#sepang 2015

[topnotchquark]

Going back and listening to Vale talk at the Sepang 2015 presscon.

[leclercskiesahead]

Two kids having lunch together in the school canteen

[ray935sworld]

Finding out that Marco Simoncelli was actually considered a really dangerous rider makes me wonder if Vale was concerned that Marc ends like Sic did. Like in 2010/ 2011 many rider like Lorenzo and Pedrosa told Sic off for his riding style, called him dangerous and talked about feeling unsafe riding near him (sounds familiar, right?). And then he dies.

So, a few years later, Vale finds a new friend on the grid, a young talent who many consider as the future, like Super Sic. But he also has a dangerous riding style and maybe this time he realized it - to be fair, I have no idea if he said anything about Simoncellis riding, but I don't so. So he's scared he loses him too...

And his only solution is to try bully him out of riding like that.

(and he knew that his brother + academy boys would end up riding against Marc and thought they were at risk so he couldn't let that happen. Cause be honest, this man can't lose ANY of them.)

Just me?

[whoregaylorenzo]

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - OCTOBER 25: Dani Pedrosa absorbs the drama after taking the win whilst Jorge Lorenzo looks on at Sepang Circuit on October 25, 2015 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Photo by Linden Adams Photography/Getty Images)

[misanocircuit]

2015 Malaysian GP, Sepang International Circuit - Thursday press conference:

English:

journalist: Why all the ones who idolise you, end up being different?

VR46: Did he really idolise me? Did he really have my poster at home? I'm not so sure. I'd like to go back in time and see.

Italian:

giornalista: Perché tutti quelli che ti idolatrano, alla fine si rivelano diversamente?

VR46: Attenzione, qui bisogna fare una precisazione: era vero che mi idolatrava? Aveva per davvero il mio poster a casa? lo non ne sono così sicuro. Mi piacerebbe andare a vedere indietro nel tempo.

Cervera, 2012-2013:

well, here's your time machine Vale...

//

full 2012 Marc interview:

full 2013 documentary:

[anitalianfrie]

Only for you: the sepang on-track crime poster on the wall of my driving school

Translation:

SHAME

Marquez plays dirty and angers rossi, who kicks the title. Lorenzo gets pity.

[marquezian]

Valentino Rossi 'created' row with Marc Marquez says Jorge Lorenzo x

[waru-chan8]

DAZN you are terrible. How dare you bring back Sepang 2015. But at least you are remembering the most important, who won that race

[topnotchquark]

Conflict resolution 101. Use these healthy tips from Valentino to remain stress free and win at life!

[carmyprosecco]

marc marquez x valentino rossi vampire - olivia rodrigo

do listen with headphones for the best auditory experience

[moonshynecybin]

Hi! I have been thinking about Marc and the ways he expresses his anger... giving the cold shoulder... the silent treatment if you will (he will speak ABOUT vale but not TO vale let alone WITH vale)... need your input please....

hmm good question.... this got. STUPID long sorry

uhhh marc is, in general, good at keeping his (negative) emotions in check. like i think marc loooooves to think of himself on track as a mature, controlled, and rational dude. above distraction. a killer. a cyborg. idk his dad has talked about how he doesnt really complain much about injury and there's also allll these stories about what a mature kid he was... so i think that when he was young - ESPECIALLY in a racing sense because he was so much younger than most of the people he was competing against - he internalized that in order to do all the stuff he wants to do racing-wise, he reallyyyy has to keep a level head and not well. act his age! and i think that extends to a lot of how he manages his emotions today (at least in a public setting). even in places where im pretty sure hes PISSED (sepang. phillip island 2013.) he just kind of. visibly contains himself. not a confrontational dude in the outright sense he'll clench his jaw and try to work through it.

