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Ducati Marlboro's Nicky Hayden and Casey Stoner (Photo: Ducati Corse)
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North American motorcycle road racing's premier trio of racing brothers, Tommy, Nicky and Roger Hayden, will be in action in three different major series this weekend at the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
The international MotoGP World Championship will be joined by AMA Pro National Guard American Superbike presented by Parts Unlimited and AMA Pro Daytona SportBike presented by AMSOIL in a full schedule of three consecutive races on Sunday, July 5. A Hayden brother will be represented in each race, marking the first and likely only time this season that the Kentucky trio will all race in the same event weekend. Practice and qualifying takes place on Friday and Saturday, July 3 - 4.
Tommy Hayden (No. 22 Rockstar/Makita Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000) will be competing in the American Superbike race that will be the final event of the weekend on Sunday. He is currently second in the class championship point standings after six top-three podium finishes in six of the year's first 11 races. Four of those finishes have been second-place showings, including a run of three in a row early in the year that included both rounds at Auto Club Speedway and one race later in the Saturday final at Road Atlanta. He also finished second in the first race of the weekend at Barber Motorsports Park in May and has four career AMA Pro Road Racing victories at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on his resume.
"I'm really looking forward to the race at Laguna Seca for several reasons," said Tommy Hayden, who is the oldest of the brothers. "One, it's one of my favorite tracks so I like going there for that. Two, it's an exciting weekend overall with the GP there. And three, getting all three brothers together on one weekend is kind of special for us. For so many years, that's how it was and now things are very different."
