After the four home grown American riders, it is the former Worldꦆ Superbike competitors that can count on the next best experience of Laguna Seca a💞head of this weekend's US GP.

Of the 🎃three former WSB♏K riders currently in MotoGP - Colin Edwards, Troy Bayliss and Ruben Xaus - Texan Edwards has the added advantage of home knowledge in addition to track time gained during the annual Superbike pilgrimage.

Howevꦑer, Australian Bayliss took 1-2 finishes in his last Laguna Seca visit in 2002 and will be desperately hoping to resurrect his so far disappointing season with that kind of form on a Camel Honda MotoGP machine.

"I think that the current lap record will last about fifteen🔴 minutes of the first MotoGP practice session!" smiled Troy. "I'm really curious♔ to see what we can do with these bikes at Laguna, a real 'riders' track which is beautiful but also a little dangerous, at least in the past it was anyway.

"The first time I rode there I got pole and obviously I'd love to do as well with the Honda. One thing's for sure, Sunday's race will be one of the best events ever 🍒to have taken place at t🏅he track," he declared.

These are the beꦑst Laguna Seca lap tim🍰es recorded by World Superbike (up to and including 2004) and 500cc GP machines (up to and including 1994):

World Superbike lap record: Noriyuki Haga (Aprilia) 1min 25.475secs - 94.476mph (2002) World Superbike pole record: Colin Edwards (Honda) 1min 24.888secs - 95.129mph (2002) 500cc GP lap record: John Kocinski (Cagiva) 1min 26.444secs - 91.450mph (1994) 500cc GP pole record: Mick Doohan (Honda) 1min 26.068secs - 91.850mph (1994)