American Flat Track hosted its end of season awards night in New York last night and the big news announcement was that Bryan Smith will be back on a Kawasaki for the 2019 season. The 2016 champion sewed up his one and only championship win on the Howerton Motorsports Kawasaki at the final race of the old AMA Pro Racing era, before it was rebranded as AFT. He narrowly beat Jared Mees (who, at the time, was racing a Harley XR750) at the Santa Rosa Mile after the pair went into

Talking to flat track fans on both sides of the Atlantic, it's clear that British/ European fans don't have a feeling of just how highly the X Games is regarded in the US and how important it is to the flat track racers who are involved. To the Brits (certainly the older ones) it's a made for TV, energy drink festival of skate, freestyle MX and BMX, where the Americans seem to see it as a massive honour to be involved with and a season-defining win for a rider who is perhaps

Britain's premier motorsport garden party welcomes a number of AFT stars for this weekend's Festival of Speed. The FoS is the event where various historic and current motor racing vehicles parade up the hill, in front of a big crowd. There's more to it that that, but that's the gist. It's an non-competitive event. The Revival, later in the year, is the event where period costume is encouraged and pre-1967 vehicles race hard for honours. Mees, Baker, Carver, Cose, Briar Bauman

We couldn't have been more excited by the Indian FTR1200 Concept when it was presented last November. The news that Indian had employed motorcycle designer, Ola Stenegard only heightened our anticipation that something street tracker-shaped is going to come out of Iowa. Why else would they be so keen to sponsor the DTRA, if not to continue reinforcing the links between the brand and flat track? Or am I adding 2 + 2 and getting 5? The world is clamouring for a proper street tr