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Laguna Seca Mazda Raceway Has Expanded 2008 Motorsports Schedule

The 2008 season at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca will feature the best in motorcycle, historic, sports car and, after a three-year hiatus, open-wheel racing, on the 2.238-mile Monterey Peninsula circuit in Monterey.

The 52nd season of racing begins May 16-18, with the new Monterey Festival of Speed, a doubleheader weekend featuring the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series on Saturday and the Champ Car World Series on Sunday.


The event will mark the fourth consecutive year for Grand-Am's Daytona Prototype and GT cars in Monterey, while the Champ Cars are returning after a three-year absence.

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About the time Jay Leno and friend arrived in a chocolate-brown vintage Bentley sedan, 78-year-old Mike McNally had likely fixed the persistent oil leak in his 1931 Riley Port Ford.

Leno, comedian, late-night talk show host and obsessed automobile  motorcycle owner and enthusiast, doesn’t know McNally. But while Leno was meandering through an early morning crowd on a pristine Friday morning at Quail Lodge in Carmel Valley, McNally, of Sacramento, California was tinkering.

A race car driver for more than 50 years, McNally was finally set to compete on Laguna Seca Mazda Raceway after spending a few days practicing, prepping and fixing the oil leak with a few cranks of an oversized crescent wrench.

Leno, owner of more than 80 cars — Duesenbergs to a Honda Insight hybrid — and McNally, an independent owner/driver/mechanic,  couldn't be further apart in the world of automobile ownership. Yet Leno and McNally were solidly connected, just like the thousands of others who attended Monterey Auto Week.

Whether to gawk or bid on a Berlinetta Lusso, the Ferrari 250GT once owned by actor Steve McQueen or to appreciate a restored 1946 Ford Woodie, what began 57 years ago as a centrally located display of rare automotive works of art at Pebble Beach Golf Links, is now something substantially more. It's a weeklong extravaganza of all things automobile.


Cooking Solutions 2007, an outgrowth of the Seafood Watch program ochestrated by the Monterey Bay Aquarium, was held in mid-May, and featured the sponsorship of Bon Appetit Management Company, Whole Foods, Inc., Earthbound Farm and many additional restaurants, wineries and other food product companies concerned about sustainability and organics.

The goal of the yearly three-day conference, according to program literature, is "to raise consumer awareness about the connection between individual seafood choices and the health of ocean ecosystems; and to transform the seafood market so that it favors sustainable fisheries and fish farming.

As a newcomer to organics and sustainability, I wrote this essay following the conference. It details my childhood raised in a family where good food ruled, but also at a time when sustainability and organics weren't yet in the public consciousness.
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