<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Racejumkie @ Dec 2 2006, 12:03 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>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 Perhaps his self-preservation instinct (which may have superseded) in that moment, he chose to walk away knowing that Hayden was very upset.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.
I guess it depends on how you look at it. Some people say Dani was showing his true colours in that moment, and that very well could be true. But if it is, he's done a damn good job of hiding the "Real Pedrosa" in the half a decade that he's been racing. I agree Dani ...... up, and what he did was very stupid for so many reasons (I also agree that Puig is a twit)
The whole thing was a huge surprise. I mean, it was jaw-dropping due to the circumstances and the consequences, but it was also surprising because Pedrosa did it. He has/had a reputation for being a cool-headed, smart racer.
I personally wouldn't say any of his actions were cowardly. I think under the circumstaces with all that pressure his under, he just snapped. Farm boy got past him with all the grace of a drunk sumo wrestler on the previous lap, and one of AISMO's fuses just blew, and, for a few minutes, Dani Pedrosa became Jorge Lorenzo. Then he smashes them both off the track, and skulks around nursing his broken finger(nail) looking at Haystack like it was his fault. In that moment Pedrosa was crazy, stupid, angry, under the influence of that ........ Puig and, as always, very short. I don't think he was being cowardly, though. I wouldn't want to be anywhere near Haystack when he was like that either. My opinion is that it was a one off. It goes totally against Pedrosa's track record and I don't think we'll see any more of that kinda malfunction. The incident was horrible, but I'm not looking into it much in terms of Pedrosa's real character. People under pressure slip sometimes. For Pedrosa it happened at the worst possible time. That's life. But Hayden won anyway, so I think it's a bit irrelevant.
