Marc Marquez's seven Austin victories make him MotoGP's undisputed king of COTA, and an overwhelming favourite to sweep this weekend's United States Grand Prix.
But there's another rider strongly associated with success at the circuit - one who might be on the verge of a breakthrough not as headline-grabbing as Marquez's works Ducati move and return to domination, but personally even more significant.
One of the biggest disappointments of late in MotoGP has been the continuing struggles of factory Yamaha rider Alex Rins. But, as he finally starts to make progress from the significant leg injuries sustained in the middle of 2023, there might at last be some light starting to show at the end of the tunnel for him.
It was Rins who ended Marquez's incredible unbeaten run at Austin in 2019, albeit after Marquez crashed from the lead when heading for a seventh-straight win at the track.
But the Austin win Rins is really remembered for is the miracle of 2023, when in an otherwise abject season for Honda he managed to take it to victory while riding for its satellite LCR team in only his third race weekend on the bike.
That's the last time Rins stepped onto the podium, though.
And his time at Yamaha since joining the factory team at the start of 2024 has been particularly barren with only two top-10 finishes to show so far.
That has, though, been in large part due to the career-threatening injuries sustained during the sprint race at the 2023 Italian GP at Mugello, where a relatively innocuous high-side ended with his lower left leg shattered.
Enduring a long recovery and rehabilitation period that included months spent with external metalwork attached to his bones to help them regrow properly, Rins only raced a further four times for LCR after his underdog win in Texas.
He was able to return at the final race of the year in order to make his Yamaha debut a few days later in testing. Since then he has not missed any rounds due to the leg injuries and has been keen to downplay just how significantly they have continued to affect him since then - even though their legacy has been apparent from watching him hobbling around the paddock still until recently assisted by a crutch. He's been adamant that the injuries haven't hampered his ability on the bike despite the obvious discomfort it's brought to his day to day life.
But that situation has finally started to improve. Ahead of the last round of the championship in Argentina, Rins at last got the all-clear to ditch his walking aid as his rehabilitation continues - though he still needs a carbon brace on the leg.
"The condition physically is a little bit better than in Buriram," he said at Termas de Rio Hondo.
"After Buriram, I went to the doctors to check how was the condition and to remove the crutch. To remove the crutch, they put on my leg a bit of carbon to stabilise the leg a little bit, and we did some exams also in Italy.
"I'm quite optimistic. I have power in the leg, and on the bike it's not an impediment. I'm riding quite freely, day by day I'm improving the walking and it's good."
And while it might not be hampering him on the bike (something that is frankly quite hard to believe given how much it affects him off the machine), one area where the injury has likely played a significant role in slowing him down is in how it halted his ability to adapt to the Yamaha M1 last year.
Rins admitted in Argentina that his biggest weakness right now, especially compared to team-mate Fabio Quartararo, is in how he brakes and enters corners, something that hopefully less physical impedance will allow him to now start to address.
"To stop the bike, to reduce the speed of the bike, the way Fabio is riding is very different to me," Rins explained. "It's true that I already have one year and some months of experience with this bike, but still I don't feel the bike. I can't ride in my way.
"We're working on this, but sometimes it's difficult and I need to be really strong on the mental side.
"Since Austin 2023, or Mugello when I broke my leg, I couldn't show my potential with the results.
"We're working on that and I'm happy to say that I'm maintaining in a good way my shape, my physical and mental condition, because it's easy to lose it."
All that means Rins's Yamaha adaptation process is only really just starting now, so it's probably too soon to expect to see clear gains at Austin (though his encouraging Termas de Rio Hondo weekend wasn't just down to a tow from Marquez that brought him into Q2).
But Rins has a habit of producing something unexpected at the Circuit of the Americas, so if there's anywhere he's going to conjure another miracle...
