Hayden article

Nicky Hayden article in Cycle World (starts at page 70, tried to link direct but not working)

Cycle News - Cycle News 2015 Issue 38 September 22


And the attachments from elsewhere

MdubSTYLIE said:

That song never gets old. I like this quote,
What was your best season other than 2006?
I'd say 2005, especially the second half. Or 2010 the Ducati was not bad that year. I was able to beat Casey straight-up a few times, out-qualified him a few times and not a lot of guys can say that. So I'd say that year was a good year.

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I actually enjoyed that one as well but likely for different reasons to you (knowing at least one reason you would have enjoyed it )

I actually found it ridiculously interesting that he measured his second best season that way as it says (to me) a lot about his mindset in terms of how his other seasons had gone and/or perhaps where he saw himself competitively.

To me was just a very interesting comment and measure (of both he and Stoner in that aspect).

That said, I also personally found it disappointing or perhaps better a shame that he measured his second best season as one where he beat Stoner a small number of times and not due to his overall results (not dissing on Hayden, just a shame that he has to look that way rather than overall results). But as they say, the first battle to win is to beat your team mate and certainly there is some incentives there (hell, he and Dovi at Indy were sensational a few years back)



For the record. Was twice when both completed races (Spain and Great Britain) with CS having 5 retirement versus Haydens's 3. Across the year he finished 7th to CS' 4th with a points differential of 72 in favour of CS. That year was actually Hayden's best championship finish since leaving Honda