If it were me, I would do them - especially if they've not been replaced since building the car. 9 hours is the track time equivalent of roughly 4 weekends, all at once, with lots of time for things to get hot and load up. I've never driven Road Atlanta, but it seems like all of those high speed, high-G corners could be tough on wheel bearings, and I'm not sure I've ever seen a spin/crash video from there that didn't end up with a lot of body damage.
It's a fairly big job to do the rears, but each individual step is pretty straight-forward. I've never done it on a late car, but on an early car the two worst parts are loosening the axle nut (350 lb/ft if I remember that right), and removing/reinstalling the outboard end of the half shaft (if you do it right, you don't need to remove the inboard end...just make sure you have a plastic bag handy to cover the outboard end when you take it off so that you don't get grease everywhere.) Also, it's a much easier job if you have someone to help.