Despite Alpina Safety Systems being contracted to supply and deploy 110 30-foot sections of Alpina inflatable soft barriers at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for this weekend’s combined MotoGP/AMA National weekend, a concrete wall outside turn five is actually more exposed than it was during last year’s combined World Superbike/AMA race. When Troy Bayliss crashed yesterday, his MotoGP racebike hit near the end of the last section of soft barrier placed in front of the concrete wall. When AMA officials were asked to deploy more soft barriers or even haybales in front of the exposed section of concrete wall, they said that Dorna was in control of soft barrier deployment. The same AMA officials said that they asked Dorna to deploy one or two of the nine unused, spare Alpina barriers on site, and were told that the extra units had to be held back as emergency replacements in case any deployed barriers are damaged. Asked if they could deploy some of the Airfence soft barriers normally used at AMA Nationals, the same officials said that they had not brought the AMA soft barriers to Laguna Seca, since Dorna was in charge of setting up the course and had homologated the soft barrier deployment plan. Here’s hoping no riders–MotoGP or AMA–hit the exposed section of concrete wall outside turn five.