Soup :: 1993 US Grand Prix Archive Images # 1

1993 US Grand Prix Archive Images # 1
images by vreeke and associates

Ken Vreeke dug through his archive and supplied Soup with images from the Kenny Roberts promoted 1993 USGP.	An ex-Cycle magazine staffer, Vreeke was hired by Roberts to do 'promotions, marketing, press, etc'. The event was fractured by Wayne Rainey's paralyzng crash weeks before in Italy.	Michael Doohan on the NSR500 Honda.	Then 250 ace Max Biaggi and his then team owner, Erv Kanemoto, in the pit lane at Laguna in '93.
There were a variety of sideshows at Laguna that year, including a trials exhibition.	Crowds line the fence to see GP bikes at Laguna Seca.	Kevin Schwantz on the grid at Laguna Seca on the Lucky Strike Suzuki RGV500. Schwantz won the world championship in 1993.	The pit lane at Laguna Seca USGP in 1993.
Cagiva's team in 1993. John Kocinski, Mat Mladin (yes) and Doug Chandler.	Jeremy Burgess, before he was the genius behind Valentino Rossi.	Doohan looks over a brace of Honda V4 two stroke 500s at Laguna Seca.	Vreeke writes: Then Wayne got hurt and we were all walking around like zombies the weekend of the race. People were crying openly and wondering why we were even there. Wayne, who was laying in a hospital in Monterey waiting for the surgery to stabilize his back, heard about the mood and sent us a fax. It basically said we needed to stop moping around and put on the best damn motorcycle race this country had ever seen, and we better not screw it up. We were floored that anyone could be so strong. He was more concerned about us and about the event than the fact that he would never walk again. That day Wayne Rainey became an even greater hero to all of us than he was before.