The Baggers Are Again In City For WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca
4 Assist Courses, Led By The Mission King Of The Baggers, Set For Monterey Invasion, July 12-14
IRVINE, CA (July 11, 2024) – The Mission King Of The Baggers class returns to the place all of it started this coming weekend when the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship and its 4 help lessons resume their battles at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, the birthplace of the King Of The Baggers collection, July 12-14.
Now knee deep in its fourth season as probably the most widespread lessons within the MotoAmerica Championship, the Mission King Of The Baggers returns to motion after a one-month hiatus for its sixth spherical and it does so on the monitor the place it began – WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.
The massive V-twins roar into city with Australian Troy Herfoss and his S&S Cycles/Indian Motorbike Challenger atop the championship level standings after 10 races, but it surely’s tight on the prime with Harley-Davidson Manufacturing facility Racing’s Kyle Wyman simply 13 factors behind in what has turn out to be a two-rider, two-manufacturer battle for the 2024 crown.
Herfoss has earned his 205 factors by way of 4 wins, 4 seconds, a 3rd and, for him, a lowly seventh. Wyman’s tally comes by way of 4 wins, three seconds, a fifth, a fourth, and an unlikely eighth.
These two are miles forward of the remaining with Tyler O’Hara the most effective of the remaining and 63 factors behind his teammate Herfoss. Defending Mission King Of The Baggers Champion Hayden Gillim put some life again in his title hopes with two victories on the final spherical in Brainerd, Minnesota. Nonetheless, the RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson rider is 70 factors behind Herfoss.
Wyman’s teammate James Rispoli rounds out the highest 5 within the level standings heading to Monterey, 97 factors from the highest spot.
Supersport – Scholtz Pulls Away
The 2024 MotoAmerica Supersport Championship was ultra-close proper as much as the purpose the place it wasn’t. That time got here in race two at Ridge Motorsports Park when championship rivals Mathew Scholtz and PJ Jacobsen got here collectively and Jacobsen bought the worst of it, hitting the deck and failing to attain some extent. In the meantime, Strack Racing’s Scholtz rode away to a simple win, his sixth of the season and fourth in a row.
And similar to that, the unfold between Scholtz and Jacobsen is now 28 factors.
However catching Scholtz isn’t out of the realm of risk for Jacobsen because the Rahal Ducati Moto rider has received three races and had been on the rostrum in every race… till the Ridge debacle. There’s loads of struggle nonetheless to return from the New Yorker.
Altus Motorsports’ Jake Lewis is third within the championship with the Kentuckian ending each race to this point with two podiums and solidly constant finishes. He trails Scholtz by 115 factors.
Imaginative and prescient Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott is fourth within the title chase, regardless of an up-and-down season to this point. Scott is the one rider apart from Scholtz and Jacobsen to win a race thus far in 2024.
N2 Racing/BobbleHeadMoto’s Blake Davis rounds out the highest 5 heading to Laguna Seca.
Inventory 1000 – Gillim Hanging On
Actual Metal Motorsports’ Hayden Gillim needs to be respiration simpler than he’s. With wins in 4 of the six Inventory 1000 races held to this point in 2024, Gillim has been the clear-cut favourite to defend his title from a 12 months in the past. The opposite two races are what have stored issues shut on the prime.
Main in race two at Brainerd Worldwide Raceway after destroying the category in race one, Gillim crashed. Main race two at Ridge Motorsports Park early on, Gillim crashed once more. This time he was in a position to remount and fly via the pack to complete a outstanding fourth. That fourth become a sixth, nonetheless, within the official outcomes as Gillim was docked two seconds after failing to make the turn-one chicane after crossing the end line.
OrangeCat Racing’s Jayson Uribe has been within the catbird seat for each of Gillim’s miscues and he’s been there to select up the items in each circumstances. The consequence? The Californian trails the Kentuckian by simply six factors with the collection set for 2 races at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.
Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates has seen his season choose up pace of late and he’s now third within the level standings after 4 podium finishes up to now 4 races. He trails Gillim by 23 factors and is barely 4 factors forward of FLO4LAW Racing’s Benjamin Smith. BPR Racing’s Bryce Prince is 9 extra factors behind Smith and rounds out the highest 5 after six races.
Mission Tremendous Hooligan Nationwide Championship – The Champ Leads
Defending collection champion Tyler O’Hara battled via a tough weekend at Ridge Motorsports Park however one way or the other got here out of all of it with the lead within the Mission Tremendous Hooligan Nationwide Championship.
