Marquez finally fires back at Rossi (+ more Amazon revelations)

This week has seen the launch of a new behind-the-scenes documentary series on six-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez.

Amazon Prime Video’s cameras travelled with the Repsol Honda rider not only to every round of the 2022 season but also joined him in the USA as he underwent yet another surgery in an attempt to conclusively fix the damage that began with the broken arm he suffered at Jerez in 2020.

Produced by Marquez himself (and brother Alex) in collaboration with Amazon and Red Bull TV, Marc Marquez: All In isn’t a continuation of the ill-fated MotoGP Unlimited series but rather something different and more personal, as the Spaniard opens up on camera for perhaps the first time ever to tell the story of just how much these past three years have impacted him personally as well as professionally.

Despite some apparent teething troubles around its release, with puzzling region-to-region variance in terms of when and in what form the series was made available, the end product is very much worth watching, whether you love him or hate Marquez – and the truly behind-the-scenes nature of it means that even the most diehard MotoGP fan will learn a thing or two as they get a peek under the curtain at his life (even if that peek is very controlled).

Rossi feud isn’t likely to ever be forgiven

Many years ago, in the aftermath of the now-infamous Sepang clash between Marc Marquez and Valentino Rossi, AMA Supercross legend Chad Reed hinted to me in an interview that the feud between the pair dated to earlier in the year and a particularly fiery trip to Rossi’s ranch after the Misano race, where the two of them went at it like cats and dogs in an attempt to steal the flat track’s lap record.

Well, we know now that that is very much the case, with Marquez quick to establish that day as the point where the relationship between the two started to go rapidly downhill – down so far that it’s very clear from his words that he does not see the feud as repairable.

Up until this point, Marquez had actually remained largely silent on the whole drama that preceded and followed the infamous events of the 2015 Malaysian Grand Prix, but we quickly gain some insight as the documentary takes him back to relive it.

Actually instructed at the time by the people around him to say nothing (a tactic in response to Rossi’s media influence back then), it’s good to hear Marquez and those around him finally open up on the events – even if there’s not a huge amount that we actually learn from it beyond just how deep the bitterness runs. – Simon Patterson

Past years took a toll and retirement really was close

It’s not exactly new information that the past few seasons have been tough on Marquez: he’s spent most of it wearing the pain of his arm injury very plainly on his face.

What perhaps is new, though, is discovering just how much of a toll the impact of everything combined took on Marquez.

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