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Veteran AMA Superbike racer Larry Pegram will race privately-supported Yamahas in the entire Formula USA series and select rounds of the 2004 AMA Championship.

“You know that shop we always sign autographs at when we race at VIR? Triangle Cycles Yamaha in Danville, Virginia. That’s the shop we’re going to run the team out of,” Pegram told Roadracingworld.com Thursday. “Right now we’re planning on doing the whole Formula USA (Sportbike) series, run the R6 in that, and then do the R1 in the AMA Superstock. We’re going to do four or five of the AMA rounds. And then if we get the right budget, we may do the whole AMA series.”

Pegram said he will also race his YZF-R6 in AMA Supersport and hopes to develop his YZF-R1 into a Superbike for AMA competition.

Pegram, who ran the entire F-USA series in 2002 for Hooters Suzuki before switching to his ill-fated Dream Team Ducati AMA Superbike effort in 2003, said his new team will work out of the semi-truck that previously transported the Red Bull Ducati CCS team, will run on Pirelli tires and his teammate will be 45-year-old Richard Eanes.

Eanes, a businessman who just recently started racing, hired Pegram to be his personal riding coach in 2003 and credited Pegram’s tutoring as the key to him winning 2003 CCS National Championships in Amateur Formula 40 and Amateur Super Twins.

The Triangle Cycles Yamaha team will make its debut at the CCS/Formula USA round at Daytona International Speedway February 26.