Dani Pedrosa has accused Valentino Rossi of backtracking 🅠on his previous stance as an advocate of the mantra that 'rac🎃ing is racing' after Sunday's high drama in the Malaysian MotoGP at Sepang.

Race winner Pedrosa says Rossi has contradicted himself by 𒉰claiming Marc Marquez was trying to help Jorge Lorenzo at Phillip Island after becoming embroiled in a b🔥attle with Rossi and Andrea Iannone for third before going on to win the race.

Rossi came in for criticism after col♏liding with Marqu🐠ez at Sepang, forcing the outgoing world champion to crash out of the race as the friction between them spilled over.

"🔯In my opinion, first of all I think Valentino should be here to explain that [question on whether Marquez had interfered with Rossi's race at Sepang]," said Pedrosa in the post-rac❀e press conference.

"Other than that, I think racing is racing and that in the past I say many times we sho♚uld race more calm. I remember [saying] with Marco [Simoncelli] that we should race more calm because this is MotoGP, the bikes are big, dangerous and we should try [to be less aggr🦄essive].

"But always Valentino was saying, 'this is racing and racing is like this and we should fight'. Now, he's chan🌼ging his comments to what I was saying before," Pedrosa added.

"A little bit contradiction in this moment of what he ﷺalways said and what he is saying now. Maybe [it is because] tension in the championship is there obviously, but it's a very learning moment clearly, I've never been MotoGP champion and I respect all of the riders, especially Valentino, Marc and Jorge because they are great champions.

"But a championship is good when you win it because you are the m▨an."

Pedrosa also emphasised that Rossi ✱has a responsibility to perform with integrity given his millions of fans around the world and his status as a motorcycling great.

"The thing that I see is that Valentino has been always one of, or the greatest, in this period, so he has a lot of fans🌸 around the world and he is one who many fans and riders and young riders look up to him," Pedrosa said.

"It's a little bit tricky now to see these actions beca🐈use everybody can make mistakes obviously but I think that's why he should be here, because many people look what he is doing and he has to take care about what we do beca🐓use we must try to be right and do things correctly."