dunia seleb udah merambah motogp neh.. emang cakep sih Hayden! dibanding si
Colin Edwards yang botak or John Hopkins yang jauh dr kece. hehe.
ini hanya trik jualan panitia motogp a la Amrik biar GP yg baru pertama digelar
di Indianapolis Motor Speedway akhir pekan ini laris manis dipenuhi penonton.
sebab, konon di Amrik peminat F1 disini makin merosot.
kalo ngeliat fakta sirkuit sih, mestinya ducati bisa berjaya disini. dengan
karakter lintasan Indianapolis [yang memiliki trek lurus nan panjang], ada 3
faktor penting yang dibutuhkan untuk menaklukan sirkuit ini: Kecepatan, Grip
ban & Stabilitas Sasis. Ducati memenuhi semua kriteria itu.
PR yang gak gampang nih buat Rossi dengan Yamaha-nya, apalagi Lorenzo yang
[masih] memakai karet michelin!
tapi, sekali lagi, anything is possible.
cheers!
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"Men's Vogue"
Duke of Hazard
When
MotoGP world champion Nicky Hayden finds himself in harm's way, this
season's sturdy sweaters will break the fall. By Dan Neil
September 2008
[FOTO]
Nicky Hayden rests easy at the Honda test track in Corona, California. Malo
sweater, $780; malo.it. John Varvatos plaid button-down, $165, moleskin pants,
$225, and black lace-up shoes, $345. (Photo: Norman Jean Roy)
Nicky
Hayden is testy. Just off a flight from Germany, where he came in dead
last on his Repsol-sponsored Honda, the 2006 MotoGP world champion is
weary and in a bit of a funk. "Man, it was a complete disaster," he
says, and...whoa, whoa, what's with the accent?
In any event, it's been a long, frustrating season for Hayden, so much
so that the paddock chatter in MotoGP the two-wheel equivalent of
Formula One, where races are won at speeds upward of 205 mph has him
defecting from his longtime team, Honda (he'll be a free agent at the
end of the year). One thing's for sure: Hayden is a motorcycle prodigy,
having won on everything he's ever thrown a leg over. At 18, he was
Rookie of the Year in the AMA Grand National Championship. At 21, he
was the youngest-ever AMA Superbike champion. By 25, he was MotoGP
world champion, ending the four-year reign of Valentino Rossi, whom
many consider the greatest road racer in the history of the sport.
All of which is to say that losing does not sit well with Hayden.
Pretty much like it sat with the Confederates at Appomattox. "You know,
there are times when you get hot and rolling," he says, "and then you
have a few injuries or whatnot and get the ball against you. You got to
be a hardheaded hard-ass."
As we speak, his brothers Tommy and Roger Lee, stars in the AMA are
nearby, icing down various scrapes and broken bones they've received in
combat. The three brothers share a house in Orange, California, where
they train and get in some super¬motard riding. Have his brothers'
recent injuries made him think twice about racing? "Look, when you're
hanging it out, you're going to crash and when you go down, it
hurts," he says. "This sport is real. But, you know, I chose this
game."
Talking to Hayden, you get the feeling that he'd rather take a hard
spill than climb back on a plane and return to Europe. Now in his sixth
season and one of the few Americans in the sport, he confesses to not
having taken much to Europe. He likes Barcelona O.K. but generally
avoids Belgium, where the team is headquartered. "It rains all the time
there," Hayden says. You can take the boy out of the country, as they
say, but you can't get him to like escargots. And although he's not a
fan of continental food, he no longer sneers at sparkling water. He
also admits to a little frustration when Japanese fans constantly ask
him about Kentucky's various contributions to world culture, such as
its fried chicken. "All they know about Kentucky is KFC," he says,
exasperated.
So why does Hayden stay in MotoGP, when he could choose indeed,
likely dominate American road racing and be closer to center of the
universe, Kentucky? "I like to go toe-to-toe with the baddest boys on
the baddest bikes in the world," he says, which is also why he doesn't
currently want the distraction of a girlfriend. "The tracks are better.
There's more passion. MotoGP has got a bigger audience. I really enjoy
racing in front of that audience."
He enjoys winning in front of it, too. "I remember when I won the world
championship, I had the American flag on my shoulder and the national
anthem playing and 120,000 fans cheering me," he says. "That motivates
me every day to get up with the sun."
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