American Flat Track schedule released

Progressive AFT’s full schedule has been announced. (AFT photo)

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Progressive American Flat Track has announced the full broadcast schedule for the upcoming season. All 18 rounds will be premiered again in hour-long telecasts on FOX Sports 1.

The 2023 campaign marks the second year of the multi-year Blockbuster agreement, which has already served to expand the visibility of the world’s premier dirt track motorcycle racing series. In 2022, FOX Sports delivered 150 hours of linear television coverage of sport, attracting nearly three million viewers in FS1 and FS2.

This total was the highest linear television viewership to date for the series and represented an increase of more than a million viewers from the previous year.

“FOX Sports helped us reach millions of fans and provided incredible coverage of last season’s racing action,” said Gene Crouch, Chief Operating Officer of AMA Pro Racing. “With a compressed schedule, the return of fan favorite venues, new teams and the rekindling of some great rivalries, the 2023 AFT Progressive season is shaping up to be one for the record books.”

FOX Sports coverage will air first on FS1 (two weekends later for the Sacramento Mile) after each round on the weekend, followed by a rebroadcast on FS2. The schedule also again strategically leverages FOX Sports’ high-performing motorsports lineup to maximize viewership and introduce the sport to entirely new audiences by regularly looping in and/or out of other highly rated motorsport programming.

2023 TV schedule for Progressive American Flat Track (all premieres on FS1):

1. Saturday, March 18 – DAYTONA Short Track I – 10:30 a.m. ET (7:30 a.m. PT)
2. Sunday March 19 – DAYTONA Short Track II – 12:30 p.m. ET (9:30 a.m. PT)
3. Saturday April 1 – Jamaica Senoia Short Track – 7:00 a.m. ET (4:00 a.m. PT)
4. Sunday 9 April – Arizona Super TT – 1:30 p.m. ET (10:30 a.m. PT)
5. Sunday 30 April – Mission Dallas Half-Mile – 11:00 a.m. ET (8:00 a.m. PT)
6. Saturday May 13 – Ventura Short Track – 2:30 p.m. ET (11:30 a.m. PT)
7. Saturday May 27 – Mission Sacramento Mile Presented by Law Tigers – 11:30am ET (8:30am PT)
8. Sunday 4 June – Red Mile – 12:00 p.m. ET (9:00 a.m. PT)
9. Sunday 25 June – DuQuoin Mile – 1:00 p.m. ET (10:00 a.m. PT)
10. Sunday 2nd July – Half mile from Lima – 2:00 p.m. ET (11:00 a.m. PT)
11. Saturday 8 July – Half mile from West Virginia – 11:30 a.m. ET (8:30 p.m. PT)
12. Sunday 16 July – Orange County Half-Mile – 2:30 p.m. ET (11:30 a.m. PT)
13. Sunday 30 July – Bridgeport Half-Mile – 12:30 p.m. ET (9:30 a.m. PT)
14. Sunday 6 August – SC2 Peoria TT Presented by Country Saloon – 11:30am ET (8:30pm PT)
15. Sunday 13 August – Buffalo Chip TT – 11:00 a.m. ET (8:00 a.m. PT)
16. Sunday 20 August – CertainTeed Castle Rock TT Presented by Law Tigers – 11:00am ET (8:00am PT)
17. Sunday 10 September – Springfield Mile I – 10:00 a.m. ET (7:00 a.m. PT)
18. Sunday 10 September – Springfield Mile II – 11:00 a.m. ET (8:00 a.m. PT)