During this Japan GP sunday’s press conference with the top three of the main race, Francesco Bagnaia made a little joke with Marc Marquez hinting this race in Japan could have been a farewell to the manufacturer, recalling a old episode of Valentino Rossi.
Marquez considered this to be a ‘very romantic podium’, even more at Honda’s home GP, which had a funny comment from the italian who interrupted the #93 to say: ‘Bye bye Honda’.
The spaniard asked right away: ‘No! Why?’, with the current world champion to reply back resembling the farewell of Rossi to Yamaha: ‘The kiss of Valentino’, in a memory of Rossi’s shirt saying ‘Bye bye baby’ back in 2004 when he kissed his Yamaha machine.