May 31-June 01, Elkhart Lake, WI
Round 5 - Wyman Leads Harley Factory Sweep
The fifth round of the 2025 King Of The Baggers season at 'Road America', Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin saw Kyle Wyman taking the win ahead of teammates Bradley Smith, second, and James Rispoli third for a well-received podium sweep for the Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing team, just an hour north from The Motor Company's Milwaukee headquarters.
Wyman was fast from the very first practice session. The winningest rider in KOTB history won his fourth race of the year and the 22nd of his career. Smith finished second for the second time in his debut season in his first visit to Road America. The Brit was strong in the race and even closed on Wyman to come up just .255 of a second behind Harley's team leader after setting the fastest lap of the race on the very last go-around.
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| Kyle Wyman had his hands full with teammate Bradley Smith in the closing laps of Saturday's Mission King Of The Baggers race at Road America. Wyman led a Harley-Davidson factory sweep of the top three. |
Smith, in turn, was 4.2 seconds ahead of Rispoli at the finish. Rispoli was chased to the flag by S&S/Indian Motorcycle's Tyler O'Hara (on the Indian Challenger), RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson's Hayden Gillim and defending series champion Troy Herfoss, sixth – also on the S&S Indian Challenger.
In the Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing's Sam Drane won his first-career MotoAmerica race with victory on Saturday in the Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul after winning a drafting battle to the finish line.
The race turned into a three-way battle for victory with Drane joined by fellow Australian Bodie Paige and championship points leader Alessandro Di Mario, with just .040 of a second covering the top three.
Kira Knebel kept her perfect win record intact today with her second Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race victory of the season coming in a red-flag-shortened race at Road America. Knebel led all five laps, besting Shae MacGregor by 2.750 seconds.
Round 6 - Herfoss in Dramatic Win
The sixth round, and the second of the two-race weekend at Road America, Lake Elkhart, saw a last corner tussle ending with Briton Bradley Smith crashing out and defending champion Troy Herfoss taking his first win of the 2025 season.
A day after seeing Harley's podium lockout in race one on Saturday, S&S/Indian Motorcycle's Troy Herfoss was determined to take his title defence up a notch. Battling at the front of the pack with an equally intense Bradley Smith, it was a battle between two racers desperately wanting the win.
Smith led into the final corner on the last lap with the lead, ran wide and left a hole that Herfoss charged through. The pair came to together on the exit with Smith crashing his Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing Road Glide and Herfoss riding to victory on his Indian Challenger.
Smith's two teammates James Rispoli and Kyle Wyman, meanwhile, watched it unfold right in front of them and raced up the hill to finish second and third, respectively.
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| (From left to right) James Rispoli, Troy Herfoss and Kyle Wyman celebrate on the King Of The Baggers podium at Road America. Photo by Brian J. Nelson |
Defending series champion Herfoss ended up topping Rispoli by just .229 of a second. For Rispoli, it was a good weekend after a miserable start to his season. Two podium finishes always make a guy feel better and Rispoli had to be pleased with his results.
Herfoss' S&S/Indian Motorcycle teammate Tyler O'Hara finished fourth, hot on Wyman's tail and slightly ahead of RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson's Hayden Gillim. S&S/Indian Motorcycle's Loris Baz was sixth with Saddlemen Race Development's Jake Lewis seventh. TAB Performance Racing's Kyle Ohnsorg, SDI Racing's Cameron Beaubier and Gillim's teammate Rocco Landers rounded out the top 10.
In the second Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul race of the weekend, seven riders were separated by little more than a second with championship points leader Alessandro Di Mario celebrating his high-school graduation in the best possible way with his third win of the season.
In the second Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. of the weekend Miranda Cain won the closest race in series history with topping Camille Conrad by a scant .079 of a second. Cassie Creer finished third, some 13 seconds behind the lead duo.
