One of Dan Chivington’s biggest and most profitable victories came at Road Atlanta in 1986 in the Suzuki Cup GSX-R1100 final. There he made a dramatic last lap pass under the bridge on Doug Polen to take the victory in front of a national television audience.

“Everyone else had 1mm overbore on there bikes,” Chivington recalls. “Mine was stock bore and it would get killed off the corner, but on the big end I could draft by them with no problem since my bike would whistle on up another couple hundred RPM. I stuffed David Emde in that same turn back in my 250 days and pretty much did the same thing to Polen. I drafted by at the last possible second on the back straightaway and then if you’re going to outbrake me you’re going to end up in the pit lane.”

Dan Chivington being interviewed after winning the Suzuki GSXR Cup Final at Road Atlanta in 1986. (Larry Lawrence photo)