AMA Flat Track Championship Series returns to MAVTV

CORONA, CA (December 9, 2016) – AMA Pro Flat Track motorcycle racing, the oldest, most prestigious and hard fought of all series sanctioned by the American Motorcyclist Association, will return to MAVTV at 6 p.m. ET Tuesday, December 13. This will be the first of 14, one hour weekly episodes reviewing the 2016 season, one of the closest championship battles in a series that had its modern origin in the inaugural Grand National Championship in 1954.

The 14-race season started in Daytona Beach,

Florida, March 10 and ended in Santa Rosa, California, September 25. Fields of up to 20 riders battled side-by-side at speeds topping 140 miles per hour on some of the toughest oval dirt tracks across the nation. The title fight went down to the final turn on the final lap of a season that Cycle News called “one of the most noteworthy in the 63-year history of the series.

“Harley-Davidson rider Brad Baker of Dryad, Washington, won the race, but Kawasaki’s Bryan Smith of Flint, Michigan, held off the last-lap challenge of Harley’s Jared Mees of Clio, Michigan, to finish second. Smith won his first title and spoiled Mees’s bid for his third straight championship and fourth in five years by five points.

But the series didn’t start out that way. Yamaha’s Sammy Halbert won the first of the two races at Daytona, with Mees and Smith fourth and fifth. In the second race, Smith was eighth and Mees ninth behind winner Jake Johnson.

To watch this epic battle for the 2016 AMA Flat Track Championship unfold, tune-in on Tuesdays at 6:00pm ET and 9:00pm ET, and on Saturdays at 5:00 pm ET.