Kevin Schwantz believes that Marc Márquez is sometimes dangerous in the duels he has on the track. The MotoGP World Championship leader has been involved in some controversial incidents throughout his career, with the ones with Valentino Rossi to be more mediatic, and with whom he has had a particular rivalry since the controversial events of the Malaysian Grand Prix in 2015.

In an interview with the italian website Motociclismo, the former rider stressed that rivalries and more physical discussions on track have always existed and are important in races. Nonetheless, he says that specially Márquez is sometimes dangerous, as in this year’s Argentina GP:

– We also did certain things: when a rider had to be called to his attention we would push him outside, as it is usually said, ‘What the hell are you doing?’. Valentino at Sepang slowed Márquez, who was however deliberately blocking him. The rivalry is a natural feeling and the seasoning of the races, but Marc is dangerous: for example, with Aleix [Espargaró] in Argentina he had no reason to look for contact, it was so much faster that one more curve would be enough to easily overcome him. He had no right to enter so badly.

Finally, Schwantz exemplified with a close-and-out fight with Wayne Rainey in 1987: ‘He and I at Brands Hatch in 1987 touched us several times, however it was always fairing with fairing, never with different angles for the sole purpose to send the rival out’.