Trip With The Legends, Q&A And Lunch At WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, And A Probability To See Wayne Rainey Trip Once more.
Within the 4 earlier editions of “Rainey’s Trip To The Races,” MotoAmerica followers have had the chance to spend an unforgettable day driving bikes with racing legends on the Monterey Peninsula and hanging out with those self same racers at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. This yr the custom continues, however with one particular addition: Wayne Rainey will take to the monitor on which he dominated Grand Prix racing within the late Eighties and early Nineties, with the three-time 500cc World Champion set to do just a few laps over the course of the weekend on a custom-built Yamaha XSR900 GP.
And a superb time was had by all. Final yr’s “Rainey’s Trip To The Races” individuals whoop it up pre-ride. This yr’s experience on the Monterey Peninsula is scheduled for July 11, the day previous to MotoAmerica racing motion at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Picture by Tucker ScottMotoAmerica, North America’s premier motorbike street racing sequence, is happy to announce that the fifth annual “Rainey’s Trip To The Races” will happen together with the fifth spherical of the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.
“Rainey’s Trip To The Races” will probably be held on Friday, July 11, the opening day of the fifth spherical of the MotoAmerica Championship, and it’ll once more profit the Roadracing World Motion Fund, a 501(c)(3) non-profit group that promotes motorbike racing security with the facilitation of sentimental barrier techniques at racing occasions.
This yr’s experience contains the next legends:
Three-time World Champion Kenny RobertsFour-time World Champion Eddie LawsonThree-time AMA Grand Nationwide Champion and 1988 AMA Superbike Champion Bubba ShobertThree-time World Champion Freddie Spencer2000 World Champion Kenny Roberts Jr.Seven-time Supercross and Motocross Nationwide Champion Rick JohnsonThree-time AMA Superbike Champion Doug Chandler
Bud Aksland was an engine builder and a tuner, and he was the primary to acknowledge the potential of a younger racer named Kenny Roberts. Aksland would quickly turn out to be Roberts’ first sponsor and would stay related to Roberts all through his post-racing profession, serving to with the event of race bikes, together with Roberts’ Proton V5. Aksland was additionally the top engine developer for Rainey’s World Championships and served as John Kocinski’s crew chief when Kocinski received three consecutive AMA 250cc titles in 1987, 1988, and 1989.
A two-time Isle of Man TT winner and 1969 250cc World Champion, Kel Carruthers dominated AMA street racing within the early Nineteen Seventies earlier than shifting to a staff supervisor/crew chief position after retiring as a racer. After a number of profitable seasons with Kenny Roberts in AMA street racing, the duo went to Europe in 1978, the place Carruthers guided Roberts to 3 successive 500cc World Championships. Carruthers was additionally Eddie Lawson’s crew chief for 3 of his 4 500cc World titles with Yamaha.
Erv Kanemoto was the person behind Freddie Spencer’s three World Championships, together with the pairing’s historic 1985 season when Spencer rode Kanemoto-tuned Hondas to 2 World Championships in a single season with titles in each the 500cc and 250cc lessons. Kanemoto joined forces with Eddie Lawson in 1989 and earned the final of his 4 World Championships.
“Annually, ‘Rainey’s Trip To The Races’ brings collectively a number of the largest legends in our sport, and it’s all the time an excellent expertise for us and our followers,” Rainey mentioned. “This yr is much more particular as a result of we’ve added guestsBud Aksland, Kel Carruthers, and Erv Kanemoto to the listing of legends. Additionally, I will probably be getting again on the monitor at Laguna Seca and driving just a few laps on the place the place I had a few of my biggest races. I’ve bought a whole lot of recollections there, and I’m wanting ahead to creating just a few extra.”
The 100-mile experience will start at Baja Cantina in Carmel Valley, California, and can tour one of the best components of the Monterey Peninsula, together with in and across the Santa Lucia Mountains, the Salinas Valley foothills, native wineries, and the beautiful Steinbeck nation. The experience will conclude at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca with two laps across the racetrack, lunch, and a Q&A session with the legends on the Flip 3 Paddock Suite.
The experience will probably be restricted to 50 individuals who buy the particular $700 Premium “Rainey’s Trip To The Races” Ticket, which incorporates the Q&A session and lunch with the legends within the climate-controlled Flip 3 Paddock Suite on Friday. Whereas a three-day basic admission ticket is included within the donation, for an extra $700, “Rainey’s Trip To The Races” ticket purchasers can improve to the MotoAmerica Superfan VIP Expertise within the Flip 3 Paddock Suite for the complete weekend.
As all the time, the experience will probably be chaperoned by our associates on the Californian Freeway Patrol.
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