Herfoss Takes Race One, Wyman Turns The Tables In Race Two After
Two Epic Texas Battles
AUSTIN, TX – April 14, 2024 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – Fittingly, the top two men in the 2024 Mission King Of The Baggers Championship split victories today at Circuit of The Americas with S&S/Indian Motorcycle’s Troy Herfoss and Harley-Davidson Factory Racing’s Kyle Wyman each winning a race on a sunny Saturday in Texas.
It was Herfoss winning the first of the two races after a come-from-behind ride that saw him at the back of the seven-strong lead pack early in the race. The Australian soldiered on, slicing and dicing his way through the pack and coming out on top of a hectic last-lap battle with his teammate Tyler O’Hara and Wyman. At the finish line it was Herfoss by .295 of a second over Wyman with O’Hara .685 of a second behind the winner in third place.
Wyman’s teammate James Rispoli and RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson’s Hayden Gillim were a shadow fourth and fifth and separated by just .145 of a second.
Gillim’s rookie teammate Rocco Landers was a lonely sixth with SDI/Roland Sands Racing/Indian Motorcycles’ Bobby Fong managing to nurse his blown-up motorcycle to seventh. The team would work as fast as possible between race one and two to get Fong back on the grid.
Saddlemen/Harley-Davidson’s Cory West, RydFast Racing’s Kyle Ohnsorg and Mad Monkey Motorsports’s Max Flinders rounded out the top 10.
“Firstly, it’s an honor to be standing here today with my first win, especially with these two great competitors,” Herfoss said after his first-ever Mission King Of The Baggers victory. “There are more wins between these two guys than I dream of having. So, to get my first win here in COTA at MotoGP is a great feeling. To answer your question, yeah, it did feel like I was out of it. I’ve got a lot of days on the bike now. There’re no excuses to not be able to be competitive, but I don’t have a lot of experience racing because Daytona was not really a race in the infield. It was a race to get to the outfield. So, I didn’t see the true speed of these riders in the infield a lot of time, whereas today there were six guys going toe-to-toe, fighting at their best pace. So, I couldn’t ride the lap they were riding. I could not ride my bike the same way the guys in front of me could ride their bikes, even between the different manufacturers.
“I know it’s a short race, but I spent the first two laps just…
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