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Moto GP gone from Laguna Seca / Mazda Raceway

Damn. This sucks on so many levels. None more than Indy is the worst track on the calendar IMO...

Oh well lets face it MotoGP/CRT has been reasonably boring the last few seasons due to the massive gaps between bikes. Marquez/Jorge have made the front more interesting this year tho.

Moto2 and 3 are really needed at the event, and that never seemed to be possible. Hope WSBK will remain for the future...
 
wow dorna you suck, and who inflated your bill to 800k to get your licensing?

you have to be retarded to pull seca off the usa gp list, its the biggest turn out for any usa stateside gp event

fukn retarded

if i were local businesses in monterey/salinas i would be writing letters up the whazoo explaining how much additional income that single weekend brings to the county...

idiots
 
Where are the Dorna/Carmelo Ezpeleta fan boys now?
 
Really glad I finally went to Laguna this year!
Not sure we could ride our 50's to Austin
 
The official LS statement and 2014 Schedule includes WSBK: (for now)

2014 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Schedule

May 2-4 Tudor United SportsCar Championship
May 16-18 Ferrari Racing Days
August 8-10 Pre-Reunion
August 15-17 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion
October 10-12 SCCA National Championship Runoffs
TBD Superbike World Championship

http://www.mazdaraceway.com/event-news/red-bull-us-grand-prix-statement
 
What a weak schedule. Are they slowly going away on us? Sure doesn't look like enough races to finance a world class racetrack.
 
gixxerjeff said:
Exactly.
I never understood the mentality of *Win on Sunday, sell bikes on Monday" in markets like Qatar.
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Maybe a deal done for discounted/subsidized race fuel for the MotoGP season.
 
TheRiddler said:
How many world championship races are in Europe? About 3 times as many. The continental US is slightly larger than all of Europe. If anything, 3 in the US isn't enough.
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Vastly different motorcycle cultures between the continents reflects on the popularity of the sport, and on how many races there are.
 
I talked a lot of cr@p about how this wouldn't happen. Obviously, sh!t just continues to happen. Without MotoGP, I fear that Laguna will begin to degrade again, and the Highway 68 Coalition will win, and the best track in California will eventually close. I am seriously depressed. :(
 
I'm saddened by this news but not surprised. To many forces are arrayed against Laguna Seca and at the end of the day we, the motorsports community, have to many friends in low places and not enough friends where it counts.

20 years from now Laguna Seca will be but a faded memory marked by a tombstone with an oxidized brass placard noting the historical significance of the land the water fountain in the middle of a condominium complex is attached to.....
 
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Lesbusa said:
I'm saddened by this news but not surprised. To many forces are arrayed against Laguna Seca and at the end of the day we, the motorsports community, have to many friends in low places and not enough friends where it counts.

20 years from now Laguna Seca will be but a faded memory marked by a tombstone with an oxidized brass placard noting the historical significance of the land the water fountain in the middle of a condominium complex is attached to.....
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Yup, I don't expect GP to ever come back but I hope I'm wrong. We're stuck with boring F1 based computer designed tracks that aren't well suited to good motorcycle racing
 
Tharkûn said:
Yup, I don't expect GP to ever come back but I hope I'm wrong. We're stuck with boring F1 based computer designed tracks that aren't well suited to good motorcycle racing
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I think Gill is right. Three slices of Moto GP pie is one slice to many in the US.
 
Sure it is too many pieces, but if Indy didn't get $100 million in public support for a private enterprise, and Laguna gets $0 (Zero) for a non-profit, public enterprise, then MotoGP would stay. I won't go to Indy because Laguna is gone, that is for sure. I will probably return to Austin, though, despite getting ripped off for all my camera gear. But, I would go there, again, even with Laguna.
 
clutchslip said:
Not if people don't show up. It was pathetic, this weekend.

:thumbupThanks for the thought, man.
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It was too close to motogp,most folks shot their wad on that,especially out of towners.
It WAS nice to be able to watch the action from the inside of turn 3 without all the vendors in the way though.:teeth
 
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