BWitcher Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDhVCWiWCvs This idiot should be banned from speedway, what a dirty reckless move this was. Could have killed someone. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamond@heart Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDhVCWiWCvs This idiot should be banned from speedway, what a dirty reckless move this was. Could have killed someone. I bet no witch hunt appeared on here for that incident. Mind you I bet most of the Pedersen haters will still find a way to blame him for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave the Mic Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 Conveniently missing out the fact that Zagar was the one who initiated the 'violence'. I think its safe to say that Zagar is 'ok' when he's trying to slap you. As for the crash, they were level down the straight, Nicki enters the turn with his front wheel over the white line, he couldn't go anywhere else. Zagar could. Zagar chose to try and block him. Difference being Pedersen had his helmet on, so a slap was never going to do any real damage, whilst kicking someone with a steel shoe on is the height of bravery! As is racing off to hide behind your pit crew. And they were not level-you were clearly watching a different race. Zagar was in front and chose the line he was entitled to, whilst Pedersen carried too much speed going into the turn and it was always going to end in tears. Your view suggests that Zagar should have just stepped aside and waved Pedersen through. What a load of cobblers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arson fire Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 (edited) Nickis footrest got caught in zagars bike... Other than that they wouldn't have fell.... You're making it out to be far worse than it was really. It's the world championships man not some testimonial Edited June 16, 2014 by Arson fire 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave the Mic Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Nickis footrest got caught in zagars bike... Other than that they wouldn't have fell.... You're making it out to be far worse than it was really. It's the world championships man not some testimonial I don't think the issue is so much the crash, although Pedersen was clearly at fault as he was never going to find a gap there and as such I think it is reasonable to say his actions were reckless at best. The issue is his disregard for others safety - he must have known he was at fault, but he didn't even attempt to check on Zagar's well being, which any decent person would have done. Not to mention his bravery at kicking someone with his steel shoe on and then running to hide behind his pit crew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arson fire Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 (edited) I don't think the issue is so much the crash, although Pedersen was clearly at fault as he was never going to find a gap there and as such I think it is reasonable to say his actions were reckless at best. The issue is his disregard for others safety - he must have known he was at fault, but he didn't even attempt to check on Zagar's well being, which any decent person would have done. Not to mention his bravery at kicking someone with his steel shoe on and then running to hide behind his pit crew.god I've just watched it again... How far fetched are you making it?? It was handbags.... Btw Nicki doesn't back down or hide behind anyone in the pits?? Edited June 17, 2014 by Arson fire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fullbore Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Btw Nicki doesn't back down or hide behind anyone in the pits?? So who were all those people around him, ghosts? Niamh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arson fire Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 (edited) So who were all those people around him, ghosts? Niamh Don't let fact get in the way... The only person in the way is pulling Zagar back Edited June 17, 2014 by Arson fire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theknow 2 Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 No respect for the bloke now. I have liked his hard riding over the years but he is now just plain dangerous. He was frustrated behind Zagar and took it out on him in the last bend. He will injure someone badly soon. You will also see he is very brave in the pits with team around him but not anywhere else. Little kick at Zagar then rode off before he could punch his lights out Must be the most unliked rider in top speedway by his fellow racers looking at all there remarks. Even the Danes dont like him Lets hope someone fences him soon as he has had it coming for a while Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavan Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Conveniently missing out the fact that Zagar was the one who initiated the 'violence'. I think its safe to say that Zagar is 'ok' when he's trying to slap you. As for the crash, they were level down the straight, Nicki enters the turn with his front wheel