10-24-2006, 10:09 AM
asteele2 Wrote: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.
What Puig is ignoring is that Hayden was side by side with Pedrosa going through that turn and Pedrosa just wasn't letting him through (which he should have done as a teammate). That's just racing. On the other hand, Pedrosa took out Haydens rear wheel because he couldn't control his own bike.
No precedent was set, Pedrosa was just pissed off and fucked up.