A brand new MotoGP documentary has revealed a heated alternate between Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia following their 2024 Portuguese Grand Prix conflict.
The pair, who might be team-mates this 12 months on the manufacturing facility Ducati squad, have been battling for place within the closing levels of final 12 months’s Sunday race at Portimao.
Marquez lunged up the within and ran barely extensive, with the pair colliding as their traces converged in the midst of Flip 5 – resulting in the pair crashing.
The conflict was deemed a racing incident by the stewards.
A brand new documentary from the official MotoGP web site entitled ‘There Can Be Solely One’ has proven a behind-the-scenes alternate between Marquez and Bagnaia as they stood exterior of the stewards’ workplace in Portugal.
Marquez started by saying: “On the level you already know that in case you open the throttle, the contact will come and the one on the skin crashes.”
Bagnaia responds: “Is determined by how the rider on the skin reacts. Perhaps, in your head, you’ll have finished it that manner, to which Marquez replies “Now we’ll take a look at the information.”
“Marc, if you go extensive, you already know completely effectively there’s one other rider on the within. You realize that,” Bagnaia provides.
“So, it’s my fault,” Marquez says, earlier than Bagnaia counters: “No, I’m not saying that!”
Marquez stands agency that he doesn’t consider he’s at fault, noting “I didn’t shut the road”.
Bagnaia says “it’s neither your fault nor mine”, with Marquez concluding as his rival is ushered again into the stewards room: “That is the issue. It’s not your fault or mine, however we each crashed. For me, it was troublesome to keep away from this. Don’t fear, I gained’t make a present out of it.”
When Marquez spoke to the media after this, he laid the blame at Bagnaia’s door, whereas the latter branded it a racing incident.
In a latest interview carried out by Ducati on the workforce’s 2025 launch occasion, when the Portugal conflict was introduced up, Bagnaia identified that the factors he misplaced within the incident would led to him successful the championship.
