congratulations today to Sébastien Loeb for claiming his sixth consecutive World Rally Championship in Wales and to Valentino Rossi who clinched his ninth Motorcycle Grand Prix World Championship in Malaysia. what an age we live in!

i didn’t realize this until now but did you know that there are currently two Chinese manufacturers in 125cc Grand Prix motorcycle racing? yeah, i’ll wait for that to sink in a bit.

the two companies in question are Loncin and Haojue who are fourth and sixth, respectively, in the manufacturers championship which includes the likes of Aprilia, Derbi, KTM and Honda.

i never thought i’d live to see the day.

what a great weekend for racing :D

i think i just caught the notoriously unemotional Dani Pedrosa cracking a smile. i wonder what queries were going through his neuro-net processors.

when we started shooting this morning at Road America, my photos looked like this:





but by the end of the day, they started to look more like this:





HUZZAH!

leaving for Road America early tomorrow morning with my brother to shoot practice and qualifying sessions for AMA Superbike, Daytona SportBike, SuperSport, and Moto-GT. sleep time!

(at round 7 of the World Superbike Championship)

dan: im sitting next to the superbikeplanet guys in the [Miller Motorsports Park] media center!

dan: I’M SHARING A POWER STRIP WITH THE SUPERBIKEPLANET GUYS

dan: OMG WTF BBQ

Sébastien Loeb’s five rally winning streak came to an end today. What a pity.

the theme of today’s MotoGP race at LeMans: anything is possible.

i’m trying to figure out the origin of the term “pit stop” (as in “Michael Schumacher went in for a pit stop”). anyone out there have a clue?