over the white line, he couldn't go anywhere else. Zagar could. Zagar chose to try and block him. sorry but you must have been watching a totally different race to everybody else. Pedersen dive bombed him plain and simple. Other riders tried it throughout the night but realised when to shut off. Nicki just ploughed into him. Your defence is laughable. Pedersen had no regard for the rider he knocked off and as everyone is saying is just a coward. If Nicki wasnt guilty then why did he eventually apologise? Quite correct in saying Zagar shouldnt have reacted but he hardly swung a punch. Were you happy when Boycey decked Gollob? Most fans were. You have no arguement edersen was blatantly at fault.....move on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fullbore Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Don't let fact get in the way... The only person in the way is pulling Zagar back Thanks, so there were at least 4 people around Nicki in that clip. Niamh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtommo Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Despite what Nicki's claiming about Tai deliberately braking his arm twice, let's remembet that Freddie was deemed the cause of the Cardiff coming together. Niamh yer and his arm was not broke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arson fire Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Thanks, so there were at least 4 people around Nicki in that clip. Niamh are there?? Ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fullbore Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 are there?? Ok You don't think his pit crew did a runner? Mind with his record of spitting his dummy at them who knows Niamh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 So who were all those people around him, ghosts? Niamh Zagar went to Nicki's pit space so it's reasonable to find Nicki's pit crew working on his bikes in that area. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pawel115 Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 I got the feeling that at the next GP someone will try to stuff Nicki into the fence I think its getting to that point that riders are just sick of him riding like an idiot without any regard for others safety Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 3 days of junior speedway in Denmark this weekend for the Nicki P Cup.So he does put something back into the sport as well.Very nice man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRITISHSPEEDPOWER Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 3 days of junior speedway in Denmark this weekend for the Nicki P Cup.So he does put something back into the sport as well.Very nice man Apparently outside of speedway he is a very nice man. So i've been told by a few people anyway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starman2006 Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 (edited) Apparently outside of speedway he is a very nice man. So i've been told by a few people anyway! Its true, off a bike he's one of the nicest blokes you could meet, on a bike he's a bloody Animal, im very suprised the way he carries on somebody hasn't really lumped him. Scott Nicholls Craig Boyce where are you when we need ya!! That said, if he rode for any EL club, and ours he's be loved within a week. Edited June 17, 2014 by Starman2006 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted June 19, 2014 Report Share Posted June 19, 2014 I agree with a lot he says in this article. The bit about Greg Hancock pushing him wide, the bit about Woofy knocking him off, and he never moaned. Thursday 19th June 2014, 16:03 Triple world champion Nicki Pedersen called on his rivals to take responsibility for their own mistakes and said “I’ve never gone out to injure anyone in 25 years of racing.” The 37-year-old was incensed by criticism from world champs Greg Hancock, Chris Holder and Tai Woffinden that he lacked respect for his rivals and has been racing beyond the limit. Pedersen is upset with the reaction to his collision with Matej Zagar at the Swedish SGP in Malilla on Saturday and says he was merely racing hard for the World Championship point on offer for third place. The Odense-born star feels he has become an easy scapegoat for rivals when they make a riding error or leave a gap and then crash when he attempts to capitalise on it. Speaking ahead of the Danish SGP in Copenhagen's PARKEN stadium on June 28, Pedersen feels the criticism for his tough riding style is just opponents shining the spotlight on him, rather than considering their own mistakes. "We all make mistakes, but I have never taken anyone off on purpose. Yes, I race hard and yes, I crash with people sometimes. That’s because I race for the championship." - Nicki Pedersen He said: “We all make mistakes, but I have never taken anyone off on purpose. Yes, I race hard and yes, I crash with people sometimes. That’s because I race for the championship. “You won’t find any time when I haven’t raced for a point. You won’t find any occasion when I’ve raced into somebody to take him off. "The riders are saying I’m going out