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Spherical One – Daytona – Friday Report

King of the Baggers

Mission King Of The Baggers wrapped up closing qualifying on Friday with Troy Herfoss setting the quickest lap with a 1:50.034 forward of Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Manufacturing facility teammates Bradley Smith in second, and Kyle Wyman third.

The second row was set with the opposite two Manufacturing facility Indian teammates Hayden Gillim and Rocco Landers in fourth and fifth, respectively and James Rispoli sixth, setting the sector for the Mission King Of The Baggers Problem.

Mission King Of The Baggers Problem

The primary race of the 2026 MotoAmerica season was the two-lap Mission King Of The Baggers Problem. The sphere included 5 of the six certified riders as Kyle Wyman, who crashed in direction of the tip of Q2, elected to sit down out the Problem to present his crew time to restore his motorbike earlier than Race 1.

Hayden Gillim led the five-rider area by the primary flip with teammate Rocco Landers shut behind and James Rispoli in third. Behind Rispoli in fourth was Troy Herfoss who sadly would low aspect within the first nook and never end the race, giving that place to Bradley Smith.

The operating order would stay the identical for the rest of the race with Gillim and Landers first and second, and Rispoli third.

Pos	Rider	Bike	Time/Hole
1	H. Gillim	Ind	3m43.779
2	R. Landers	Ind	+0.027
3	J. Rispoli	HD	+1.575
4	B. Smith	HD	+2.090
Not Categorised
NC	T. Herfoss	Ind	DNF
DNS	Ok. Wyman	HD	DNS

Mission King Of The Baggers Race 1

The J&P Cycles/Motul/Vance & Hines Manufacturing facility Indian workforce is rolling this week at Daytona. After qualifying quickest and profitable the Problem race, Hayden Gillim checked out to win Race 1 by over eight seconds aboard his Indian Challenger.

Hayden Gillim – P1

“Man, that was one thing particular. That was cool. That was loads of enjoyable. I had no thought I used to be on my own. So the entire time I’m pushing, simply ready for these guys to return by me. I do know they had been going to be quick sufficient to be there. However man, this complete J&P Cycles, Motul, Vance and Hines Manufacturing facility Indian is superior. I’m having a blast. What a technique to begin with a Mission Problem win and a primary place in Daytona. That is my first win at Daytona, so I’m pumped.”

The 31-year-old from Owensboro, Kentucky marked his first win at Daytona Worldwide Speedway by and broke Kyle Wyman’s five-race win streak at Daytona.

Behind Gillim in second was his teammate Troy Herfoss. Herfoss battled early with third-place finisher Wyman, who rounded out the rostrum in third. Wyman had led the sector into flip one firstly of the race however was handed for the lead on the backstretch and later made a mistake coming into the worldwide horseshoe pushing him again to 3rd the place he would end the race.

Troy Herfoss – P2

“Look, I’ve obtained an unimaginable engine beneath me. This Indian Challenger is quick. The one motive I’m ending in second place at present is as a result of that engine took me to the road. Fortunately for all you Indian Challenger supporters, Hayden was on the market displaying what it may well truly do within the corners. Not sure what he was in a position to do there, however I’m so completely satisfied for the entire workforce. We’ve obtained some nice companions this 12 months. I need to thank JP Cycles, Vance and Hines, and Motul Oil. Except for that, I need to simply thank the workforce for bringing me in. They don’t know me but, and so they’ve accomplished such a superb job to make me comfy. I simply preserve asking questions. It’ll cease. I’m wanting ahead to having a beer with you guys on Sunday, as a result of after a few beers, everybody is aware of one another higher.”

Kyle Wyman – P3

“Undoubtedly was leaving all of it on the market. There was that half within the race the place Troy made a mistake and I obtained round him. I used to be actually attempting to construct a niche and I fully screwed that up. I simply made a mistake going into that worldwide horseshoe. I believe I might have been second at present. Hayden was gone earlier than I even knew the place he went. We obtained to do some work and see if we are able to get somewhat extra infield tempo for the afternoon in these sizzling situations. However the Harley-Davidson DynoJet Manufacturing facility workforce is giving me a terrific bike this weekend. I believe I’ve been the one to place us on the again foot, so let’s see if we are able to do some work tomorrow.”

Wyman’s teammate Bradley Smith would end fourth after Rocco Landers needed to retire with an unlucky mechanical situation. Landers was closing in on the rostrum battle however needed to lean his Indian Challenger in opposition to the wall for a heartbreaking DNF.

Rounding out the remainder of the sector had been Rispoli in fifth, O’Hara in sixth, Jake Lewis and Cory West in seventh and eighth, and Max Flinders in ninth.

King of the Baggers R1 Outcomes

Pos	Identify	Make	Time/Hole
1	Hayden Gillim	IND	14m45.405
2	Troy Herfoss	IND	+8.295
3	Kyle Wyman	HD	+8.563
4	Bradley Smith	HD	+8.799
5	James Rispoli	HD	+11.513
6	Tyler O’Hara	IND	+13.356
7	Jake Lewis	HD	+30.432
8	Cory West	HD	+30.474
9	Max Flinders	HD	+49.546
Not categorised (75% = 6 Laps)
DNF	Kyle Ohnsorg	IND	DNF
DNF	Rocco Landers	IND	DNF

Tremendous Hooligans

Race 1 of the Mission Tremendous Hooligan Nationwide Championship was the closest race of the Daytona weekend so far. The highest 10 completed the race separated by simply three-tenths of a second and maintained a heated drafting battle all through all the race.

