posted September 19, 2002 10:11 PM
Is Honda Stupid or what? Checking out AMAsuperbike.com and they have excerps of an interview with Colin Edwatds. Apparently, Honda has let Collin know that the y are dropping out of WSB, won't be fielding a team next year and have no place for him! This on the heals of putting Nickey on the GP circuit.
Even if it true, why would Honda say this to Edwards prior to the final race? Now will Edwards race to win the final race and the number one plate or give Honda the bird. Ducati has got to be scratching their heads. I would suspect edwards will race to win as the plate goes with him. Wow.
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posted September 20, 2002 05:02 AM
Yah, just fucking amazing... I think that the ultimate revenge would be for Edwards to go to Yamaha GP and kick their asses!
posted September 20, 2002 06:50 AM
This just proves what I have learned in life and always told young people! All Employers do one thing best "Make Bad employees out of good ones"!! Too Much!!
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posted September 20, 2002 09:14 AM
Don't forget, Kawasaki really pissed a bunch of people off the way they treated Doug Chandler this last season...He showed a lot of loyalty, and deserved more than the way he was let go. So it's not confined to just one Factory, or one Manager.
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posted September 20, 2002 09:37 AM
You read my mind about the Yamaha GP ride. In fact a thought did occur to me about that. Maybe the reason Honda let Colin know now instead of later was to let him talk to someone like Yamaha. There has to be some logical reason for them telling him this now instead of later.
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posted September 20, 2002 01:22 PM
Trying to keep that squeeky clean Honda image with Nicky ???? can't have the foul mouth Texas badass on the first team.
Swft is right, Kawasaki REALLY screwed Chandler and that sucks way more. At least Honda called Colin in and talked to him and let him know what they were thinking, right or wrong.
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posted September 20, 2002 04:13 PM
No not yet. But very possible, this from MCN:
Colin Edwards has hit out at the politics behind Honda's decision to give fellow-American Nicky Hayden a MotoGP ride on a Honda V5.
Edwards - who has signed a letter of intent to ride for Ducati in WSB next year - says part of his motivation to leave Honda was his treatment by Honda top brass after winning the prestigious Suzuka Eight-hour race earlier this year.
Edwards told MCN: " I am pissed off that Hayden has been given a GP ride and I didn't after all I have done for Honda over the previous five years. I have won two Suzuka Eight-hour races and a world title with another one still a possibility. After all that I would have thought I would have been the first in line for a GP ride.
" Instead I just feel like I have had a boot removed from my ass at high speed!
" The whole politics thing at Honda is bullshit. It just seems riders who have got a load of money behind them get rides - it doesn't seem to matter if they can ride a bike well, win races or championships. If you've got the money then in you come.
" All this means for me is that I am getting closer and closer to being a Ducati rider. I am not sitting around kissing ass to get a ride. That's not me. "
posted September 20, 2002 07:20 PM
Well I can only wish Collin good luck. He should be unstoppable in WSB with Baylis off to GP.
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posted September 21, 2002 10:29 PM
I have to agree. It looks like he got the shaft. After all Colin has done for Honda, I would've guessed he'd be the one going to Moto GP.
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posted September 22, 2002 05:47 AM
i'ma laugh when hopkins shows nicky how to ride a gp bike ;P
the only reason hayden is riding gp is to keep him from signing with yamaha gp
all politics.
anyway hayden is in for rude awakening. in ama he was top dog, top support. in the gp he's gonna be bottom of the heap, and not gonna have that nice cushy 100% factory effort. im sure they will have him on some satelite team, that is honduh support but not really...
i just hope he doesn't wad too many bikes and lose his ride altogether. good rider, good kid, but i think by pushing like this he may have endangered a cush honduh racing career....
posted September 25, 2002 08:55 AM
wow..i stand somewhat corrected....they discussed it on the gp pre-race
hayden will be along-side rossi,wonders will never cease....
not top dog, but should actually get decent support. though id reckon they'll be stern with him should he pull a stunt like at LS and knock rossi into the gravel like he did haga....
posted September 25, 2002 03:06 PM
I like Nicky and what he's about but I'm a bigger Rossi fan than I am of anyone else. I love how he goes out and has a good time and just fucks with everyone until it's time to light them up. He can exploit someone's fuck up better than anyone else on the track. I never liked Biaggi cause I think he's a crybaby and he's just pissed that he didn't take to four strokes the way Checa did. I think Nicky's in for a rude awakening when he lines up against Rossi...
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