MotoGP: Advance Ticket Sales for 2013 USGP

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Mazda Raceway Press Release: Tickets for Laguna Seca’s largest spectator event, the 2013 U.S. Grand Prix featuring the MotoGP™ World Championship (July 19-21), go on sale Wednesday Oct. 10. Beginning at 8 a.m. (PST) motorcycle enthusiasts can log on to MazdaRaceway.com or call 800-327-7322 to purchase general admission, reserved grandstand seats, parking and paddock passes [...]

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wSBK Returns to Laguna Seca

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WSBK Press Release: Following a three-year agreement between Infront Motor Sports and Laguna Seca, the United States Round of the eni FIM World Superbike Championship will take place at the Californian circuit next season and in 2014 and 2015. The confirmed date for the 2013 event will be 27-29 September, and it marks the return [...]

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Valentino Rossi Back to Yamaha: The Rumors are Over MotoGP’s biggest star is leaving Ducati.

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Valentino Rossi has rejected the contract that Ducati CEO Gabriele Del Torchio offered him in a private meeting during the U.S. Grand Prix weekend at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The nine-time world champion is returning to the official Yamaha factory team, where he will be paired with current MotoGP points-leader Jorge Lorenzo for the 2013 [...]

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Josh Hayes: “The War Is Done.” Is the two-time and reigning AMA Pro SuperBike champion poised for a “three-peat?”

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[ Josh Hayes powers out of the heat haze at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Next stop for AMA Pro Racing is New Jersey Motorsports Park, where Hayes intends to “go faster than we did last year.” ]   July’s AMA SuperBike event at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca was a race for second place, with Blake [...]

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Garage 22 Attack Performance and Steve Rapp tackle MotoGP at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

That’s a short frame! Reason? To push engine mass forward. Swingarm length is more than 24 inches.

Three months ago, Attack Performance principal Richard Stanboli began construction on a MotoGP CRT bike to be raced for the first time by AMA Pro veteran Steve Rapp in July’s Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The physical, as opposed to virtual, bike began as an impressive pile of solid aluminum [...]

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Stopping Power! Brembo identifies the “best of the late brakers” at the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix.

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Reigning MotoGP World Champion Casey Stoner has won the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca two years in a row, and both times, the Repsol Honda rider made the winning pass on title-rival Jorge Lorenzo over blind Turn 1. According to Brembo, the Italian manufacturer that currently supplies all but three [...]

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AMA ProSbk: Laguna Seca Superbike Results

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The 2012 GEICO Motorcycle AMA Pro Road Racing season is quickly becoming a numbers game. That is, the historic numbers two-time defending AMA Pro National Guard SuperBike Champion Josh Hayes continues to accumulate as he storms through the ’12 campaign in unprecedented fashion. The Yamaha-backed superstar was untouchable once again as he continued to run [...]

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Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca MotoGP Post-Race Wrap-Up “Soft-option” Bridgestone rear tire is a winner for Repsol Honda rider Casey Stoner.

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Casey Stoner won the 10th round of the 2012 MotoGP World Championship, 32 laps of Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, California. At the start, three strong riders—Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa and Stoner—pulled away from the pack as they have done so often this year. At first, Lorenzo, who led more than half the race, [...]

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AMA ProSbk: Hayes Breaks SuperBike Victory Record at the U.S. Grand Prix

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AMA Press Release: Josh Hayes established a new single-season record for consecutive AMA Pro SuperBike victories with a crushing performance to secure his eighth in a row on Sunday at Laguna Seca. The defending two-time champion was once again in a class of his own as he notched up yet another dominant victory. The Yamaha [...]

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MotoGP: Stoner storms to victory in close-fought Laguna Seca race

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MotoGP Press Release: At this weekend’s Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix in Laguna Seca it was Casey Stoner who recorded a hard-fought victory ahead of Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa, after reaping the benefits of gambling with the softer rear tire. It was Yamaha’s Lorenzo who took the hole-shot into the tricky turn one, with [...]

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