DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — AMA Professional Racing introduced its 16-round schedule for the 2026 Progressive American Flat Monitor season.
Contemporary off one of the vital compelling Grand Nationwide Championships in latest reminiscence, the collection is leaning into what made the ‘25 marketing campaign nice and constructing upon that momentum through some spectacular additions, together with new occasions, venues, courses and initiatives.
The season will once more launch with a string of 5 successive Brief Tracks, delivering one other quick, unpredictable opening to the championship. The run begins throughout Daytona Bike Week with the Royal Enfield Brief Monitor at Daytona, back-to-back nights of AFT Nationals at Daytona Worldwide Speedway, with the opening spherical on Thursday, March 5.
Nevertheless, the thrill truly arrives in earnest a day earlier, with the launch of the Street to AFT and the primary of seven Mission Meals CTR Showcase Occasions held together with American Flat Monitor Nationals. Operated by Cory Texter Race Promotions, these AMA-sanctioned occasions will showcase beginner flat monitor racing on the day previous to choose Progressive AFT Nationals. This strategic alliance across the Street to AFT will anchor the game’s expertise pipeline in premium beginner racing occasions and present a transparent path from beginner to professional competitors.
The AFT AdventureTrackers™ class returns with an expanded slate for 2026. The short success of the production-based class discovered quick help from motorbike producers and paved the best way for an all-new class: AFT StreetTrackers™. Constructed round lightly-modified, production-based twin-, triple-, and four-cylinder bikes, the brand new class attracts inspiration from the game’s Class C roots by creating a transparent, retail-connected platform for motorbike producers and sellers to re-engage with the game.
“These additions are meant to realign the game with the core rules that powered the expansion and success of the Grand Nationwide Championship for many years,” mentioned Gene Crouch, CEO of AMA Professional Racing. “The Street to AFT reestablishes the vital hyperlink between beginner and professional, reinvigorating the feeder system for the skilled ranks. The introduction of AFT StreetTrackers will open advertising and marketing lanes for the motorbike trade to spend money on the game with clear, measurable ROI. The 2026 schedule will likely be a showcase for what the game actually is: the genuine American motorbike racing product constructed on Class C values: approachability, availability and affordability.”
Together with the collection’ annual stops at such storied occasions because the Lima Half-Mile and the 79th Peoria TT, the 2026 calendar features a pair of novel entries. On Saturday, Could 16, the fabled Budds Creek Motocross Park in Mechanicsville, Maryland, will host ThrottleFest, a mixed moto-and-music competition with 4 days of bike racing. That includes pro-am hair scrambles, motocross, endurocross, pit bike racing and Progressive American Flat Monitor headlining the present, ThrottleFest will set a brand new gold customary in two-wheel leisure.
On Saturday, June 6, the collection makes its long-awaited return to Tennessee with the inaugural Nashville Brief Monitor at Billy Lane’s Tennessee Nationwide Raceway. The occasion may even host the general public debut of the Northern Device + Tools Legends Construct: Pupil Problem motorbike—a nine-month undertaking the place highschool CTE college students are reworking a 2025 Harley-Davidson Nightster into an XR750-inspired flat monitor racer beneath the mentorship of Scott Parker, Chris Carr, Kenny Coolbeth Jr., Billy Lane, and different icons of the game.
The Triple Problem—AFT’s escalating endurance and points-intensity format—returns after its 2025 debut. The format will likely be featured at the opening evening of the Lima Half-Mile doubleheader on Friday, June 26, and once more at Springfield Mile I on Saturday, September 5. Every race will increase in distance, problem, and factors worth, testing riders’ race-craft and stamina.
The Springfield Mile Doubleheader on September 5-6, will once more shut the season, restoring the game’s crown jewel because the decisive weekend for the Grand Nationwide Championship.
2026 Progressive American Flat Monitor Schedule
March 5-6 Royal Enfield Brief Monitor at Daytona, Daytona Worldwide Speedway, Daytona
March 21 Atlanta Brief Monitor Senoia Raceway, Senoia, Ga.
April 25 Ventura Brief Monitor Ventura Raceway, Ventura, Calif.
Could 2 Silver Greenback Brief Monitor Silver Greenback Speedway Chico, Calif.
Could 16 ThrottleFest Budds Creek Motocross Park, Mechanicsville, Md.
Could 23 Williams Grove Half-Mile Williams Grove Speedway, Mechanicsburg, Pa.
June 6 Nashville Brief Monitor Tennessee Nationwide Raceway, Hohenwald, Tenn.
June 26-27 Lima Half-Mile, Allen County Fairgrounds, Lima, Ohio
July 4 DuQuoin Mile, DuQuoin State Fairgrounds, DuQuoin, Sick.
August 8 Jackpine Gypsies Tremendous TT Jackpine Gypsies M/C, Sturgis, S.D.
August 10 Jackpine Gypsies Brief Monitor Jackpine Gypsies M/C, Sturgis, S.D.
August 22 Peoria TT Peoria Bike Membership, Peoria, Sick.
September 5-6 Springfield Mile Illinois State Fairgrounds, Springfield, Sick.
