Daytona 200 Race
Josh Herrin made history on Saturday at Daytona International Speedway when he became the first rider in Daytona 200 history to win “The Great American Motorcycle Race” three times in a row. It was also Herrin’s fourth Daytona 200 victory, putting him one win away from tying the all-time win leaders, Scott Russell and Miguel Duhamel.
Herrin won the 83rd running of the Daytona 200 by being consistently faster than his pursuers in the infield, especially late in the race. Case in point: With just six laps to go, Herrin ripped off a 1:47.879 lap on his Celtic/Economy Lube+Tire/Warhorse HSBK Ducati Panigale V2 to seal the deal. It was a new race lap record and just .046 of a second shy of Richie Escalante’s qualifying lap record from 2024.
The 57-lap race was red-flagged twice. Once when a brief rainstorm passed through the area after 24 laps, and again on the first lap of the restart when Get Fast Performance’s Jason Farrell crashed in turn one.
Escalante’s bad Daytona luck turned around on Saturday with the Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki rider finishing second to Herrin after running in the lead pack for the duration. When Herrin dropped the hammer, however, Escalante didn’t have the pace to go with him and once the draft was broken it was game over.
At the finish line, Herrin was 5.33 seconds ahead of Escalante, who had his hands full with his teammate Tyler Scott. Scott, who started the race from pole position, was also in the hunt from the get-go. His teammate beat him to the line by his teammate by a miniscule .008 of a second.
Fourth place went to Isle of Man TT lap record holder Peter Hickman, the Brit returning to Daytona with knowledge gained from last year’s debut. The PHR Performance Triumph team owner also led a few laps of the race. Hickman’s teammate Richard Cooper also had the speed to run in the lead group, but his Triumph suffered a mechanical failure that put him out of the race.
Two-time Daytona 200 winner Brandon Paasch rode his TOBC Racing Triumph to fifth, one spot better than his teammate, four-time race winner Danny Eslick, who was celebrating his 20th Daytona 200.
The British Truelove brothers, Matt and Harry, finished seventh and eighth, respectively, with Matt being the last rider on the lead lap.
Isle of Man TT legend Michael Dunlop rode his Milwaukee Ducati MD Racing Panigale V2 to ninth, with Bauce BARTCON Racing’s Joseph LiMandri Jr. rounding out the top 10 on his Yamaha YZF-R6.
Mission King Of The Baggers – Wyman does it again
Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing’s Kyle Wyman started his 2025 Mission King Of The Baggers season in perfect fashion with wins in both races at Daytona International Speedway. His win on Saturday afternoon in the final race of the MotoAmerica weekend was his fifth straight victory at the “World Center of Racing.”
Unlike Friday when he secured a rare runaway Daytona victory, S&S/Indian Motorcycle’s Troy Herfoss made Wyman earn Saturday’s win. The pair battled at the front, played the cat-and-mouse game on the final lap, and then pulled the pin with Wyman holding Herfoss off at the finish line by .056 of a second.
Herfoss had crashed while gaining ground on Wyman on Friday and was fortunate to score a handful of points after remounting to finish eighth.
Third place on Saturday went to Mission King Of The Baggers rookie Loris Baz, the Frenchman earning his first podium in just his second outing, and he did so with an injured left arm from Friday’s turn-one crash.
The third member of the S&S/Indian Motorcycle team, Tyler O’Hara, finished fourth, behind his two teammates.
RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson’s Rocco Landers was fifth, some three seconds ahead of his teammate Hayden Gillim. Friday’s fourth-place finisher Kyle Ohnsorg was seventh on his TAB Performance Indian Challenger, well clear of Saddlemen Race Development’s Jake Lewis and Cory West.
Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing’s Bradley Smith crashed but managed to finish 10th a day after finishing second in his Mission King Of The Baggers debut.
