American Flat Track Rider Bio

Briar Bauman

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Briar Bauman got his first career AMA Pro Flat Track Win at the Daytona Short Track in 2014, went on to win the Las Vegas Short Track in 2015, and pulled off his first Twins win at the Lima Half-Mile in 2017 with an eye-opening three-second margin of victory. Bauman recently took silver at the 2018 X Games Harley-Davidson Flat-Track event. Now riding the Zanotti Racing Indian Scout FTR750 (Bauman raced the Zanotti Racing Kawasaki Ninja 650 earlier in 2018), he has nine top-10 finishes and one podium for the 2018 American Flat Track season thus far. Briar hails from Salinas, California, and now resides in Eastern Pennsylvania. Visit the AFT Standings Page for the latest rider standings.

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2017 Briar Bauman, riding for Zanotti Racing, Rod Lake and Western Powersports, finsihed sixth overall in the 2017 AFT Twins division, scoring 14 top-ten finishes, four podiums and two wins, one at Lima, Ohio and a second at the Buffalo Chip TT.
2016
Scored three Top 10s in GNC1 and finished the season 12th in the point standings. Raced for Weirbach Racing Kawasaki.
2015
Took home a victory at the Las Vegas Finale, finishing fifth in the GNC1 class with 143 points. Raced for Rod Lake Racing and USC/Hart/Stevens Racing
2014 Bauman started the GNC1 season on a high note, winning the first race in the season-opening doubleheader at Daytona. He qualified for every main event until the Virginia Mega Mile, where he was injured in a crash that caused him to miss the next two rounds. In all, he tallied five top-five finishes.
2013 Bauman's three Top 5s helped him finish 12th in the overall GNC point standings. Competed for Rod Lake Racing.
2012 Competed in both GNC Expert Singles and GNC Expert Twins. Accounted for eight total top10 finishes. Made his sole top 5 visit at the Illinois State Fairgrounds where he finished 4th.
2011 Finished the AMA Pro Motorcycle-Superstore.com Pro Singles Championship in 6th place. Bauman won three of the eight races he competed in and finished within the top-five positions seven of the eight races.

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Year	Cls	Stnd	Pts	St	Wins	Best Fin	Worst Fin	Avg Fin	Poles	Best Qual	Worst Qual	Avg Qual	Laps Led
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2018	AFT Twins	3	216	17	1	1	16	7.1	2	1	18	7.4	52
2017	AFT Twins	6	219	17	2	1	18	7.1	1	1	17	7.3	33
2016	GNC	12	77	11	0	6	17	12.0	0			0.0
2016	GNC1	14	16	3	0	11	17	13.7	0	2	15	6.7
2016	GNC1	12	61	8	0	6	16	11.4	0	5	19	11.0
2016	XGames	13	0	0	0			0.0	0			0.0
2015	FTSuper	3	10	0	0			0.0	0			0.0
2015	GNC1	1	64	4	1	1	8	4.8	1	1	4	2.8	26
2015	GNC1	7	79	7	0	3	11	7.7	0	3	16	8.9
2014	GNS	7	51	4	1	1	15	7.8	1	1	9	6.3	25
2014	GNT	13	47	8	0	8	19	13.3	0	6	19	11.1
2013	GNS	13	22	4	0	5	18	13.8	0	3	16	7.5	2
2013	GNT	10	66	8	0	3	99	21.0	0	5	14	11.0
2012	GNS	7	75	6	0	4	10	7.5	0	3	18	7.8
2012	GNT	19	35	5	0	9	16	12.0	0	8	18	12.0
2011	FTPro	6	142	8	3	1	18	4.0	4	1	15	4.8	60