Cycle News Staff | July 31, 2015
Photo courtesy AMA Pro Racing/Dave Hoenig
The Peoria TT AMA Pro Flat Track National will not utilize a chicane before the track’s famous jump, this according to a statement from AMA Pro Racing. In fact, according to a source within AMA Pro Racing, they were caught aback by some website reports that a chicane would be used during the national.
“We were aware that the Peoria Motorcycle Club tested a chicane during its amateur event,” said AMA Pro’s Gene Crouch. “But there were no plans to use that chicane during the AMA Pro Flat Track event there.”
AMA Pro Racing issued a statement that read:
Contrary to inaccurate reports in the public domain, the track configuration for the Peoria TT will not have a chicane when AMA Pro Flat Track returns to Peoria, Ill., for Round 9 on Aug.16, 2015. All official information regarding AMA Pro Flat Track events is released solely by AMA Pro Racing via press releases and competitor bulletins. To sign up to receive official series news and competitor information, please visit http://www.amaproracing.com/signup/.
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The popular Flat Track Live Facebook page featured video from the amateur races at the Peoria TT track with the racers going through a chicane making their path to the jump shorter and straighter. Apparently somehow those videos led some to believe AMA Pro Racing was going to use that configuration for the national.
This also comes on the heels of reports that Peoria may feature 750cc and above Grand National Twins machines next year instead of the 450cc single-cylinder motocross-based bikes that have been used in recent years.
