American Motorcycle Dealer AMD 231 October 2018 | Page 12

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Jared Mees Takes Fifth AFT Twins
Championship; Dan Bromley
takes Singles Title for KTM
Indian Motorcycle factory rider
Bryan Smith (No. 4 Indian
Motorcycle Racing backed by
Allstate Scout FTR750) won an
epic, four-way battle at the 100th
running of the Harley-Davidson
Springfield Mile, Illinois, (Sunday
September 2) with a dramatic,
final-lap pass of series leader and
teammate Jared Mees (No. 1
Indian Motorcycle Rogers Racing
SDI Scout FTR750).
Mees remained the big winner,
however, as his runner-up finish
secured his fifth AFT Twins presented
by Vance & Hines championship. He
has scored 10 wins and victories in
four of the five Miles in 2018, plus 40
career Grand National Championship
victories, the fourth highest of all time.
Smith’s win was his first in sixteen
months (he won the May 2017
Springfield Mile), but his ninth at the
legendary Illinois venue. Third place
went to 2018 Springfield Mile I winner
Jeffrey Carver Jr. (No. 23 Roof-Systems
of Dallas/Indian of Metro Milwaukee
Scout FTR750); Henry Wiles (No. 17
Bandit Industries/Wilco Racing/Willy
Built Indian Scout FTR750) was fourth,
with Briar Bauman (No. 14 Zanotti
Racing Indian Scout FTR750) in fifth.
Springfield saw a second 2018 trial
outing for the experimental AFT
Production Twins class with Michael
Inderbitzin (No. 54 Weirbach
Kawasaki Ninja 650) taking the win in
a Ninja 650 podium sweep.
The weekend’s AFT Singles Class saw
a fourth AFT Singles win of the season
at the Springfield Short Track for
Pennsylvania native and current AFT
Singles points leader Dan Bromley (No.
62 KTM North America/Bromley
Motorsports 450 SX-F).
The following weekend (September 9)
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Briar Bauman (No. 14 Zanotti Racing
Indian Scout FTR750) won the Harley-
Davidson Williams Grove Half-Mile
presented by Appalachian Harley-
Davidson at Mechanicsburg,
Pennsylvania, with his younger brother
Bronson Bauman taking second (No.
37 Indian Motorcycle/Howerton
Motorsports/Allstate Scout FTR750).
With the win, Briar became the final
rider ranked in the championship’s top
six to score a race victory on the 2018
American Flat Track presented by
Vance & Hines season. Jared Mees
finished third - his 14th podium in 16
races this season.
The win in the AFT Singles was taken
by Tanner Dean (No. 38 Waters
Autobody/D&D Powersports KTM 450
SX-F), but the season is now officially
owned by Dan Bromley (No. 62 KTM
North America/Bromley Motorsports
450 SX-F), who did what he needed to
do in order to secure the 2018 class
crown, finishing seventh and ahead of
his nearest championship rival Ryan
Wells. In doing so he scored the 2018
title a full two rounds early.
Shayna Texter took second place in the
race for Husqvarna, with Morgen
Mischler (No. 69 Cycle Craft
Yamaha/Rohde's Sales & Service
Yamaha YZ450F) third. With two
rounds to go, the Singles class has now
seen 10 different winners in 16 races
- Bromley taking four of those wins to
go with his 11 total podiums.
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