Yamaha won the MotoGP championship at Motegi

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Nice, Isn't that corkscrew amazing?

 

[NyTrOMaNIaC]

Nice, Isn't that corkscrew amazing?

YES IT IS !!! I would love to do a track day @ Laguna ! My buddy who lives about 5 hours away did, and said the Corkscrew is a totally blind turn, so you have to use your brake markers very well and practice, practice, practice !!!

 

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How about this year then...?

Look at the action during the first couple of laps, and Valentinos near-crash around four minutes into this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ZRVOfn4ow

Or the victory celebration in the corkscrew:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxxyyL1jae4

 

[Alatalo]

Or this one, with commentators:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfPM77TsGaA

 

[NyTrOMaNIaC]

Yeah, I watched the 2008 Laguna race live at home this year, not quite the same as being right there in 2005, but still, it had to be the best race I've ever seen ! And I too would have jumped the fence to hold his bike so he could kiss the corkscrew, man, that must have been something else....

Can you imagine how Rossi and Stoner must have felt during that race ??? Ohhh man !!!

Nice find on the vids

 

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Nice vids.
This is a lttle off topic but here is one of the famous pass by Alex Zanardi on Brian Herta at the corkscrew. I was there and saw this one up close as I was trackside for it. The music in this one is a little more my style.
For those that didn't know Alex lost both legs in a horrific crash in 2001 but still races today with hand controls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HVQSW9dAXY