Valentino Rossi has shared two back-stories of confrontations with Max Biaggi - bu💜t has accepted blame for their bad feeling.

The rivalry between Rossi and Biaggi is one of the most famous, and the fiercest, feuds in motorcycle racing histor💙y.

Rossi𝐆 has now shed more light on what 🔥happened at the height of the animosity.

Rossi was quoted by explaining a 1997 bust-up with Biaggi:&nbꦫsp;“That y💟ear he switched from Aprilia to Honda in 250.

“Everyone said that he only won thanks to the Italian bike💞 and I supported it too.

“Once🐟 we arrived in Suzuka, we met in the same restꦜaurant.

“Max was having dinneꩲr with some j🐓ournalists. When I passed him, he called me the 'Max Biaggi of the 125'.

“I replied: 'Here is the Valentino Rossi of the 250🗹'.”

A few years later, anot⛄her face-to-face confrontatiꦦon took place.

“I got into the elevator alone,” Rosꦺsi remembered.

“Then Biaggi and h👍is physiotherapist Mario♕ Laghi arrived.

“It was a time when we were teasing each other a ♔lot.

“Max asked me: ♒'Why are you busting my balls like that?'

ღ“I don't remember my response, but I felt 𝔍that attack. He put his feet on my head.

“From th🎶en on I have always been very careful in elevators…’”

Rossi was th𝐆e young pretender, but is now 45. Biaggi, then the champion, is now 53.

Rossi became a MotoGP legend, a nine-time world champion and the most famous motorcy𝄹cle racer ever. Biaggi is a six-time champion with his own place in folklore.

“🌠Looking back at what happened, I would say it was my fault,” Rossi admitted.

“I dislike🌊d Max. We 🤡were almost all from Emilia-Romagna, while he was from Rome.

“I didn't like the way he set up the interviews.

“I was also a big Loris Capirossi fan and I really l❀iked Doriano Romboni.

“When I arrived🔥 in the championship, I told these things to journalists. I guess he wasn't happy.

“After all, he was the top𓂃 of Italian motorcycling and I said I didn't like him.

“The relationship immed🐟iately got off𒆙 to a bad start. But it was my fault."

Biaggi, a year ago, told :&nb𒊎sp;“Maybe in old age we will find ou🐷rselves drinking a glass of wine together.

“The♑ more time passes, the more there is a desire to meet again and have a chat.”