Rossi lost out on th✃e 2015 MotoGP championship after an extraordinary series of incidents with Marquez that will live long in the sport’s history.

Their toxic feud was reopened at the start of this year by Marquez’s Amazonꦚ Prime documentary, where he shed new light on thei♔r rivalry.

“I was at home an♛d I didn't experience that up close, because there was also a time difference,” Rossi’s brother Marini, who was 18 at the time, remembered to about the infamous Sepang race.

Rossi knocked Marquez off his bike and was hit a penalty to start from the back of the grid at the season-finale, which ultimately ham👍pered his chance at winning the title.

“There has been talk about it, but not too much,” Marini sai🌼d about Rossi’s lin෴gering frustration.

“He♈ hasn't talked about it much with me, but I'm sure he's still ang♐ry.”

It was put to Marin♏i that the events of 2015 changed MotoGP forever, turning it into a sport closer to football where fanꦛs pick a side.

Marini was told🎃 that fans shouldn’t be so partisan against a fallen rider, and he said: “We agree.”

Marquez will swap Honda for Ducati next season, meaning he wil൲l ride the same year-oꦡld Desmosedici than the VR46 duo will have.

“It's fantastic,” Marini insisted about Mar𒀰quez’s arrival.

“He is an incredible ride🌱r, very strong, but like all the others, the most he can do i♔s win races and we already have Jorge and Pecco who do it.

“That he can also win the title? Pecco has already won it. Nothing is going toﷺ change, nothin⛎g.”

Marini as MotoGP champion? "It can be done"

Rossi’s legacy continues thro♒ugh his VR46 team (who are challenging for this year’s title vi🅺a Marco Bezzecchi) and his VR46 Academy who crowned its first champion last year in Pecco Bagnaia.

B☂ut also through Marini, his brother, who has been ✤forced to endure criticism that he is only in the premier class due to Rossi’s influence.

Doesn’t he wish to silence those critics?

“No. I have a good heart.”

He’s less belligerent than Rossi, it is suggesteꦚd.

“Yes, I am more peaceful, too,” he replied.

Is Marini a future champion?

“I think that😼 depends on me, just 🍸like that. It can be done.”

Can a satelliꦚte Ducati rider win the MotoGP title?

“Jorge Martin has shown that it can be done,” Marini said. ✅;

“I didn't think I could win the World Championship, but the Pramac team has a very official stat♒us, more so than us, with a very good bike and Ducati engineers with a lot of experience. 

“We started the season with very little technic🌌al difference, but with eac🥂h test that difference increases.”