Mission King Of The Baggers wrapped up final qualifying on Friday with Troy Herfoss setting the fastest lap with a 1:50.034 ahead of Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory teammates Bradley Smith in second, and Kyle Wyman third.
The second row was set with the other two Factory Indian teammates Hayden Gillim and Rocco Landers in fourth and fifth, respectively and James Rispoli sixth, setting the field for the Mission King Of The Baggers Challenge.
Mission King Of The Baggers Challenge
The first race of the 2026 MotoAmerica season was the two-lap Mission King Of The Baggers Challenge. The field included five of the six qualified riders as Kyle Wyman, who crashed towards the end of Q2, elected to sit out the Challenge to give his crew time to repair his motorcycle before Race 1.
Hayden Gillim qualified fastest at Daytona and backed it up with a Mission King Of The Baggers Challenge win on Friday – Image by Brian J. Nelson
Hayden Gillim led the five-rider field through the first turn with teammate Rocco Landers close behind and James Rispoli in third. Behind Rispoli in fourth was Troy Herfoss who unfortunately would low side in the first corner and not finish the race, giving that position to Bradley Smith.
The running order would remain the same for the remainder of the race with Gillim and Landers first and second, and Rispoli third.
Pos
Rider
Bike
Time/Gap
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 Classified
NC
T. Herfoss
Ind
DNF
DNS
K. Wyman
HD
DNS
Mission King Of The Baggers Race 1
The J&P Cycles/Motul/Vance & Hines Factory Indian team is rolling this week at Daytona. After qualifying fastest and winning the Challenge race, Hayden Gillim checked out to win Race 1 by over eight seconds aboard his Indian Challenger.
Hayden Gillim – P1
“Man, that was something special. That was cool. That was a lot of fun. I had no idea I was by myself. So the whole time I’m pushing, just waiting for those guys to come by me. I know they were going to be fast enough to be there. But man, this whole J&P Cycles, Motul, Vance and Hines Factory Indian is awesome. I’m having a blast. What a way to start with a Mission Challenge win and a first place in Daytona. This is my first win at Daytona, so I’m pumped.”
Hayden Gillim is becoming very familiar with Victory Lane at Daytona. He has qualified on pole, and won both Friday races – Image by Brian J. Nelson
The 31-year-old from Owensboro, Kentucky marked his first win at Daytona International 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 podium in third. Wyman had led the field into turn one at the beginning of the race but was passed for the lead on the backstretch and later made a mistake entering the international horseshoe pushing him back to third where he would finish the race.
Troy Herfoss – P2
“Look, I’ve got an incredible engine underneath me. This Indian Challenger is fast. The only reason I’m finishing in second place today is because that engine took me to the line. Luckily for all you Indian Challenger supporters, Hayden was out there showing what it can actually do in the corners. Unsure what he was able to do there, but I’m so happy for the whole team. We’ve got some great partners this year. I want to thank JP Cycles, Vance and Hines, and Motul Oil. Aside from that, I want to just thank the team for bringing me in. They don’t know me yet, and they’ve done such a good job to make me comfortable. I just keep asking questions. It’ll stop. I’m looking forward to having a beer with you guys on Sunday, because after a couple of beers, everyone knows each other better.”
Kyle Wyman – P3
“Definitely was leaving it all out there. There was that part in the race where Troy made a mistake and I got around him. I was really trying to build a gap and I completely screwed that up. I just made a mistake going into that international horseshoe. I think I could have been second today. Hayden was gone before I even knew where he went. We got to do some work and see if we can get a little more infield pace for the afternoon in these hot conditions. But the Harley-Davidson DynoJet Factory team is giving me a great bike this weekend. I think I’ve been the one to put us on the back foot, so let’s see if we can do some work tomorrow.”
Wyman’s teammate Bradley Smith would finish fourth after Rocco Landers had to retire with an unfortunate mechanical issue. Landers was closing in on the podium battle but had to lean his Indian Challenger against the wall for a heartbreaking DNF.
Rounding out the rest of the field were 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 Results
Pos
Name
Make
Time/Gap
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 classified (75% = 6 Laps)
DNF
Kyle Ohnsorg
IND
DNF
DNF
Rocco Landers
IND
DNF
Super Hooligans
Race 1 of the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship was the closest race of the Daytona weekend thus far. The top 10 finished the race separated by just three-tenths of a second and maintained a heated drafting battle throughout the entire race.
Hayden Gillim is becoming very familiar with Victory Lane at Daytona. He has qualified on pole, and won both Friday races – Image by Brian J. Nelson
James Rispoli led the field into the first corner but never had any breathing room at the front of the field. For the entire six-lap contest, the top 10 were constantly swapping positions and drafting around one another on the high banks of Daytona.
The 10-rider pack included Rispoli, Cory West, Jake Lewis, and Travis Wyman followed by Gus Rodio, Bryce Kornbau and Robertino Pietri. Capping off the lead group were Jason Waters, followed by Bryce Kornbau and Hawk Mazzotta.
