Motorcycle video: Halbert and Harley-Davidson win at the 2017 X Games
A motorcycle discipline – less and less – little known in Europe, Flat Track has been on the X Games program for three years, just like skateboarding or BMX. The 2017 race was won by Sammy Halbert on Harley-Davidson, ahead of two Indian riders… Back to video.
If and in Europe, under the influence in particular of MotoGP riders – Marc Marquez and Valentino Rossi in the lead, as often! -, it remains to this day extremely confidential. So much so that it is difficult to realize its extreme popularity in the United States.
Small revealing hint of the excellent rating available to this discipline combining motorcycle and rodeo (see the video below!) On the other side of the Atlantic: it joined the X Games in 2015! On July 13 in Minneapolis, the Flat Track closed the first day of competition…
The Harley-Davidson Vs Indian duel continues
Defeated at the X Games 2016 by Jared Mees and copiously dominated this season in the American Championship by the same official Indian driver and his teammate Bryan Smith – who shared most of the victories – Sammy Halbert took his revenge at the X Games 2017.
“I knew I had to get off to a good start and so I did,” congratulated the # 69 Harley Davidson factory rider. "Jared was taking very tight paths and I thought about elbowing, but I preferred to wait and wait for an opening" … before widening a comfortable gap on his pursuers.
Title sponsor of the test – pressure! -, the Milwaukee firm could have achieved the double if the Jeffrey Carver Jr had not suffered a puncture in the final loop, leaving the field open to two Indians: the n ° 9 of Mees and the n ° 4 from Baker. The entire race is online … on MNC of course !
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