James Rispoli led the sector into the primary nook however by no means had any respiration room on the entrance of the sector. For all the six-lap contest, the highest 10 had been always swapping positions and drafting round each other on the excessive banks of Daytona.

The ten-rider pack included Rispoli, Cory West, Jake Lewis, and Travis Wyman adopted by Gus Rodio, Bryce Kornbau and Robertino Pietri. Capping off the lead group had been Jason Waters, adopted by Bryce Kornbau and Hawk Mazzotta.

The post-race lap charts present a special chief for all however two of the laps, and the one rider to steer multiple lap was West in laps three and 5.

As the sector got here into the chicane on the ultimate lap, the highest 10 had been nonetheless in lockstep, and the everyday stall ways started to see who would lead everybody across the excessive banks to the end. As Rispoli reluctantly entered the chicane, Rodio put his Ducati Streetfighter V2 on the entrance and tried to make a run to the end.

As the sector got here into the tri-oval, Saddlemen Racing Growth’s trio of Harley-Davidson Pan Americas got here with a full head of steam. West was the primary of the Saddlemen riders to draft round Rodio earlier than the tri-oval, however West’s teammate Rispoli made a masterful last-second transfer on the line to get by his teammate and take the win.

Saddlemen Race Growth riders West and Lewis rounded out the rostrum for a Harley-Davidson lockout in a basic Daytona drafting end.

It was disappointment for Beau Beaton, with an alternator downside that means the workforce missed heat up, whereas a misfire and poor operating within the high finish continued to be a difficulty into race one. Regardless, Beaton was in a position to end 14th, and the workforce swapped out his bike’s electronics with the show bike heading into tomorrow’s race two, with some suspension tweaks thrown into the combination.

Tremendous Hooligans R1 Outcomes

Pos	Identify	Make	Time/Hole
1	James Rispoli	HD	11m25.269
2	Cory West	HD	+0.010
3	Jake Lewis	HD	+0.020
4	Travis Wyman	HD	+0.074
5	Gus Rodio	DUC	+0.078
6	Bryce Kornbau	YAM	+0.177
7	Robertino Pietri	YAM	+0.198
8	Jason Waters	DUC	+0.234
9	Andy DiBrino	YAM	+0.256
10	Hawk Mazzotta	YAM	+0.314
11	Hunter Dunham	HD	+13.315
12	Jeremy McWilliams	ARC	+16.305
13	Nate Kern	BMW	+20.055
14	Beau Ashley Beaton	IRV	+24.783
15	Joel Ohman	TRI	+37.523
16	Austin Pully	TRI	+37.618
17	Jeff Lane	TRI	+46.060
18	Trevis Carr	YAM	+47.527
19	John Paul Inexperienced	YAM	+53.559
20	Jeremy Taubman	YAM	+54.329
21	Derek dela Noche	YAM	+54.516
22	Sean Morris	HD	+58.501
23	Leroy Eshelman	YAM	+58.830
24	Mark Holden	TRI	+1:01.636
25	Brian Mullins	SUZ	+1:01.678
26	William Cornelius	KTM	+1:01.993
27	Joseph Katzberg	YAM	+1:02.230
28	Andres Jaramillo	TRI	+1:04.619
29	Corey Alexander	ARC	+1:05.078
30	Wealthy Foster	TRI	+1:05.975
31	Andrew Graham	TRI	+1:06.113
32	Joshua Everitt	TRI	+1:06.117
33	Aaron Galloway	YAM	+1:11.561
34	Rene Werner	YAM	+1:21.690
35	Paul Mitchell	TRI	+1:21.793

Supersport Qualifying 2

The Q2 session itself was hotly contested as the highest 12 transfer on to a 15-minute Time Assault session to find out the ultimate operating order.

On the finish of the 30-minute Q2, Tyler Scott stood atop the time sheets with a 1:49.134 quickest lap, main Darryn Binder’s time of 1:49.344 and PJ Jacobsen’s third-fastest time of 1:49.891.

Richie Escalante remained fourth at 1:50.119 adopted by Alessandro Di Mario. Di Mario saved stable tempo with the skilled Supersport riders round him all weekend and locked himself into the Supersport Time Assault in his first Supersport look.

Nonetheless, the larger tales listed here are the riders who got here from exterior the highest 12 to place themselves into the Supersport Time Assault.

Wristin Grigg was fifteenth after Q1 and was in a position to higher his time to a 1:50.860 for ninth, and a spot within the Supersport Time Assault.

Josh Hayes sat seventeenth after Q1 and was in a position to transfer into eleventh at a 1:51.278. Dominic Doyle rounded out the highest 12, and the sector was set for the 15-minute Supersport Time Assault.

