I rate Haydne very highly indeed. He has come in on tracks he doesn't know at all and on tyres he has very little expeince of and looked the part.
He was spinning the thing up in fine style at Donington and looked every inch at home.
I reckon he has had as good a debut as Bayliss to be honest, OK he hasn't got the same results. But, he has so little European experience and we all know the Yank tracks are so very very different. Michelins are not quite as different to Dunnies now but the transistoin must be hard. And to cope with the pressure of being in Rossi's team must be tremendous.
Fair play to the bloke and also fair play to Honda for having the balls to pick him instead of Edwards. Colin would have been just as good, but is he a rider for the future???
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