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THE scuffle marks will have healed by now - but the inner, deep- down resentment refuses to go away...
And that's why this Saturday's clash between motorbike championship leader Valentino Rossi and his nearest chaser, Max Biaggi, will be a turn-on for TV millions.
Their hatred of each other may not be what the motorcycle racing hierarchy wants the public to see - but they know a good show, and what will pull in the masses, when they see one.
That is why, even after two astonishing incidents between the feuding Italians, bans have not been handed out as they might well have been had the battlers been also-rans and not front-runners.
Rossi, the wide-eyed youngster with the towering talent, gets right up veteran Biaggi's nose as the power shift of motorcycle racing in Italy favours the new boy over the old hero.
When Mad Max, the...