In the July 12 online edition of the Birmingham (Alabama) News ( ~http://www.al.com/search/index.ssf?/base/sports/1121159896202310.xml?birminghamnews?sauto&coll=2~ ), Gene Hallman, President and CEO of Zoom Motorsports, which manages Barber Motorsports Park, was quoted as saying, “We do believe at some point in the next two to four years, we will be given an opportunity to host the U.S. Grand Prix, or a second American Grand Prix.” Yet a Dorna spokesman says that the agreement between MotoGP rights holder Dorna and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca (or technically SCRAMP — Sports Car Racing Association of the Monterey Peninsula) gives the California track exclusive rights to host the only U.S. Grand Prix through 2007 with an option for two more years, through 2009. While the possibility of a U.S. Grand Prix at Barber Motorsports Park does exist beyond 2007, Dorna Director of Communications Paco Lattore told Roadracingworld.com that no one from Barber Motorsports Park or Zoom Motorsports has contacted Dorna since the U.S. Grand Prix July 10. Meanwhile, SCRAMP/Laguna Seca officials are already talking about long-range plans with Dorna. “We’ve certainly been in discussion with Dorna for the future, and they were so thrilled with the show this past weekend that they’re wanting to extend our options,” Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca General Manager Gill Campbell told Roadracingworld.com. “We haven’t quite got to that point yet. We’ve got further discussions scheduled with them. I can tell you if we continue doing a good job, I don’t think there’s any reason to believe that it’s (U.S. GP) going to go anywhere else.”