Nicky Hayden

Uh, the seven will go to Felix Rosenqvist.

And so the only thing that I found humorous, uh, Paul Kelly from IndyCar pointed this out, is that Nicky Hayden always wanted, and his father before him, always wanted 69.

So when the motorcycle was upside down, it didn't matter.

It still said 69.

Yeah, and there was like a wall with like all types of different steering wheels.

Yeah, like Nicky Hayden

memorabilia.

Yeah.

bikes on the road are too dangerous With some of the drivers now, like even when I'm sitting in the back, just seeing some of them, they can be a bit crazy.

And like what's happened with some riders like Nicky Hayden,

I'm

just not too keen on doing something like that.

But I do know, yeah, there are a lot of all the, none of the top racers ride on the street ever.

Nicky Hayden was killed in a bicycle accident.

He was actually doing some, you know, physical training.

There are things to be wary of in myself already, even though I've only done four track days.

because the timing of that would have been moot, shall we say.

He's trying to keep the tyres in a vague window and just put a little bit of extra steering lock in approaching the sequence of right handers at 16, 17 and 18. which I was reminded actually at the start of the day in 2018 that became known as Hayden Hill to commemorate the late great Nicky Hayden who died the previous year so I quite fancy continuing that actually so I might call that Hayden Hill through the long lingering right handers and then you've got Andretti corner which is turn 20 Bobby Pinn at 11 and Big Red at Turn 1.

I don't think there are any other corner names as such.

They call it the S's, 3, 4, 5 and 6, so you might refer to them as the S's as well.

We say all the time on this podcast, reduce grip, reduce the speeds.

No one complained in 2006 when Valentino Rossi was fighting Nicky Hayden for the motor speed title that, oh, the bikes aren't going fast enough around corners.

This is really boring.

You know what I mean? It's a relative speed.