Last year’s Portuguese GP served up a first flashpoint between Marquez and Bagnaia at Ducati
A new MotoGP documentary has revealed a heated exchange between Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia following their 2024 Portuguese Grand Prix clash.
Marquez lunged up the inside and ran slightly wide, with the pair colliding as their lines converged in the middle of Turn 5 - leading to the pair crashing.A new documentary from the official MotoGP website entitledhas shown a behind-the-scenes exchange between Marquez and Bagnaia as they stood outside of the stewards’ office in Portugal.
Bagnaia responds: “Depends on how the rider on the outside reacts. Maybe, in your head, you would have done it that way, to which Marquez replies “Now we’ll look at the data.” Bagnaia says “it’s neither your fault nor mine”, with Marquez concluding as his rival is ushered back into the stewards room: “This is the problem. It’s not your fault or mine, but we both crashed. For me, it was difficult to avoid this. Don’t worry, I won’t make a show out of it.”
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