Two or three MotoGP rounds in the USA

Back in the day, it didn't matter how far Laguna Seca was. 50K of us rode our motorbikes from all over the area, enjoying PCH, the canyons and the mountains to get there.

 

If you type Denver metro area you get 2.97 million. Your example says Salt lake metro area.

https://www.google.com/search?q=den...AYBkAYOugYECAEYCA&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp

 

Still sizeable.

 

If the only important thing was population, the obvious choice to have an additional MotoGP weekend in the US is NYC. On a street course, of course.

 

https://www.theglen.com/

 

It's really a shame they didn't spend up to get NJMP FIM certified.

 

Fuck Jersey. Indy's where it's at!

 

I'd love to see the MotoGP circus mingling with the meth heads of Millville!!!

 

Did you ever see the plans they had to combine Thunderbolt and Lightning? That would've been something.........but you're 100% correct that Millville is an absolute dumpster fire of a town.

 

Maybe US round #3 can be held at the Bader Field Circuit in Atlantic City.

Any day now!!!!!

 

Monterey is just about central in CA; it is 8 hours to Yuma AZ, or 8 hours to Smith River CA
We support NPS and it is advertised at 7 hours (with no traffic insanity) from downtown San Diego.

 

I enjoyed INDY much more than any other race we have attended.
We attended five of the events held there.

People were polite, hotel rooms were reasonable, parking was easy (and reasonable) and there was shit load of clean classic bikes, ridden to the event.

 

just to prove y'all that live in the state of fruit and nuts are well, nuts...

Race cars are too loud, says Laguna Seca lawsuit
A GROUP of residents along Highway 68 is trying to limit motor vehicle racing events and track rentals at Laguna Seca, arguing that race-car noise, traffic and other concerns have drastically increased since the county took over management of the property in 1974, and that the county should be required to conduct an exhaustive environmental review of the track and its multiple racing events to evaluate their impacts. In a Dec. 12 lawsuit against Monterey County and its five-member board of supervisors, a group called the Highway 68 Coalition, represented by Carmel Valley attorney Zan Henson, argues that current and future use of the storied 2.2mile racetrack violates zoning laws, and that the supervisors’ July approval of a management agreement with the nonprofit Friends of Laguna Seca should be set aside because it didn’t require an in-depth environmental review of the track.

The civil complaint contends that race events and rentals at Laguna Seca from 2021 to 2023 have “substantially” increased compared to “similar operations” from 1974 to 2021, and their impacts affect the community. Seeking court order “These increases include more racetrack event days, higher permitted noise levels, additional track rental days with intensified noise in excess of 100 decibels, increased traffic, inadequate water supply” and other issues, including expansion of the campgrounds at Laguna Seca, the lawsuit says. Because of that, the Highway 68 Coalition alleges zoning violations and a “public nuisance,” and the group is seeking a court order barring “motor vehicle racing events, rentals of the race track and noise levels at Laguna Seca Raceway in excess of the level of use and noise that existed at the time the legal non-conforming use was established in 1985.” ‘Irreparable injury’ Alternatively, the group is asking the court to compel the county and the board of supervisors to set aside the July approval of the management agreement and direct the entities to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act. The county’s “past, present and future use of the racetrack at Laguna Seca raceway is not only a violation of the applicable zoning, but is also a public nuisance and has caused and will continue to cause irreparable injury not subject to money and damages,” the lawsuit goes on to say.
The county’s agreement with Friends of Laguna Seca — which has pledged to raise and spend tens of millions of dollars on the track and recreation area for 5 decades — was said to relieve taxpayers of the financial burden running and operating the track.

The supervisors’ determination that the management agreement is exempt from CEQA “constitutes a prejudicial abuse of discretion,” the Highway 68 Coalition alleges. Court documents attached to the lawsuit identify only one person, Michael Weaver, as a member of the group. Attorneys Richard H. Rosenthal and Zan Henson and Bishop lawyer Greg James — contends that two environmental impact reports, in 1974 and 1983, were prepared for Laguna Seca. “Neither of the reports focused on the impacts of motor vehicle racing and race car driving or assessed the sound generated from such activities,” the suit alleges.

Furthermore, the complaint says that while the management agreement approved with Friends of Laguna Seca permits the same number of events that were permitted in a 2020 agreement with track manager A&D Narigi Consulting, it doesn’t include limits on the number of event days and calls for management and operation of the facility “in a manner reasonably designed to maximize revenue.” The Highway 68 Coalition also complains that the concession agreement doesn’t contain any “sound limitations on any motor vehicles, including racecars, and it permits racetrack rentals and the rental of the paddock area when not used for events.”

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As a wanna be photographer, I appreciated how many different places there were around the track to take unobstructed photos.

 

Ditto.

 

I should have said we enjoyed INDY much more than any other MotoGP race we have attended.
WSBK @ Brainerd in 1989 was pretty cool !

 

Encouraging read:

https://bikesportnews.com/motogp/si...latrock-motorsports-park-eyes-us-motogp-date/