Army Of Darkness Returns to Defend Title at Opening Round of WERA/N2 Endurance Series at Carolina Motorsports Park This Weekend. AOD takes to the tarmac to launch their attempt to win their 6th straight Heavyweight Championship and 18th Endurance championship. Piloting the AOD R1 will once again be Chris Peris (AOD Class of 2005) and Ben Walters (AOD Class of 2003), who are joined this year by new team member Cody Wyman. The Yamaha Champions School instructors will be able to put their lessons to the test aboard the team’s Yamaha R1s prepared and nurtured by long-time team members Tim Gooding, newly minted YouTube star Melissa Berkoff, YT Lechner, Chris Manfrin, and Anthony Consorte. The entire group will once again be loosely coordinated by Team Captain Sam Fleming. “Each year the competition improves so we have to keep innovating to try to stay a couple tenths of a second ahead. We had to do a lot of development work when