Ben Spies

Ben Spies (born July 11, 1984), nicknamed "Elbows" for his riding style, won the AMA Superbike Championship for Yoshimura Suzuki in 2006 and successfully defended it in 2007 and 2008. 

Ben Spies is an American team manager who formerly competed as a racer for a MotoAmerica Supersport (600cc) professional motorcycle road racing team. Because of the outward protrusion of his elbows during his riding, he was sometimes referred to as "Elbows". For Yoshimura Suzuki, Spies won the AMA Superbike Championship in 2006, and he successfully defended it in 2007 and 2008. An exhibition set features a racing-tire, blue-and-white streamlined motorbike.

He competed for the Yamaha Italia team in the Superbike World Championship series in 2009, and he won the title in his debut season by a margin of six points over competitor Noriyuki Haga. When he was eight years old, he began racing Yamaha YSR50cc motorcycles with the Central Motorcycle Roadracing Association in Texas. Ben Spies announced his retirement from motorcycle racing on October 26, 2013, following two crippling incidents that left him with irreversible shoulder injury. The Supersport (600cc sportbike) team Rahal Ducati is owned by Graham Rahal, who designated Spies team principal on October 17, 2023. Rahal is the owner of the Ducati stores in Indianapolis and Cleveland.