Vesrah Suzuki Report from Laguna Seca AMA Pro Round (Pic)

Cory West riding for the Vesrah Suzuki team at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey CA in the AMA Pro Racing Daytona Sportbike class procured a 7th place finish with teammate Chris Fillmore following him home in the 8th position. The 2 teammates ran nose to tail for the majority of the race with Cory pulling a slight gap at the end of the race.

Courtesy Vesrah Suzuki • Photo by Brian J. Nelson

Mark Junge – Team Owner Vesrah Suzuki
“This first year in the AMA Pro Racing series for the team with new tracks and procedures is a learning year. The lack of track time this weekend hurt us but we are looking forward to the remainder of the season as the team has experience at all of these tracks.”

Cory West – Vesrah Suzuki #57
“The weekend seemed to be going well after Saturday’s qualifying sessions. We got the bike working well and had a good starting spot for the race. This morning we wanted to try a few small changes that we thought would help after studying the data last night but the weather didn’t cooperate and our warm-up was cancelled due to the heavy fog. We decided to take the gamble and go with the changes heading into the race and it was a bad decision. I got away with the leaders at the start but struggled with the bike. I managed to hang on to 7th place and kept my 5th position in the championship so I am happy for that. I’m looking forward to VIR since it is a track that I’ve been to with the Vesrah crew last year. Hopefully we can return to form and bring home a top 5 result. Thanks to my mechanics Tony and Bruce and the whole Vesrah Suzuki crew and we’ll see you in a few weeks.”

Chris Fillmore – Vesrah Suzuki #55
“We were chasing the set up all weekend and had to roll the dice for the race this morning. The morning warm-up being canceled hurt us as we had planned to try something and weren’t able to. I was able to run with my teammate Cory until near the end of the race, which pleased me. I’m glad to get out of there with some points and am looking forward to VIR where I was able to test with the team earlier this year.”