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

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

Did you spot it? That's not an FTR750 that AFT champ Jared Mees is stood with. OK, you did. It's a new special edition - the FTR Championship Edition. Indian Motorcycle hasn’t rushed to capitalise on their domination of American Flat Track’s premier class, but after half-a-decade of wiping the floor with the opposition now is the time. Based on the FTR 1200, the FTR Championship Edition treads the popular path of motorcycle & automotive special editions: a race-inspired paint

The wording of KTM's recent press release, wishing Shayna Texter-Bauman good luck with her future racing exploits, seemed to make it clear that Shayna wasn't, as some assumed, stepping out of the sport to 'start a family'. Or not yet. We heard, and shared, some theories about Shayna moving to Royal Enfield on our social media, but they were quickly shot down by Royal Enfield North America. I immediately thought about an Indian move and contacted Cory Texter(not-Bauman), a reg