FLAT TRACK
2017 AMERICAN FLAT TRACK CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 12 / AUGUST 6, 2017
BUFFALO CHIP CAMPGROUND / STURGIS, SOUTH DAKOTA
P70
flowing freely out the bottom of his
Ninja 650.
"Easy come, easy go. I guess
I'm going to have to quit riding
these things so hard," said Wiles.
"I thought something was wrong
with my tire when I got to the turn,
it just spun. Then I realized what
had happened. It's really a bad
deal for me, but for everybody else
too."
Bauman had a ringside seat for
Wiles' dilemma and suffered the
consequences. "I hit the jump and
I was enough back in the air that I
saw that thing hit the ground and
rip the sump off; there was smoke
everywhere," said Bauman. "I saw
the line [of oil] and thought, 'Well
There were a lot of
these in the AFT Twin
main. There were three
re-starts, one of which
was caused by leader
Henry Wiles.
Points leader Jared
Mees (9) and Jake
Johnson (5) battled
for second place.
Mees got the upper
hand but Johnson
was happy to give
the factory H-D team
its first podium of
the year.
