VOL. 54 ISSUE 32 AUGUST 15, 2017 P91
By the halfway point, Wiles'
lead had grown to over three
seconds and the leaders were
starting to hit lapped traffic.
Wiles sliced through pretty
easily, but Mees and Bauman,
not so easily. "I think it was re-
ally easy to get through lapped
traffic," said Wiles. "I was just
able to pass guys really quickly.
I honestly think that is because
we are on twins."
Last year, when American Flat Track announced that their Premier class
would be a twins class and that twins would be returning to the legend-
ary Peoria Motorcycle Club's TT there was a lot of talk about how much
faster the singles class would be. Many thought this would mean the end
to Henry Wiles' dominance and how dangerous it surely would be. Turns
out most, if not all, of the concerns were without merit. The only major
problem of the day was in a Singles heat. Jesse Janisch was fast quali-
fier in the Singles at 27.112 seconds, while Wiles stopped the clocks at
26.340. Wiles rolled out his trick Kawasaki twin motocrosser and picked
up where he left off and won his 13th consecutive Peoria GNC.
Briefly...
Jared Mees (9) held
off Bryan Smith
(1) to take second
and extend his
points lead over the
defending champ.
Smith ended up
fourth.
