<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (roger-m @ Dec 1 2006, 02:34 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>jumkie ,i got a couple of questions i would like to ask your good self.
Hi Roger.
Yeah, I know you were talking about the seller. (No need to explain the obvious). However, I’m going one step further and saying, yup, why not make money on Dani’s brain fart.
For the record, I like both MotoGP and NASCAR. I appreciate both forms of racing, as well as many other types of racing. I like speed period. (By the way, NASCAR is plenty close racing and like all things racing, it is a fine art and has its merits.)
Of course I like close racing. Have you ever seen the documentary: Five Cool Thing About Road Racing? In this documentary; the teammate are ask what is the unwritten rules about a team. The first of course is what we all know and heard: You try to beat your teammate. But the second is: you never take out your teammate. This speaks for itself.
I think its very obvious, that you and others see Dani taking out Hayden as just close racing because your biased against Hayden. Nothing more and nothing less. But I’m for sure had Collin taken out Rossi (in the penultimate race no less) you and others would have been all over him.
Nobody is scared of any riders. They are all beatable. Even the “great” Rossi was beat as you can see.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (somedamnwriter @ Dec 1 2006, 04:20 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>...but if Dani went and asked Nicky how he is, oh dear, I think there would be blood-shed as Nicky "could only see red" at that time. So imo, it's better that Dani stayed away at that time and apologized to Nicky when he was calmer.
Yeah, Hayden was pretty upset. Did you see when Roberts chased? His first reaction was to check and see if the other rider was ok. But he didn't sit around trying to apologize. He just checked then walked away. (I'm sure he apologized later.)
Who really knows what is in the heart of these guys. But we certainly can make are own opinions. Mine is that he was a coward. At that moment, when something like the crash happens, I think people react on the instinct of their basic nature. For me, to see Dani throw his hands in the air, looked to me as though he was upset at himself, but not for the egregious act that he had perpetrated on Hayden, but rather that he had thrown away the “mathematical “ chance that he could win the championship. This is what my perspective continues to be; so in my opinion, he is not “humble.”
But I agree with you at some level. Perhaps his self-preservation instinct (which may have superseded) in that moment, he chose to walk away knowing that Hayden was very upset.
I must say to his credit, it looks like he tried to make amends the next race in a very public way.