Eraldo Ferracci and Doug Polen at the 1990 Daytona tire tests. (Larry Lawrence photo)
Eraldo Ferracci and Doug Polen get acquainted at the Dunlop tire tests at Daytona International Speedway in January of 1990. Polen had just joined Ducati after two years of racing in Japan for Yoshimura Suzuki. He and Ferracci would go on to become one of the most successful pairings of the 1990s, winning two World Superbike titles and one in AMA Superbike.