Rossi revisits Márquez feud while promoting autobiography
NXTbets Pro | Published On: November 10, 2026
Rossi feud
Valentino Rossi says the fallout from the 2015 MotoGP season still hurts him more than a decade later, and he revisited that chapter while promoting his autobiography, “My Story.” Rossi made the comments in an interview with Fabio Fazio on “Che Tempo Che Fa” on Nove, where he returned to his feud with Marc Márquez and repeated the view that the Spaniard’s actions crossed a line. He called those actions “absurd” and said Márquez “was only fighting to make me lose.” Rossi also said Márquez “succeeded” in doing that, leaving him with a season he still carries the same way he did after Valencia. Rossi said the feelings from 2015 remain intact and that the season continues to affect him in the same way it did in the aftermath of the final round.
Rossi title fight
Rossi’s account of the title battle centers on the belief that Márquez was focused less on the championship and more on stopping him from winning it. Rossi said that was the aim throughout the dispute, and he pointed to the controversial events across Australia, Malaysia and Valencia. He said the incident led to penalty points and a back-of-the-grid start for the Valencia finale. Rossi finished runner-up in the 2015 championship to Yamaha teammate Jorge Lorenzo, and that result remains part of how he tells the story of that year. The comments again framed the campaign as more than a single clash. Rossi described it as a sequence of events that changed the championship picture and left him with a lasting sense of grievance. For him, the key point is simple. He believes Márquez’s approach shifted the title fight away from a fair battle for the crown and into a fight over whether Rossi could win it at all.
My Story
“My Story” gives Rossi the chance to revisit that period in a broader way. The autobiography runs more than 300 pages and was co-written with journalist Giorgio Terruzzi. It covers Rossi’s career on two wheels and four wheels, and it includes behind-the-scenes stories along with key moments from his racing life. That wider scope gives the book room to move beyond the 2015 feud and place it inside a longer career that stretches across different forms of racing. Even so, the MotoGP clash with Márquez still stands out as one of the defining episodes Rossi wanted to address. He is close to an eighth world title and could clinch it at next week’s Portuguese Grand Prix. His autobiography looks back at the battles that shaped his own legacy while one of his old rivals moves toward another championship milestone.
