KOTB - Expanded to Eight Race Weekends for 2024
MotoAmerica has released what it describes as a "tentative" 2024 eight-class MotoAmerica Championship schedule, including 20 Superbike races held over nine rounds and two additional Mission King Of The Baggers races - the Daytona 200 and the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course - expanding the series to eight race weekends for 2024.
MotoAmerica will again begin its season with its Supersport class competing in the non-points-paying Daytona 200, with the Mission King Of The Baggers Championship, Twins Cup and Mission Super Hooligan National Championship kicking off their seasons with the start of those three championships.
Kyle Wyman and James Rispoli
In other KOTB news, Harley has confirmed Kyle Wyman and James Rispoli as Screamin' Eagle factory racing team riders in the 2024 series.
Kyle Wyman won seven races during the 2023 King Of The Baggers season and finished third in the season championship. Kyle is the winningest racer in MotoAmerica King Of The Baggers history, with 12 total race wins in the 24 events since the start of the series in the 2021 season, plus the 2021 season championship to his credit.
Kyle Wyman
Replacing 2023 H-D factory rider Travis Wyman, and having ridden for Vance & Hines H-D in 2023, James Rispoli won two KOTB races, plus he scored five second place finishes and three third place finishes for second overall in the championship.
James Rispoli |
Rispoli, who was signed to a one-year contract with the factory team, has a long history of racing Harley-Davidson motorcycles dating back to racing an XR750 as a teenager, and earning the nickname "Hogspoli" after winning the AFT Production Twins championship on a Latus Motors Racing Harley-Davidson XG750R in 2020. He also won back-to-back AMA Pro Racing Supersport championships in 2011-2012.