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ROUNDS 4-5 / MAY 28-29, 2022 THE RED MILE I & II / LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY P98 FLAT TRACK I PROGRESSIVE AMERICAN FLAT TRACK That didn't happen. Beach's bike broke while he was fighting for the lead four minutes into the main, leaving Mees and Beach's prodigious teammate Dallas Daniels to go head-to-head at the front of the pack. The balancing efforts resulted in near-perfect lap-time parity among the top Indians and Yama- has. The Yamahas were visibly faster down the straights, and Daniels was able to carry that extra speed deep into turn one. Meanwhile, the Indian FTR750s still made awesome use of their inherent inertial superiority, which allowed them to rail through the corners and carry that momen- tum onto the straights. However, while equally fast as measured by a mile, the contrast- ing strengths combined with a relatively narrow groove provided the Yamahas a more obvious manner of overtaking, which fur- ther allowed them to prevent the Indians from making full use of their corner-speed advantage. Full credit to Mees, the leg- endary pilot was able to work out a way to respond through MYOWNRACE 48 TRENT LOWE 3-17 SINGLES Mission Foods/Al Lamb's Dallas Honda's Trent Lowe is working hard to remove his name from conten on as the best rider in the paddock yet to win a race. Despite a near miss on Saturday (and a DNF on Sunday), Lowe is s ll looking for that first win. He said, "We started strong right from prac ce. I felt good all day. We made a couple minor adjustments as the track changed and from the semi on we said we were just going to ride what we had and see where we end up." 44 BRANDON ROBINSON 4-9 SUPERTWINS Mission Roof Systems' Brandon Robinson was frustrated in Lexington, demonstrat- ing front-running pace but lacking the ability to overtake his produc on-based rivals. He said, "We didn't race today, we followed. It was pre y bad, especially for us privateer Indians. You could see we were pulled ten bike lengths down the straightaways, and I was out-riding them through the corners… I'm looking forward to going to the tracks where we have a real good shot like Loudon and Lima where it comes down to the rider." Mees came back and won the next day over Davis Fisher (67). Daniels was fourth.