WERA National Endurance Series
Round :2: Carolina Motor-sports Park
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Team Velocity Racing charged to victory in the Middleweight Superstock
class and fourth overall in Kershaw, South Carolina.
By
DAN SCHMJTI
PHOTOS BY ADRENALINE SPORTS
PHOTOGRAPHY, LLC
KERSHAW, SC,APR. 12
fter a week of cool, damp weather
in the Carolinas, with eight inches
of snow in western North Carolina, the
sun shone bright, with perfect temperatures in the low 70s, for the start of the
second round of the DunJop/WERA
National Endurance Series.
With the flip of the green flag by
Chuck Edgeworth, 28 teams charged
the slow left-hand first corner of this
2.3-mile road course in South Carolina. Tray Batey, on the Vesrah Suzuki,
led the first lap around this 14-turn
track. The battle for second raged
between two of the Middleweight
Superstock teams, Team Info Tech/
Valter Mota. on the 2003 R6. and
Team Velocity Racing. on the Suzuki
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600. Army of Darkness followed this
contest for eight laps and then moved
by to capture second. Team Xtreme
Pennzoil II ran fifth and led the
Heavyweight Superstock class.
At the one-hour mark, Vesrah
Suzuki continued to lead the race and
the Heavyweight Superbike class.
Army of Darkness was second, and
Team Xtreme Pennzoil II was third.
Team Xtreme Pennzoil I moved into
fourth and second in Heavyweight
Superbike. Team Info Tech/Valter
Moto held fifth, with Team Velocity
Racing in sixth. Velocity Crew Racing
gained seventh and second in
Middleweight Superbike, while BlueMoto/Jeff Wyler ran in eignth and
second in Heavyweight Superstock.
Team Chicago/Yamaha/Dunlop held
ninth, and Ricochet Racing/ Suzukl/
Plrelli had 10th; both of these teams
were contesting the Middleweight
