RANDY HIT US FOR INDY’S 100th ANNIVERSARY Indianapolis: The LCR Honda MotoGP Team head to the mid-west America for the 12th round of the season which will be held at the famous Indianapolis Speedway race track. The American circuit is known as the Brickyard due to over three million paving bricks that used to cover the whole surface, today just less than a metre of these bricks exist at the start line known as the “Yard of the Bricks”. It is another special occasion for MotoGP circus as the event coincides with Indy’s 100th anniversary, the circuit having been constructed in 1909. LCR Honda RC212V racer Randy De Puniet comes to the Brickyard still struggling with the left ankle injury he suffered in a motocross accident prior to the Czech GP in Brno. The Frenchman continued an aggressive rehabilitation programme that has strengthened the ankle, but he concedes it won’t be at full strength this weekend. De Puniet: ” Brno was a very positive race for me and the team. We gained a deserved 10th place despite the pain of my left ankle. Now we hold the seventh place in the standing and we aim to keep it till the end of the season. Off course it won’t be easy, as I am still recovering from the injury and Indy race track has many left corners. I won’t be at 100%, although the rehabilitation programme I am still following but the ankle is improving day by day.”