ROUND 9 / JULY 18, 2025
LUCAS OIL SPEEDWAY / WHEATLAND, MISSOURI
FLAT TRACK I AMA PROGRESSIVE AMERICAN FLAT TRACK
P94
it definitely is. It wasn't looking
good. So, man, I just can't thank
my whole team enough. They
had that bike flipped upside
down. Probably five times today,
we had the front-end off the
thing, we had the swingarm off
the thing. We're just like try
-
ing all this different stuff, and
we just couldn't
find a happy
place. And the track just kind
of came to us. The way I look
at it is we took a day where we
should have been probably ninth
or 10th, and we put it on the
podium. That's what teams like
ours do."
Fisher and Lowe both worked
past Robinson, who had insult
to it at this point. But it was a
good night. We had to do that.
[Du Quoin] wasn't very good; it
was pretty embarrassing. So, I
wanted to win here badly. The
team brought a great bike, and
we were able to do that. But it's
going to be a dogfight, man. I'm
so tired, but we'll keep at it."
"Tonight was just about
damage control," Daniels said .
"Usually that finish, right there
on Briar, I would be fuming, I'd
be so mad, 'Oh man, we could
have done this, caught him at
the end' game. But we started
on the third row. That's like a win
tonight. Second place isn't like
a win, but on a night like tonight,
But once he had clear air in
front of him, Daniels demon
-
strated that he actually had
pace on everyone,
Bauman
included, and he proceeded to
gradually erase the gap to first.
Ultimately, however, more
time was needed. He slashed
the gap to the lead by more than
a second, but Bauman still had
0.329 of a second on his side
when the two streaked past the
checkered flag.
Bauman said, "[Daniels] just
figured it out halfway through
the main event and was clicking
laps. I thought I was hitting my
marks, but he's so good and this
is so tight that I'm just numb
Dallas Daniels (32) had
an off day and night
but put it all together
at the end to
get second.
