The GP history of Laguna Seca

After a ten year absence MotoGP returned to the United States and Laguna Seca in 2005 and has since hosted some superb racing. However, before that break in American GPs Laguna Seca had already featured six times on the World Championship calendar.

在缺席了十年後，美國和拉古納塞卡賽道在2005年終於回到賽程表上，自那之後也已經辦了好幾場盛大的比賽了。在缺席之前拉古納塞卡已經辦過六次的世界錦標賽。

In fact, the first two Grand Prix events to be held in the USA were at Daytona in 1964 and 1965. Following those two events there was a 22 year gap before Grand Prix racing returned to the US, at Laguna in 1988.

事實上，在美國舉辦的前兩場是在1964年和1965年的Daytona賽道，在這兩場之後隔了二十二年拉古納塞卡才重新舉辦美國GP。

This year’s event will be the eleventh time that a Grand Prix race has taken place at the Laguna Seca circuit and below is a brief summary of the previous ten World Championship visits:

今年將是拉古納塞卡第十一次舉辦ＧＰ，以下是前十次的錦標賽的簡單介紹：

1988 – This included races for the 500cc and 250cc classes with American riders finishing on the top of the podium in both races – Eddie Lawson (Yamaha) in the 500cc race and Jim Filice in the 250cc race riding as a replacement for Masahiro Shimizu on the factory Honda.

1988 - 500 CC和250 CC 都由美國車手拿到冠軍， Eddie Lawson 駕駛Yamaha 500CC 賽車，Jim Filice 替代Masahiro Shimizu上場，駕駛Honda廠車。

1989 – Once again American riders took the honours with Wayne Rainey (Yamaha) taking the victory in the 500cc race in front of Kevin Schwantz (Suzuki) and Eddie Lawson (Honda). John Kocinski (Yamaha) won the 250cc race as a wild-card entry.

1989 - 再一次由地主車手拿下冠軍榮耀，Wayne Rainey駕駛Yamaha賽車擊敗Kevin Schwantz (Suzuki) 和 Eddie Lawson (Honda)。John Kocinski 以外卡資格駕駛Yamaha 250CC 賽車取得勝利。

1990 – Both Wayne Rainey and John Kocinski repeated their success of the previous year; both riders went on to take the respective world titles.

1990 - Wayne Rainey 和 John Kocinski 延續前一年的表現；兩位車手都拿到當年的世界冠軍車手頭銜。

1991 – Wayne Rainey won the 500cc race for the third year in succession while in the 250cc race Luca Cadalora (Honda) became the first European rider to win a Grand Prix race at the Laguna Seca circuit.

1991 - Wayne Rainey 連續第三年拿下冠軍，250 CC 的 Luca Cadalora(Honda) 成為第一個在拉古納塞卡奪冠的歐洲人。

1993 – The Grand Prix returned to Laguna Seca after a year’s absence. John Kocinski took the first ever dry weather Grand Prix victory for Cagiva in the 500cc race. Loris Capirossi (Honda) won the 250cc race and Dirk Raudies (Honda) won in the 125cc class which was run for the first time at the Laguna circuit.

1993 - 缺席一年後，再次回到拉古納塞卡比賽。John Kocinski 為Cagiva 在500CC贏得第一場乾地的勝利。卡比羅西贏得250冠軍，Dirk Raudies第一次在拉古納塞卡出賽即贏得125冠軍。

1994 - Luca Cadalora (Yamaha) became the first non-American to win the premier-class Grand Prix at Laguna Seca. This was the last time that the event included 250cc and 125cc classes, won by Doriano Romboni and Takeshi Tsujimura respectively both riding Honda machinery.

1994 - Luca Cadalora 成為第一位在拉古納塞卡賽道贏得冠軍的非美國籍車手，這也是最後一次250CC和125CC在美國站比賽，分別由Doriano Romboni 和 Takeshi Tsujimura駕駛Honda賽車贏得冠軍。

2005 – After an absence of ten years the Grand Prix returned to America and the home riders dominated once again with Nicky Hayden taking his first Grand Prix victory in front of Colin Edwards. This was also the first victory in the premier-class for Honda at the Laguna Seca circuit.

2005 - 在十年後重回GP的賽程表上，地主車手再次統治賽道，Nicky Hayden擊敗Colin Edwards擊敗，在此贏得第一場GP勝利。這也是Honda在拉古納塞卡的第一場GP勝利。

2006 – Nicky Hayden repeated his victory of the previous year on his way to becoming the first American rider to win a Grand Prix world championship on a four-stroke machine.

2006 - Nicky Hayden 延續去年的表現，並且成為四行程賽車的首位美國籍世界冠軍車手。

2007 – The event was dominated by Casey Stoner who started from pole and led the race from start to finish. This was the first GP victory for both Ducati and Bridgestone tyres at the Laguna Seca circuit. Chris Vermeulen finished second - the first podium finish for the Suzuki four-stroke MotoGP machine at Laguna Seca.

2007 - 這場比賽由Casey Stoner 主宰，他由竿位出發並一路領先到最後，這是杜卡提和普利司通在拉古納塞卡的首次勝利，Chris Vermeulen 得到第二，這是Suzuki 的四行程賽車在拉古納塞卡登上頒獎台。

2008 – Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) won for first time in America and made it three different winning manufacturers in three successive years.

2008 - Valentino Rossi (Yamaha)首次在美國站取得勝利，並且三年內分別由不同製造商取得勝利。