FLAT TRACK
AMA PRO PRO FLAT TRACK SERIES, PRESENTED BY VANCE & HINES
ROUND 6 / MAY 29, 2016
ILLINOIS STATE FAIRGROUNDS / SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS
P68
ing / Dryer Motorsports) broke the
draft from the remainder of the field
and pulled to nearly a 10-second
advantage.
"It hasn't been getting any easier,
that's for sure. The first one [Phoe-
nix] seemed like a cake walk com-
pared to the last two," said Smith.
"They made me work for every ounce of
that, no doubt. Jared and Brad and Kenny
even got in there.
"You had to play cat-and-mouse, for
sure," added Smith. "I saw halfway and
after that the five-laps-to-go seemed to
come up fast. When you are racing like
that on the mile, it is just so much fun. The
next thing you know it's the last lap. It was
all right; I had it all mapped out. It went just
the way I had planned... I won, that was
the plan."
GNC1
After becoming the season's
first repeat winner last week in
Sacramento, Smith came out on
top of a 25-lap, six-rider slugfest,
narrowly defeating defending
Grand National Champion Jared
Mees and his Las Vegas Harley-
Davidson/Rogers Racing-backed XR750
Harley-Davidson. The 130-mph chess
match featured 11 official lead changes
(at the stripe), but many more elsewhere
around the big oval.
As the race developed, Smith, Mees,
Brad Baker (Harley-Davidson Motor
Company), Kenny Coolbeth (Zanotti Rac-
ing / Harley-Davidson Motor Company),
Brandon Robinson (Kennedy Racing /
Armbruster Racing) and Canadian National
Champion Doug Lawrence (Glidden Rac-
Brad Baker (6)
battles Jared
Mees (1) and the
rest of the pack.
Mees ended up
second and
Baker third.