The post-race lap charts show a different leader for all but two of the laps, and the only rider to lead more than one lap was West in laps three and five.
As the field came into the chicane on the final lap, the top 10 were still in lockstep, and the typical stall tactics began to see who would lead everyone around the high banks to the finish. As Rispoli reluctantly entered the chicane, Rodio put his Ducati Streetfighter V2 at the front and tried to make a run to the finish.
As the field came into the tri-oval, Saddlemen Racing Development’s trio of Harley-Davidson Pan Americas came with a full head of steam. West was the first of the Saddlemen riders to draft around Rodio before the tri-oval, but West’s teammate Rispoli made a masterful last-second move at the line to get by his teammate and take the win.
Saddlemen Race Development riders West and Lewis rounded out the podium for a Harley-Davidson lockout in a classic Daytona drafting finish.
It was disappointment for Beau Beaton, with an alternator problem meaning the team missed warm up, while a misfire and poor running in the top end continued to be an issue into race one. Regardless, Beaton was able to finish 14th, and the team swapped out his bike’s electronics with the display bike heading into tomorrow’s race two, with some suspension tweaks thrown into the mix.
Beau Beaton on the Irving Vincent at Daytona – Image Richard Gergely
Super Hooligans R1 Results
Pos
Name
Make
Time/Gap
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 Green
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
Rich 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 top 12 move on to a 15-minute Time Attack session to determine the final running order.
At the end of the 30-minute Q2, Tyler Scott stood atop the time sheets with a 1:49.134 fastest lap, leading 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 followed by Alessandro Di Mario. Di Mario kept solid pace with the experienced Supersport riders around him all weekend and locked himself into the Supersport Time Attack in his first Supersport appearance.
However, the bigger stories here are the riders who came from outside the top 12 to put themselves into the Supersport Time Attack.
Wristin Grigg was 15th after Q1 and was able to better his time to a 1:50.860 for ninth, and a spot in the Supersport Time Attack.
Josh Hayes sat 17th after Q1 and was able to move into 11th at a 1:51.278. Dominic Doyle rounded out the top 12, and the field was set for the 15-minute Supersport Time Attack.
Supersport Time Attack
As the 15-minute Supersport Time Attack began, all previous lap times for the top 12 riders were reset. The battle for a front-row start intensified as riders broke into the 1:48s for the first time at the event.
Tyler Scott topped the Q2 charts on his D3O M4 ECSTAR Suzuki GSXR-750 – Image by Brian J. Nelson
Scott secured pole position for the third year in a row at the DAYTONA 200. The 20-year-old Pennsylvanian has a knack for qualifying here at the “World Center of Racing” and dropped the pace to 1:48.908 in the Time Attack.
The only other rider to drop into the 1:48s was Jacobsen at 1:48.944 with his teammate Josh Herrin completing the front row in third with a 1:49.455.
Darryn Binder has been near the front of qualifying all weekend and will start fourth for the DAYTONA 200. The rider laid down a 1:49.598 on his Ducati Panigale V2. He is followed 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, followed by Kayla Yaakov in eighth and Grigg in ninth.
Rounding out the Supersport Time Attack is an all-international fourth row of Team Classic Suzuki’s Danny Webb from the UK in 10th, Liberty Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle from South Africa in 11th, and PHR Performance Triumph’s Peter Hickman from the UK in 12th.
Supersport Time Attack Results
Pos
Name
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 clean start, as the field safely navigated turn one. On the opening lap, M4 ECSTAR Suzuki teammates Bodie Paige and Michel Agazzi surged to the front on their Suzuki GSX-8Rs.
Robem Engineering’s Hank Vossberg took the lead on lap 2 and never looked back finishing over four seconds ahead of second place – Image by Brian J. Nelson
The draft was an immediate factor as Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing’s Sam Drane slipstreamed past them at the stripe, only to lose the lead to Hank Vossberg heading into the first turn.
By the backstretch, Vossberg established his rhythm, pulling Paige with him as they cleared the Bus Stop chicane. As they crossed the line for lap three, the duo successfully gapped the pursuing pack of riders.
From that point on, Vossberg checked out, expanding his lead to over four seconds and leaving the rest of the field to battle for the remaining podium steps.
The fight for second intensified into a three-way slipstream battle between Yamaha’s Drane, M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Paige, and Isaac Woodworth, who remained locked together.
Meanwhile, a second pack formed four seconds behind, with polesitter Chris Parrish holding fifth ahead of Kevin Olmedo, Michel Agazzi, and Matthew Chapin.
Robem Engineering Aprilia rider Hank Vossberg dominated the closing stages, taking the checkered flag with a 4.46-second command. Behind him, the battle for the runner-up spot came down to a tactical masterclass by Drane.
Drane timed his final draft to perfection, getting a slingshot past Bodie Paige before reaching the tri-oval to secure 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.
