Indianapolis motorcycle Grand Prix
The Grand Prix of Indianapolis Motorcycle is a motorcycle race that has been held since 2008, and since then belongs to the motorcycle world championship. It takes place at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
The distance covered is within the famous oval course and is 4186 meters long. It is mostly the same as the used by the Formula 1 track, but traveled in the opposite direction.
In contrast to the United States Grand Prix for motorcycles at Laguna Seca, in which only the MotoGP class starts, go to Indianapolis every three solo classes at the start.
The first discharged GP 2008 was strongly influenced by Hurricane Ike, which almost caused the entire race weekend for wet track conditions. On Sunday racing both the 125 - cc need - as well as the MotoGP race due to rain or wind will be canceled, the 250cc race was the poor weather conditions throughout the victim. In the 125cc race, the 19- year-old Spaniard Nicolas Terol was able to celebrate the first Grand Prix win of his career in the MotoGP class surpassed Valentino Rossi with his 69th victory to exist until then record of Giacomo Agostini on race victories in the premier class.