AFT SINGLES
The Parts Unlimited AFT Singles
main event at DuQuoin was a
multi-rider, position-swapping
barnburner with a pair of compet-
ing-yet-entangled lead narratives.
We'll
start with a massive
championship that vanished
and then reappeared unharmed
over the course of a half hour or
so. Two-time defending champ
Kody Kopp was living out his
worst nightmare on the warmup
lap, as his chain had somehow
come off his bike while on the
back straight. At the same time,
second-ranked Tom Drane, win
-
ner of three of the last five Miles,
took
his spot on the front row,
now with realistic designs of
needed after working his way
back to form following a training
accident a few weeks ago.
Mees said, "It was a great
race. It felt good to feel good
again. We knew coming in that
the Mile was going to be a big
player for us. We had a good
motorcycle tonight. I played
my cards right; I knew, with the
speed I had in the corners, that
if I started putting some good
corners together, I could prob
-
ably get a gap. It feels good, and
we'll
move onto the next one."
Fifth was instead taken by
Rackley Racing's Davis Fisher,
who used his superior Mile
experience to outfox a pair of up-
and-coming rookies in GOMR's
Davis Fisher and Zanotti Racing's
Trevor Brunner, edging them by
0.090 of a second and 0.132 of
a second, respectively. Behind
Robinson, RVR/Schaeffer's Mo-
torsports' Cameron Smith and
Fairway
Ford's Jarod Vanderkooi
rounded out the top 10.
Mees still has his work cut
out for him if he hopes to make
(more) history, particularly with
Daniels' consistent excellence
to contend with on top of ev
-
erything else, but this DuQuoin
showing
was exactly what he
ROUND 10 / JULY 6, 2024
DUQUOIN STATE FAIRGROUNDS / DUQUOIN, ILLINOIS
FLAT TRACK I PROGRESSIVE AMERICAN FLAT TRACK
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Chase Saathoff (88) ended up
winning the Singles main by one-
thousandths of a second.
