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AMERICAN FLAT TRACK CEO MICHAEL LOCK: PART 2 P84 Interview also looking at getting involved in AFT, and said, "We need to do AFT now, because it's on the rise, but we don't have a street bike with a donor engine that we could build a race bike around. So, we're going to have to do what Harley-Davidson did 40 years ago and develop a full-on racer." There's some irony in all of this, in that they both took decisions they felt were strategically correct at the time for what they wanted to achieve, but if you fast forward to now, one brand has been much more successful than the other. Well, okay, that's racing, and I don't think anyone doubts the rac- ing prowess of the Vance & Hines team, I don't think they've been sitting around enjoying the view, they've been working with what they've got, and they're getting closer, you know. 2019 was their best season so far, they made the bike much quicker. I know they have very ambitious plans for next season, which will see them competing pretty aggressively in 2020, so I think there'll be a new storyline there. Did Harley punch the XG engine out to 900cc under the new 2019 AFT Twins rules? I believe they had options on that, but I don't think you need that bigger engine at every track. In fact, there is a school of thought which says that in flat track it's easier to have too much power, rather than too little. Okay, but on a Mile, you need to have the power! Are you aware of Harley having used the extra capacity on their Mile bike? I think they used it several times but as and when it was beneficial. So, three years down the line, are you pleased with what you've achieved so far with AFT? And what are you hoping to do in 2020 that you haven't been able to achieve just yet? "One thing that we're doing is we're changing for main events in 2020 and beyond, is that they will be timed races, so it will be X number of minutes, plus two laps." Flat track is catching more attention from There are two big things we want to achieve in 2020. One is the successful introduction of this new SuperTwins class, and with it being a banner for our sport worldwide. The Su- perTwins format and the way that we're going to shoot it for TV, means that we're not only going to get a lot of new fans in the USA, but critically, it will start to create an international environment for flat track which is something very close to my heart. This sport is too excit- ing not to share, and I would like to suck fans in using digital technology to be able to broad- cast our sport live, or on tape delay, anywhere in the world and to get people to take notice. The MotoGP model in road racing is a very