Dale Quarterely on the championship winning Team Lockhart Suzuki at the Memphis round of the AMA/Motoworld Endurance Championship in August of 1987. (Larry Lawrence photo)

Team Lockhart was an outstanding endurance racing squad that won two AMA Endurance road racing championships in the 1980s. Wendell Phillips founded the team and the squad rode Kawasaki Ninja race bikes in its early days and just lost out to Dr. John’s Team Moto Guzzi in the ’85 championship.

Phillips then totally revamped the team for the ’86 campaign. It moved to the new Suzuki GSXR1100, did a merger of sorts with former championship winning Team Ontario, bringing rider Lynn Miller and tuner Keith Perry on board. They added rider Larry Shorts and everything clicked. It wrapped up the championship in ’86 even before the final race.

In 1987 Dale Quarterley joined the team and it edged Kayo Racing for that year’s title to make it two in a row. This is Quarterley racing the bike in the late afternoon at Memphis Motorsports Park in August of 1987.