“I was confident because all five of these wins, I’ve led out of the chicane,” Wyman said. “Leading the 200, two out of three of the XR wins, I led out of the chicane. So, it’s not all what everybody kind of worries. It’s how you get around the banking, how you place yourself, how you use the banking to your advantage to get a better run when the track flattens out. There’s a lot of things that I’ve learned over the course of 16 years coming here, and then flat track before that. Drafting on the miles. It’s definitely my element. It was super fun. Just the game of it’s eight laps. We’re kind of just waiting until the last lap, trying to figure out where each of us are going to try to do what. I think we both tried to bite off a lap at one point or another, and then realized that nobody was really going to go away. I knew tire conservation was going to be a big deal. Tried to really chill out in the first half of the race, tried to leave a little bit for the end. It worked out.”
SC-Project Twins Cup – Chapin Again
RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Matthew Chapin may not get any calls from his high school football coach, but his 120 pounds works just fine when racing a motorcycle at Daytona International Speedway.
For the second day in a row, Chapin was able to draft his way to victory on his Suzuki GSX-8R by a scant .019 of a second over defending series champion Alessandro Di Mario and his Robem Engineering Aprilia RS 660.
Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle was third, making the podium identical to race one yesterday. A fourth rider entered the fray today with Koch Racing’s Sean Ungvarsky joining the lead pack for the duration and even taking a turn at the front.
The top four were covered by just .080 of a second. Yes, .080 of a second.
Bad Boys Racing’s Avery Dreher was fifth again, but it was a much closer fifth as the Suzuki GSX-8R-mounted Dreher was just 1.6 seconds from the leader after finishing some 15 seconds back in Friday’s race one.
Chapin has a perfect 50 points from the opening two races, 10 more than Di Mario and 18 more than Doyle.
“I think that race, my whole plan was just to be patient until the last lap,” Chapin said. “I let those guys fight it out at the front. I didn’t want to take any unnecessary risks. Just kind of waited until the end. I knew I had the bike underneath me to do it. Just used the draft at the end and got it done.”
Super Hooligan National Championship – Lewis Wins A Thriller
Who says a big boy can’t win a drafting battle at Daytona International Speedway? Saddlemen Race Development’s Jake Lewis crammed his six-foot, four-inch frame into the tightest tuck possible and came out on top of a thrilling six-rider battle to the finish line in the second of two Super Hooligan National Championship races.
The margin of victory? .039 of a second with the top six separated by just .419 of a second.
Second place for the second day in a row was Lewis’ teammate Travis Wyman with Friday’s winner Cory West third to make it a Saddlemen Race Development sweep of the podium.
The race to the flag was anybody’s to win, but it would have taken a brave person to bet on Lewis getting the job done from sixth going into the final chicane. But the draft worked perfectly for the Kentuckian as he swept past all five riders to score the victory, the third of his Super Hooligan career.
The win was also Lewis’ first-ever in any class at Daytona International Speedway.
KWR Harley-Davidson’s Cody Wyman was fourth with his teammate James Rispoli fifth. The first non-Harley-Davidson Pan America was the Yamaha MT-09 SP of Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle in sixth.
After yesterday’s mechanical issue thwarted their progress, the ARCH Racing team bounced back in a big way with Corey Alexander giving the Keanu Reeves-owned team its first-ever top-10 finish with an impressive seventh and the first rider outside the lead pack of six.
Alexander held off KWR Harley-Davidson’s Hayden Schultz with Competition Werkes Racing’s Andy DiBrino and Strack Racing’s Hawk Mazzotta rounding out the top 10.
Daytona 200 Time Attack – Scott Great Again
Daytona Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott earned his second successive pole position for the Daytona 200 with the 19-year-old lapping Daytona International Speedway at a clip of 1:48.135 in Friday’s Time Attack that featured the fastest 12 qualifiers.
Scott turned in his quick lap on his seventh and final go-around of the 3.51-mile Daytona International Speedway and that put him ahead of three-time Daytona 200 winner Josh Herrin and his Celtic/Economy Lube+Tire/Warhorse HSBK Ducati Panigale V2 by just .383 of a second.
