Fascinating 3 page interview with Colin Edwards in Sport Rider magazine (link above), where he talks about his entire career and how he’s found life in MotoGP. Excerpt below.
“I never had a doubt about coming to Grand Prix,” says Edwards. “I went to [World] Superbike and stayed there a little bit too long. I think to come and perform at this level, you need to get into it quick. I’m just [reciting] the old adage ‘You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.’ I was there for so long and got ingrained in a particular riding style, and it took me years to kind of . . . I would still say I have a superbike style. I’ve adapted to get this thing to work. You always have to; it’s never perfect.” Nothing is in racing, but this team comes very close.
“I don’t know how to explain this, this team; it just works,” he says of the move from the factory team. “I don’t mean any disrespect to the factory team at all, but this works. I’m riding the same as I always did; I’m riding the s**t out of it. We’ve got the bike working really good. It’s like ’02 in Superbike. Found a setting on the bike and I just never changed, maybe a little bit harder spring or maybe a click here or a click there, and I’ve never had that with [any bike in MotoGP] except now. It’s always been a struggle to find a setting that was right.” Mention that some will wonder how life with Rossi on a factory bike couldn’t be heaven, and Edwards responds, “Yeah, a factory bike that was built for my teammate, the tires built for my teammate. That’s the key.”
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