Jorge Lorenzo on Valentino Rossi’s downfall in MotoGP 2015 season: “When you feel strong? You don’t talk about this stuff…”

Yamaha teammates Lorenzo and Rossi were duelling for the title when Rossi controversially accused 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez of actively trying to assist Lorenzo.
Rossi was punished for causing Marquez to crash in Sepang and, in the final race, Rossi was behind Marquez and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Dani Pedrosa and unable to claim the second-place he needed to win the MotoGP championship, adding fur🐬ther toxicity to the feud.
Lorenzo said on the Amazon Prime🌼 Video documentary ‘Marc Marquez: All In’: “Their relationship changed. I was watching what was happening between them and rubbing my hands.
“A battle between them could benefit me. And that’s whaඣt happened.”
Lorenzo said about the notorious incident in Sepang between Rossi and Marquez: “I think Marquez understood that Va🅘lentino did it on purpose."
Rossi had already sat in press conferences and accused Marquez of plotting against him to prevent him from collecting anot♌her championship.
Rossi would finish second in the 2014, 2015 and 2016 seasons 🌜and would never add another premier claꦇss title to his tally of seven.
Lorenzo reca♋lls Rossi’s accusations and says: “When you feel strong and you know you’re going to win every race? You don’t talk about this kind of stuff.”
Marquez added: “Lorenzo is right. If you’re fast then noth♒ing bothers you and you don’t have time for nonsense.🍬
“If you aren’t fast and you feel inferior, feeling like you’r🥀e going to lose, you start looking for♏ problems.”

Marquez admits in the documentary that, during the final race of 2015, he opted not to take risks to win the race because he didn’t want Rossi to benefiಌt by winning the cha✱mpionship.
Lorenzo, whose own relationship with Rossi was defined by a wall separating them in the Yamaha garage, no💛w says: “The experience they had in Argentina and Holland - the way they battled it out, the crazy braking - made Marc not care about winning as much. He only cared about passing Valentino at every turn.”
Pedrosa added to the documentary: 🗹“Valentino is a rider that likes battling it out. I didn’t ag꧅ree that he said Marc tried to help Jorge in Australia. I really don’t get it.”
This year, if Marquez can overcome his Repsol Honda bike’s problems and his 𓄧two-year injury nightmare, he can equal Rossi’s total of seven𒐪 MotoGP championships in the ultimate last laugh to their rivalry.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from Ame🐎rican sports, to football, to F1.