Nicky Hayden hailed his 13th place finish in his 200th Grand Prix race at the Circuit of the Americas as a 'small victory' on the Power Electronics Aspar Honda. The 2006 MotoGP world champion was at a loss to explain a sudden drop in power at turn 1 as he battled to make up ground after a poor start, but Hayden eventually came through to finish inside the points and although he feels 13th place is 'not spectacular', Hayden is confident the team is moving in the right direction with the RC213V-RS. “Compared with the rest of the weekend we have performed well in the race. I made a pretty bad start and lost acceleration in turn one, we still don't know why,” he said. “After that I...
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