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INDIAN RETURNS TO FLAT TRACK WITH JARED MEES!
I
ndian Motorcycle has con-
firmed it will re-enter the AMA
Pro Flat Track ranks in 2017 in a
full-factory capacity with Jared
Mees as its star rider. Mees won
the AMA Grand National Twins
Championship in 2009, AMA
Grand National Singles Cham-
pionship in 2012, the unified
AMA Grand National Champion-
ship (GNC1) title in 2012, 2014
and 2015, and is the current
X Games gold medalist, so he
certainly has the chops to bring
Indian back to racing glory.
"I can't express how excited I
am to be the guy to bring Indian
Motorcycle back into the fore-
front of AMA Pro competition,"
says Mees. "We will have a
lot of work to do to develop a
100-percent-new race platform,
but I'm committed and excited at
what I have seen on the drawing
boards and what the plans are
for Indian Motorcycle Racing.
This is history for the brand, and
being a part of it is truly exciting
for me and this sport."
The factory Indian Motorcycle
team has been developing a
brand-new, dirt-track-specific,
liquid-cooled V-twin race engine,
dubbed the Scout FTR 750, in
partnership with their Swiss-
Auto subsidiary—whom they ac-
quired in 2010. This is the same
company that developed the
MuZ 500cc two-stroke MotoGP
machine that saw success in the
hands of Dutchman Jurgen Van
Den Goorbergh and Italian Luca
Cadolora in the late '90s and
early 2000s.
"We are very excited to return
to the AMA Circuit," says Steve
Menneto, President of Motor-
cycles for Polaris Industries.
"We have established the new
Indian Chief and Scout series as
the cornerstones of our produc-
tion lineup, and now is the time
for us to return to racing in a big
way. We know that fans of Indian
Motorcycles have been antici-
pating this announcement and
can't wait to see Indian Racing
back in action."
Indian Motorcycles will race
the new motorcycle at a circuit
to be determined in 2016 in
preparation for a full season of
competition in 2017. CN
Jared Mees
will help get
Indian back
into AMA Pro
Flat Track
racing in 2017.
