FLAT TRACK RACERS JARED MEES & BRYAN SMITH
P104
Interview
They got decent riders, so
that's not the total problem. I
would say me and Mees are
probably better than their riders
by looking at their standings over
the last whatever number of years,
but they're good enough that they
should be able to get out front
once in a while. They're really not
doing that so that basically points
to the team. Then the next prob-
lem is there's not very many good
team owners, mechanics, engi-
neers in flat track. Like you said,
it's Howerton or Tolbert. I don't
know why they wouldn't want to go
after any one of them.
What do you think about the
schedule, how the mix is this
year? There are fewer miles
this year.
Yeah. There're fewer miles,
more TTs. I don't even know
where it stacks up for half miles.
If we were going racing on Indian
again, then I'd say, yeah, hands
down Jared is going to be better
on the half-miles just because he
always was on the Indian when
we were both on that bike. I
think I was probably consistently
better on the miles, maybe we
were even on the miles. But on
the Kawi, I'm better on the half-
miles, personally. So once again,
it just goes back to being more
comfortable. We finally got the
Kawasaki in 2016 where consis-
tently, quite a few races, we won
on the half-miles, and [we were]
than him on his XR, which, I think
his XR probably on a half-mile,
was better than the Indians. So,
I don't think we're going to be
lacking anything on the half-mile,
bike-wise. I feel better on that
bike. So we'll be competitive. Not
saying it's going to be easy by any
