Only one rider has tasted victory at Greenville, Ohio’s Darke County Fairgrounds Half-mile and that is Screamin’ Eagle/Latus Harley-Davidson rider Joe Kopp. Kopp, the 38-year-old former AMA Grand National Champion from Mica, Wash., will be gunning for his third straight national win at the 3rd Annual Annie Oakley Shootout in Greenville this Saturday, July 21, part of the AMA Ford Quality Checked Flat Track Championship.
Seeing Chris Carr atop the AMA Ford Quality Checked Flat Track Championship point standings is nothing unusual. What is unique is that the defending champ Carr now shares number one in the standings with young Bryan Smith, the former AMA Horizon Award winner from Flint, Mich. Carr, Smith and the rest of the nation’s top flat track riders roll in to the Darke Country Fairgrounds Half-mile this Saturday, July 22.