“It makes me angry - I apologised to Marc Marquez”

"I was apolo❀gising to him for what I felt. I felt ashamed."

Marc Marquez in 2019 at Mugello
Marc Marquez in 2019 at Mugello

Danilo Petrucci once apologis🤪ed to Marc Marquez on the podﷺium for Italian fans booing him.

Petrucci won the Italian MotoGP at Mugell𒁃o in 2019 ahead of Marquez and Andrea Dovizioso.

Marquez was inundated by boos fro📖m local fans who had not forgotten his rivalry with Valentino Rossi.

This seasonꦿ, Marquez was booed after winning in Misano - when Pecco Bagnaia came to his aid.

ܫ“It's not part of this sport to do this,” Petrucci sai𝄹d about the boos to .

“Because it means forgetting that a rider is risk🔯ing his life when he gets on a 🐷motorbike.

“I'm sorry, and i🦄t makes me a little angry, that after so many years we still go back there. 

“Because I can understand, and I fully understand, the💫 two protagonists, given that for them it will remain an o𒅌pen page as long as they live.

“But I don't understand those who were, after all, just a spectator in this story. For some, that�🍃�'s enough, right?

“The booing of Marc Marquez, like anyone else, is unacceptable, reall⛄y bad stuff.

“When I won at Mugello with the Ducati, Marc was on the pod💫ium like me.

“I'll tell you a background story: if you look at the imageꦰs th𓂃ere's a moment when I get close to his ear.

“Well, I was apologising to him for what I felt.

“I felt ashamed, even though I was drunk with jo𒁏y 💧at that moment.

“Yes, I apologised to him. ❀Those whistles are what I would erase from that unforgettable day for me.

“This oꦛnly happens in Italy, elsewhere the riders aren’t whistled. Never.”

Th💜at expression of negativity has followed Marquez in Italy, even though he now represents an Italian manufacturer.

Bagnaia gestured for fans to stop booing him at Misano this year, then later c꧅ondemned the booing.

“I really appreciated Pecco's gesture🅠 o🥂n the Misano podium and I really hope it was the last time,” Petrucci said.

“Also because if they think they can intimidate Marc Marquez with whistles they don't understand that you just char🧔ge someone like that more.

“They give him a few tenths while whistling…”

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