We prove packing and counting theorems for arbitrarily oriented Hamilton
cycles in D(n,p) for nearly optimal p (up to a logcn factor).
In particular, we show that given t=(1−o(1))np Hamilton cycles $C_1,\ldots
,C_{t},eachofwhichisorientedarbitrarily,adigraphD \sim {\cal
D}(n,p)w.h.p.containsedgedisjointcopiesofC_1,\ldots ,C_t,providedp=\omega(\log ^3 n/n).Wealsoshowthatgivenanarbitrarilyorientedn−vertexcycleC,arandomdigraphD \sim {\cal D}(n,p)w.h.p.contains(1\pm o(1))n!p^ncopiesofC,providedp \geq \log ^{1 + o(1)}n/n$.