AMERICAN FLAT TRACK CEO MICHAEL LOCK: PART 1
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019 saw another season of consolidation
for the reborn version of America's oldest
form of motorcycle racing, with the 18-race
AFT/American Flat Track Championship series
hosting another thrilling season-long confrontation
between Indian and Harley-Davidson in the senior
class now rebranded as AFT SuperTwins for the
2020 season, with Yamaha now the first Japa-
nese manufacturer to taste victory with a factory-
backed team—twice. Although Indian-mounted
riders continued to dominate, two-time champion
Jared Mees faced a fierce contest to make it a
hat-trick of titles, with the Bauman brothers, Briar
and Bronson, eventually bracketing him in the
final points table, even though Mees outscored
new number-one Briar 8-5 in terms of victories.
Alongside the massive fields gridding up for the
AFT Singles class, where comeback kid Dalton
Gauthier wound up champion on his Husqvarna,
ahead of Honda-mounted Mikey Rush in second
and defending champion Dan Bromley on his
factory KTM in third, the 2019 race program was
expanded with the debut of the AFT Production
Twins category, won by Cory Texter on the G&G
Racing Yamaha FZ-07. Both spectator attendance
and media audiences continued to ramp upwards,
THREE
YEARS
AFTER
For the third year in a row, we sit down with American Flat
Track CEO Michael Lock and discuss, in our two-part interview,
the progress of flat track racing in the U.S.
BY ALAN CATHCART
