Specialist Willie McCoy Claims Springfield Mile Victory

AMA Pro Racing SPRINGFIELD, IL Mon, Sep 05, 2011 Photos by Dave Hoenig Springfield2_CC.jpgSpringfield3_CC.jpgSpringfield1_CC.jpgThe thousands of flat track fans who filled the Illinois State Fairgrounds grandstands for Sunday night's AMA Pro Harley-Davidson Insurance Round 16 were treated to one of the most thrilling sights in motorsports: a Mile specialist at work on the kind of circuit that made flat track famous. The top ten riders were blanketed by a single second when the checkered flag flew, but it was Harley-Davidson of Wausau/Independence Harley-Davidson's Willie McCoy who bested Chris Carr and a tightly packed field of hard-charging riders to claim an emotion career-first Grand National victory.