Great trip to MotoGP this year. I was highly over ticketed for this event. First I purchased my own ticket for Sunday only. Then I entered a photo into a Yamaha photo contest and LOST, however by error of Yamaha I ended up getting two 3day passes to the event. Then I joined a friend of a friend's AMA pit crew and by doing also recieved a team pass to the event. Too funny. Anyway it was very cool to standby and watch 
Brad's friend Matt race in the AMA 600 superbike on the track with Ben Spies at the same time. Basically being in his pit crew consisted of trying to be helpful changing tires and pulling off tire warmers. It's an AMA rule we had to have matching shirts trackside, so Brad got team uniforms made up which was pretty funny. Then we slept overnight in Matt's trailer literally on the paddock (staging area for bike prep and race crew 
pit area near the track) and watched the MotoGP race on Sunday with Rossi and Stoner in an epic battle for the Laguna Seca title. What a great race. Highlights of the weekend were talking with Matt all weekend about his race aspirations and better understanding the economics of the sponsorship and privateer race crew realities, and learning some things about working on bikes..jpg)
Another great things about the weekend was seeing the RedBull Rookies cup kids load their bikes up and get out on the track in matching bikes and leathers. These are all kids 12 to 16 years old who sign a racing contract for six years. They are all on the same bikes, and they all have the (lack of) believe barriers that a kid has - it's great racing to watch.
Also great to see and really to participate in the Nascar-esque *ahem* honkey trackside camp out and watch the races. This guy in this picture with the tent has a personal dome to watch the races from - he literally can't event talk to the person in the "tent" next to him unless they both unzip their windows. Terribly funny and terribly... um... country.
