A bit of MOTOGP Pit photography. I was lucky enough again this year to be a pit and paddock marshal for MOTOGP at Circuit of the Americas. MOTOGP is the Formula1 of motorcycle racing, the fastest, most technologically advanced road bike in the world. When cornering, the motorcycles will lean over up to60 degrees from vertical. The riders’ knees and elbows easily drag on the track!
These shots are from the Friday pit walk where the organization let workers and special guests walk along the pits after all activity had stopped for the day.
The teams had the most prominent bikes out, Valentino Rossi’s #46 Movistar Yamaha, Dani Pedrosa‘s #26 Repsol Honda and #04 Jorge Lorenzo’s Ducati The shots of the pavement and markings are not from MOTOGP, but left over form Formula1. The shot of one of the pitman communication stand was funny because on of the monitors was on and the Detroit Tigers were on.
For the race day, I was the row position card holder for row 6. We had to hold or cards on poles out as the riders approached their location for the start and them have our yellow flag read for the start of the race in case on of the riders in out row could not start or had a problem. Very exciting, very intense, arguably one of the best places to see a start of a motorcycle race.
