It’s hard to believe MotoGP is coming up for the 10th anniversary of arguably its most controversial episode. 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Valentino Rossi’s paranoia-fuelled accusations of sabotage levied at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez ahea𒆙d of the 2015 Malaysian Grand Prix🍸 sent off a shockwave that fundamentally changed the series.

The pair’s coming together in the grand prix at Sepang; the subsequent grid penalty for Rossi for the Valencia title-decider; the 🐻frenzied fan response; Rossi’s continued claims of a stolen title; irreversible bad blood between Rossi and Marquez from that momen💛t on.

It really soured the ending of what was a fantasti🅘c season to that point and overshadowed a final world championship for Jorge Lorenzo.

Marquez and Rossi continued to have flashpoints in the next few years, though as one proved dominant and the other continued t♈o fade in competitiveness, it somewhat softened. Fan response in Rossi strongholds towards Marquez remains hostile, not that this ever bothers the eight-time🅠 world champion.

Even after his retireme𒊎nt Rossi stands by the fact that a 10th world title was stolen from him, and it almost certainly underpinned the spiky comments he made about Ducati in a recent interview with L’Equipe.

“I have not finished𒈔 understanding it,” he said of Ducati giving Marc Marquez a factory c🐻ontract for 2025.

“Ducati had an interesting system in place, with a pyram😼id that allowed young riders to progress.

“That’s how Pecco [Bagnaia] was brought up, and both [Jorge] Martin and Marco Bezzecchi were also wa🃏iting for it. And suddenly Ducati decided to bring Marc in.

“It's normal that [the riders] feel betrayed. From one moment to the next they no longer count, s🐲o no wonder they consider the choice of Marquez a joke.” 

Marquez will benefit from Rossi interference

No꧂thing Rossi does is ever without calculation. He was a master of manipulating the narrative for his own gain during his racing career. It’s what made him a hit with the media and the fans, as the legend of Rossi only grew over the 21st Century and each fresh challenger fell t🎃o him eventually.

His L’Equipe comments were designed to illicit a response from Marquez, in the hope that his cage is r❀attl𓄧ed.

It’s well established that the Rossi camp was not h🅺appy when Ducati made a U-turn on its decision to give Jorge Martin the second factory team seat in favour Marquez for 2025. The bad blood between 𓂃Rossi and Marquez made that inevitable.

But because of this, it makes the Rossi camp’s response seem like one born𝄹e out of a fear for the influence Marquez still holds on the championship.

Rossi hasn’t done badly out of this rider market shift. It🍃 cleared Pramac off the board, as the team signed with Yamaha for next year, leading to his VR46 squad getting Ducati’s factory support and a GP25 for Fabio Di Giannantonio’s 2025 assault.

While comments lik🍌e this 💛probably aren’t unexpected by Ducati, they will nevertheless cause some unease.

Bagnaia is adored by the Italian brand. He’s their most successful rider ever in MotoGP and is the deliverer of its long-awaited𝐆 follow-up titles to 2007. Getting him locked down for another two years prior to the start of the 2024 season is further proof of Ducati’s love for Bagnaia.

He’s also proven tℱo be very level-headed. When he and Marquez collided at the Portuguese GP, a calm Bagnaia told the media that it was nothing more than a racing incident. Marquez’s comment was quite the opposite, blaming Bagnaia for not backing out before it was too late. Much like Rossi, though, Marquez never says anything simply in the heat of the moment.

Bagnaia isn’t like to be easily drawn into a war of words in the press. But the influence of Rossi could lead to an uneasy partnership between Bagnaia and Marquez in 2025 if things ꦺdo get tense between the pair on-track.

After all, we’re dealing with 🌄a rider who had a wall erected in the Yamaha garage in 2008 to ostensibly keep tyre secrets from going to Lorenzo’s side of the box.

Going head-to-head with Marquez ꦍon equal machinery is going to be the biggest test of Bagnaia’s MotoGP career. He doesn’t need any ageing bitterness from old rivalries clouding his judgement when thing𓆉s aren’t going his way in that fight.

All of this will only serve to benefit Marquez. He enjoys nothing more than w🌸inding up hostile fans by making them watch him stand on the podium in front of them.

Should Rossi wade further into any discourse that could arise between Marquez and Bagnaia, the former will use it as an opportunity to rub the Ita🤡lian legend’s nose in it.

And what better way to do that than by equalling Rossi’s career tally of nine world titles aboard the bike he could never win on, and 🦋by besting his golden protege?

From a selfish media perspective, Rossi chiming in with his opinions can only be a good thing. A🦂nd for MotoGP itself, it will only add another layer of intrigue to a 2025 title battle it hopes can snare a wider audience.

Bꦜut the only people likely to suffer from it will be Rossi and Bagnai🌳a…