American Racing News Vol 1, Issue 2 Issue 2 | Page 15

By Miriam Deitcher
Jared Mees earned a tough victory at the
inaugural Harley-Davidson Lone Star
Half-Mile at Circuit of The Americas
Saturday night. Mees faced disappointment in last year’s Summer X Games in
Austin but won the 25-lap Harley-Davidson GNC1 presented by Vance & Hines
class race over No. 27 Robert Pearson
(Harley-Davidson 750).
Mees charged the pack after Brad Baker
(No. 6 Harley-Davidson 750) was forced
to leave the track due to technical difficulties on lap seven and was challenged
again when a red flag with five laps to go
turned Round 3 of the AMA Pro Flat
Track season into a five-lap shootout.
“You go into every race just wanting to
win, but this place owed me big time,”
Mees said.

Mees locked in his main event placement
with a third-place finish in the second
heat race and kept the momentum going
into the main. He took the lead on lap 8
and never relented, which earned him the
McElroy Packaging “Lucky 13 Award”
in front of a packed house of both American and International spectators. Mees
took home the Öhlins “Fastest Lap
Award,” as well and was pleased with
the victory.
“I don’t know if I had anything for
Brad,” Mees said. “I’d just settled into
my groove and I don’t know if I could
have run him down. At the red flag, I
thought, ‘Don’t do this to me, you owe
me.’ It was really good to win. I needed
this for the confidence after I had a so-so
Daytona. The credit goes to the team.
We relate very, very well. They never let
me down.

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