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American Flat Track is an American motorcycle racing series. [1] The racing series, founded and sanctioned by the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) in 1954, originally encompassed five distinct forms of competitions including mile dirt track races, half-mile, short-track, TT steeplechase and road races .
Bryan Smith at the Sturgis TT 2017. Smith has been racing for over fourteen years. In 2015, Smith competed in his first X Games, winning gold in the Flat-Track event. [1] [2] [3] Smith has won five races at the Illinois State Fairgrounds Racetrack, the latest being the AMA Pro Flat Track Grand National Championship.
The 2 mile (3,520 yards, [1] 10,560 feet, or exactly 3,218.688 metres) is a historic running distance. Like the mile run , it is still contested at some invitational meets due its historical chronology in the United States and United Kingdom .
Motorcycle Grasstrack is a form of track racing which typically, in its current form, takes place on a flat track consisting of two straights and two bends usually constructed in a field. [1] [2] It is one of the oldest types of motorcycle sports in the UK with the first meetings having taken place in the 1920s. [1]
Craig Steven Virgin (born August 2, 1955) is an American distance runner. He was born in Belleville, Illinois, and grew up near Lebanon, Illinois.While in high school, Virgin won 5 state championships (two in cross country and three in track) as well as setting the national outdoor high school 2-mile record of 8:40.9 (beating Steve Prefontaine's mark of 8:41.5, though slightly short of Gerry ...
The FIM Flat Track World Championship is the premier competition organized by FIM on the sport of flat track racing. It takes place every year as a calendar competition on different locations across the world. It was first contested in 2011 and Italian rider Francesco Cecchini has won the championship a record 6 times in a row. [1]
They originated in 2007 as the Inaugural National WFTDA Championship "Texas Shootout" held in Austin, Texas. Previously the "Dust Devil" tournament in 2006 featured teams from across the US, was held in front of several thousand fans in Tucson, Arizona. [1] This was the first multi-league flat track roller derby tournament. [2]
An artificial warm-up track was constructed for the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. [1] During the 1960s many of these tracks were constructed; examples still exist today. [2] In the mid-1960s Tartan tracks were developed, surfaced with a product by 3M. The name Tartan is a trademark, but it is sometimes used as a genericized ...