Valentino Rossi “pulled hard moves – his rivals could say bad things about him”

Valentino Rossi has been criticised for his fierce reopening of his feud with Marc Marquez.

Rossi caused a stir ahead of this weekend’s Emilia-Romagna MotoGP by hammering old rival Marquez for their notorious 2015 skirmish.

TNT Sports’ Neil Hodgson had his say: “You would like to think, if you’d won nine championships, and someone said ‘what about 2015?’ I would say ‘what about the nine titles I won, the legacy I’ve built’.

“I don’t know why you’d want to go over old ground and say nasty things about current riders.

“I didn’t think he needed to go over it again.

“The fact that Valentino’s career went on so long? How incredible.