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ROUND 3 / MARCH 25, 2023 SENOIA RACEWAY / SENOIA, GEORGIA FLAT TRACK I PROGRESSIVE AMERICAN FLAT TRACK CHAMPIONSHIP P86 and Chase Saathoff finished 6-7-8, while Parts Plus/Jacob Companies KTM's Shayna Tex - ter-Bauman and Ott's Husqvarna teammate, Chad Cose, complet- ed the top 10. CN AFT SuperTwins Main 1. Jared Mees (Ind) 37 Laps 2. Dallas Daniels (Yam) 0.174 3. JD Beach (Yam) 6.563 4. Brandon Robinson (Ind) 6.694 5. Davis Fisher (Ind) 10.009 6. Jared Vanderkooi (Ind) 11.012 7. Briar Bauman (KTM) 12.579 8. Bronson Bauman (KTM) 13.224 9. Jesse Janisch (KTM) 13.874 10. Ben Lowe (Ind) 14.191 AFT Singles Main 1. Max Whale (KTM) 22 Laps 2. James Ott (Hus) 1.483 3. Daulton Gauthier (KTM) 2.225 4. Trevor Brunner (Yam) 2.371 5. Kody Kopp (KTM) 2.548 6. Morgan Mischler (Hon) 3.305 7. Trent Lowe (Hon) 3.866 8. Chase Saathoff (Hon) 4.048 9. Shayna Texter-Bauman (KTM) 6.019 10. Chad Cose (Hus) 6.292 The Aussie made good on his potential, walking away with a relatively easy main-event victory to keep the early-season KTM win streak intact. Behind, second place was held down throughout by James Ott on the 1st Impressions Husqvarna. Ott took the pad - dock by storm with a near win in his very first race back in 2019, but he spent the better part of the next four seasons looking to rediscover that form. He found it in Senoia, look - ing quick all day and ultimately holding off a charging Dalton Gauthier on the D&D/Certified KTM at bay for second. Kopp stepped up for the main event and looked like he might even find a way past both Ott and Gauthier late. But his plans were undone by Estenson Racing's Trevor Brunner, who dropped Kopp to fifth before Kopp could make a move of his own for the podium. The American Honda trio of Morgen Mischler, Trent Lowe fying outside the top ten, strug - gling to find a setup that had his bike handling to his liking. He fared a bit better in his heat, finishing fourth, but was not the pre-race favorite heading into the main. That was Whale, who was second fastest in qualifying, and the winner of both his heat and the Al Lamb's Dallas Honda Challenge. 52 SHAYNA TEXTER- BAUMAN 9TH SINGLES Parts Plus/Jacob Companies KTM's Shayna Texter-Bauman bounced back with a top 10 following a difficult double opener in Daytona. Still, ninth was less than what she was capable of in terms of sheer speed, a promis- ing indication of what's to come. She said, "I felt pretty fast all day. I came home fourth in the heat and felt we had a chance to win it. I had the fast- est lap time in my heat, so I felt really good going into the main. I started on the outside of the second row and this track has so much banking, it was actually hard for me to touch the ground. I had to put my right foot down for the start and I've never actu- ally had to do that before. That was a little challenging and I got a bad start. I just worked my way back up through from there. At the beginning of the race, one of the young rookies, Tom [Drane] got a little sideways with how slick the track got and that broke the pack up a little bit. I felt good charging and am looking forward to some of the bigger tracks ahead." MYOWNRACE Max Whale gave KTM its second Singles win of the young AFT season.