Virginia Breeze Leads Team Suzuki Endurance at IRP (1993)

• Larry Lawrence

Virginia Breeze Racing’s Glenn Szarek, on a Yamaha FZR1000, leads Team Suzuki Endurance rider Michael Martin on the team’s Suzuki GSXR1100, at the WERA Four-Hour National Endurance (then called the WERA Power-Mist/Performance Machine National Endurance Series) going into the final turn at Indianapolis Raceway Park on July 24, 1993.

I don’t know where Virginia Breeze came up with its name, but I always thought it was one of the best team names of the time.

Team Suzuki Endurance was dominant in this era. In fact Martin and Kurt Hall won this race, the team’s 90th endurance race victory.  Virginia Breeze’s Yamaha was not running its normal yellow and blue livery in this race. Perhaps they had run out of team bodywork at this point of a busy season. At this race Szarek was teamed Craig Gaver and they finished second to Team Suzuki. That’s where they finished in the championship at the end of the season, just edging out Team Pearls for the runner-up spot.

Virginia Breeze Racing’s Glenn Szarek, on a Yamaha FZR1000, leads Team Suzuki Endurance rider Michael Martin on the team’s Suzuki GSXR1100, at the WERA Four-Hour National Endurance (then called the WERA Power-Mist/Performance Machine National Endurance Series) going into the final turn at Indianapolis Raceway Park on July 24, 1993. (Larry Lawrence photo)

Virginia Breeze Racing’s Glenn Szarek, on a Yamaha FZR1000, leads Team Suzuki Endurance rider Michael Martin on the team’s Suzuki GSXR1100, at the WERA Four-Hour National Endurance (then called the WERA Power-Mist/Performance Machine National Endurance Series) going into the final turn at Indianapolis Raceway Park on July 24, 1993. (Larry Lawrence photo)

2 thoughts on “Virginia Breeze Leads Team Suzuki Endurance at IRP (1993)”

  1. I can tell you exactly where the name Virginia Breeze Racing came from…
    After the 1991 season, Taylor Massey (team owner) and I decided to start an endurance team. After talking with some of the local Charlottesville guys, we decided who the team would be and needed to figure out a name. All of us were going through a bunch of different names when Taylor’s then wife Sara said ” I think you should be THE SWEET VIRGINIA BREEZE”. It was not particularly popular among the guys at the time. In fact, I remember one of them saying that it sounded like the name of a feminan hygene product. But once Sara had spoken, that was pretty well it. Taylor was the sponsor/owner and if his wife wasn’t happy, the party wouldn’t last for long……We pared it down to Virginia Breeze Racing & the rest is history.

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