuses with Dani Pedrosa, who was his teammate at Honda.
