MotoGP brings the big bikes to California again this week for the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix, at historic Laguna Seca. Moto2 and the 125s are staying home for this round, not wanting to mix it up with the Harleys and such that populate the track on Grand Prix weekend. As a resident of Indiana, I don’t understand why our race in August is called the Indianapolis Grand Prix. If it were up to me, this week’s race would be called the Great California Crashout, while Indy would host the U.S. Grand Prix.
Recent history at MRLS, as the Mazda marketing people call it, has seen an impressive number of spills. In 2008, Fiat Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo crashed his M1 on Lap One, to the delight of teammate Valentino Rossi, who went on to  … Pictures and more