TOBC Racing’s Brandon Paasch will complete the front row of the grid for Saturday’s Daytona 200 after lapping at 1:48.55 on his Triumph Street Triple 765 RS.
Row two of the grid will feature PHR Performance Triumph teammates Peter Hickman and Richard Cooper with Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Richie Escalante joining the two Brits.
Truelove Brothers Racing’s Matt Truelove will lead row three alongside Rodio Racing’s Gus Rodio and Team Classic Suzuki’s Danny Webb.
2025 Daytona 200 Results—Time Attack Qualifying
| 1 | Tyler Scott | (Suzuki) | 1:48.135 |
| 2 | Josh Herrin | (Ducati) | 1:48.518 |
| 3 | Brandon Paasch | (Triumph) | 1:48.555 |
| 4 | Peter Hickman | (Triumph) | 1:49.106 |
| 5 | Richard Cooper | (Triumph) | 1:49.241 |
Mission King Of The Baggers – Wyman’s weekend so far
Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing’s Kyle Wyman continued his love affair with Daytona International Speedway with his fourth Mission King Of The Baggers win in a row on a sunny and warm Friday in Florida.
With a new lap record from qualifying, Wyman started from pole position and showed his speed from the get-go as he stormed to a lead and was never headed in Friday’s first of two Mission King Of The Baggers races at the “World Center Of Racing.”
Wyman wasn’t completely without worry, however, as he started to feel the heat from behind as defending class champion Troy Herfoss clawed away at the 19-time race winner’s lead. But it didn’t last as Herfoss crashed his S&S/Indian Motorcycle Challenger with five laps to go in turn six, leaving Wyman to back off and cruise to a 2.6-second victory.
Herfoss, meanwhile, was able to remount to finish eighth, scoring eight points that may prove valuable in his title defense.
Wyman’s new Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing teammate Bradley Smith finished second. If you had to read that twice, you’re not alone. Even the Brit was shocked at his performance just a day after he made his first laps in fear at Daytona International Speedway.
Smith won a last-lap battle with SDI Racing’s Cameron Petersen by .42 of a second with the South African making the mistake of leading out of the chicane on the final lap. Still, Petersen was also elated to finish on the podium in his maiden Mission King Of The Baggers race.
TAB Performance Racing’s Kyle Ohnsorg was fourth, less than half a second ahead of Saddlemen Race Development’s Jake Lewis.
S&S/Indian Motorcycle’s Tyler O’Hara fought through some mechanical issues to finish sixth, with Rocco Landers riding the RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson to seventh and Herfoss riding his crashed factory Indian to eighth.
What of the other stars of the class? Two of them were eliminated in the first corner of the opening lap when Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing’s James Rispoli ran into the back of S&S/Indian Motorcycle’s Loris Baz, wrecking Baz’s Mission King Of The Baggers debut.
The other two retirements were RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson’s Hayden Gillim and Lyndall Brakes/M3’s Max Flinders.
SC-Project Twins Cup – Chapin Wins A Thriller
RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Matthew Chapin earned the first SC-Project Twins Cup victory of his young career today and, if that wasn’t impressive enough, that debut win came at Daytona International Speedway.
The race was a battle to the bitter end with four riders breaking away and fighting for the duration. As is often the case at Daytona, all that really mattered was the run to the flag from the chicane, and Chapin seemed to be able to show his cards without paying the price. His Suzuki GSX-8R was fast enough that the reigning MotoAmerica Junior Cup Champion seemed to be able to get to the finish line first no matter what spot he was in on the exit to the chicane.
Chapin ended up crossing the line just .087 of a second ahead of defending class champion Alessandro Di Mario and his Robem Engineering Aprilia RS 660. Third place went to Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle, who was just .174 of a second behind Chapin.
The fourth rider in the lead pack was Koch Racing’s Sean Ungvarsky with the Yamaha YZF-R7-mounted Arizonan just a tick over a second behind and well clear of fifth-placed Avery Dreher on the Bad Boys Racing Suzuki GSX-8R.
