Royal Enfield are into their third season of American Flat Track, and after two years of development in the Production Twins class, AFT rule changes have forced the Twin FT into the SuperTwins category with the fastest dirt track bikes to ever race an oval. Plenty of people thought the air-cooled twin, based on the Interceptor 650cc road bike engine, would be out of its depth, but the Royal Enfield team have made them reconsider. On night 1 of the Daytona double-header season

Forget the once traditional, massive two-month gap between dirt track's Daytona opener and round two, which was often the Springfield Mile over the late-May Memorial Day weekend. American Flat Track were committed to plugging the gap, and there has only been one free weekend between Daytona's round 1 and 2, and the third race on the 2023 schedule, the Senoia Short Track, in Georgia. Not only that, there are five AFT events between Daytona Speed Week and the Memorial weekend r

The AFT 2022 season kicks off on Thursday, with back-to-back double header at the Daytona Short Track. It's the first Daytona Short Track season opener since 2016. All the subsequent Daytona March rounds have been TTs. The 2020 season wound up at the Daytona Short Track (pictured above) and Brandon Robinson won both nights, his only wins of that season, on the Indian FTR. Here's a few bullet points in case you missed any of the major announcements. SINGLES There are 44 single

With less than a week to go until AFT's 2023 season opener, it was finally officially announced that Briar Bauman (Texter-Bauman?) and Shayna Texter-Bauman will be riding KTMs this season. Briar will be on an 890cc Duke-based SuperTwin, while Shayna is back in AFT Singles on a 450. Both are riding for the new-to-AFT, Rick Ware Racing team. Currently, Rick Ware Racing fields entries in top-level two- and four-wheeled racing in the NASCAR Cup Series, IndyCar, NHRA (Top Fuel), I