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FLAT TRACK AMERICAN FLAT TRACK SERIES ROUND 8 / JUNE 3, 2018 THE RED MILE / LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY P82 AFT TWINS 1. Jared Mees (Ind) 2. Bryan Smith (Ind) 3. Brad Baker (Ind) 4. Henry Wiles (Ind) 5. Sammy Halbert (H-D) 6. Chad Cose (Ind) 7. Brandon Robinson (H-D) 8. Jeffrey Carver Jr. (Ind) 9. Jake Johnson (Ind) 10. Kenny Coolbeth Jr. (Ind) AFT SINGLES 1. Kolby Carlile (Yam) 2. Kevin Stollings (Hon) 3. Shayna Texter (Hus) 4. Jesse Janisch (Yam) 5. Jordan Harris (Hon) 6. Tristan Avery (Hon) 7. Morgen Mischler (Yam) 8. Ryan Wells (Hon) 9. Dan Bromley (KTM) 10. Cameron Smith (Hon) iii My Own Race: 1 JARED MEES 1ST AFT TWINS Jared Mees' race strategy was simple and flawless. "Starts were important. If you were on the pole, you were on the groove," said Mees. "You were able to get on the groove and take off. By the time you came off the corner, you were gone. You could put in such a good lap on the very first lap and you could break them. We were still a little bit better than Bryan every lap. We did what we had to do. I don't think Bryan was shifting and I was trying to shift, that could have been part of it." 4 BRYAN SMITH 2ND AFT TWINS "Jared was a click better all day, but we made a couple changes for the main and I thought I could run with him," said Bryan Smith. "I knew he was going to be hard to beat, but if I stayed with him we could get away from all the chaos that was going on back there, I'm sure. Every time I would try to push, I'd mess up. I could only go that pace. Finally, towards the end, I just settled in. Then I thought I better not settle in too much because someone is going to stuff me. I picked it up a little bit there at the end. Luckily, I had a big gap and I could kind of cruise for second." 6 BRAD BAKER 3RD AFT TWINS "It was not an easy one, that's for sure. We had to work for it. You had to be aggressive, but not too aggressive," said Brad Baker. "You either made a mistake or a dangerous move. We were all fighting for a two-foot groove. It didn't seem like you were able to make draft passes early. You just kind of had to run into the corner, but not too deep, where you blew the groove. If you did that you kind of messed up your friend. Unfortunately, Davis Fisher's handlebar hit my boot in the middle of three and four. He tried to do an outside pass, which was kind of ballsy, really. I'm glad that he's okay. I never want to run into anybody like that on a mile. Henry Wiles and I seem to be finding each other on the track a lot tonight. I was able to out-school him on the last lap. I got him going into three then I pushed him wide, but he almost got me at the line." (L-R) Stollings, Carlile and Texter celebrate on the Singles podium.