Red Bull MotoGP At Indy Features Unique Trophies; Impressive Lineup For Fans At Cycle World seminar

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 24, 2009: The winners of the Red Bull Indianapolis GP MotoGP, 250cc and 125cc World Championship races will hoist trophies unlike anything else in the motorcycle racing world, awards that carry a unique design linked directly to the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Each trophy’s base comes straight from the very foundation of the Speedway, both literally and figuratively. The base for each trophy consists of a “Culver Block” brick used to pave the Speedway in fall 1909, inspiring the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s century-old, world-renowned nickname, the “Brickyard.”

The upper part of the trophies show a shift from tradition, represented by the base’s bricks, to modern art, as sculptors used aluminum powder mixed with urethane to create horizontal and vertical pieces stacked to represent the IMS Pagoda. The finishing touch is a sculpture of a motorcycle placed in front of the Pagoda’s base.

The top of the Pagoda is made of foundry-cast aluminum; the use of aluminum and the powder and urethane was necessary to keep the weight of the trophies to the 15-pound range, as the bricks alone weigh 9.5 pounds.