Team Kallllasald's Tommy Hayden
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professional career: He needs to crash. (The sound
HENNY RAY ABRAMS
I don't quite find them enough. I guess in that
you just heard is Kawasaki team manager Mike Pre-
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sense, I probably, maybe, could test the limit a little
ston going into cardiac arrest.)
ommy Hayden has a plan to follow his brother
Nicky overseas. Tommy knows he has to win
the 2004 AMA Superbike title, and to land an AMA
Superbike ride in 2004 he needs to win the AMA
Supersport Championship in 2003, and to win the
Supersport championship he needs to do one thing
which he hasn't done nearly enough in his six-year
bit more."
"Sometimes I feel like I should fall a little bit,"
The case could be made that Tommy wasn't
Tommy said on the final day of the three-day test at
thinking clearly. On the first day of the Laguna
Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca. "You see all the GP
with three laps on it in dry conditions in turn three
the limit sometimes, and sometimes I feel like maybe
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Seca test, Tommy crashed his lX-6RR on a tire
guys - even the best ones crash. You've got to find
at Laguna Seca. Teammate Tony Meiring, who'd
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