Ben Thompson must have thought that if was good enough for AMA Superbike champ Ben Spies than it was good enough for him. Here Thompson, on the Millennium Technologies/KWS Motorsports Suzuki shows his best elbows-out cornering style that looks suspiciously like Spies. Thompson was surely the fastest motorcycle road racer ever to come out of Alaska.

Ben Thompson at Road America in 2008. (Larry Lawrence photo)