Name your favorite MotoGP race

Great season, 9 winners if I remember right

 

How did you guys watch that back then ?

 

TNN (maybe it was TCN) would show them two or three weeks after the race at like 4 am. You'd Wait for cyclenews to come in the mail and then Catch motoworld, see how the race was and then wait to watch the race. You could video it but chances are it was shown earlier or shown later.
Tape trading helped a bit but chances are someone would splice in a few dick picks in the video.

Laguna,I think NBC showed that live, warts and all. I was in Macy's in the Rockaway mall in NJ watching it. Didn't have the $$$ to go out to watch it that weekend and I went to the Mall with my GF at the time and lucked into seeing it.

 

2003 Phillip Island - the Rossi 10 second penalty race.

 

Assen 2011 because Ben won

 

Most memorable for me is Hockenheim 92'. Pretty sure 92'... Schwantz outbraking Rainey was the most insane thing I'd ever seen. That place produced some incredible battles. I'd say that race followed by Norick's first wildcard race. Those two stand out the most to me.

 

lives up to the hype. I watched it last night and it was non-stop action throughout the race.

 

As DaveK said, Laguna was on the network. I guess since it was the first GP on American soil in decades, there were plenty of Americans in in the series, they figured it was "worthy". As for all the others, DUKE video. I believe I was ordering them from Lockhart-Phillips.
As for 'loppit85' asking why they are special, I'll go a but further on mine.
Suzuka 1988: Kevin Schwantz shocked the world by putting it to the field.
Laguna 1988: The pure mastery of Eddie Lawson and Jimmy Felice that day, plus the actual display of emotion from Lawson afterwards. Felice deserved that ride for the rest of the year.
Paul Ricard 1988: Lawson gutting it out through injury combined with Kel Karruthers making that Yamaha so fast, it ran down the Hondas on the Mistral Straight.
Phillip Island 1991: Wayne Gardner bowed that NSR up so tight through that race that he busted both fairing brackets and left it flopping in the wind. The sheer force of will to win.

 

The battle described by Giberneau opposing him vs. Rossi in the movie "Fastest". His comments are awesome and give an incredible analysis of the racecraft involved in those few last laps. Amazing stuff.

 

How could you not pick 2012 Valencia. I loved this race, there was so much going on in it. The unpredictable weather. The fiasco in the pits last minute before the start. Stoner's final race. A CRT bike (Asparagus) taking the lead and running up front for a lap or 2. Jorge letting launched into orbit. And Pedrosa basically coming from last place to take the win.

 

I was there. Just amazing.

 

Man my brain just aint wired this way. I watch 'em and three months later they are out of my brain.

Except for the Rossi Karate Kick *TM

 

same.

hard to assess the overall "quality" of the race compared to others in the last 30 years when you get to witness the insanity of the last laps and the national pride in an Italian winner on a Ducati in real life at an Italian track. what an experience.

 

I think that was the '91 race.

 

Phillip island 2010 or 11. It wasn’t the race. It was Ben Spies talking about how magical Casey was around the track and I really watched him that race and he really was doing shit no one else could do. Last weeks race will always be up in my top 5. It was amazing.

 

Laguna 2008. It was the year I started riding and they happen to have that race on Fox, otherwise I would not have known about MotoGP. It was a great race to get introduced to the sport.

 

I've shown that to a few new F1 fans to nudge them toward the dark side. We have passing!

 

91! Those drafting battles through the forest then crazy passes in the stadium at that track always standout for me.

 

I was already a big Kevin Schwantz fan at the time but that race cemented his status as a god. Few things I have done around motorcycles were a match for the excitement of having him tell me the story in details some years later. I literally would have never imagined that as a teenager.

 

THE PASS
Good lord was it a good one too.