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

Remember we told you the most successful AFT Singles racer ever, Shayna Texter-Bauman has left the Red Bull KTM team to join her husband, Briar on the factory Indian team? Well, it started a domino effect... (photo: Lanesworld) Kody Kopp to Red Bull KTM The 2021 Rookie of the Year takes Shayna's seat, the 17-year-old moves out of the privateer ranks to one of the big Singles teams. He will race alongside 2021 Singles class runner-up Max Whale. Son of 2000 Grand National Champ

The 2021 AFT title ended with more drama than anyone ordered, and with the established stars adding to their tally of titles. First, Friday's schedule was brought forward from an evening racing to an early afternoon start in an effort to out-run an incoming band of rain, but it wasn't enough and Friday was eventually postponed, until Saturday. When it got going, AFT Singles served up the battle between Max Whale and 2020 AFT Singles champ, Dallas Daniels. Whale won a tight ra

Weather permitting, there are a maximum of three rounds remaining of 2021 AFT season, and it's still all to race for in at least two of the classes. There was all kinds of controversy at the previous round, the Springfield Mile. In the Singles, Dallas Daniels was awarded a win, without crossing the finish line, when he was in a collision with Honda' Trevor Brunner, and a red flag caused the race to conclude. Daniels backed it up with another win, and leapfrogged Max Whale to