AMA Flat Track Off Week: Jared Mees Wins Digger Helm Short Track National at Bakersfield

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Jared Mees #21 CR450F Honda's sit in his pit area at Gas City during a break in the action for the day's AMA Pro Flat Track K&N Filters presented by Motorcycle Superstore.com Grand National Championship Series short track round at the I69 Speedway in June 2010. The 2009 AMA Flat Track Grand National Twins Champion leans against a table in the background overlooking his pit. Jammin Jared is sponsored by Rockysonline.com/Lucas Oil/Rogers Lake/
Montgomeryville Cycle Center in the AMA Flat Track Series.
Mees took last weekend's off week on the AMA Pro Flat Track schedule to head to Bakersfield, CA. and compete in the Eddie Mulder West Coast Vintage Dirt Track Series round of the Digger Helm Short Track National. A total of 51 pro riders showed up for the $18K purse that was up for grabs in the 'outlaw race.' The Jammer made a clean sweep of the day's events in winning his heat (the day's fastest good for pole in the main), the dash for cash event, and topped it off with the main event win. Not a bad 'off' weekend! Great job Jared!

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Jared Mees has had a very consistent year in campaigning the 2010 AMA Pro Flat Track K&N Filters presented by Motorcycle Superstore.com Grand National Championship Series. The '09 AMA Grand National Twins Champion currently sits third in the overall standings heading into the final round in Prescott Valley, AZ. on October 9th for the Budweiser Mile, where back in the May running of the event he placed just off the podium in fourth place. Since then, other than series point leader Jake Johnson and runner-up Joe Kopp, Mees has been the most consistent man on the track, whether it be in the Twins class or the Singles class. He lies ahead of several other racers-Henry Wiles to name one-who have won at least one race this year-in the point standings on the virtue of that consistency as he hasn't won a race this year...yet.

With an off weekend, The Jammer headed west to contest the Digger Helm Short Track National in Bakersfield, CA., part of the Eddie Mulder West Coast Vintage Dirt Track Series. The annual event had 51 pro riders entered in what was billed as the Digger Open Pro Class, including AMA regulars The Halbert Brothers, Chad Cose and '09-'10 AMA Flat Track Singles Champion Henry Wiles. Pretty stacked field of regular National riders competing at this sixth annual race!

The Jammer may be sitting in the third spot in the AMA Flat Track Grand National Championship overall point standings by virtue of his great equipment and his extremely consistent runs this season, but at Bakersfield he flat spanked the field in winning his heat-the night's fastest, winning the dash for cash event, and topping it off with a win in the main of the Digger Helm National while riding a Honda put together by Ed Steffen, one of his long-time supporters. Great job by Jared and team to pull this off and to take home a little more bacon in the process. Congrats man!

Here's The Champ's official spot on the web:

http://www.jaredmees.com/

Jared put out a press release on his great win at Bakersfield from last weekend. Larry Lawrence's fine site TheRiderFiles.com had this up this morning from The Jammer that also includes a shot of the race action from the Digger Helm Short Track National in Bakersfield:

http://www.theriderfiles.com/?p=6295

Mark Cernicky posted this report with some pics of the race weekend at Bakersfield over at the Cycle World Blog:

http://blog.cycleworld.com/?p=1589

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