As the MotoGP premier class crosses the pond to contest the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix in Laguna Seca, motogp.com brings you all the trivia about the up-coming event.
75Stefan Bradl has scored 75 points from the first nine races since moving up to the MotoGP classthis is already the highest number of points scored in a single season by a German rider in MotoGP. The record was held by Alex Hofmann who scored 65 points in the 2007 season.
33 yearsOn race-day at the US Grand Prix it will be exactly 33 years to the day that Randy Mamola finished second at the 1979 Finnish Grand Prix at Imatra to become the youngest-ever rider to finish on the podium in the premier-class. The record of 19 years and 260 days still stands to this day.
31Nicky Hayden celebrates his 31st birthday on the Monday following the US Grand Prix; on the same day Aleix Espargaro has his 23rd birthday.
21At the Italian Grand Prix, Dani Pedrosa qualified on pole for the 21st time in the MotoGP class; this is the highest number of premier-class poles by a Spanish rider, one more than his great rival Jorge Lorenzo.
20This will be the 20th occasion that there has been a motorcycle Grand Prix held in the USA. The first two events in 1964 and 1965 were held at the famous Daytona circuit. Thirteen GP events have taken place at the Laguna Seca circuit and there have been four held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
8thCasey Stoners 8th place at the Italian Grand Prix is his worst finishing position since he was 14th at the British Grand Prix at Donington in 2009 when both Stoner and his then team-mate Nicky Hayden gambled on conditions getting worse and used wet weather tyres on a drying track.
5Five riders in the MotoGP class have scored at every one of the opening nine races of the year: Dani Pedrosa, Cal Crutchlow, Valentino Rossi, Nicky Hayden and Hector Barber.
5thValentino Rossis 5th place finish at Mugello was his best dry weather result since he finished 4th at the Dutch TT last year.
4thStefan Bradls 4th place finish at the Italian GP is the best result by a German rider in the premier-class since Michael Rudroff was third at the Italian GP at Misano in 1989, a race that was boycotted by the top riders on safety grounds. The last time that a German rider finished in the top-four in the premier-class at a GP not boycotted by the top riders was when Dieter Braun was third in the 500cc Belgium GP in 1974 behind Phil Read and Giacomo Agostini.
3Three of the riders who will be competing this year have taken part in all seven MotoGP races that have taken place at Laguna Seca since the return of Grand Prix racing in 2005: Colin Edwards, Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden.
3At the Italian GP, Andrea Dovizioso finished on the podium for the third successive race. The last rider from a satellite team to have three successive podium finishes was Marco Melandri in 2006.
3Jorge Lorenzo has been on pole for the US GP at Laguna Seca for the last three years.
2Since the Indianapolis Grand Prix last year only two riders, Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa, have finished in front of Jorge Lorenzo when he has completed a race.
