Their vitriolic rivalry was reopened by Marquez’s new Amazon Prime Video documentary, in which he charts the biggest moments of his career ahead of the 2023 MotoGP season starting.

Marquez blamed Rossi for kicking him off his bike at Sepang in 2015, he accepted responsibility for their collision in Argentina in 2018, and it has emerged that the Italian chose🀅 not to give his s🐻ide of their story in the documentary.

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“The battle with him was of another in🐠tensity, of a very large magnitude,” Marquez told .

“There was a before and after between us. Maybe in 20-30 years we will talk to eac🃏h other again! 

“Never say never, but it won't happen tomorrow."

Marquez is fully fit after two years of injury - he is vying for a seventh premier class championship whichཧ would equal the total posted by Rossi.

"This winter I am back to the levels of before, now the final step is missing: improving the performance i🃏n the race, we will understand it after the first 4-5 races,” he said.

“Wi🔜n the title? I see it as tough, but the goa🌄l is always the same."

Marquez feels grateful t🧸o even be lining up on the🦩 grid for the 2023 season.

Last summer, after a fourth serious operation to his arm, he was🎶 forced to confront the reality that his body might not hold up anymore.

He said about considering ret🍬irement: "Yes, it's true, I still feel like 😼crying thinking about it. 

“I had talked about it for a month witಌh my father, with my friend and assistan♌t Josè, it was one of the possibilities. 

“But being an athlete and an ambitious person, I looked for one last chance with the fourth operation.&nb꧙sp;

“Motorcycling has always been 'epic', it wanted superheroes. I regretted some thꦑings, I learned my lesson. I didn't respect the injury."