Marc Marquez reopens wounds: “Tactical to be Valentino Rossi’s friend, but I’m not like that”

Perhaps MotoGP’s fiercest feud contin🔯ues verbally to this day, and new insight is included in the Honda rider’s book ‘Being Marc Marquez: This Is How I Win My Race’.
Marquez 🃏looked back at the 2018 Argentina MotoGP when he knocked Rossi off his Yamaha, one of many notorious colli🔜sions between them.
Marquez admitted he considered playing nice in a book extract via : "I definitely thougܫht, 'you knඣow what? Forget it'.
“He has a lot of fans and it meant antagonising 🤡them, but what choice did I hav✤e?
“Being unfaithful to myself? Of course not.
“I hate pretending, being dishonest.
“For tactica꧅l reasons, it would have been better to pretend to be Valentino's friend, but I'm not like that.”
Marquez also mentioned his infamous pass of Rossi at the Corkscrew, at Laguna Seca, in his rookie year ♌of 2013.
He went unpunished f🔯or running off track while overtaking, and even Rossi admitted the similarities to his ow𒁃n move against Casey Stoner from 2008.
"I would be lying if I said that I had planned that manoeuvre,” Marquez wrote in his boꦬok.
“There was no intention or genius. I don't care who was in front 𝐆of me at all.
“And I didn't want to fight, I just wanted to overtak🌠e as fast as possible.”

Surely the nastiest moments betwee෴n Rossi and Marquez 🍎were in 2015.
Rossi was publicly accusing 🌱Marquez of trying to assist Jorge Lorenzo in winning the titlꦗe.
In Malaysia, 💖Marquez fell when they clashed an𓆉d later accused Rossi of kicking him.
Rossi lost out on the title to Lorenzo at the final ro🍃und.
"The battl💯e between Valentino and I got so bad that we lost respect for𒉰 each other,” Marquez wrote.
“He had been my hero and in a🍃 few months he became [a rival] for me, and he remains so to this day.
“Between Australia and Malaysia in 2015 he accused me of absurd things and in the press c🍬onference it went too far.
“In no case was it a Spanish cons🐲piracy against the Italian.🅷”
Marquez explained his mentality to ri🃏vals in MotoGP: "If I have🌌 to go through a wall, I go through it. It's that easy. I'm completely unwilling.
“If someone has been better than me, I respect it. But♎ so the rival is not confused, that's not friendship.”

James w♎as a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.