<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mylexicon @ Jul 23 2007, 08:52 AM) [snapback]80706[/snapback]<div class='quotemain'>
I'll give Hopkins a pass for stuffing it down the inside in Nicky's blind spot b/c there wasn't much place else to go.
I'm not giving Stoner a pass though. Complete over zealous brake bombing into turn one. I'm willing to chalk it up to inexperience. It's only the second time in his whole life he's launched a bike into the Andretti hairpin under race conditions, and the last time he did it was 1 year ago.
Missing the apex by 5-10 ft on lap one in a critical hairpin is forgivable, but you still have to eat all the FLAK associated with poor riding; especially if you punt the hometown hero off his line for no racing benefit.
All he had to do was hit his break point, ride through parallel with Nicky and then drag to see who can get to the next turn first.
I could never do it, but I wouldn't expect it from Casey if I hadn't seen it a million times before.
Good on ya for winning your 6th for Ducati, Casey. But please don't ride like a starry-eyed 250 child on my boy's home turf again.
Mylexicon...Stoner had the inside line!... come on what did you want Casey to do?...just wave Nicky and Pedro through and let them overtake? But Nicky wouldn’t have kept up with Casey anyways!...Casey was too quick for all of them!!! What Nicky should have done is taken the wider line around and made sure he didn’t cause an incident like he did to Hopper, if the field would have been more bunched it could have been a major with a few other riders!
