10-18-2006, 08:01 PM
While I'm really unhappy about the whole incident, Puig does make note of something everybody seems to be ignoring.
Nicky DID hit Pedrosa in a pass one lap earlier. If you look at both incidences they're almost identical - Nicky nearly tucked the front during his pass, Pedrosa went all the way over. I think it's a little hypocritical of us all to cry terrible treason when it was OK for Nicky to make the same manuever... the risk was exactly the same, it's just that Hayden's pass went off "alright." It kind of established a precedent between them at the race that that's the way it was going to be.
I'm in the Hayden camp, though, no doubt. I really hope Hayden can pull it off, it'd be awesome. I think Puig was out of line to berate Nicky for "not being at the front" - that doesn't make Dani any less wrong... and he's Dani's manager, it shouldn't matter to him what Hayden does.
Nicky DID hit Pedrosa in a pass one lap earlier. If you look at both incidences they're almost identical - Nicky nearly tucked the front during his pass, Pedrosa went all the way over. I think it's a little hypocritical of us all to cry terrible treason when it was OK for Nicky to make the same manuever... the risk was exactly the same, it's just that Hayden's pass went off "alright." It kind of established a precedent between them at the race that that's the way it was going to be.
I'm in the Hayden camp, though, no doubt. I really hope Hayden can pull it off, it'd be awesome. I think Puig was out of line to berate Nicky for "not being at the front" - that doesn't make Dani any less wrong... and he's Dani's manager, it shouldn't matter to him what Hayden does.
When it comes to Ryan Jenkins, the story ends with me putting him in the wall.
2009 Speed Triple | 2006 DR-Z400SM | 1999 CBR600F4 | 1998 Jeep Cherokee
-Ginger
2009 Speed Triple | 2006 DR-Z400SM | 1999 CBR600F4 | 1998 Jeep Cherokee
-Ginger