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X Games Harley-Davidson Flat Track Athlete Spotlight - Sammy Halbert

May 25, 2015

Note: AMA Pro Racing will be highlighting all 24 of the athletes racing in X Games Harley-Davidson Flat Track, which will take place Thursday, June 4 at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, and be shown live on ESPN at 8:30 p.m. ET, 5:30 p.m. PT.

Slammin’ Sammy, as he’s become to be known, Sammy Halbert is among the most popular, and talented, riders on the AMA Pro Flat Track circuit.

Halbert is a perennial front-runner, and he raced in every main event but one in 2014 en route to a seventh place finish overall. In all, he scored six top-five performances last year. He’s certainly among the favorites to take the inaugural gold in X Games Harley-Davidson Flat Track on June 4.

There is no track type Halbert isn’t fast on. His 12 AMA Pro Flat Track victories are spread over Miles, Half-Miles, TTs and Short Tracks, so a brand-new, purpose-built 3/8-mile rack, like the one at Circuit of the Americas for the X Games, shouldn’t prove to be a problem for Halbert.

Halbert is just one of a handful of elite flat track racers form the Pacific Northwest, specifically, Washington. Former Grand National Champions Joe Kopp and Brad Baker also call Washington home.

Name: Sammy Halbert

Home: Graham, Wash.

Age: 28

Ride: No. 7 Briggs Auto/Scott Powersports Kawasaki EX650

In their words: “I’m so stoked to have a chance to compete in the X Games and go for a medal. I want to go there and put on a good show and bring home a medal, it would just be amazing.”