VOLUME 56 ISSUE 35 SEPTEMBER 4, 2019 P63
Saturday's
Springfield Mile 1
was tightly packed
until Jared Mees (1)
and Jeffrey Carver
(23) broke free.
DOUBLES UP
SATURDAY
SPRINGFIELD MILE 1
The fabled Illinois State Fairgrounds mile oval is
almost always good, but this time it was excel-
lent with a big wide groove that afforded the rid-
ers with several options on how to best negoti-
ate the 25-lap AFT Twins main event.
Jared Mees (Indian Motorcycle/Progressive
Insurance, Indian FTR750) blasted into turn one
with 16 other finalists hot on his heels. The man
Mees is pursuing in the AFT Twins points race,
Briar Bauman (Indian Motorcycle/Progressive
Insurance, Indian FTR750), had been forced to
his back-up bike and had to use his one provi-
sional-start card to even be in the final and was
starting on the last row.
"I blew the bike up in the semi. We're not sure
what happened yet," said Bauman. "It sucks to
use your provisional. I don't really like that, but
it's fortunate that we had one or I would have
been watching. The bike's been so good all
year. We haven't had an engine failure, and that
one was pretty catastrophic."
The last few years, the fast way around
Springfield was right down on the rail, but slowly
things are changing. Many riders were using the
SPRINGFIELD MILES 1 & 2
