INTERVIEW
P54
NICKY HAYDEN
He also has an almost full suite
of race wins: in AMA Superbike,
where he was champion, and
in MotoGP. He's also just a dirt
track mile oval victory away from
the coveted AMA Grand Slam (a
win on a half mile, short track, TT,
mile and road race).
We spoke to him at the Grand
Prix of Aragon, about the past,
the present and the future. Here
is what he said.
What has it been like at
Ducati? The phrase "shoving
sh*t uphill" comes to mind.
I hate to be too negative now
that I'm leaving, because it was
five years. But if we're honest the
results aren't near what we expected. Ducati is a great brand,
I love the guys I work with, and
the Ducati fans… but it's true,
it's been a lot of hard work without a lot of rewards. So if you'd
have told me five years ago these
would be the results I would've
been really disappointed. But I
don't want to go back too much
now, you know – I wish we'd did
this or maybe if we'd tried that.
Truth is we tried a lot.
Especially this year. I would
say this has been the most frustrating because we had high expectations of the new bike we
were going to try and a lot of
