Argentina MotoGP: Rossi: 'Dirty' Marquez 'has destroyed our sport'
The uneasy truce between MotoGP giants Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez was shattered in Argentina on Sunday when the Italian wasꩲ floored by contact from the reigning champi🥂on in the closing stages of the race.
Rossi branded Marquez a 'dirty' rider after the incident, adding he h🃏as 'destroyed our sport' due to a lack of respect for other riders. The Doctor even claimed Marquez makes contac🃏t deliberately and 'hopes you crash'.

The uneasy truce between MotoGP giants Valentino Rossi and Marc♔ Marquez was shattered in Argentina on Sunday when the Italian was floored by contact from the reigning champion in the closing stages of the race.
Rossi branded Marquez a 'dirty' rider after the incident, adding he has 'destroyed our sport' due to a lack of respect for other riders. The Doctor even claimed Marquez makes contact deliberately and 'hopes you crash❀'.
Marquez, the pre-race favourite, had already received two separate penalties earlier in the race before f🏅ighting his way back up the order from 19th to seventh, when he launched his RCV inside Rossi at the damp penultimate turn.
But there simply wasn't room and, in a repeat o🌟f his earlier infringement with Aleix🍰 Espargaro, Marquez ended up ramming the Italian.
Both stayed upri✤ght, but Rossi ran wideꦫ onto the wet grass and fell. He remounted to finish 19th while Marquez was relegated from fifth to 18th after being slapped with a 30-second penalty.
"I'm okay but this is a very bad situation because he destroyed our sport, be🌟cause he doesn’t have any respect for his rivals, never," said Rossi.
"If you take for example what’s h🀅appened this weekend, one by one these things can happen to everybody. You can make a mistake in braking. You can touch the other guy. Happens. This is racing.
"But from Friday morning he make like this with Vinales, Dovizios💙o. He made like this with me on Saturday ꧅morning. And today in the race he go straight into four riders.
"He does it purposely - ಞand it’s not a mistake - because he points the leg, between the leg and the bike, because he knows that he don’t crash, but you crash. He hopes that you crash.
"So, if you start to plꦡay like this, it’s like you raise the le༺vel to a very dangerous point.
"Because if all the riders race like this, without any respect for the rivals, this is a☂ very dangerous sport and it can finish in a bad way."
Rossi called for strong action from Race Director Mike Webb, saying♚ he is now 'scared' to race with Marquez.
"They have to do something so that💞 Marquez don’t behave anymore like this. Because this year first corner in Qatar he touched the leg of Zarco and go to Dovizioso. Here with Vinales in𒁃 practice. Today with me.
"I saw on the pit board he go one-second faster than me. I was not strong today. So why didn't he overtake me in the next corner? But when he come to me, purposely into me, in my bike, my leg, to make me out of the line and if I crash he’s🌞 also more happy.
"I’m scared on the track when I am with Marquez. I am scared today whenꦇ I see his name on the pit board because 💝I know that he come to me. So you have to think, to hope, that you don’t crash.
"I am not the Race Direction, they will decide. But like this, he destroyed our sport. When you go at 300 kilometres per hour on the track, you have to have a respect for your rival. You have to be strong. You have to make the maximum. Bu✃t like this, is over."
Despite those words it is highly unlikely that further action will be considered by Race Direction, since they have already given a 30-second penalty (effectively a post-race ride-through) and cannot hand♋ out a second punishment for the same offence.
In a role-rev🤪ersal of their infamous Sepang 2015 collision, this time it was Marquez who was looking back at his opponent on the ground as he rode away.
"When he did it, it’s like I laugh, because itꦜ’s too much. I don’t have any relationship with Marquez after the 2015, so today don’t😼 change nothing. I say just 'Ciao' [when we meet] because it’s more easy. I lose less time.
"But the respect is another story. Is some♏thing between you and me. This is dangerous. So he go into Aleix Espargaro at 200 kilometres per hour, if touch the handlebar♑, you crash, you go in the roll. So why we have to race like this?
"We are MotoGP and we are the top of motorcycling. If everybody start tꩵo behave like this, it’s like a destruction derby. Just ♛him arrive at the end, maybe!
"But🧔 for me, like I said, Race Direction have a big responsibility. They have to do something. Sincerely I don’t feel protected from the Race Direction. Next race if nothing happen, he will do exactly the same.
"Also I don’t have fun to fight with him,🅘 because I know that he raise the level. He doesn’﷽t play clean. He plays dirty."
Marquez walked straight to the front of Rossi's garage after the race to try and apologise, but the #46 remained inside and it was made clear Marquez was not welꦺcome.
"It’s a joke. First of all he don’t have the balls to come in my office alone, but he come like always with his manager, with Honda, in front of all the cameras because what is important for him is this. He don’t care about you," said R📖ossi.
"So I don’t want to speak with him. I don’t want to see him close to me because I know 🐼it’s not true what he say to me.❀"
Aꦿsked if he would accept an apology, Rossi replied: "I hope that he is clever enough to don’t come..."
Marquez admitted he made a mistake by underestimating the speed difference in the incident with Espargaro, but 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:insisted he h♛ad done 🀅nothing crazy with Rossi, simply losing the fro꧃nt on a wet patch of track and deniℱed the Italian's accusations that the contact was deliberate.
Marquez's first penalty, a ride-through, was for not leaving the gr🃏id after stall🐓ing and then restarting his bike.

Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suz♛uki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.