American Flat Track at DAYTONA I 3/7/24 | Highlights

Progressive American Flat Track makes its debut on FloRacing with Royal Enfield Short Track I during Daytona Bike Week on Thursday, March 7, 2024.
Mission SuperTwins and Parts Unlimited AFT Singles compete in a pair of main events to open the season at the DAYTONA Flat Track.
0:00 - AFT SuperTwins Main
4:20- AFT Singles Main
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[@voodoo7008]

We used to go to the Astrodome every year to watch this. Kenny Roberts, Mert Lawwill, Bart Markel, and Mike Gerald would be there. It was good times.

[@michaelpauley125]

Awesome Thanks For Sharing!

[@curtiscollins2174]

Great coverage. Much appreciated sir..

[@bennyb.1742]

Thank you for showing the mains on YT. Much better than Fanschoice was.

[@SpaceRanger187]

looks like so much fun

[@joeblow5037]

Thanks for this, guys :-)

[@alkennedy1124]

As long as you keep saying RickWare racing , the flo vlogs will sky rocket 🚀 to a hugest vlog on the planet 🌎,😮thanked Rick Ware , racing /on flo…thanks BigAl California

[@javiel9063]

Is there any chance to watch the races from Europe? Does the service work overseas?

[@alleyoop1234]

This is something never to be seen on the AFT channel!

[@hectorsalazar5584]

👌Rite-On AFT and FloR.!👍

[@jiyushugi1085]

More engine noise, less announcer noise!

[@Jobu1111]

I love the his racing too but prefer speed way. Wish it was more popular stateside

[@commodiusvicus]

Can you make your highlights a bit longer? like15 minutes?

[@curtiscollins2174]

Agree 100%..

[@MiamiMallAlien]

Just buy the service, it's affordable at the yearly rate. Can watch all the races live and on demand

[@Acemechanicalservices]

Cough up a few bucks and watch as much as you want.

[@MiamiMallAlien]

Disappointed yall lost the 500 sprint car tour to dirtvision this bike racing looks pretty cool though. This facility looks awesome too.

[@joebonanno285]

Xr750 better be coming back

[@bennyb.1742]

Slammer is trying! He's going to run a part time seasons on tracks where it works well.

[@mjriemen]

They could *totally* race Midgets on that track! 🤔

[@MiamiMallAlien]

Was thinking this

[@EmersumBiggins]

Midgets would destroy that track.

[@HoosierRC]

They need to race these at the dirt oval inside Indianapolis motor speedway

[@KamenRiderNocchi]

これがダートラの世界か。

[@shauntaylor9251]

That track is way too short for the amount of bikes

[@gu3steezy]

they should run the oval

[@EmersumBiggins]

They did.

[@MiamiMallAlien]

This is an oval

[@minibikemadman]

gotta love harley...they coulda shoulda woulda.

[@bradsanders6954]

Funny how nobody knew the right way to black flag a rider, rules are rules and they did it wrong. Sammy didnt know either but pretended he didnt know the black flag pointed right at him, was for him. He did the right thing to hang on for a 5th.

[@diatonicdoug6525]

Track needs water

[@robj2704]

Too much advance on the XR750? Going for it all. Win or blow.

[@bradsanders6954]

A couple screws worked loose on the primary cover, it was a 2 minute fix.

[@1STGeneral]

Sponsored by royal infield 😂

[@EmersumBiggins]

That’s funny?🤔

[@rayninness6303]

Big bikes on a Short Track how Stupid is this Show become?? 👹👹

[@ruds2600]

I may as well cancel my subscription to Flo. There is never any technical difficulty here.

[@MiamiMallAlien]

Whiney

[@ruds2600]

@@MiamiMallAlien Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free.

[@EmersumBiggins]

What does this mean?🤔

[@ruds2600]

@@EmersumBiggins Why pay for a subscription, when I can watch it here for free. I was trying to watch the World Series of Pro Mod, and every time the pro mods ran. They kept having technical difficulty. I had to go to you tube to watch it.

[@Hopalong..75]

Anothetr chance to say, that I went to that dud of a Royal Enfield commercial. Couldn't wait to leave. Total suck fest of a flat track race.

