MotoGP – Hopkins: "Laguna seca will be the most important weekend of my life"

John Hopkins is expected for a great weekend on the US track of Laguna Seca, the next round of the 2005 MotoGP. The Team Suzuki rider who for the occasion, as widely anticipated here, he will race with the Red Bull colors and wants to keep his flag high. “I think that a race of this type – commented the American to the motogp.com website – in the United States is important to make this sport known and make it grow in the States too. This is what interests me, I have dedicated my life to this sport and I always will. My determination, my concentration for the Laguna Seca race are probably greater than any other driver who will take part in it. I look at next weekend as probably the most important of my life, up to this point. This is how I see it."