I went last year and rode my Triumph Daytona up form San Diego. It was awesome
and I highly recommend it! This year it falls on my wedding
anniversary....priorities!
Remember, happy wife = happy life.
Chuck Gee
Spitfire racer
-----Original Message-----
From: BillB@bnj.com
To: vintage.racer@comcast.net
Cc: fot@autox.team.net
Sent: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [FOT] Hot of the wire
I'm headed there to watch the race. Going to fly down to San Diego and ride the
FZ1000 Yamaha I keep there up to Laguna for the race, and then bring it up to
Oregon to register it here. Got to bring it back to SD at some later date since
I do a fair amount of riding down there.
I'm very much looking forward to the race. MotoGP is simply the best racing in
the world, it makes F1, NASCAR, and almost everything else on two or four
wheels look like a lame parade. If you haven't seen one of these races on Speed
Channel you're really missing something amazing and historic.
Not only are the bikes and track superbly camera'ed up so you can see
everything, but the quality of the races is astonishing. Valentino Rossi is
perhaps the greatest motorcycle racer of all time, and this year three
Americans are challenging for the title. Nicky Hayden is leading the
championship race currently, and he's a throughly amazing racer as well. the
passes these guys make will stop your heart. Sometimes they are literally
leaning on each other at 150plus.
What we're seeing is guys that were literally bred to race (all the leaders are
from multi-generation racing families, Hayden on both his father's and mother's
side), who have raced motorcycles since they were two or three, aboard the most
sophisticated and highest power to weight racing vehicles on the planet. Unlike
auto racing, every major manufacturer (except Harley) is fully committed to
winning and is pouring millions and millions into MotoGP development.
Bridgestone and Michelin are slugging it out on the tire front, advancing
MotoGP tires far beyond anything you see in F1, simply because the state of the
art in motorcycle race tires is immediately obvious to the first-time race
watcher.
Other than that it's nothing special.
On Jul 13, 2006, at 3:49 PM, Gary wrote:
> For you motorcycle fans out there, here is a new press release from > Laguna
> Seca regarding the broadcast of the MotoGP in another week. For > those who
> have raced on this track, you will notice plenty of changes to the > runoff
> areas and trackside landscape. The whole track was resurfaced > recently, the
> old media center replaced by a new Red Bull Center along with > numerous
>other
> changes.
>
> Gary
> 1964 TR4
>
> MONTEREY, Calif. (July 13, 2006) - In a landmark moment for the > sport,
>MotoGP
> World Championship round during the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix at > Mazda
>Raceway
> Laguna Seca will be broadcast on network television across the > United
>States
> this summer after an agreement was reached between ABC and MotoGP's >
>commercial
> rights-holders Dorna Sports.
>
> The deal will see the 2006 Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix at Mazda > Raceway Laguna
> Seca, July 21-23, on a tape-delay broadcast during an hour-long > program on
> July 30th at 1:00-2:00pm ET and 3:00-4:00pm PT. The show will > include not
>only
> the coverage of one of the most thrilling races of the season, but > exciting
> features, news and interviews of one of the most spectacular > sporting
>events
> to take place on American soil.
>
> The race will also be broadcast live on SPEED, at 2:00pm PT (5:00pm > ET).
>
>
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