Supersport Time Assault

Because the 15-minute Supersport Time Assault started, all earlier lap occasions for the highest 12 riders had been reset. The battle for a front-row begin intensified as riders broke into the 1:48s for the primary time on the occasion.

Scott secured pole place for the third 12 months in a row on the DAYTONA 200. The 20-year-old Pennsylvanian has a knack for qualifying right here on the “World Middle of Racing” and dropped the tempo to 1:48.908 within the Time Assault.

The one different rider to drop into the 1:48s was Jacobsen at 1:48.944 along with his teammate Josh Herrin finishing the entrance row in third with a 1:49.455.

Darryn Binder has been close to the entrance of qualifying all weekend and can begin fourth for the DAYTONA 200. The rider laid down a 1:49.598 on his Ducati Panigale V2. He’s adopted by Richie Escalante in fifth and Alessandro Di Mario in sixth with a 1:50.211.

The third row is led by Hayes in seventh, adopted by Kayla Yaakov in eighth and Grigg in ninth.

Rounding out the Supersport Time Assault is an all-international fourth row of Workforce Basic Suzuki’s Danny Webb from the UK in tenth, Liberty Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle from South Africa in eleventh, and PHR Efficiency Triumph’s Peter Hickman from the UK in twelfth.

Supersport Time Assault Outcomes

Pos	Identify	Make	Time
1	Tyler Scott	SUZ	1:48.908
2	PJ Jacobsen	DUC	+0.036
3	Josh Herrin	DUC	+0.547
4	Darryn Binder	DUC	+0.690
5	Richie Escalante	SUZ	+0.921
6	Alessandro Di Mario	DUC	+1.303
7	Joshua Hayes	YAM	+1.321
8	Kayla Yaakov	DUC	+1.332
9	Wristin Grigg	DUC	+2.283
10	Danny Webb	SUZ	+2.671
11	Dominic Doyle	YAM	+2.698

Twins Cup Race One

Twins Cup Race 1 at Daytona kicked off with a clear begin, as the sector safely navigated flip one. On the opening lap, M4 ECSTAR Suzuki teammates Bodie Paige and Michel Agazzi surged to the entrance on their Suzuki GSX-8Rs.

The draft was a direct issue as Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing’s Sam Drane slipstreamed previous them on the stripe, solely to lose the result in Hank Vossberg heading into the primary flip.

By the backstretch, Vossberg established his rhythm, pulling Paige with him as they cleared the Bus Cease chicane. As they crossed the road for lap three, the duo efficiently gapped the pursuing pack of riders.

From that time on, Vossberg checked out, increasing his result in over 4 seconds and leaving the remainder of the sector to battle for the remaining podium steps.

The struggle for second intensified right into a three-way slipstream battle between Yamaha’s Drane, M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Paige, and Isaac Woodworth, who remained locked collectively.

In the meantime, a second pack fashioned 4 seconds behind, with polesitter Chris Parrish holding fifth forward of Kevin Olmedo, Michel Agazzi, and Matthew Chapin.

Robem Engineering Aprilia rider Hank Vossberg dominated the closing phases, taking the checkered flag with a 4.46-second command. Behind him, the battle for the runner-up spot got here all the way down to a tactical masterclass by Drane.

Drane timed his closing draft to perfection, getting a slingshot previous Bodie Paige earlier than reaching the tri-oval to safe a hard-fought second place, capping off a three-manufacturer podium with an Aprilia RS 660, a Yamaha YZF-R7, and a Suzuki GSX-8R, respectively.

Twins Cup R1 Outcomes

Pos	Rider	Bike	Time/Hole
1	Hank Vossberg	APR	17m39.164
2	Sam Drane	YAM	+4.446
3	Bodie Paige	SUZ	+4.953
4	Isaac Woodworth	SUZ	+5.041
5	Chris Parrish	APR	+9.432
6	Kevin Olmedo	SUZ	+9.976
7	Michel Agazzi	SUZ	+9.994
8	Matthew Chapin	SUZ	+10.081
9	Andrew Weyh	APR	+28.503
10	Kyle Ohnsorg	SUZ	+28.528
11	Seth Dahmer	SUZ	+28.699
12	Eli Block	APR	+28.712
13	Logan Cunnison	APR	+28.779
14	Sonya Lloyd	SUZ	+28.834
15	Chase Brown	APR	+29.948
16	Zachary Foster	APR	+45.619
17	Solly Mervis	SUZ	+46.486
18	Khayden Brown	APR	+1:03.185
19	Drew Vandal	YAM	+1:03.260
20	Rodney Vest	YAM	+1:14.547
21	Charles Burton IV	APR	+1:14.562
22	Daniel Caron	APR	+1:14.613
23	Ethan Track	APR	+1:14.623
24	Gabrielly Lewis	YAM	+1:15.078
25	Sergio Molfetta	APR	+1:17.485
26	Valen Gomez	YAM	+1:26.159
27	Tate Black	APR	+1:26.635
28	Elisa Gendron-Belen	SUZ	+1:33.250
29	Wealthy Foster	APR	+1:44.788
Not categorised (75% = 7 Laps)
DNF	Alex Spanos	APR	DNF
DNF	Edward Sullivan	YAM	DNF