[@DennisMerwood-xk8wp]

Why did you delete my reply to @bultacowally? Afraid of the truth eh FloRacing? Polaris paying you to delete comments about their cheater Indian in-name-only FTR750?

[@noahdann142]

Lmfao harley's are so bad. Worst bike ever made, always breaks when out front. Wish sammy would race something more reliable with his skill set bc he is so cool to watch

[@PatricioGarcia1973]

HD is one of the most winningest machine in Flat Track. The XR 750 is the benchmark. Guess you never seen them at the 1 mile tracks

[@bultacowally]

@@PatricioGarcia1973 Yeah they did dominate FT for a long time for a few reasons other than just the best motorcycle. It was quite well known HD and AMA were sort of "sleeping together" so to speak so AMA rules favored HD motorcycles. Every time a different manufacturer would come in and start winning championships the AMA would make changes to give the advantage back to HD. Yamaha was killed off in the 70's and Honda in the 80's. Yamaha won with Kenny Roberts and Honda had a 3 year run with Ricky Graham who totally destroyed the competiton in the mid 80's. The old Harley Bro biker contingent kept supporting HD until the late 80's early 90's came about and said fans got too old or died and fan support for HD died out. the beginning of the end for the HD domination. The competitive XR 750 was done in 2008 and the new XR-750G was a dog in comparison as told to me by one of the suspension tech guys I know on the HD factory team. Plus the youth don't like or buy HD motorcycles so little fan base there anymore. Polaris Indian is the bike to beat now...if anyone even cares anymore...

[@DennisMerwood-xk8wp]

@@bultacowally And now the REAL story: As part of their marketing effort to promote the new Scout models in 2017 Polaris made the decision to invest in entering bikes in the AMA Pro flat tracking Series. With much fanfare they unveiled a pure racing model. The Indian Scout FTR750. A bike that was not certified and sold by dealers as a street model. Their marketing department hyperbolically heralding and promoting the bike as “the return of a 750cc V-Twin racer with a famous name from a bygone era”. Playing to the emotions and enthusiasm of a lot of old grey bearded jingoistic fans of American flat tracking. And in the most audacious move of all, Polaris convinced the AMA to promulgate supplementary rules for the Series allowing “race-only” engines. They then went ahead and outsourced the design and development of a pure racing engine to its high-tech Swiss subsidiary, SwissAuto. A company who had been previously involved with developing racing MotoGP motorcycle engines. SwissAuto was also charged with manufacturing a limited number of these engines. Initially only available to the Indian factory Team. The Indian in-name-only FTR750 was hurriedly approved by the AMA on February 25, 2016. After a very “sketchy”, almost non-existent homologation process. Raising the eyebrows of a lot of observers. Flat tracking insiders knew that this was bullshit! Going against 85-years of Class C tradition requiring that the engines be based on production-based street bike engines. The AMA gifted the deep-pockets Polaris with a huge technical advantage. Essentially a huge farce! When in 2017, the AMA promulgated new rules for AFT twins with two subsets of engines; “Production-based” motors limited to 998cc, and “Race-only” motors limited to 750cc, racers thought……. “Oh no! Here we go again!” They predicted a repeat of the Honda fiasco in 1983 with the AMA being conned and bought off into approving the Honda RS750, with its all too obvious “race-only” engine. And they said that another rout, only this time by the “race-only” engined phoney Indian in-name-only FTR750, was on the horizon. Polaris’s pure-racing SwissAuto built “Indian-in-name-only” FTR750 engine - may have initially fooled some. But to insiders it was a pretty transparent attempt to cover up rule gerrymandering. As predicted the results in 2018, and ever since, have mirrored the results obtained by the Honda RS750D cheater in the 80’s. These “Indian in-name-only” motorcycles, with their race-only engines, have decimated the field of production engined bikes in the same way the cheater Honda RS750D did 35-years ago. Making a mockery of the 1933 AMA Class C rules requiring racing motorcycles to be based on production models. ‘Class C’ rules that were designed to make racing accessible to privateers, not only to well-financed professional teams with their big bucks factory specials, with homologation and bike inspection rules to ensure the privateers could buy and race the same bikes as the factory team. Polaris money bought off the AMA. The "Indian in-name-only" FTR750 will forever be a cheater.