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eROAD RACE WERA Power-MistlPerformance Machine National Endurance Road Race Series: Round 1 ~ Kurt Hall of Team Suzuki (1) battled with Jay Bartlow of Virginia Breeze Racing (4) during the first hour of the four-hour endurance race at Moroso Motorsports Park. Team Suzuki went on to win the series-opening event in the WERA championship, despite losing six laps to replace a broken chain. mounted teams started on intermediate rain tires or DOT street tires. By the end of the race most of the teams were on full rain tires. Hall took the early lead over the 26team field on the Valvoline Suzuki followed by Virginia Breeze Racing, Arclight Racing II and Team 20/20 Racing. On lap three fans were surprised to see the blue Yamaha FZRI000 of Virginia Breeze in the lead. Jay Bartlow was putting in a great ride on the wet Moroso circuit and three laps after taking the lead he had given Virginia Breeze a six-second lead over Hall and Team Suzuki. A tough battle was being waged over third between the Honda.CBR900 of Arclight n and Team 20/20 on a Kawasaki ZX-7. Alone in fourth was the Canadian duo of Tim Ruhl and Ian McKinstray of R.A. Racing. The anticipated return of Hall 'N Still Racing (now known as HNS Racing) was grounded just before the start of the . race. According to tearn captain Jim Still, when the crew tried to fire up the HNS Yamaha FZR1000 nothing happened. "It just wouldn't start," said a lamenting Still. "We think we may have had sOme sort of fuel pump lock up, but we're not sure." Team Suzuki Endurance wins Moroso 0 ener By Larry Lawrence WEST PALM BEACH, FL, MAR. 20 eam Suzuki Endurance's Kurt Hall and Michael Martin won the opening round of the WERA National Endurance Series at Moroso Motorsports Park with Martin powering past Royale Racing's Doug Henry in the final 20 minutes of the race to seal the victory. Team Suzuki triumphed despite T 14 losing six laps due to a broken chain on the Valvoline-backed Suzuki GSXRllOO midway through the race. WERA veterans Henry an~ Jim East came as close to winning a National endurance race as they ever have in the team's nine-year history. Royale rode to an amazing second-place overall finish on a 1991 Honda CBR600. Team Pearls Suzuki, with Marty Lentz, Tony Barchetti and Darryl Saylor handling the riding chores, took third overall on a . Suzuki GSXR600. On and off rain before the start of the four-hour race caused headaches for crew chiefs. Most of the superbike- After 30 minutes the HNS Yamaha finally carne to life, but now the team which featured riders Bruce Baldus, Tom Wilson and Tray Batey would just be out cruising for points. The Cincinnati-based team finished 16th overall. As the first hour came to a close a brief respite from the rain was making for a drier racing surface. Team Suzuki began closing the gap on Virginia Breeze Racing. Fifteen minutes later, the rains carne again to close out hour one. During the second hour, Team Suzuki averaged a click under 80 mph, took back the lead and began to pull