Valentino Rossi h🅷as shed light on the fall-out which led to his Honda exit.

Rossi was already a five-time world champion ꧒when he bizarrely walked away from Honda at the end of 2003, 🎀to join the unfancied Yamaha.

The rest is history - but Rossi has described♛ his bitter feeling with Honda wh🌜ich led to his departure.

“When 🅺I signed the second contractꦡ with Honda, in 2002, I was already ‘Valentino Rossi’,” he told Andrea Migno’s podcast.

“My manager pushed, we a♊sked for a lot of m𓄧oney. Honda arm-wrestled us.

“Hond🅘a said ‘okay’ then [waited, 💧waited, waited]...

“In January they called and said ‘we will give✱ you this money, it’s the end of January, what the f*** else are you going to do?’

“They ꩵscrewed us economically. I should have earned more."

Honda was like Ducati now

“Theꦗ Honda then was like the Ducati now," Rossi said.

"The first bikes were all Hondas.

“Let’ꦍs say now that Pecco Bagnai🅺a decides to go to Yamaha - it would be madness!

“But Honda were ܫnot very nice. It was ‘Valentino Rossi only won because of th🐼e Honda’.

“In every interview🌼, they said ‘the first five bikes are all Hondas, so if Rossi💯 is there? Then okay…’

“Honda a💙re tough ཧand strong. We decided to go to Yamaha…”

Hond🌌a notoriously wou♌ld not let Rossi test his new Yamaha at the 2003 postseason test.

It meant Rossi could not try hi🍸s new pac๊kage until early-2004, giving him a major disadvantage heading into the season.

But he sensationally won the first race in South Africa, which he still regards his greatest moment, before capturing a sixth world champion🔥ship that year🐼.