Valentino Rossi’s Rivalries With Marc Márquez and Other Competitors

Said I learned a lot from Valentino, and I, I dare say as Valentino as a guy.

And he was fine with me before I raced him. Yeah.

But then as soon as I became a competitor, he literally just flipped a switch and went, "I'm gonna, you know, try and make a, an enemy out of you."

And it's one thing that I've been saying lately, the worst thing he ever did was make enemies.

Well, all of his later enemies. His early enemies, he defeated.

You know, they, they weren't as, as tough as us to, to come through.

But he made an enemy out of, um, out of me and Marc, and two people that he really shouldn't have, in my opinion.

You know, he tried to poke holes with Marc and everything, and they got along well at the beginning. Yeah.

Then he became a competitor, then all of a sudden, you know, he made an enemy of Marc and they, you know, Marc caused him a lot of problems.

Um, and may have even cost him a championship in the end.

So it's that whole thing, don't make enemies where you don't need to