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AMERICAN FLAT-TRACK REVIVAL

Source: A CHAMPION: Bryan Smith won the last official AMA Pro Flat Track GNC1 championship, since the series will now be called American Flat Track and the premier class will be called Twins.

DIRT, REBRANDED J TWINS VS. TWINS J SINGLES VS. SINGLES J INDIAN CIRCLING

THE VIEW FROM INSIDE THE PADDOCK

Flat-track racing has pretty much been awesome since, well, two motorcycles met some neatly arranged left turns on dirt. Over the decades, the success of the Grand National Championship has gone up and down, but there has never been any question that the sport has offered some of the best motor racing of any kind on the planet.

Even with its great action and strong tradition, flat-track’s popularity on the national level dwindled in the modern era. The only thing that kept it going was a tightly knit core of enthu siasts who put money into the sport purely out of love. And there has been but one factory committed long-term: Harley-Davidson. Without this love

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