Indian Motorcycle is challenging the weight of history by building a race-only 750 dirt-tracker for AMA Pro Grand National events. Since Bill Tuman won Indian’s last Grand National Championship by topping the Springfield Mile on a Scout in 1953, Harley-Davidson-mounted riders have won the GNC 50 times. How do you like those odds? Indian’s challenge is its 109-hp V-twin FTR750 flat-track racebike, based on no production model. There is nothing more American in motorcycling than its century-old fairgrounds flat-track racing. Indian’s challenge asks, “Who is the most authentically American manufacturer?”
