American Flat Track Rider Bio

Cory Texter

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Long-time American Flat Track racer Cory Texter enjoyed his finest season to date in 2019, winning multiple races and ultimately being crowned AFT Production Twins Champion. Texter, who first started riding at the age of four, fought long and hard to achieve that first-career title, both enduring and enjoying a career that had seen more than its fair share of peaks and valleys. His professional career started in 2008 and, by 2016, the Pennsylvanian had gradually built himself into one of the ten best AFT Twins riders on the planet. That season he twice finished on the podium, backing up his first career premier class top three taken at the Arizona Mile with a second at the Springfield Mile. However, he finished outside the top 20 in points the following season. He next moved to the AFT Singles class in 2018 hoping of rediscovering his confidence. While he did manage to claim a fourth-place race result, that desired career resurgence wouldn’t truly take place until his epic ‘19 Production Twins campaign. Texter came out of the gates swinging in 2019, dominating the opening three rounds of the season -- claiming pole, leading the most laps, and taking the checkered flag first each time out. He didn’t win another race all year, but he didn’t need to; Texter remained a consistent force near the front of the pack, adding five more results of fourth or better -- including a pair of podiums -- before his championship-winning season was complete. Texter made history in the Production Twins opener, when he and younger sister Shayna became the first siblings to ever win American Flat Track Main Events on the same day. Texter is a respected, well-liked figure in the paddock. He often serves as an unofficial voice for fans, privateers, and the sport more broadly alike. He’s a certified trainer, bicyclist, runner and family man.

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2017 Cory Texter finished 21st in the Twins standings for the 2017 American Flat Track season with one top-10 finish for the year.
2016
Finished 9th in the GNC1 points and secured his first career GNC1 podium at the Arizona Mile and landed another third-place result at Springfield Mile II. Raced for Cory Texter Racing/Kawasaki.
2015
Reaching four GNC1 main events, Texter placed 23rd overall in the GNC1 class rankings with his best result coming at the Delaware Half-Mile, a seventh place finish.
2014 Texter made nine GNC1 main events with a season-best showing of 10th at Sacramento. 2012 - Made just one main event start at the Illinois State Fairgrounds where he finished 17th.
2012 Made just one main event start at the Illinois State Fairgrounds where he finished 17th.
2011 Texter raced in a select GNC Twins event earning a 16th-place finish at the Hartford Motor Speedway. Raced with RLT Racing/Harley-Davidson.
2010 Texter raced in select AMA Pro GNC events. Raced with Lancaster Harley-Davidson race team.
2009 Texter raced in the AMA Pro Grand National Twins Championship, earning four main event finishes with a best finish of 11th-place at Grove City. Raced in the AMA Pro National Hot Shoe Series with four Top5 finishes. Raced with Lancaster Harley-Davidson race team.
2008 Texter raced in AMA Grand National Twins Championship, earning best finish at Topeka, Kansas (Oct. 4)...Raced in AMA 750/1000 National Hot Shoe Series, earning top-5 finish at Frederick, Maryland...Raced in AMA 450 National Hot Shoe Series, earning best finish seventh-place at Frederick, Maryland...Raced with Lancaster Harley-Davidson race team.
2007 Texter raced in AMA Expert Twins, earning a win at Tucson, Arizona, with four other podium finishes, ending season 4th place overall...Raced with Lancaster Harley-Davidson race team.

Career Stats Show Hide

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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2019	AFT Production Twins	1	190	11	3	1	9	4.0	5	1	10	3.6	51
2019	AFT Twins	35	2	1	0	17	17	17.0	0	13	13	13.0	0
2018	AFT Singles	15	77	8	0	4	18	9.4	0	3	8	6.3	1
2018	AFT Twins	40	2	1	0	17	17	17.0	0	14	14	14.0	0
2017	AFT Twins	21	53	10	0	9	18	13.7	0	11	18	15.1	0
2016	GNC	9	87	10	0	3	17	10.3	0			0.0
2016	GNC1	21	8	1	0	11	11	11.0	0	13	13	13.0
2016	GNC1	9	79	9	0	3	17	10.2	0	2	18	11.6
2016	XGames	22	0	0	0			0.0	0			0.0
2015	GNC1	27	4	1	0	15	15	15.0	0	7	7	7.0
2015	GNC1	21	26	3	0	7	13	10.3	0	6	14	9.7
2014	GNS	24	7	2	0	14	17	15.5	0	15	17	16.0
2014	GNT	16	36	7	0	10	19	14.0	0	10	18	15.1
2013	XR	29	14	2	0	13	15	14.0	0	15	20	17.5
2012	GNS	37	1	1	0	18	18	18.0	0	15	15	15.0
2012	GNT			0	0			0.0	0			0.0	0
2011	GNS			0	0			0.0	0			0.0	0
2011	GNT	39	3	1	0	16	16	16.0	0	15	15	15.0
2010	GNS			0	0			0.0	0			0.0	0
2010	GNT			0	0			0.0	0			0.0	0
2009	GNT	23	17	4	0	11	18	14.8	0	10	13	11.7
2009	HSExS	4	61	5	0	3	14	7.4	0	3	12	7.0
2009	HSExT	4	34	3	0	4	12	7.7	0	4	9	7.0
2008	GNT	18	1	1	0	20	20	20.0	0	17	17	17.0
2007	ExTwin	4	101	6	1	1	7	3.3	1	1	7	3.8	5