“I may not have been the fastest in the infield, but I knew I had the bike underneath to get out there and get this done,” Chapin said. “Everyone else rode great. Props to Dom (Dominic Doyle), Alessandro (Di Mario) and Sean (Ungvarsky). They were all ripping, and this one feels great. I think I learned that I need to just send it a little bit harder into turn one. It seems like that was where I was really struggling, but I will try and do the same thing tomorrow.”
Mission Super Hooligan National Championship – It’s West In The East
Saddlemen Racing Development’s Cory West showed that the weight of carrying the number-one plate wasn’t too heavy as the defending series champion held off his teammate Travis Wyman to win the opening round of the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship at Daytona International Speedway.
The margin of victory was typical Daytona – .042 of a second.
Third place, some four seconds adrift, was the first of the KWR Harley-Davidsons ridden by class rookie James Rispoli, who was 2.5 seconds ahead of his teammate Cody Wyman.
Edge Racing’s Jason Waters and his Triumph 765RS were fifth and the first non-Harley-Davidson to cross the finish line.
“I didn’t really want to lead out of the chicane because you’re not supposed to do that here,” West said. “But the bike was running strong. We’ve got a few little things we need to work on to make it better for tomorrow, but I’m super happy, and this first one is for my wife and our baby. This was awesome.”
Earlier in the day, West earned pole position for the two Super Hooligan National Championship races at Daytona with a new lap record of 1:51.032.
Daytona 200
Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott led the opening day of qualifying for Saturday’s 83rd running of the Daytona 200 at Daytona International Speedway, but he will have to do it all again on Friday to see if he can repeat his feat from a year ago when he earned pole position in the 15-minute Daytona Supersport Time Attack.
After earning pole position last year, 19-year-old Scott finished second in the Daytona 200 behind three-time winner Josh Herrin, the favorite to win a fourth Daytona 200 on Saturday. Scott lapped at a best of 1:48.962 in today’s Q1 to lead the way into tomorrow’s Q2 and Time Attack.
The lap record at the Speedway is held by Scott’s teammate Richie Escalante, with his 1:47.833 lap from last year. Changes to the chicane have slowed things down, so Escalante’s record will likely stand.
Herrin and his Celtic/Economy Lube+Tire/Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati Panigale V2 ended the day in second on the timesheets with a 149.002, just .040 of a second slower than Scott.
Escalante was third-fastest with his 1:49.468, just .506 of a second behind his teammate. Escalante’s best was just a tick quicker than PHR Performance Triumph’s Richard Cooper’s 1:49.502. Cooper was the final rider to lap in the 1:49s.
TOBC Racing’s two-time Daytona 200 winner Brandon Paasch was fifth, ahead of the first of the two Truelove brothers, Matt, and his Truelove Brothers Racing Suzuki. Rodio Racing’s Gus Rodio, last year’s double winner in the two Twins Cup races at Daytona, ended up seventh fastest.
Rodio was some three-tenths quicker than fellow New Jerseyan Joseph LiMandri Jr. and his Bauce BARTCON Racing Yamaha. Six-Four Motorsports/Pirelli Tires’ Shane Narbonne, and Super Carl Racing’s Carl Soltisz rounded out the top 10 in Q1.
2025 Daytona 200 Results—Qualifying 1
| 1 | Tyler Scott | (Suzuki) | 1:48.962 |
| 2 | Josh Herrin | (Ducati) | 1:49.002 |
| 3 | Richie Escalante | (Suzuki) | 1:49.468 |
| 4 | Richard Cooper | (Triumph) | 1:49.502 |
| 5 | Brandon Paasch | (Triumph) | 1:50.340 |
| 6 | Matt Truelove | (Suzuki) | 1:50.658 |
| 7 | Gus Rodio | (Ducati) | 1:50.669 |
| 8 | Joseph LiMandri | (Yamaha) | 1:50.910 |
| 9 | Shane Narbonne | (Suzuki) | 1:50.952 |
| 10 | Carl Soltisz | (Suzuki) | 1:50.956 |
Mission King Of The Baggers – Wyman Over Baz
Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing’s Kyle Wyman has a zillion laps around Daytona International Speedway. He’s also won his share of races here, including both of the Mission King Of The Baggers races last year at Daytona.