to hurt someone. I’ve never done this. I’ve never gone out to injure anyone in 25 years of racing. “When someone spits at me, as Matej did on Saturday, that’s more disgusting than anything else. And I certainly never punched anybody. “I know I can be a hard rider, but I know exactly what I am doing on the bike. There are lots of young guys who don’t know what they are doing on the bike. They don’t care; they don’t have the respect. It’s a different generation. I don’t have a problem with that, but stop being cry babies. “They might be 10 times more talented as riders than I’ll ever be, but I know where I’m putting my bike. “I don’t want to slag anyone off like my colleagues are. They don’t see their own mistakes. They blame somebody else. All of us have made mistakes and that’s why I don’t want to blame anybody in the press. The next day it could be me making a mistake. “They don’t see their own mistakes. I know when I’ve done something wrong. If I don’t know, I have good people around me who will tell me straight away. I don’t think some of my colleagues ever think they’ve done something wrong. That’s the biggest concern. They always blame somebody else. “People bring up my old reputation. I’m not doing any worse than riders like Darcy, Tai, Holder and all these youngsters.” Pedersen is far from happy with Woffinden’s comments in the media and on Twitter following Saturday’s meeting and feels the Brit has no room to criticise his hard-charging style. He said: “Tai broke my hand two times last year in Gothenburg and Cardiff and smashed Gollob down in Stockholm. No-one blamed Tai for any of this whatsoever. “I’ve said nothing to Tai and I have not taken Tai off the bike. So they should stop saying all this. He says I’ve taken him off two times this year. “I lifted in the corner at Wroclaw (in May) and went out half a metre. The track is quite wide and there is plenty of space. If Tai wanted to, he could have stayed on. But he was down on confidence at the time, so he jumped off the bike. When I lifted with my bike, is that something you do on purpose? No it isn’t. It’s rubbish. “Yes, I make mistakes – I do all the time. But I don’t want people to think I do it on purpose. I’ve had enough of everything Tai is saying. I’ve blocked him on Twitter – I don’t need to see anything from him anymore. These guys are just trying to make themselves look good. They claim they’ve never done anything wrong.” Pedersen says he had no intention of felling Zagar in Malilla, as he chased third place in semi-final two, which would have earned him an extra World Championship point. "I’m not going to change whatsoever on the track – it’s just going to make me even stronger. It’s going to make me even better." - Nicki Pedersen He said: “I went for the gap and it went wrong – I didn’t race straight into him. I passed him halfway through the turn, we got tangled and it went wrong – it’s as simple as this. “I went for the gap; Zagar was a little bit slow and kept opening the gap into the corner every single time. On the last turn, I went for the gap. I could either get one point or zero. “I didn’t nail him. When you get tangled at that speed, these things happen. I didn’t want to take him off. But of course, I wanted a point. “Some of the fans don’t understand the sport. If they think I race into someone just to race into somebody, and don’t realise I’m racing for the points at stake, then they are wrong.” Hancock felt Pedersen rode him excessively hard in heat eight of the Czech SGP, but the Dane denies this and felt the American was tough on him in the final. He said: “Greg shouted at me like a baby in Prague, but an hour or so later, he pushed me wide in the final. That was okay, though. Nobody said anything and he didn’t even say anything. I didn’t say anything either. It’s racing and I’m not a cry baby. “I went past Hancock and needed to avoid Darcy’s back wheel. I had to go right instead of left because he locked the bike up. It left Hancock in no man’s land. He wanted to cut back and his foot slipped. “He overcooked it and wanted to blame somebody else. It’s so easy to blame me, as I said to him. Even the mechanics were surprised. They didn’t know what he was on about.” Pedersen says the knocks he has received will only make him stronger as he bids to silence his critics in style with his first ever Grand Prix win on home shale at the Danish SGP in Copenhagen. He said: “I’m not going to change whatsoever on the track – it’s just going to make me even stronger. It’s going to make me even better. “I’ve just had enough of the other guys trying to make me out to be a bad person. I’m not. They claim they’re better than I am. They’re not. “If you look at Tai, Holder and Hancock, I’ve won more medals than they have ever won together. There must be a reason. They could do it if they focused on themselves and didn’t keep moaning about somebody or other. “I must have been doing something right over the years. So I’ll give it my all once again in PARKEN and I’ll do my talking on the track.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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