Re: [ST] MotoGP

[George K <gkeslin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Zoltan,

I agree with you.  The speeds were something else and the skills these guys 
posses are awing!   As an example, the GP'ers  were in full lean by the 
time they got to the 2nd brake marker in turn 10 where the vast majority of 
the AMA riders were just starting to lean over there.  We sat on the hill 
near turn 10 and could see turns 1 - 4 & 11 also.  Not too shabby.  The 
corkscrew looks a whole lot different in person than on TV.  Whew!!!

Your friend was right!  Parking was easy but leaving was a whole different 
story for us "hill people".  We waited 3 hours before the line started to 
move and then spent roughly another 45 minutes to get through the base and 
out onto Reservation.  I'm glad our flight was this morning!  I don't think 
I'll return there unless they hire somebody to help get the cars out.  It 
was definitely a cluster..........  If you wanted an official souvenir, you 
could plan on standing in line for an hour or more.

We did have some wild entertainment though.  Some folks did some hill 
climbing out of our parking area to the road.  We thought about following 
them but after looking over the route and seeing a Grand Prix have its rear 
bumper ripped off and another car destroy a rim and tire we decided that 
our rented mini van with 6 of us in it would suffer a little too much 
damage to attempt it.

It was funny how empty the AMA part of the paddock was.  It seemed 
everybody was hanging around the GP area waiting for a glimpse or a 
possible autograph from one the "boys".

George

At 08:16 PM 7/11/2005 , Zoltan Pavlakovich wrote:
> I haven't heard anybody making any comments on Laguna Seca, so here is my 
> two cents.
> A well deserved win for Nicky, it was his weekend. I tell you these bikes 
> are scary how much horsepower they produce. I was sitting in turn 2 with 
> the Ducati guys (tight hairpin), under acceleration almost all of them 
> were sideways. To be fair to Vale, he did pretty good for not knowing the 
> track, besides two half hour practice stints. I liked the retro paint job 
> on the Yamahas, was that only for that weekend?
> Saw a few STs parked, a few 05s but mainly, Speed triples and Daytonas. 
> All in all it was a good weekend, but the racing was mediocre, didn't 
> change much after the first half.
> Foot traffic over the bridges was ridiculous. The organizers have to come 
> up with something better. I was standing in line for 30 minutes just to 
> get out of the place over the "Red Bull Bridge". Friends of mine in a car 
> got stuck in traffic for more than two hours trying to get out the parking 
> "hills". It was total lawlessness, I'm surprised nobody got killed, people 
> were that pissed. All that in mind I'll be back!
>
> Zoltan
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