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Round #5 – WERA National Series - Hottest Weekend in 2008, Both Weather and Racing

The Bridgestone/WERA National Endurance Series and Michelin/WERA National Sprints and the Pirelli/WERA Sportsman WERA West Series wera at the Las Vegas Motorspeedway Classic Course with practice and qualifying on Friday, June 27, then the Bridgestone/WERA 6 Hour Endurance ran on Saturday and the Michelin/WERA National and Pirelli/WERA WERA West Sportsman Sprints on Sunday.

Qualifying on Friday saw Tray Batey with Vesrah Suzuki take pole for the Open Superstock and Dane Westby got pole in the 600cc Superstock.

Saturday the six hour Bridgestone/WERA National Endurance took the grid with 19 machines entered and 18 taking the grid after Team Mexico had to withdraw due to a crash on Friday. Brand X with Ben Walters, Brett Champagne and Dale Kieffer took on Vesrah Suzuki with Tray Batey, John Jacobi and Michael Barnes in for injured rider, Chris Ulrich. Brand X held the lead for the first two hours and after the short red flag and the restart Vesrah held on to the top position until the end building only a one lap lead on Brand X over the grueling six hours. Temperatures reached in to the low 100s, but at the end 12 teams were still on track running. The podium saw Vesrah first overall and first Heavyweight Superbike, with Brand X second overall and Dalke Motorsports third overall and first Mediumweight Superstock with riders Dane Westby and Dustin Meador doing the riding. First Heavyweight Superstock went to locals Code 4 Racing, with Dave Lucero, James Brooks, Charles Burow and Zoran Vujasinovic sharing the riding duties. First Mediumweight Superbike was Zyvax Racing with brothers J.B. and Scott Layman, Steve Green and Jimmy Vanderhaar sharing the riding. First Lightweight Superbike was #23 Cycle Specialties Racing, who came out of Florida to run at the Las Vegas Classic Course, with riders Aaron Aaronson, Joe Schoch and Shawn Hill.

On Sunday Mother Nature decided to heat things up even more – 111 degrees. The Michelin/WERA National Sprints and WERA West Pirelli Sportsman riders took the grid for the 15 eight lap races and some good racing was seen over the course of the day. Joe Roberts (80cc) and Anthony DeHaven (50cc) took first places in the Mini Races, Tray Batey took the Open Superstock win, with Jeff Havlik winning the Novice Open Superstock; Dane Westby went on to win the 600 Superstock race with up and coming Novice Kyle Dulcich taking the Novice win; Tray Batey repeated for the 750 Superstock as did Dulcich. Benny Solis rode to first in the 125cc GP race which saw 9 entries at Vegas with Ryan Matter taking second and Austin DeHaven third. Formula 1 saw Tray get his three peat and Jeff Havlik first in the Novice ranks. 750 Superbike saw Elena Myers get her first place with Chris Clark and Shane McGoey hot on her heals – Lenny Hale came across the line first, but suffered a five position penalty for passing under a waiving yellow. 600 Superbike was Dane Westby for the Experts and Andrew Akins for the Novice riders. The final race of the day saw Alex Assanti take his Suzuki 1000 to the front with Eddie Barajas a close second and Matthias Ullholm rounding out the podium. Michael Getlin won the Novice A Superbike. It was a hot weekend, but our ambulance crews never left the property.

Round #6 finds the Bridgestone/WERA National Endurance, Michelin/WERA National Sprints and Pirelli/WERA Sporstman riders at Grattan Raceway in Grattan Michigan on July 11/12/13. Camping is available at the track.

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