Flat Trackers, like NASCAR racers, pretty much Go like hell and turn left. But probably the main difference, outside two wheels vs. four, is that flat trackers rely heavily on their left leg – the one that ‘clinks’ and ‘clanks’ around the pro pits due to the special steel over shoe they wear to protect their inside foot as it skids at 90 mph along the blue grooved American oval dirt tracks. Monster Energy/Kawasaki’s Henry Wiles tweaked that left leg pretty good – enough to keep him sidelined for much of the 2010 summer racing season and unable to defend his AMA Flat Track Championship Singles class title. Born and raised in the epicenter of the flat track racing world – Michigan – Wiles cut his racing teeth as a motocrosser, emulating the likes of Jeff Stanton, Damon Bradshaw and Jeff Ward. But while on the cusp of MX excellence, an unfortunate injury brought him to a crossroads. And fortunately for the tightly-knit flat track community, Wiles chose their course. Somewhere out there between corn fields and fairgrounds, the Midwest summertime rite of flat track racing doesn’t often appear on the pages of MonsterEnergy.com. In fact, it probably never had. But the good folks at Kawasaki Racing are doing their best to change that, backing the oldest form of competition motorcycle racing here in the States with factory bikes in both the Singles (single cylinder) and Twin (V-twin) classes. And Henry Wiles is their man.