Davide Tardozzi: "After ten years... enough is enough!

The 2025 MotoGP season will be remembered above all for Marc Marquez’s first MotoGP title win with Ducati. But several key moments from this championship remain etched in memory, some of which sparked debate. For example, the boos from some fans at Mugello directed at the Spanish superstar, who was staunchly defended by Davide Tardozzi.

The Lenovo Ducati team manager recalled that day in an episode of the docuseries aired on Dazn. After winning the MotoGP Sprint, the Italian crowd booed Marc Marquez. While the team was celebrating the victory, Davide Tardozzi approached the stands, visibly annoyed, urging the fans to be quiet. And reminding them that Marc was now “red.”

That gesture, although it failed to calm tempers, was widely applauded and amplified by the media. “It was a very difficult moment for me,” the manager recounted. “Because when I see the Mugello grandstand, where more than fifty percent are wearing Pecco’s [Bagnaia] shirt, and a rider of Marc’s caliber wins riding a Ducati at Mugello, they cannot boo him.”

Exactly ten years have passed since the Sepang incident between Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez. An episode that split MotoGP fans in two and that the Doctor’s most ardent supporters have never forgotten. “I’m really tired of this memory from 2015. Enough, you’re not a true motorcycle fan if you’re still clinging to that. That’s why it really annoyed me. First, because you have to respect the winner. Second, because we’re at Mugello, we’re wearing Pecco’s shirt, and we can’t boo Marc. So it was an instinctive gesture for those reasons.”

On the historic rivalry between Rossi and Marquez, Davide Tardozzi urges everyone to finally put it to rest. “Stop talking about 2015. After ten years, enough, because I said it, I repeated it, and I have to repeat it: the truth is it’s not only Marc’s fault. The truth is the blame should be split 50–50. Marc made a mistake, and Valentino Rossi made a mistake. So enough.”