Latus Motors Racing rider James “The Rocket” Rispoli clinched the 2020 American Flat Track (AFT) Production Twins championship with a fourth-place finish aboard a Harley-Davidson XG750R motorcycle at the Progressive AFT Finale at the Daytona International Speedway Short Track in Daytona Beach, Fla. With one race left in the season Rispoli had 300 points. Thus giving him an insurmountable lead over the rest of the AFT Production Twins field.
The championship is the first for a rider competing on the Harley-Davidson XG750R. It’s a motorcycle built for competition and powered by the liquid-cooled, fuel-injected and race-tuned Harley-Davidson Revolution X. The V-Twin is based on the production engine of the Harley-Davidson Street 750 motorcycle.
After finishing in second place in the first three races of the season, Rispoli won for the first time on the Indy Mile in August. He’s won six more races since. Among them, a string of five in a row. Together, they powered the number 43 Harley-Davidson bike into first place. Rispoli scored his seventh win at the Atlanta Short Track II race on Oct. 3.
