A deal that would put Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Roger Hayden on a factory Kawasaki Ninja ZX-RR MotoGP bike for the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca is not a confirmed, done deal, according to Hayden’s manager Steve Dicterow, of International Racers. “I saw the same report,” Dicterow told Roadracingworld.com Tuesday, “and when I saw the report I called Roger and asked, ‘Do you know something I don’t?’ He said, ‘I know exactly what you know,’ which is this: We’re clearly talking with them. They have said that they would like Roger to do that. And so it’s clear Kawasaki would like that to occur, and clearly we’re getting paperwork rolling in that direction. So, no question, everybody would like that to happen. But we have not yet gotten confirmation from anybody at Kawasaki that it is a certainty. “Like I said, clearly they’re talking to us, Roger, etc. about doing it. I think that they want to do it. I think we want to do it. But again, I have not gotten absolute confirmation that it’s a done deal yet. And the reason I’m saying it this way is the way I read it on the MotoGP website it looked to me like they thought it was a done deal. So the only distinction I’m making is whether or not it’s a certainty.” Dicterow said the deal would have to be confirmed “in a matter of days” due to “Dorna’s rules” regarding wild card entries. As for Hayden’s MotoGP experience, according to Dicterow, it consists of a few laps on a 990cc Ninja ZX-RR the day after the 2006 MotoGP World Championship finale at Valencia, in Spain. “But I am 100% certain that if he were to do it,” Dicterow said of Hayden signing up to race the U.S.G.P. for Kawasaki, “that he would get some testing on it before Laguna. Nobody’s going to go out and the first time they get on a MotoGP bike is at the race itself.” Dicterow speculated that Hayden would test a ZX-RR in Japan prior to racing at Laguna Seca. “We’re keeping our fingers crossed,” added Dicterow. “I think it would be a great, fun opportunity for him and who knows where it would lead. He’s certainly riding very well right now in AMA, and if Kawi had interest in him for the future over there [MotoGP World Championship] now would be a good time to be looking at him.”