Interview with Kurtis Roberts

[.RJ]

Kurtis certainly knows how to ride a motorcycle, and perhaps his career choices havent worked out too well in his favor but he certainly seems a little bitter about something. Maybe its the hair.

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With your fellow Nicky Hayden, Roger Lee Hayden, John Hopkins and Colin Edwards out there this weekend, if you were on the right equipment, do you think you could be right there with them?

Oh yeah, no problem. You say Roger, whatÔÇÖs Roger. I mean I like Roger, but whatÔÇÖs Roger ever done? HeÔÇÖs one a couple of Daytona races, but thatÔÇÖs easy. HeÔÇÖs never won a championship yet. IÔÇÖve won three of them. YouÔÇÖve got Nicky [Hayden]. Other than the Superbike championship, IÔÇÖve won the same championships he has and he didnÔÇÖt have to race against the Suzuki 1000s the following year like I did. Nicky is not the guy coming in here that is favored. ItÔÇÖs Casey [Stoner]. And you look at Casey and [Dani] Pedrosa. I know who is better there. And the guy who is better is not the guy who is winning all the time, in my opinion. I mean Casey is a great rider and heÔÇÖs doing really, really good this year. But then you look at Valentino. He struggling and you know he didnÔÇÖt forget how to ride. All the Michelin guys are struggling a lot. But there is no doubt in my mind that, I donÔÇÖt think there is a doubt in anyone on our teamÔÇÖs mind that we would be there if we had what we needed.