The Rossi-Marquez furore continues to rage here in Spain, with the Ducati rider Andrea Iannone - who just happens to be Italian - saying: "Marc has ruined everything."

Iannone told the the Italian newspaper Il Sole: "It's embarrassing. I've seen and rerun the race and to me it's absurd that he (Marquez) could not overtake (Lorenzo). That happens in F1, but not in MotoGP.

"When I heard Lorenzo saying (at the end of the race): 'My Spanish colleagues helped another Spaniard', I was surprised. I couldn't believe it."

This is the same Iannone who declared, hours before the race at Valencia, that he was going to help Rossi on the Ricardo Tormo circuit.

Marquez himself has elaborated further on his performance in finishing second to Jorge Lorenzo in the Valencian Grand Prix, saying: "It was me above all who wanted to win, because I knew all this would happen (if I didn't). I was more nervous than in 2013, when I won the championship, but I rode a really precise race, and Jorge broke all the records.

"I prepared an attack on turn two or six, but four laps from the finish there was a yellow flag and then Pedrosa made me lose half a second and I couldn't recover.

"I have a clear conscience, and I know that I gave 100 percent."

Marquez said that every rider wanted to be the best in his country and to win, and repeated his point that in Australia "a Spanish rider took five points from another Spaniard, and an Italian took three points from another Italian."

Rossi, meanwhile, for once remained almost mute. All he said, ominously, was: "I will not approach the 2016 season with the same enthusiasm."