MotoGP was AWESOME!

[dcorbell]

Here's a taste of some of the pictures I was able to take...

[Eldercanuck]

I'm totally jealous. The race was great on TV, but I wish I had been there.

Nice pics!

[cheapbastard]

my boy Hayden is headed for a championship!!! :-D I hope he can pull it off. I do hate that Rossi is having such bad luck this year though, very tough luck for him at Laguna. For those of you that didn't catch it, his yammy didn't hold together! I do have to give kudos to that Pedrosa kid though. He's frigg'n amazing to be 5 foot tall and 103 lbs!!! Better watch out for that kid, he's headed for a championship quick!

[huff955]

Dude!

Great shots!! Keep them coming.

Cheers,
Steve :-D

[Lom]

Man, how hot was it? 120? More?
I thought I wouldn't make it out of there alive on Sat...

[gstar]

Pedrosa is a legend.... can't fault hayden's consistency even though it pains me to say it...
Pedrosa has a look about him which other riders don't have, he is dead set on being a winner.. watch this space..

Great pics.. really enjoyed the race..

[R100Pilot]

I missed it on accounta I was out ridin'. In the rain. Have to catch the recap on Speed, I guess. Early this morning they were running World Superbike from Czech-land. Some good racing in that one.

So what was the scene like? Where were you on the track? Did you camp out? Inquiring minds (who are also envious) wanna know.

[Jeff423]

The race was great, but it was hot!
It wasn't too bad during the race, we were able to find some
shade along the Corkscrew, but man, trying to get out of there was real nightmare...100+ degree heat and it took us
4 hours to get back to the car! Insane...
Bus driver told us that they stopped the busses for over 2 hours while they let the RV's leave after the race...
I won't go again unless I ride...

[dcorbell]

It was sickly hot. You could hear the ambulances all weekend dragging people with heat stroke down the hill. I camped out for the weekend. Got there on Thurs. night. (Side note - Tecate & OJ makes a great poormosa. Nice way to start the day :-D ) Spent Friday and Saturday checking out the vendors and watching the practice sessions. That's where these pics are from. On Saturday we snuck into the start/finish line grandstands. Those tix were all sold out by the time I bought mine. Got to watch the GP practice session and the AMA Superbike race from there.

The track temp was up to about 150 deg. On Sunday they canceled all racing and practice sessions between about 10.30am and the GP race at 2 due to the track heat. For the main event I sat up on the hill overlooking the straight between turns 4 and 5. You can see about 2/3 or the track from up there. Almost everthing from turn 11 through turn 5, so that was cool. Close up action during the practice sessions and the overview for the actual race.

There is nothing I know of that sounds like that Honda RC211V V5 motor at full throttle. From a quarter mile away you can feel it in your gut.

Pedrosa is definitely the kid to keep your eye on. He's having an incredible first season with the big boys. Helps that he's the current and two time 250 GP Champion...

Camping was totally the way to go. We were on the road within 45 minutes of getting in the car. Last year driving in was such a freakin' nightmare there was no way I was going to do that again. Next time there will be bikes involved. It seemed like those guys were in and out of there so fast.


Here are the best pictures that I got:

2006 Laguna Seca MotoGP

[cheapbastard]

dude, you definitely got some great shots, but the cheapster has to ask... where are all the umbrella girl pics??? :-D