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FLAT TRACK PROGRESSIVE AMERICAN FLAT TRACK CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 14-15 / OCTOBER 16-17, 2020 DAY TONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY/ DAY TONA BEACH, FLORIDA P64 on some other laps. I tried to ride the best that I could, so I didn't give Max a good shot at poking it up on me." Whale finished the year second in the standings with Wiles third. AFT PRODUCTION TWINS Production Twins realm, Friday was a night of firsts. Latus Motors Harley-Davidson's James Rispoli sealed the deal on his first Ameri- can Flat Track Championship and Johnny Lewis made history with Royal Enfield's first win in the brand's debut season. Lewis is no stranger to the top step of the box at the Daytona Short Track, the 2012 winner showed strength straight away winning his semi to start on pole and led flag-to-flag for his first vic- tory in the Production Twins class. able to hold him off to score his first win of the season aboard his Suzuki RM-Z450. As with the AFT SuperTwins class, Saturday's rain-delayed race was gridded based off of the day's qualifying session. Wiles was able to get the jump on polesitter Whale and held off the young Australian to score his second win of the season in the shortened four-minute-plus-two- lap race. Joining them on the po- dium was Roof Systems of Dallas, Texas/Shoei Helmets' Trent Lowe. "I was stoked to get that start," Wiles said. "I told myself I can't not win now. It was my race to win. Max (Whale) kept me hon- est, and I could see Trent (Lowe) was in the picture too. I put in smooth, consistent laps. I'd go just a touch easy on some laps, and then I'd pick it up a little bit Charlotte, it was all about the win in Daytona. This time around it wasn't the newly crowned champ who was riding a six-race win streak but Wally Brown Racing's Chad Cose. The race was red-flagged early when Andrew Luker crashed in turn two, collecting polesitter Mikey Rush who had nowhere else to go. That didn't affect Cose who, once again, grabbed the holeshot from the Coondoo Cattle Co./Australian Road Ser- vices Kawasaki rider Max Whale. After the halfway mark, a hungry Henry Wiles made his move for second. After missing last week- end's race to recover from his crash in Atlanta, the RMR Racing Honda rider was trying to make up some points in the champion- ship for second. Wiles was right on Cose, but the Californian was Johnny Lewis made history Friday night, taking the AFT Production Twins win for Royal Enfield in their debut American Flat Track season.