Harley vs. Indian, Wyman vs. O’Hara: It All Comes To A Head at New Jersey Motorsports Park

Just Three Points Separate Travis Wyman And Tyler O’Hara As Mission King Of The Baggers Goes To Its NJMP Finale, September 9-11

IRVINE, CA – September 7, 2022 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – Most championships are remembered for the riders who battled for them: Rainey vs. Schwantz, Rossi vs. Stoner, Spies vs. Mladin, Chandler vs. Duhamel. Not so with the 2022 MotoAmerica Mission King Of The Baggers Championship that concludes this weekend with a winner-take-all battle between Travis Wyman and Tyler O’Hara at New Jersey Motorsports Park. The real war here is Harley-Davidson vs. Indian, Indian vs. Harley-Davidson, and it takes place daily – in the boardroom, on the assembly line, the dealership floor, and the racetrack. As it has been since both brands started making motorcycles in the wee years of the 1900s.

Three points is all that separates Travis Wyman (10) from Tyler O’Hara (leading) in the MotoAmerica Mission King Of The Baggers Championship as the series holds its finale this weekend at New Jersey Motorsports Park. What role will Kyle Wyman (1) play in the outcome.
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This weekend, however, it’s all about the racetrack.

With just the finale left to run at 3:10 p.m. on Sunday, September 11, the battle for the 2022 KOTB Championship has been whittled down to just two combatants: Travis Wyman and O’Hara. Although defending King Of The Baggers Champion Kyle Wyman is still mathematically alive, he’s 20 points behind with just 25 points remaining on the table. It would take a double catastrophe with both his brother Travis and O’Hara failing to score points. Possible, but unlikely.

It’s Travis Wyman who comes in leading the championship, albeit by just three points over O’Hara. They took widely different paths to get to this point with O’Hara starting the season red hot with Travis Wyman finishing it with all the momentum.

The season got started at Daytona International Speedway back in March with an historic doubleheader as the Mission King Of The Baggers hit the high banks for the first time. It was O’Hara taking victory in that first race and he followed that up with a second place to Jeremy McWilliams, his teammate on the Mission Foods/S&S Cycle/Indian Challenger Team, in race two at Daytona to leave Florida with a points haul of 45 points.

Wyman, the younger, was second to O’Hara in race one at Daytona and was fifth in race two. He left the Sunshine State with 31 points.

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