BY CHRIS MARTIN
PHOTOGRAPHY BY TIM LESTER
F
or the first time since the
opening week of the 2025
Progressive American Flat
Track season some four months
earlier, the series saw the ver-
sion of Dallas Daniels that was
widely expected to dominate
this year's Grand National
Championship fight.
While Daniels has been
consistently strong at a historic
level (21 consecutive podiums
and counting), the whole domi-
nation aspect had been largely
missing.
Well, not exactly missing so
much as co-opted by his pri-
mary title rival, two-time Mission
AFT SuperTwins Champion Briar
Bauman. While the Estenson
Racing Yamaha star stopped
the bleeding by finally getting
back in the wins column a week
earlier in Lima, there was no
denying the simple fact that, if
not for encountering clutch is-
sues with his Rick Ware Racing
Harley-Davidson XG750R, Bau-
man would have arrived at the
Du Quoin State Fairgrounds just
one victory shy of tying Ricky
Graham's all-time win streak
record of six in a row.
ROUND 8 / JULY 5, 2025
DU QUOIN STATE FAIRGROUNDS / DU QUOIN, ILLINOIS
FLAT TRACK I AMA PROGRESSIVE AMERICAN FLAT TRACK
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DANIELS
Dallas Daniels leads an all-Yamaha
podium at the always-close Du Quoin Mile
IN A
THRILLER
