Rossi lost out on the championship eight years ago in a chapter of MotoGP folklore to his teammate Jorge Lorenzo, and a💯ccused his fierce rival Marquez of intentionally scuppering his hopes.

A new back-story to their vicious feud has now been 🦩told by Rossi, who has explained a conversation he had with his nemesis after the notorious Valencia seaso꧋n-ending race.

“I talked to him because there we were, together,” the Italian told .&nbs♊p;

“I told him: ‘do you realise what t♏he f*** you are doing? You're making a s*** figure. They will remember you only for this, whatever you do, it will♛ be like this forever.

“‘Is it worth ruining you to make m𓆏e lose the world championship?’ 

“But he wasn't looking at me, he was absent.”

Rossi on Marquez in 2015: “Great injustice, a stain that will never go”

“With Marquez it was totally differ𓃲ent because it was no longer a sporting rivalry on the track,” Rossi said.

“He decided to make me lose💟 the world championship by making someone else win, but it wasn't even his teammate! It was my team🧸mate!

“He invented excuses saying that I had done something to him. I was the one to destroy for him, the🐻 my♔th to destroy so that he could become what I was. 

“It is something that has ꦺnever been seen before - a rider, above all a champion, who💙 races to make another win. 

“In pr🅺ofessional sport it has never been seen - even among schoolmates! 

“It was something absurd, an awful moment. 

“It didn't give me the chance to fight for the title with Lore𒐪nzo to th꧑e end in a stellar year, I could have become world champion for the tenth time. It prevented me from putting the icing on the cake of my career. 

“Maybe I would have lost.

“It was a great injustice, a stain that will never go awa♚y.”

The prodigious Marquez had won the M🍸otoGP championship in e﷽ach of his premier class seasons heading into 2015, while Rossi was aiming to add to his total of seven amid a rivalry with his teammate Lorenzo.

In Sepang, Malaysia, at the penultimate round of the seasonℱ,𝔉 a clash between Rossi and Marquez resulted in the Spaniard crashing. Marquez believes Rossi kicked out at him, causing the fall.

Rossi 🔥was penalised by starting ꦬat the back of the grid for the season-ending race in Valencia.

Rossi then sat in a press conference and accused Marquez of trying to spite him by aiding Lorenzo’s bid for the title - his explo♒sive words were directly in front of his rivals.

Rossi needed to finish second in Valencia to win the championship but was held off by Marquez and Dani Pedrosa, behind Lorenzo who won thꦏe race and t🍃he title.

Rossi would battle on until 2021 but would never win anothe🍃rꦓ title.

Rossi: Marquez says I kicked him, but I didn’t…

“If I think about those last three races from 2015 now, I have exactly the same feeling as when I crossed⛦ the finish line in 2015,” he said now.

“There is a ve🅰ry deep wound, I think about it too much.

“Fortunately I have done many other things that make me happy ♚with my career but…”

Rossi denies intentionally kicking Marquez in Sepang: “In Malaysia he bo💫thered me the wholeꦆ race. He tried to throw me down. Then after the straight we touched.

“He says I kicked him. But I didn’t.

“Anyway, he crashed. After the race I went [to the stewards] and thoug🎃ht they would start him last - instead they started me last. 

“He ruined a crucial race for the world championship,💙 the penultimate race of the championship.”

Rossi: I told Stewards about Marquez, they looked to say ‘but this is crazy!’ 

Rossi insists he constantly warned MotoGP stewards to 🐟beware of Marquez’s con♐duct, but claims it fell on deaf ears.

“The organisation ෴was unable to control it,” he said. “They could ha🎶ve done much better. I told him and I also told the stewards.

“I clearl𓃲y told the stewards 'Marquez will arrive in Valencia, he will be behind Lorenzo and he will make him win by being a guard and without ever trying to [beat] him'.

“They looked at me as if to❀ say ‘but thꦺis is crazy!’ 

“It should have been manageꦉd better. It was a great pity, especially for me, but also for the cham✨pionship.”

Rossi denied thඣat he intended to retire in 2015 if he won the champi🎐onship, and claimed he always planned to race on.

Marquez is vying to equal Rossi's tally of𓆉 seven p♏remier class titles, although it already looks unlikely to happen in 2023.