*MotoGP Spoiler Warning*
I just watched the MotoGP race in Portugal, and I'm still stumbling around the house in slack-jawed disbelief. Stop reading now if you don't want to be exposed to the biggest spoiler of the season: Dani Pedrosa crashed and took out Nicky Hayden, his championship leading team mate. As I saw Nicky tumbling through the gravel I screamed at the TV in the mindless, vain hope that reality could be bent back by sheer vocal force. Stephanie was upstairs and was convinced that only the Tivo exploding could have unleashed such verbal fury on a Sunday morning from her otherwise sedate husband.
I think the press clip that sums it up best is this:
A moment of stunned silence descended on the paddock as it tried to absorb what had just happened - Hayden, who has finished every other race this season, immediately rushed back to his broken bike to try and rejoin, but the damage was too great and all the apoplectic American could do was remove his helmet and scream in frustration while punching the ground with his fist. It must have taken every inch of Nicky's restraint to avoid inflicting similar blows on the young Spaniard, who appears to have broken a finger in the fall. It is no exaggeration to state that Pedrosa's moment of madness was one of the greatest mistakes ever seen in modern motorcycle grand prix racing.
I like that word "apoplectic". After the race I ran over to the computer to see what folks were saying on the forums, and I think this is the best line so far:
To Pull a Pedrosa:
Imagine a worst case scenario, then single-handedly achieve that scenario with one bone-headed stunt.
My otherwise sedate husband indeed.
You know that scene in "Run Lola Run," the one in the casino where she needs one last routlette spin to land zwanzig?
Yeah. That was pretty much the scream.
Posted by: Stephanie | October 15, 2006 at 07:53 PM