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The SBK Press Office announced that three-day attendance for the combined World Superbike/AMA Superbike event at Laguna Seca set a record at 98,000.

SBK goes on to claim in a press release that this figure makes the Laguna Seca event “the biggest ever event in the history of the Motorcycling series in the USA.”

SCRAMP officials on hand in the media center said that three-day attendance for the track’s latest CART auto racing event was approximately 68,000.