S&S/Indian Motorcycle’s Loris Baz is on the other end of the spectrum from Wyman. Baz has exactly 19 laps under his belt at the Speedway, but one of those was quick enough to put the Daytona rookie second in Thursday afternoon’s Q1 session.
It was Wyman who used his experience and speed to earn provisional pole position in the 30-minute Mission King Of The Baggers session, topping Daytona first-timer Baz by .898 of a second with a best lap of 1:50.041 to Baz’s 1:50.939.
Wyman’s teammate James Rispoli ended up third in Q1 and was the last rider to lap in the 1:50s. Fourth and fifth, meanwhile, went to Baz’s two Indian teammates Tyler O’Hara and defending class champion Troy Herfoss, respectively. O’Hara’s best was 1.08 seconds off Wyman’s pace with Herfoss 1.1 seconds adrift.
SDI Racing’s Cameron Petersen ended up sixth in his first qualifying session in his Mission King Of The Baggers debut.
TAB Performance Racing’s Kyle Ohnsorg, the RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson pairing of Hayden Gillim and Rocco Landers, and S&S/Indian Motorcycle’s class rookie Bradley Smith rounded out the top 10 on opening day at the Speedway.
Several riders had tire issues, but Dunlop says some warmer weather and more rubber on the track will fix the grip and wear issues and they don’t forsee any problems in the two races.
SC-Project Twins Cup – Di Mario On Top
Robem Engineering’s Alessandro Di Mario led both SC-Project Twins Cup sessions on Thursday at the Speedway, including Q1, which earned him provisional pole position heading into Friday’s final qualifying.
Di Mario and his Aprilia RS 660 led the first session by 1.2 seconds over RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Matthew Chapin, and it appeared as though Di Mario had the field covered. But that gap changed in Q1, with Giaccomoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle closing the gap to trail Di Mario by just .441.
Chapin, meanwhile, also got quicker, with the youngster gaining speed and confidence in his first outing with the Vance & Hines team and on the Suzuki GSX-8R.
Di Mario’s best was a 1:57.151 with Doyle lapping at 1:57.592. Chapin was the last rider to crack into the 1:57s with his 1:57.820 – .669 of a second off Di Mario’s best.
Koch Racing’s Sean Ungvarsky was fourth-fastest, with Karns/TST Industries’ Levi Badie fifth.
Mission Super Hooligan National Championship – Travis Wyman On The Rebound
Super Hooligan National Championship
Saddlemen Race Development’s Travis Wyman had a 2024 season he’d rather forget so he’s hopeful that a new season cures all. So far so good as Wyman rode his Harley-Davidson Pan America to the fastest time on the first day of qualifying for the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship round at Daytona International Speedway.
Wyman lapped at 1:51.397, setting a new lap record for the class at Daytona, and leading his teammate and defending class champion Cory West by just .155 of a second in Q1 on a sunny, but windy and chilly, Thursday afternoon. Third place in Q1 went to KWR Harley-Davidson’s Hayden Schultz, with Jake Lewis riding the third Saddlemen Harley-Davidson to the fourth fastest time.
The youngest of the Wyman brothers, Cody, rode his KWR Harley-Davidson to the fifth-quickest lap as the Pan America took the top six spots in Q1. KWR Harley-Davidson’s James Rispoli carded the sixth-quickest time, coming from Group B in his Super Hooligans debut.
The fastest of the non-Harleys was seventh-placed Dominic Doyle on his Giaccmoto Yamaha 2024 MT-09 SP.
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