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often overlooked and underes- timated, Texter has shown his caliber over the past two seasons and deserves that consideration. However, his path to the throne may be even more daunting in 2021. Rispoli's void has been filled by heavy hitters Dalton Gauthier and Dan Bromley. Both are recent AFT Singles champs and the duo steps into AFT Production Twins conten- tion one season after scoring seven premier-class top-10s apiece. Gauthier took the XG750R to its first-ever Progressive AFT race win in the class back in 2019 and then rode it in Mission SuperTwins a year ago. Now he's back on a D&D Cycles Harley with help from Vance & Hines and primed to do some serious damage. Bromley, meanwhile, has the le- verage necessary to muscle around a twin and the consistency required to run up front in every dirt track dis- cipline. He's fielding his own effort aboard a Yamaha MT-07. Royal Enfield entered Progres- sive AFT to considerable fanfare, marking a rare factory racing ef- fort from one of the globe's oldest and largest motorcycle manufac- turers. Even though it came in with measured expectations and the open admission that 2020 was to serve as a developmental season, Johnny Lewis demon- strated remarkable potential on the Moto Anatomy X Powered by Royal Enfield Twins FT in an up- and-down season that concluded with the extreme high of a win and runner-up in the season finale. 2021 AMERICAN FLAT TRACK SEASON PREVIEW P66 Feature Nicky Hayden AMA Flat Track Horizon Award winner—whose advance hype is roughly on par with that of Daniels prior to his 2019 professional debut. Two riders thread the needle between those two groups and may just represent the biggest threats to Daniels' continued su- premacy. Australian Max Whale took a quantum leap forward in 2020, earning a first-career victory and finishing the season as AFT Singles Championship runner-up. He should prove even more formidable in '21, his confidence soaring as he joins Texter-Bauman on the official KTM squad. The other is Roof Systems' Morgan Mischler, who pushed Daniels to the brink, forcing him to perform last-lap heroics in three consecutive late-season races to keep his sixth-race win streak alive. Many think Cory Texter will be the one to beat in the Production Twins Championship. AFT PRODUCTION TWINS PRESENTED BY VANCE & HINES Rispoli's graduation to the Missions SuperTwins ranks leaves '19 class champ and '20 runner-up Cory Texter as the title favorite as he returns for another shot at the AFT Production Twins presented by Vance & Hines title on his G&G Racing Yamaha MT-07. Far too