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Archive 1988 Laguna Seca USGP Images
images by dean adams

The GP circus returned to America in 1988 after a twenty year gap in the schedule. Held at Laguna Seca, Eddie Lawson won the race on a Marlboro 500. Here he accelerates out of turn 11 past the photographer.	In 1988 Yamaha sold a 50cc sport bike called the YSR. At Laguna that April they held impromptu races on a cone and bale lined track.	The commerce portion of Laguna Seca was bubbling in 1988.	Lawson heads down the hill for the final time.
American John Kocinski rode a Lucky Strike Roberts YZR250 in the 250 race that year. Here Roberts sits on the pit wall, pleased as ever.	A portion of this crowd was actually the line into the official souvenir stand.	Schwantz readies the Pepsi Suzuki on the grid. Early GPs at Laguna were about unmanageable horsepower and bales, lots of bales.	Back then you could camp on the inside of turn two.
And this is where you parked your camper in 1988.	500s were push-started in 1988. Rainey pushes off as Lawson swings a leg.	Schwantz monos past the straw bales.