Nicky Hayden goes for 2006 Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix win at Home This Sunday

It's time for Moto GP action in the U.S. as the Laguna Seca circuit sets up the 2006 Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix.

It's that time again, time to park up the Chevy, sit back with a keg of Bud Ice and feast your eyes on the patriotic propaganda parade that is the MotoGP world series of Laguna Seca.

The Laguna Seca circuit has improved its safety raising it from category 'alarming dangerous' to category 'a great place not to crash'. But safety aside the circuit is something special. That special circuit has one, very impressive highlight, the overstated 'Corkscrew' corner. It's a left-right chicane that drops down faster than a drunken Xaus on a unicycle.

Even the mighty Foggy heaped praise on the section describing it as 'a corner that goes downhill'. Amazing words from the GP shy rider who managed five words without using 'I' anywhere.So, the race then. Championship wise there's little to gain and so much to lose for leaders Nicky Hayden and Valentino Rossi. Al the more to Hayden, who will be coming home at the top of the Moto GP world.

The American just can not afford to be beaten by Rossi here as it will rub sodium into his crop yield. Since the beginning of the season it's long been presumed that his tractor would be first past the barn-line.

Last season he scored his debut win after a million attempts and never looked like being beaten all weekend. This season few could deny he's riding even better.

But last year there was no pressure. No one expected him to win. This year the pressure is mounting and it'll be a real test for Nicky Hayden to hold his nerve. If not, and Rossi beats him, the flood gates will open, Rossi will win the championship and the record books will not claim that 2006 was 'a blip' year.

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