Sunny Sunday at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for the big Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix. The MotoGP race is the feature, supported by three AMA Pro Racing events.The crowd counts are up. Friday pre-sales were up seven percent and the gate was up twenty-eight percent. Saturday’s attendance was the best since 2005. Laguna Seca has […]
Month: July 2011
STONER WINS WITH PICTURE PERFECT PASSES
Points Leader CASEY STONER/No.27 Repsol Honda Team oozed by Pole Sitter JORGE LORENZO/No.1 Yamaha Factory Racing on Lap 27 and took off to win Sunday’s MotoGP race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca as part of the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix weekend. Lorenzo, who was still stiff and sore from Saturday morning’s high-sided flip, led […]
LORENZO DOMINATES
Despite his morning fall, JORGE LORENZO/No.1 Yamaha Factory Racing has the Moto GP pole position for Sunday’s Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca with a lap of 1:21.221. He dominated MotoGP qualifying Saturday afternoon and his time turned on his sixth lap held for forty-five minutes of the hour-long session, while […]
STONER SPEEDS AND LORENZO LEAPS
CASEY STONER/No.27 Repsol Honda Team led the entire 45-minute MotoGP practice session Saturday morning as a run-up for qualifying in the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The temperature never reached 60 degrees F and it was foggy all morning, with a stiff breeze. Points Leader Stoner turned a 1:21.806, his […]
LAGUNA, LORENZO AND LANGUAGE
JORGE LORENZO/No.Yamaha Factory Racing was the fastest MotoGP rider Friday afternoon (and overall for the day) at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, with a lap of 1:22.056. All eighteen riders went faster in the afternoon, which could be, at least in part, attributed to the warmer weather and tire choices. The afternoon session was 71 degrees […]
LEARNING LAGUNA
It’s beautiful Spring weather at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for the West Coast round of MotoGP, the top tier international World Championship motorcycle series. It’s sunny and mild and breezy. It’s Round Ten for the seventeen ‘regular’ riders and one Wild Card rider. The Wild Card rider this weekend is AMA Pro National National Guard […]
HOMETOWN HEROES
JON FOGARTY, originally from the nearby Monterey County Area, and ALEX GURNEY of Southern California won on their home turf Saturday afternoon at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. They ran hard and fast in their No.99 GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing Chevrolet Riley Daytona Prototype in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Presented by Crown Royal Cask No.16 […]
PRE-VIEW
Picture-perfect weather Saturday afternoon for the two Grand-Am races, the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge and the Rolex Sports Car Series Presented by Crown Royal Cask No.16. Warm and sunny with a breeze off Monterey Bay which kept one alert. They were the last two races of the Continental Tire Sports Car Festival at Mazda […]
SATURDAY, SUNSHINE AND SPORTS CARS
Although it is cold and foggy at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Saturday morning, there’s plenty of visibility and the morning practice sessions (warm-ups) started on schedule at 8 am. All four groups race Saturday for the Continental Tire Sportscar Festival Powered by Mazda. As the morning wears on, the fog is lifting and there will […]
YOUTH WILL BE SERVED
Two up and coming drivers have the pole position for their respective classes in Saturday’s Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series race as the feature event at the Continental Tire Sportscar Festival Powered by Mazda at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Makes one think of the old adage, Youth and Good Looks trump Age and Treachery – […]