168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Lorenzo won the championship that year in tꦫhe season-finale, a controversial race where era-defining rivalries boiled over.

Rossi needed to finish second to secure the title for himself but, while battling away in fourth, found his arch-nemesis 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez purposefull☂y blocking his path and denying him another accolade.

♓"I'm a bit sad that I didn't win the 10th title," Rossi was quoted by . 

"Especially because I think I dese𝐆rved it because of my level and my s𝔍peed. 

“I missed the title twice at the last race of a season. That's൲ why I think I deserved a 10th."

"It is what it is. I don't think I can 🉐complain about the overall ♔balance of my career."

As well as his 2🌟015 heartbreak, Rossi fell short at the last🅠 race of the 2006 season in Valencia. Rossi fell, and eventually finished 13th, so missed out to Nicky Hayden.

The Italian, now 43, won seven pr💧emier class championships with Honda and Yamaha, plus a 250cc and two 125cc titles.

His earliest prizes, with Aprilia at 125cc, meant that the legendary Italian did succeed with a team from his hom🍸e country.

Rossi on Ducati: "Regrets?"

But it was notoriously a different story when Rossi swapped Yamaha ꦰfor Ducati, in 2011 and 2012, for two awful years. He would never win another title, even when he returned to Yamaha, suffering a 12-year drought to end his career.

Rossi said about goinཧg to Ducati: "Regretting something in the sense🍃 of a decision I made? I honestly don't. 

“Of course, 🧔the time with Ducati was a difficult o🐠ne for me.

"It was a big challenge, me as an Italian rider on an Italian bike. If we had won,🐼 we would have made history.”

Ducati, last🥂 year, finally crowned their first world champion since Casey Stoner in 2007. Francesco Bagnaia became the first Italian premier class ch𝓡ampion since Rossi in 2009, too.

Rossi’s fingerprints wer🌃e all over Bagnaia’s glory - he is a VR46 graduate - finally a small piece of atonement for The Doctor.