Moto2 riders practice on Friday

Team AGT-REA Racing's Gino Rea. The team is based out of Austin Texas

Heat shimmers as Idemitsu Honda Team Asia pilot Takaaki Nakagami leaves turn 9

Mechanics for AGT-REA Racing share a laugh during Friday practice

NGM Forward Racing's pilot and legend Colin Edwards announced his plan to retire at the end of the 2014 race season

Former MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden leads a group of riders onto the front stretch in Saturday practice

Zulfahmi Khairuddin drags a knee over the curbing in turn 20

Drive M7 Aspar rider Nicky Hayden takes time for a television interview on Saturday

Colin Edwards slices through the Turn 3 complex

Niccolò Antonelli ducks into the pits for a setup change during Saturday practice

Jack Miller winds it out over the start/finish line during Saturday qualifying

Team Red Bull KTM pilot Jack Miller holds off SaxoPrint-RTG's Efren Vazquez

A Fox Sports cameraman captures Moto3 action on the front stretch

Moto3 race winners Jack Miller, Romano Fenati, and Efren Vasquez celebrate with the Red Bull paddock girls

Gino Rea with both knee and elbow dragging through turn 2 at high speed

Aleix Espargaro of Team NGM Forward Racing lays it down for the crowd under the COTA tower in Turn 17

Marc VDS Racing's rider Mika Kallio interviews with a Swedish television crew. Mika would go on to finish 4th on Sunday.

Josh Herrin slices through Turn 17

Moto2 race winner Maverick Vinales

Colin Edwards exits Turn 9

Alvaro Bautista was forced to retire early after crashing

The Ducati Paddock Girls share a smile

Team Speed UP rider Sam Lowes sets up for Turn 2

Repsol Honda pilot Dani Pedrosa rode hard but couldn't catch teammate and race winner Marc Marquez