MotoGP. Hayden OUT of Czech GP........

Question

Well thanks to Nicky " having fun " at the X - Games, he will now miss the Czech Gp and return at Misano.

Full details here : http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2008/Aug/e/n080812a.htm

Here is the X _ Games low down : http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2008/Aug/080811a.htm

Is it a good idea for riders at the thick end of the sport to compete in these types of off track sports.

It is always a risk and even if HRC said yes, which they did, they run the risk of there rider missing rounds.

Dani-bot missed a round but that due to thinking rain does not slow you down, but Nicky has no one to blame but him self for this one.

Your thoughts on this matter please race fans ?

Answer 1

This sucks....

Not only did he not get to actually compete in the X-games, but now he is out for Brno.

Lame.....

I'm no Ducati fan, but I will agree with those of you who want to see Nicky on a different ride. I feel Honda has given Nicky the shaft for a few years now....so right back at them.

Go Edwards!

Answer 2

He doesn't givaschit. He has a new winning ride next season. This will help honda let him go even easier. His bike sucks nuts this season anyway. Every week it's some new fangled go fast geometry of swing arm, ECU, wheel size, mapping, piston shape, throttle body length, valve guide material, pneumatic valve spring, mollasses in the frame rails to lower the C.G..

Can't wait till he's on the Duc.      

Answer 3

I agree with Shug and Wigg...is there any more likable guy in all of motor sports?? (okay, Colin Edwards is a close 2nd). Nicky is the All American kid. Polite, gregarious, humble...always giving thanks and credit to everyone but himself. I remember when he won the World Championship, he even thanked his personal trainer saying he would have never won it had it not been for that guy waking him up at 6am every morning to train.

That being said, it's a bummer that he's out for this race. Not that it's going to make this season any worse...it's obvious he's out of the hunt this year. I guess you can't blame him for wanting to do the Supermoto, especially with the blessings of HRC. I also think, if he was actually in the running for a Championship, my hunch is he would  not have done the X-Games. Hopefully it's not too bad.

Answer 4

Whilst I sympathise,  as careless as it may

sound - I don't really see that him being out will

cause much mayhem in view of points and the

championship -

It's probably just as well - the circuit's just had a

re-surface - this just eliminates another hurdle

to master -

It does however put a little spanner in the works -

It's a hurdle that the likes of God, Stoner and

Pedrobot (even poor Lorenzonis48ss) COULD

do without !! - x*x -

  

Answer 5

Old Forrest Gump is not in the points hunt anyway, so his missing one GP is not a big issue.  

Answer 6

Can hardly blame him for trying his hand ( or foot... why the silence?) at something else, he has probably got a ticking off from HRC, lets hope for a decent rookie or forgotten gem of a rider for Brno, go on Kionari, loose 5kg and get on the phone!!

Answer 7

My thoughts are s**+*t happens and good for Nicky in being out there in front of the paying public and being, as he always is, the positive and human face of Moto GP.

I don't think it is a matter of blame at all - his or otherwise. I would put money on Nicky not being the only rider who was on a supermoto, enduro, cross bike et al during the break. It just so happened that he was at a public event and any one of them could have hurt themselves in private training. Remember when Troy Bayliss bugger*ed himself up riding his bicycle ?

I am sorry but I can not agree with anyone who says that he thinks he does not give a s**+*t - that simply is not Nicky Hayden. I have said it in here before and will say it again now - Nicky Hayden is perhaps the most professional Moto GP rider out there and if all of them had his full on 110% committed attitude and loyalty to his team, fans and motorcycle sport in general, then it would be even better than it is now.

Answer 8

Hi Wiggysan. I thought at the time when Blag_d posted the question of him doing the X games that HRC would have stopped him due to injury risk. when he pulled out because they had changed the Course I thought he had done the right thing. But the damage was already done by the look of things.

Have to admire his work ethic wanting to keep in touch through the summer break. but he might have sealed his fate with HRC.

lets hope he gets on the Ducati.

I take it by the 2 week rule HRC wont be replacing him then.

just thought about it when Julian mentioned a replacement rider.