Throwback Thursday: SuperTeams at Elkhart Lake (1996)
Larry Lawrence | October 6, 2016
Photo by Henny Ray Abrams
We go back 20 years in this week’s Throwback to find EBSCO Industries Suzuki’s Dale Quarterley and Doug Polen (center) celebrating their victory in the AMA Performance Machine SuperTeams Series race at Road America on June 8, 1996. SuperTeams began as the AMA/CCS Endurance Championship and morphed into the shorter SuperTeams format. This particular race at Road America was just a one-hour sprint with each team taking a pit stop for rider change.
Flanking Quarterley and Polen are runner-up squad DATS Racing with Dale Kieffer and Dax Snow (right) and third-place Ohio Superbike with riders Daniel Bailey and Mark Junge (left). All three teams raced Suzuki GSX-R1100s.
This was the final season of SuperTeam and the series turned into Formula Xtreme in 1997.
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