BY CHRIS MARTIN
PHOTOGRAPHY BY SCOTT HUNTER
O
ne champion was struck down by fate.
Another returned to his throne. And in the
chaos, a new winner rose from the pack.
The 2021 season finale at Charlotte Motor Speed-
way put an exclamation point at the end of the latest
chapter of the years-long battle for supremacy being
waged by Progressive American Flat Track's chief
protagonists, Jared Mees and Briar Bauman.
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CHAMP AGAIN!
DRAMATIC CONCLUSION TO 2021 AFT CHAMPIONSHIP
