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MotoGP Laguna Seca Preview - Poor Little Rich Girl
By David Emmett on 19/07/2007 23:31:02
MotoGP crosses the Atlantic, and hits The Corkscrew
of beyond.Then, there's Laguna Seca. Located close to San Francisco, probably the largest sportbike market in the US, it is a glorious, rolling track, featuring one of the most exciting sections of the season, the notorious Corkscrew, a gut
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MotoGP Laguna Seca Race Report - Crunch Time
By David Emmett on 22/07/2008 01:45:59
The MotoGP race at Laguna Seca looked like turning into the Stoner Show all over again. How wrong we all were...
the naysayers would have you believe.On the climb up the hill towards the Corkscrew, it was clear just how much of Stoner's lead Valentino Rossi had clawed back in Turns 5 and 6. Cresting the hill at the Turn 7 kink, Rossi was level with Stoner, and later
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MotoGP Laguna Seca Report - Demolition Man
By David Emmett on 23/07/2007 23:08:51
MotoGP does California, but will a homeboy win?
-wrenching downhill drop of the Corkscrew.Behind Pedrosa, Chris Vermeulen was closing. The Australian Suzuki man had opened up a gap with Valentino Rossi, leading the chasing pack. Rossi had already clawed his way up to fourth, past Loris Capirossi and Colin Edwards
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Laguna Seca Preview - No Rest
By David Emmett on 18/07/2008 14:17:05
A battered, bruised and exhausted MotoGP paddock heads to Laguna Seca for the US Grand Prix. But there's no laid-back Californian lifestyle waiting, instead they face one of the busiest tracks on the schedule.
sections of track on the calendar. Hard on the power up into Turn 6, which is blind, fast, and absolutely crucial to the rest of your lap. Get this left hander wrong, and people will be flying past through the kink of Turn 7 on their way into The Corkscrew
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MotoGP Phillip Island Preview - A Southern Romance
By David Emmett on 02/10/2008 23:47:57
After taking the title from Casey Stoner at Motegi, Valentino Rossi heads to Stoner's home circuit. It's a track where Rossi dominated, but Stoner will surely be out for revenge.
at first, then steeply up to the most important part of the track, and one of the most spectacular spots in motorcycle racing. Laguna Seca has the Corkscrew, Donington Park has the Craner Curves, but Phillip Island has Lukey Heights. As you start to turn in
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MotoGP Estoril Race - Encore, Maestro
By David Emmett on 17/09/2007 02:46:59
Could the 2007 MotoGP race live up to the 2006 edition?
through 6 concertinaed together, tires nearly touching as the bikes flicked left then right up what most resembles the reverse of Laguna Seca's Corkscrew, climbing uphill steeply, rather than dropping downhill, as if off the edge of the world. The bikes
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