The sad thing is...

Hayden actually thinks he is good.....

 

That seems to be what the results say...

 

Yeah, you have evidence to refute that?

Which orifice is it you are spouting out of again??

 

Rossi has had 2 engine failures, and a tyre failure thus far.The
accident @ Assen was his fault and am not taking that into
consideration

How soon we forget, Rossi and Hayden on the same bike in the past and
Rossi TRIPLES the points of Hayden.

Hayden is flat out beating debutant Pedrosa FFS

On top of this Rossi been given a inferior bike to last season [well
done Yamaha] that is a pig to set up..... when will the agony stop.


The one in your fanatsy land where you think that on the same machinery
Hayden would be near Rossi....yeah at the start line i suppose....

 

You can say the above...

And, this in the same breath? When Nicky was getting beat by Rossi,
he was not only a rookie in MotoGP, but a rookie on a world stage.
Pedrosa is a 2-time 250 champ.

How can you blame Hayden for this?

So, in the year where Rossi is struggling, why is it that Hayden has
been the one to step up in the title fight? Nothing against Melandri
had his bad luck. Let's not forget that Hayden is riding a development
bike that neither Pedrosa nor Melandri would touch.

Hayden may not be a Rossi (who else is?), but so far he's shown himself
to be the best of the rest.

 

He is good. Just not the best, perhaps.

 

Does anyone have any comments as to Andrew Pitt's World SuperSport
championship a few years ago when he didn't win any races?

Curious if you guys felt that was a hollow one.

--
Andrew
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05 Infant

 

So Dani pulls a fast lap early in the race, while Hayden is following
Junior around in 3rd (ahead of Pedrosa, note!), then Hayden runs away
for 20 laps, and with four laps to go and a four second lead, he
decides to back off by half a second a lap, and this means that he
didn't outride Dani? Or in Germany, where Hayden pushes Pedrosa aside
for 3rd, then deals with Pedrosa's counterattack by literally leaning
on him until he gives up; does that not count as outriding him either?

What sort of bizarre MarkN-esque world are we in?

Beats Hayden sometimes, gets beaten by Hayden sometimes, occasionally
loses the front and puts it in the gravel.

Spends a lot of time in the 5th-7th place region, unluckily caught up
in a turn one melee, when the bike is good he's good for a podium, when
it's not, he's not.

Bike not ready for prime-time at the start of the season, qualifies
poorly leading to getting caught in turn 1 melees and also possibly to
tire failure - charging through the pack from 10th place isn't as easy
as biding your time in 3rd until two laps from the end.

Hayden: 2 wins, on the podium 9 times, turns what could have been two
DNFs into a 7th and a 2nd.

The FIM is perfectly capable of changing the points scheme from
25-20-16-13-etc to 30-20-10-0; but until they do, the smart riders will
ride like Hayden is now.

-jake

 

Dude, Rossi has risen to the occasion, he's ridden his ass off when the bike
hasn't failed. To ask him to do the mathematically and humanly impossible to
"prove how great he is" is totally silly. Rossi has ridden at a high level.
Hayden has done was a pro does, he's been there to take advantage. No more,
no less, in one case or the other. If you're going to say "Rossi didn't rise
to the occasion", you'd have to also ask why Hayden hasn't been winning when
Rossi wasn't able to. I for one do neither.

....pablo

 

His bike did not. It's pretty clear the Yamaha is not that great of a
bike. And, it's taking someone like Rossi to get the results it's
gotten.

 

5 to go 51 points behind, it looks like it cannot be Rossi.Either
Pedrosa or Marco *can* do it depending how hungry they are

NO, Hayden is not a great rider just a good rider, been lucky, [make
your own] stayed out of trouble and up front most weekend [so he jolly
well should be, has the best bike and team/budget and years of
practice.ed.]

What ever happened to the *super* riders USA produced like Rainey,
Lawson, Shwantz, Snr.Roberts, hell even Kosinski was better than this
current lot?

 

Actually, an interesting mini interview with burgess yesterday, he
blamed Val for the problems in setup during practice. He did it as a
complement to Val's incredible riding skills, but said val was just
riding around problems during practice instead of trying to fix them.
Then when it's time to push it for Qualifying, there is no more left
to go, then saturday night and sunday morning the team comes up with
changes that save him much of the time, but not always. So interesting
that the great development rider is having issues of his own on setup.

Bruce

 

What ever happened to the *super* riders Oz produced like Doohan and
Gardner?

 

I heard the first part, which all riders do, but didn't hear Burgess ever
claim "instead of fixing them". The "either or" proposition is not something
that came out of the interview for me.

....pablo

 

Well, the fact is he's having to compensate for a bad M1. It seems like
Yamaha is highly sensitive to the new Michelin tires. Yamaha doesn't
seem to have that parameter quite worked out.

 

Compared to Rossi, everybody else in MotoGP is just a "good" rider.

Traction control...

 

He's developing a new bike. Perhaps it isn't going perfectly.


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Somehow, I don't think auscar is Aussie... ;-)

 

he is a troll thats been around aus.motorcycles for years & goes by "hatz"

many stories have been written how he stirs the pot & of course how the
Italians are the greatest.

He hates Honda too except when there is an Italian on board

Notice he hasn't said "anything" about Ducati's recent poor form?

 

All riders have to compensate for their bikes, that's part of the game.
You think Everyone else on the grid has a perfect bike and perfect setup?

Yeah, just like last years the tires worked great for Yam, and gave the
hondas chatter problems for 2/3 of the season.

Bruce