Conspiracy theory on Valentino Rossi v Marc Marquez in 2015 finally shot down
Two claims - from Valentino♏ Rossi's fans and Marc Marquez's fans - reꦡjected

Two conspiracy theories relating to the infamous Valentino Rossi v Marc Marquez rivalry in 2015 have been🀅 dismissed.
Danilo Petrucci has clarified his perspective on✃ the MౠotoGP feud that just won’t go away.
Rossi reignited the flames this year when he again blasted Marquez, claiming the Span📖iard deliberately thwarted his championship hopes.
Petrucci, who race🌌d in the 2015 season, has set the r꧅ecord straight on two wild claims.
Two theories denied
He never e𝓰ven considered getting in Lorenzo’s way, despite desperate pleas from Italian fans of Rossi.
“Never, not even a second,” Petrucci told .
“A driver loves this sport and would never d♏o something li😼ke this.
“I absolutely agree in saying𝓀 that a rider who isn't playing for something shouldn't be a pain in the ass of those who are playing for a lot.
“It 𝔍is valid in the case of resisting overtaking beyond measure, but it is also valid in the case of going to the door on purpose. Nobody wants to win like that.”
Petrucci said about Italian fans’ wishes for him to aid Rossi: “In that year, before V♔alencia, it seemed to me that they were joking, that it was a way to lighten things up: for me they were simply memes on social media in which they hypothesised that I, or Iannone or someone else, would knock out Lorenzo in the last race.
“I never though🍃t there were people who would really want it.”
Petrucci joked: “I probably would have become king of the world if I had done it! Pr🌳aised left and right.
“But it never even crossed my mind to do it.
“This would h🤡ave also disgusඣted those who would have benefited from it, I have no doubts.
“It makes no sense to become a r🔴eferee between two rider🔥s.”
Petrucci denied a second claim from Marquez’s fan🔯s - that he surrendered by allowing Rossi to easily pass him in Valencia.
“No, I didn't step aside,” he insisted.
“But if a rider is clearly going faster, he overtakes🅰 you easily and♐ that's what happened there. People say so many things, you can't listen to everyone.”
‘What happened will never end’
“I thought it would end,” Petrucci said.
“But today I realise that no, what happ🌃ened between Valentino and Marc in 2015 will never end.
ꦍ“It makes sense between the two of them, but not among the fanꦓs.
“Only the two of them know what really happened, what happened before, what they said or didn't say to e👍ach other over the course of an entire season.
“You will have seen that every time one of the two talks about it𒐪, a piece is added that all of us, including those who were in the same paddock, didn't know.
“Each of the two is completelyꦆ convinced that they are right, otherwise after almost ten years we wouldn't stillܫ be talking about it.
“But I repeat: only they know what happened.
“It certainly wasn't a great pa🌟ge of sport for everything that happened after and around it. “Valentino is an idol for all those of my generation and finding him on the track as an opponent is something that cannot be told from an emotional point of 🗹view.
“What he did in racing is written in the history of sport. He deserv𒊎ed the tenth, but it didn't arrive.
“Jorge Lorenzo also deserved it and he won it. It's racing. That season things didn't go well for Marquez right away, but perhaps he was convinced that it could have been the first cജlash with Vale that excluded him from the world championship fight.
“I really don't know what happened and I don't have enough info🔜rmation to take a clear position. E🅷specially after almost ten years.”

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