RAPID CITY, S.D. – The American Flat Track Series returns to Rapid City this weekend for the primary time since 2019.
The Black Hills Half-Mile is happening on Saturday, Aug. 6 at Black Hills Speedway.
This weekend’s race additionally represents the second spherical of the Progressive Triple Crown, which suggests riders can earn further factors and stay within the operating for a $25,000 prize.
Gates open at 3 p.m. on Saturday with qualifying races and the opening ceremonies are scheduled for 7 p.m.
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“It’s actually an ideal spectacle,” stated Promotional Director Terry Rymer. “Something it is best to come out and see. We’re going to have 6-time nationwide motor cross champion Jeff Stanton, as our Grand Marshall. Come and meet him. They open up the pits for all of the followers to come out and get autographs. It’s actually actually an ideal present.”
Fans can have an opportunity to watch a few of the nation’s prime skilled bike racers together with Jared Mees and Briar Bauman.
Mees has received at Black Hills Speedway on three prior events and Bauman is the sequence most up-to-date winner, having taken prime honors in 2019.
Riders say that Black Hills Speedway is one in all their favourite tracks.
“For starters, the grime is phenomenal to go together with the form,” stated AFT bike racer Justin Jones. “It’s a extremely quick technical monitor. You’ll see because the night time goes on, the riders will begin transferring up and up the race monitor chasing the moisture. It simply will get sooner and sooner because the night time goes on.”
“That’s sort of the factor with flat monitor racing, the American Flat Track Series, there’s up to 16 of us on the monitor at one time,” stated AFT bike racer Johnny Lewis. “The racing is shut. It’s nearer than automobiles. We do bang into one another. It’s not typically on goal. But we’re stepping into the corners at 90 plus miles per hour and making an attempt to get the bike to change path and go. When you may have 16 of us on the market, the massive monitor turns into a really small monitor.”
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