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2018 AMERICAN FLAT TRACK SEASON PREVIEW P88 Preview the penultimate round at Texas Motor Speedway and grabbed third overall. Lewis will also ride a Kawasaki 650 at some events. California's Chad Cose is yet another FTR-mounted privateer looking to taste podium cham- pagne in 2018. Cose will ride an Indian FTR750. Other prominent FTR-mounted riders include ex- Harley-Davidson factory rider Jake Johnson, multi-time Peoria TT win- ner Henry Wiles and Jay Maloney. The non-FTR750-riding rostrom threats include the aforementioned Briar Bauman. Ex-Harley-Davidson factory pilot Davis Fisher will be on a Kawasa- ki as well. AFT Singles phenom Wyatt Anderson, who finished seventh in the division last year, is moving up to AFT Twins, and could be formidable on KTM 990s and Yamaha FZ-07s. in 2017 and finished third in the AFT Singles standings, just four points behind Price. Price won three races in 2017, and definite- ly has the speed to contest this year. Texter scored big on miles and half-miles, but struggled on short tracks and TTs, a situation she hopes to fix this year. Miss Texter will have family company in AFT Singles this year in the form of her brother Cory, who rode AFT Twins last year and is moving to AFT Singles for financial and personal reasons. Fourth overall on Hondas last year was Michigan's Ben Lowe, who'll be riding a pair of Kawa- saki KX450Fs in 2018. Kevin Stollings, fifth overall in AFT Singles last year, posted a number of top-five finishes in 2017, but was hurt by five mechanical DNFs. High-school student Cameron Smith cap- tured sixth overall in 2017, and has his eyes set on bigger and better things for 2018. And it all starts on March 15 at Daytona International Speed- way. Get your tickets now at DaytonaInternationalSpeedway. com or by calling 1-800-PIT- SHOP. CN Fifth overall last year and winner of the Texas Motor Speedway Half-Mile, privateer Jeffrey Carver Jr. should be a contender all year long in AFT Twins. WE'VE TRIED DIFFERENT CHASSIS," VANCE SAYS, "AND DIFFERENT ENGINE CONFIGURATIONS; WHATEVER WE HAVE TO TRY TO GET OUR BIKES WHERE WE NEED THEM." – Terry Vance AFT Singles Consistency, they say, is king. Must be some truth to that, too, because during the 2017 AFT season, Kolby Carlile had more than anyone else. Carlile, whose long red hair earned him the nickname "The Flying Tomato," didn't win an AFT Singles race all year on his Yamaha YZ450F. But he scored top-five finishes in 13 of 18 races and finished on the podium eight times on his way to winning the title by 23 points over series runner-up Brandon Price. Two of Carlile's primary antagonists are sure to be 2017 series runner-up Brandon Price and Shayna Texter, who won five races