AMERICAN FLAT TRACK CEO MICHAEL LOCK: PART 2
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Interview
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n the second of our two-part interview with
AFT CEO Michael Lock, we discuss the future
of the sport, including getting more factory
involvement, and other strategies, such as improv-
ing the safety of the racers and changing the way
the races are run, like determining the length of
the racing by time instead of laps.
Click here to read part one.
Last season you restricted the performance
of the Indians to try and rein them in. Will that be
maintained?
That's actually not true.
Okay, so tell me what you did.
I like to level up, not level down. I don't believe
in penalizing the successful competitor; it kind
of goes against my nature. So, what we did, was
in the 2019 rulebook we allowed production-
engined machines, i.e., everything except an XR
Harley and an FTR Indian, to increase the cubic
capacity of their engines, up to a maximum of
900cc regardless of where it started out, and we
restricted the pure race bikes, like the Indian, to
750cc. That's what they've always been, so we
didn't change the rule on that. All we did was we
allowed the street-bike-based engines to go up
to 900cc, and we allowed them a two-millimeter
THREE
YEARS
AFTER
For the third year in a row, we sit down with American Flat Track's
CEO Michael Lock and discuss, in our two-part interview, the progress
of flat track racing in the U.S. This week, Lock talks about the future
and some of the changes you'll see this year in AFT racing.
BY ALAN CATHCART
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANDREA WILSON
