2008 MotoGP Rd. 11--Red Bull United States Grand Prix
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:25 am
With the summer break approaching, the teams and stars of the MotoGP circuit have one remaining round to go beforehand and it couldn't be at a more interesting road course.....Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Home to MotoGP events from 1988-1994 and 2005 onward, this is one of my favorite road courses, albeit for open-wheel reasons, as it was the home of "the Pass", when Alex Zanardi use the outside of the Corkscrew to pass Bryan Herta for the lead and eventual win, one of the most-balliest passes of all time......
But we're talking motorcycles here and the focus is on the front-runners as "the Doctor", Valentino Rossi, has the points lead going into this week's round but in his rear-views' looms the big red bike of Aussie Casey Stoner, the current MotoGP champion.......along with, barring injuries suffered in the last round at Saschenring, Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa there to possibly muck things up going into the summer break....
Event Schedule...............................
note.....all times US PDT; -3 hrs US EDT/-7 hrs. GMT
~~FRI, 18 July 2008......................
8-8:45 am, AMA Supersport Practice Session
9-9:30 am, Red Bull Rookies Cup Practice Session
10-11am, MotoGP Practice Session #1
11:25-Noon, AMA Superbike Practice Session #1
1-1:30pm, Red Bull Rookie Cup Qualifying Session #1
1:55-2:55pm, MotoGP Practice Session #2
3:30-4:25pm, AMA Supersport Qualifying Session
~~SAT, 19 July 2008.....................
9:10-9:30am, AMA Superbike Practice Session #2
10-11am, MotoGP Practice Session #3
11:15-11:35am, AMA Supersport Warm-Up
1:55-2:55pm, MotoGP Qualifying Session
3:45pm, Red Bull Rookies Cup RACE-1[30min. time limit]
4:35pm, AMA Supersport RACE[17 laps OR 30min. time limit]
~~SUN, 20 July 2008......................
9:40-10:05am, MotoGP Warm-Up
10:15-11:10am, AMA Superbike Qualifying Session
12:45, Red Bull Rookies Cup RACE-2[30min. time limit]
2pm, Red Bull United States Grand Prix[32 laps]
3:45pm, AMA Superbike RACE[28 laps/100km OR 1hr. time limit]
Series Participating at Laguna Seca............
~~MotoGP Series[no 125cc or 250cc series races]
~~AMA Superbike
~~AMA Supersport
~~Red Bull Rookies Cup
But we're talking motorcycles here and the focus is on the front-runners as "the Doctor", Valentino Rossi, has the points lead going into this week's round but in his rear-views' looms the big red bike of Aussie Casey Stoner, the current MotoGP champion.......along with, barring injuries suffered in the last round at Saschenring, Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa there to possibly muck things up going into the summer break....
Event Schedule...............................
note.....all times US PDT; -3 hrs US EDT/-7 hrs. GMT
~~FRI, 18 July 2008......................
8-8:45 am, AMA Supersport Practice Session
9-9:30 am, Red Bull Rookies Cup Practice Session
10-11am, MotoGP Practice Session #1
11:25-Noon, AMA Superbike Practice Session #1
1-1:30pm, Red Bull Rookie Cup Qualifying Session #1
1:55-2:55pm, MotoGP Practice Session #2
3:30-4:25pm, AMA Supersport Qualifying Session
~~SAT, 19 July 2008.....................
9:10-9:30am, AMA Superbike Practice Session #2
10-11am, MotoGP Practice Session #3
11:15-11:35am, AMA Supersport Warm-Up
1:55-2:55pm, MotoGP Qualifying Session
3:45pm, Red Bull Rookies Cup RACE-1[30min. time limit]
4:35pm, AMA Supersport RACE[17 laps OR 30min. time limit]
~~SUN, 20 July 2008......................
9:40-10:05am, MotoGP Warm-Up
10:15-11:10am, AMA Superbike Qualifying Session
12:45, Red Bull Rookies Cup RACE-2[30min. time limit]
2pm, Red Bull United States Grand Prix[32 laps]
3:45pm, AMA Superbike RACE[28 laps/100km OR 1hr. time limit]
Series Participating at Laguna Seca............
~~MotoGP Series[no 125cc or 250cc series races]
~~AMA Superbike
~~AMA Supersport
~~Red Bull Rookies Cup