which is part of what makes his valentino-oriented crazy so interesting. bc people were noticing that marc in 2015 was kind of. being weird. as his and valentino's relationship deteriorated. like they were both outwardly very much like we can keep it on track :) until the big fallout towards the end of the year but uhhhh. well marc has said that vale started pulling back in september of 2014 like he was noticing SOMETHING, and they clashed on track A LOT in 2015, and i think marc sensed vale cooling on him and freaked a lil. hashtag neurotic 22 year old moments. he is my favorite crazy ex girlfriend. like usually he IS good at separating that stuff out and managing his emotions in the racing sense but in assen that year when vale overtook him off track after they made contact he raised a BIG stink with race direction and actually had some uh. not especially chill quotes about it. (it should be noted marc was also flopping for the first time in his motogp career. like in his brain he stopped winning AND vale stopped talking to him he was goin through it) adn all the reporters noticed too they were like. why werent you sucking and fucking in parc ferme. like vale's left turn wrt to spaniard sabotage comes outta nowhere but people WERE noticing that things were changing. i bet marc noticed too. BUT they are not the type of people to talk about these things so they keep it to vague flirting in presscons and escalating on-track tension slash proxy wars waged in race-direction contexts... liek truly you are 22 you are not going to keep your championship title and your hot sports idol bestie is no longer flirting with you on twitter and you COULD just talk to him about that but you'd rather DIE so youre going to ask honda to back you up to race direction about your last race where you DEFINITELY lost bc winning is the ONLY thing thatll make you feel better. even though thatll help convince your hot sports idol that you are engaging in a benedict arnold level betrayal scheme against him. an insane time to be marc marquez. 2015 really kind of is a study on how both of them handle losing: NOT WELL.

and then the thing about sepang is that then the lid is blown clean off and marc spends the ENTIRE race being annoying on purposeeeee. hes so fucking pissed and hurt at valentino that he decides to get under his skin for REALSIES instead of focusing on his race. like idk he probably would have fought hard for the win without the drama that how he works but uh. i think he was being annoying specifically to bite at vale's edges. and part of that is bc marc is naturally and effortlessly annoying. but i think part of it was SPITE. like his team advised him not to speak on anything from that presscon and he didnt, but he can still fuck him over on track. get under his skin. like he cant tell vale to his FACE that he's angry and confused and hurt. but he CAN let him know on that fucking racing line. where he cant be ignored. idk like i cant see marc letting anyone else get under his skin like that.

AND another big ass exception to the marc marquez anger management philosophy is from misano 2019 where vale messes with his qualifying lap. a lovely anon sent me some videos of marc talking to the press and jesus christ i dont think ive ever seen him angrier oh my god. AND the anon also linked the race from that weekend where he won and he celebrated harder than ive seen him celebrate some TITLE wins like he went. notably nuts. the commentators were all like uhhhh. he mustve REALLY wanted to get one over on vale adjfhlkdh... idk if any of this answered your question but his relationship to his emotions fascinates me hes so weirddddd. and its interesting to me that he can shrug off jorge ruining his last race at honda and be friendly but also be like. kind of aloofly pissed at bezz. because of valentino! he can repress the rest of it, but valentino shines through the cracks.

[usermarquez]

i come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. mark antony in julius caesar, act iii, scene ii by shakespeare)

[misanocircuit]

lyrics from "daylight" by david kushner.

[batsplat]

Thailand 2019: Valentino Rossi provides his take on Marc Marquez's superiority that season. Then, Marquez is asked about Fabio Quartararo's prospects and Rossi comments on whether he will congratulate Marquez for winning the championship.

[anitalianfrie]

#I mean I don't agree with the Marc did nothing wrong but I'm just here to reblog the og discourse so.

What do you think Marc did wrong in regard to that og 2015 post context

well in the context of sepang 2015, marc did do one thing wrong: being a petty bitch on track. it is obvious to anyone watching (and he even said it himself) that he was purposefully trying to slow the pace and making the race as difficult as possible for vale. but that is the only crime he committed imo, and tecnically it's not in violation of the rules. is it a bit unsportmanlike? yes. is it illegal? no. also i maintain my line on this being a direct reaction to vale's words in the press conference, and that if vale kept his large mouth shout nothing would have happened in sepang at all. does this mean that the way vale acted on track was acceptable? no. but even then, what did vale actually do? we don't know because the images of the incident aren't clear enough. some people believe it was a kick, some people believe it wasn't and marc's front wheel locked up. everybody has their own idea on the actual incident, but there are some facts (marc being annoying on purpose, vale deliberately pushing marc wide) that cannot be denied from my point of view

[sammyche]

buzzfeed unsolved meme rosquez edition