Oh say can you see American Honda's Indy Moto2 racer?

One score and two days from now, Roger Lee Hayden will set forth on the great battlefield of Indianapolis, engaged in the great test of whether this nation, or any nation so conceived, can win a Moto2 race. We here highly resolve that Roger shall not race in vain and that fans of the people, by the people and for the people shall not fail to watch. This Moriwaki MD600 may be built in Japan and painted by Italy, but can any bike that flies the stars and stripes this well be anything but American? 

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