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MOTOGP: Hayden Looks Forward to Ducati Future
Written by: Colin Young   
09/11/2008
Indianapolis, IN
 
Repsol Honda's Nicky Hayden (Photo: Honda Pro Images) ยป More Photos

Nicky Hayden will make his final grand prix appearance for Honda in the U.S. in Sunday's Indianapolis Grand Prix. The race will be an opportunity to wave good-bye to his Honda USA fans for within two months Hayden will be in red and riding for the factory Ducati Corse team.

Hayden will be Casey Stoner's teammate at Ducati in 2009 thus ending his six-season stay with the factory Repsol Honda squad.

The Ducati move has filled Hayden with relief and motivation for this new direction in his career.

"It's time to change, right now I'm going nowhere and I need to do something different," said Hayden about his move from Honda to Ducati. "I can't say too much but there'll be an official
announcement soon."

Hayden, 27, has so far won three grands prix in 95 starts for Honda as well as the 2006 MotoGP World Championship.

By November he will be free of the tiresome political machinations of the factory HRC squad which have increasingly frustrated and bemused the Kentucky Kid. None more so than in Italy last week when HRC controversially ended their Michelin contract to allow Hayden's Spanish teammate, Dani Pedrosa, to use Bridgestone tires for the final five race of the season.

Hayden, a world champion for Honda, was brutally told not to bother asking for the same winning Bridgestone tires used by Valentino Rossi, Casey Stoner, and now Pedrosa.


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