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ROUND 12 / AUGUST 8, 2026 JACKPINE GYPSIES MOTORCYCLE CLUB / STURGIS, SOUTH DAKOTA FLAT TRACK I AMA PROGRESSIVE AMERICAN FLAT TRACK P80 Tom go down, and I'm like, 'Wait, I think I'm third.' " Turner Racing American Honda's Walker Porter and JMC Motorsports/Fairway GMC's new addition, Trevor Brunner, completed the top five. Jared Lowe (Big R Racing/Vinson Con - struction Honda CRF450R) and Turner Racing Honda pilot Kage Tadman came home sixth and seventh, respectively. 1st Im - pressions Jack Brucks brought his Husqvarna in for eighth, and his teammate, Jett Katarzy, finished in 10th. Drane remounted for ninth but still leads the points stand - ings with a mammoth 54-point advantage over Saathoff (235- 181), who is in turn 17 points ahead of Tadman (164). CN Pfanders rounded out the top three, the LCQ winner slashing his way forward from the back row. "I don't want to say it was a completely rough day," he said. "We qualified pretty good. In the heat race, we got taken out with like two laps to go. And yeah, stuff happens. We went to the LCQ, won that. We got some ex - tra track time to figure out how the track was developing. And then we had the dash too, so I had the most laps of anybody tonight. I got a good start [in the main] and made a lot of passes on that first lap. Everybody got bunched up on the first turn on the pavement, so I went around them and started making my way forward, making good passes. Then I saw Chase and Vinson Construction's Tarren Santero all over him in his own bid to secure a maiden Kicker AFT Singles win. "There were a few times [Kelleher] had a couple bobbles, but I kind of followed suit and had a bobble right behind him," Santero said. "So it was hard to close the gap. Towards the end, I had thought I might be able to force it up in here, but I figured I would probably take us both down. I mean, we saw that hap - pen with Chase and Tom, and I didn't want to do that. But we know we were right there. You know, it's shy of a first. I keep knocking on the door, but we'll get there eventually, and I think it's coming." Behind, OTB Racing's Bradon AFT SuperTwins (Top 10) 1. Dallas Daniels (Yam) 9:22.568 2. Briar Bauman (H-D) +6.784 3. Dalton Gauthier (RE) +9.509 4. Kody Kopp (H-D) +12.976 5. Declan Bender (Yam) +23.243 6. Henry Wiles (Yam) +23.968 7. Trent Lowe (Hon) +28.057 8. Davis Fisher (KTM) +28.452 9. Aidan RoosEvans (H-D) +29.633 10. Hunter Bauer (Yam) 18 Laps AFT Singles (Top 10) 1. Evan Kelleher (KTM) 7:25.727 2. Tarren Santero (Hon) +0.529 3. Bradon Pfanders (Yam) +6.452 4. Walker Porter (Hon) +8.472 5. Trevor Brunner (KTM) +9.444 6. Jared Lowe (Hon) +11.295 7. Kage Tadman (Hon) +11.620 8. Jack Brucks (Hus) +12.892 9. Tom Drane (Yam) +19.816 10. Jett Katarzy (Hus) +20.940 Bradon Pfanders got back on the podium for the first time since his Daytona Short Track II win.