MOTOGP » 'Spare fifth' ends Hayden's Honda era

If Nicky and Sete can BOTH ride the Ducati and Challenge Casey Stoner....2009 will be a great year.

Currently, I only see Dovi and Jorge doing a lot better next season - lets see tommorow if Nick surprises everyone though, and is in the top 3 of the time sheets.

Everyone likes competition and close races, other than Casey and Valentino is just didn''t happen this year.

Love him, hate him, do or don't rate him still wicked to watch on his day, as the eurosport boys say, 'i would buy a ticket!'

Despite being treated in a decidedly shabby manner by his team from day one, he still praises them in the end. That's class. I hope Honda gets their teeth kicked in next year.

Would anybody have taken a bet HRC would have sent him out on the top bike? - tyres or no.. only if you believe in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy...

Not at all. Honda never treated Hayden with any decency in the first place, so there was no reason to expect anything different.

John Spoonemore,

That's class? More like fake and no ballz to me.

And please stop with all these conspiracy theories about Honda mistreated Hayden.

He's also becoming the king of excuses, blaming it on the spare bike.

Kelly Green,

Sete will beat Hayden with a satellite Ducati.

I think it is very clear for everybody and all the Hayden fans that Dovi was JUST better thank Nicky this year. Not to mention Dani.

I respect Nicky, I like his personality but I as a rider there are others... better than him.

Good luck to him next year.

Sete's bike will be like his honda, satellite in name only, they have brought him back from the dead to play at the front and he will have the best ducati can offer...
They have had the taste and want the trophy back, bad, and to do that they have to trip VR up, in a straight race he wins every time....Suppo who is one of Rossi's biggest fans knows this only too well...

The truth is truth, your man didn't win and so it's time to rubbish anyone who finished behind your favourite.
Hayden did as well as he could have done as thats all he gives, his all.
I'm waiting and really hoping that the Ducati and Hayden get on really well as during the race it looked like Marco FINALLY listened to someone about dropping the 250 ultra smooth for the "Do as I say you b1.tch" and showed that ridden hard and wild you can be fast. Glad to see him fight with a few and not ride round like a pace car at the back.

Dont think gibenau will do much except provide some feed back for Casey. He had to do the whole thing him self this season. All of the Ducati riders were also rans all the time. Hope fully Sete can rectify this as well as get in the road of Rossi but that never bothered Rossi before and it wont in 2009.