Earlier today Vesrah Suzuki announced that it is leaving the WERA National Endurance Series after a nine-year run that included eight overall National Endurance Championships, three perfect seasons and 76 overall race victories. But just like the last team to dominate the WERA National Endurance series (Team Hammer, Inc., which raced as Team Suzuki Endurance), Vesrah Suzuki is “most likely” going to move into AMA Pro Road Racing, in 2010. “We’re either going to go AMA racing, which that’s what we’re working hard to do,” Vesrah Suzuki Team Owner Mark Junge told Roadracingworld.com Friday, “and if we don’t go AMA racing we’re just going to do some smaller races and promote Vesrah heavily by doing the Suzuka 8-Hours and probably one other Endurance World Championship race.” Asked why he was making the change, Junge said, “We’re leaving on top. The only other thing we didn’t do was go after Team Hammer’s number of overall wins and Championships [132 overall endurance race wins and 13 WERA National Endurance Championships], and I’m not staying around for five more years. That never was a thing for me anyway, because I grew up watching Team Hammer. I wanted to be like that, and I proved that I could. “Suzuki, they were pushing for me to do endurance again, and I told them I wasn’t going to do it. We’ve got some stuff going, and we really need to be in the AMA to get the exposure out of it. And even though the AMA isn’t a happy place to be right now, they have TV. So most likely we’re AMA racing.” In 2009, Junge’s Vesrah Suzuki squad took on a side project, crewing a Buell 1125RR in the AMA American Superbike finale at New Jersey Motorsports Park. In spite of it being his first weekend on the Buell, his first time on Dunlop tires in years and his first AMA Superbike race in several seasons rider Cory West finished eighth and seventh (9.4 seconds behind Race Two winner Josh Hayes) in the two races. “I was fully planning on running [American] Superbike until they screwed up the purse,” continued Junge. “So we’ll probably be running [Daytona] SportBike. We’ll probably have two guys either in [Daytona] SportBike or Superbike and one guy in Supersport.” Junge said if his team does go AMA racing, one of his riders would be West and that no matter what the main team did he would continue to support Tray Batey and John Jacobi if they choose to continue sprint racing at the club level.