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AMA Pro Flat Track Stars will be doing battle on the fast 1/2 mile - paper clip shaped track at NCS. With the points race heating up all stops will be pulled, only two events following the September 24 Saturday night North Central Speedway event. This is only time the Stars of the AMA Pro series visit Minnesota in 2011, as NCS picked up the cancelled Canterbury Park date. Stars on Harley-Davidson XR 750 racers; Jamin - Jared Mees, Jersey - Jake Johnson (current #1), Kenny Coolbeth Jr., Chris Carr (7-time #1), current and former Grand National #1's scheduled for NCS's - Half Mile National. Current combined Expert point leader Slammin - Sammy Halbert, Rookie Experts Brad Baker and Jeffery Carver Jr. exciting the racing world looking for the rookie title and #1 plate for 2012 season. Flying Bryan Smith will try to improve his winning ways and Johnny Lewis racing the Ninga 650 - Kawasaki. Motorcycle Superstores.com AMA Pro Singles the super support class at the checkers has been a 3-4 wide photo finish at many of the 2011 season tracks crisscrossing the country. Current Point leader Mikey Martin has 3 - wins, closely followed by Michael Avila 4- wins and South Dakota's Gerit Callies with only 20 points between the top three. Minnesota Pro Singles racers; Nick Mataya, Conner Anderson, M3 Racing's - Danja Dan Jacobson and Mac "Attack" McGrew Worldwide Machining & Welding and the Central Roadracing Association - CRA is proud to announce $7500 purse for the "Worldwide Machining & Welding - 5 Hour Endurance Race". Brainerd International Raceway's Donnybrook Course. The 5 hour endurance consists of teams with 2-5 riders and one bike with points and money being awarded in four classes. Racers must possess a current CRA license or be licensed with another racing club (ie: MRA, CCS, etc.). Rules for the endurance race can be found on the CRA website in the 2011 CRA rule-book. http://www.cra-mn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/2011-CRA-Rulebook.pdf. Kibblewhite / Hot Rods/ Motion Pro/ Saddlemen/ D&D Exhausts / K&N Filters / Fist City MX / Durelle Racing / Vortex / Cheney Engineering / No Fear / GO-Pro / todayscyclecoverage.com / tickelchiropractic.com / Sports Center /M3 Racing / Motor-Sports Journalist Kibblewhite / Hot Rods/ Motion Pro/ Saddlemen/ D&D Exhausts / K&N Filters / Fist City MX / Durelle Racing / Vortex / Cheney Engineering / No Fear / GO-Pro / todayscyclecoverage.com / tickelchiropractic.

2011 AMA Flat Track: Castle Rock Results | Motorcycle News

2011 AMA Pro Flat Track

When the AMA Pro Harley-Davidson Insurance Flat Track Championship returned to Castle Rock for Saturday night's TT, it was Graham, Washington's very own Sammy Halbert (Woody Kyle Racing/Fredericktown Yamaha) who showed the field how it's done, leading every lap of the race on the way to a decisive victory in front of hometown friends and family.

Montgomeryville Cycle Center/Lucas Oil's Jared Mees tried valiantly to dislodge Halbert but came up short at the line, while another local favorite, Brad Baker (Major League Moto/R3 Moto), showed his skills on familiar dirt to take third.

Sammy Halbert says: "I knew if I kept getting good starts and kept my focus, I could win this tonight. This is just great - I won my first national here, and this is my fourth win this year, [which is] more than I had in my whole career starting the year."

Halbert wasn't phased by either of the race's two re-starts, the first coming after the ultra-tight field bunched at the initial jump, the resulting melee collecting Chris Carr, Johnny Lewis, and Bryan Smith.

All riders were present for the second go, with Halbert, Mees, and Monster Energy's Henry Wiles repeating their solid starts to take over the top three positions. As the race approached the halfway mark, however, Chad Chose fell on the back section of the track, causing the second red to fly.

After a short delay, Cose was able to rejoin the field for a 13-lap race to the finish. Any advantage gained during the first twelve laps was now lost, but Halbert remained unbreakable, Mees unable to find a way past him.

Wiles, however, had his hands full with Baker, who ramped up the pressure on the Kawasaki rider until he was able to take third from Wiles just six laps from the end. The Rookie of the Year candidate was also closing on Mees when the laps ran out, but he was happy to claim his second podium-finish of the year in front of local fans.

Wiles crossed the line well ahead of a great battle for fifth between Joe Kopp (Latus Harley-Davidson), Jake Johnson (Zanotti Racing), and Kenny Coolbeth (Chaplin Kawasaki). The semi-retired Kopp was able to hold off defending Grand National Champion Johnson and Coolbeth to take the fifth-place spot in his first appearance in the series since the championship's opening Daytona round.

American Motorcyclist Association/Dallas-Fort Worth Honda's Chris Carr finished just a click back in eighth after working his way past another local rider, Innovative Suspension's Scooter Vernon, who'd run as high as fourth early in the race before slipping to ninth. Matt Reecy Racing's Rob Pearson rounded out the top ten.

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