Valentino Rossi Calls It ‘Absurd’: Ten Years On, He’s Still Furious at Marc Marquez — and the Eighth Title Is One Round Away

Ten years and one night in Valencia, and Valentino Rossi still cannot let it go. The nine-time world champion calls Marc Marquez’s 2015 championship play “absurd,” says it “worries” him how angry it still makes him, and in a new autobiography being launched this week he is plainly hoping the subject stays buried. Meanwhile Marquez sits 60 points clear of the riders’ championship with two rounds left, and the eighth title that would put him past Rossi on sport’s all-time list is now a formality. “The story of 2015 is even more absurd” Rossi has never accepted the official account of the 2015 season, and his new book, My Story (La Mia Storia), launches in Italy this week with the UK edition early next year. Speaking to Italian television programme Che Tempo Che Fa to promote it, the 47-year-old went straight back to the collision that ended his run of consecutive titles and handed Jorge Lorenzo the 2015 crown.

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