The 2020 American Flat Track season finally gets underway this weekend with back-to-back races on Friday and Saturday at the Volusia clay Half-Mile in Florida. The season was supposed to start with the Daytona TT in March, but was postponed with only 24 hours to go. And Volusia is racing with fans, one of the first pro sports in the world to manage to welcome back socially-distanced spectators. There are a lot of changes for 2020, that are nothing to do with coronavirus. We'r

AFT pulled out the stops to create a full 18-round 2020 season, despite losing four months of it, but Covid-19 is giving them another runaround. The rescheduled Lima Half-Mile, which was going to be the second race weekend, has been postponed due to the virus. There is still hope the race will be rescheduled a second time. Lima is one of the races on the schedule that is promoted by a third party promoter, in this case Jared and Nichole Mees. We don't know the details of thi

Cory Texter is not only the 2019 AFT Production Twins champion, Sideburn columnist and podcaster, he's a total flat track nerd. Who better to recommend flat track race highlights on YouTube to watch? The Daytona Short Track in 2002 was nothing short of epic. Flat track was in a weird transitional period at that time. Many of the top riders were still riding Rotax-powered racebikes, but the emergence of the motocross-framed DTX bikes were being put in production as seen with J

Earlier this year, UK racer and friend of the mag, Nathalie Legrand spent a week at Johnny Lewis' Moto Anatomy school in Florida. She supplied a diary of the intense week. After a couple of months going to practice with my KTM 250, that George Pickering set up for me, I realised that if I wanted to be safer on the track and take on good habits, I needed some help. It can be overwhelming to hear different tips from different people when you start a new sport and you end up bei