O’Hara bravely rode his S&S Cycles/Indian Motorbike FTR1200 to a third-place end in race one at Ridge, utilizing the clutch to gradual the bike as he battled a sticking throttle for the whole race. He later mentioned it was the most effective third-place end of his profession. A day later, O’Hara was second as Saddlemen Racing/Harley-Davidson’s Jake Lewis and his Pan America have been merely an excessive amount of for the remainder of the sector.
Saturday’s win went to KWR/Harley-Davidson’s Cody Wyman with the youngest of the racing Wyman brothers scoring his first Tremendous Hooligan win of his profession. In doing so, he additionally turned the second rider in MotoAmerica historical past to podium in 4 totally different lessons – Junior Cup, Twins Cup, Inventory 1000 and the Tremendous Hooligan Nationwide Championship. The primary rider to perform that feat was Rocco Landers whose podium end at Brainerd in June introduced his tally to 4 lessons with podium finishes, together with Junior Cup, Twins Cup, and Supersport earlier in his profession.
O’Hara now leads Wyman by 5 factors because the collection arrives in Monterey for its third spherical. Saddlemen/Harley-Davidson’s Cory West sits third, 12 behind O’Hara and eight forward of Troy Herfoss on the second S&S Cycles/Indian Motorbike FTR1200. Lewis rounds out the highest 5 and is 24 factors behind O’Hara.
Pre-WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca Notes…
Hayden Gillim and Kyle Wyman cut up wins in final 12 months’s two Mission King Of The Baggers races at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Gillim beat James Rispoli and Bobby Fong to win race one with Wyman topping Rispoli and Gillim to win race two.
Final 12 months’s “Prolonged” Supersport race win went to Xavi Forés over Josh Hayes and Tyler Scott. The win was Forés’s eighth win in a row, which broke Garrett Gerloff’s consecutive win streak within the class from 2017.
Jeremy McWiliams was an ideal two-for-two within the Mission Tremendous Hooligan Nationwide Championship races in Monterey final 12 months. McWilliams beat Andy DiBrino and Cory West in race one earlier than topping Tyler O’Hara and DiBrino in race two.
The Inventory 1000 class didn’t compete at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca final 12 months as this system featured Superbike, Supersport, Mission King Of The Baggers, Twins Cup, and Tremendous Hooligan Nationwide Championship.
About MotoAmerica
MotoAmerica is North America’s premier bike highway racing collection. Established in 2014, MotoAmerica is dwelling to the AMA Superbike Championship in addition to extra lessons together with Supersport, Inventory 1000, Twins Cup, Junior Cup, and King Of The Baggers. MotoAmerica is an affiliate of KRAVE Group LLC, a partnership together with three-time 500cc World Champion, two-time AMA Superbike Champion, and AMA Corridor of Famer Wayne Rainey; ex-racer and former supervisor of Crew Roberts Chuck Aksland; motorsports advertising and marketing govt Terry Karges; and businessman Richard Varner. For extra data, please go to www.MotoAmerica.com and observe MotoAmerica on Fb, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube. To look at all issues MotoAmerica, subscribe to MotoAmerica’s stay streaming and video on demand service, MotoAmerica Dwell+
Extra, from a press launch issued by Energica:
SUPER HOOLIGANS: A REBEL READY TO ROLL IN LAGUNA
The PETRONAS iona liveried Energica Eva Ribelle RS KCC (Equipment Corsa Clienti) will likely be as soon as once more within the professional arms of Stefano Mesa and staff Tytlers Cycle Racing this weekend because the Mission Meals Tremendous Hooligan Nationwide Championship heads to the WeatherTech Laguna Seca Raceway in Northern California, for spherical three of the 2024 season.
The venue holds fond recollections for the Modena-based producer, as one 12 months in the past the 31-year-old Colombian rider took the first-ever holeshot for an electrical bike towards ICE equipment in close-circuit competitors, in addition to setting the brand new outright lap report for a two-wheeled EV across the 3.602km (2.238 miles) fast-flowing, legendary monitor, which is thought all around the globe for the “Corkscrew” (turns 8 and 8a), a blind crest heavy-braking, tight left-hander adopted by a downhill, right-hander with a 18 p.c drop.
Right here is the whole schedule for the occasion – all occasions PST (GMT -7)
FRIDAY JULY 12TH
9:00 AM – 9:20 AM – Mission Tremendous Hooligan Nationwide Championship PRACTICE 1 (20 min)
4:45 PM – 5:05 PM – Mission Tremendous Hooligan Nationwide Championship QUALIFYING 1 (20 min)
SATURDAY JULY 13TH
8:30 AM – 8:50 AM – Mission Tremendous Hooligan Nationwide Championship QUALIFYING 2 (20 min)
4:45 PM – Mission Tremendous Hooligan Nationwide Championship RACE 1 (8 LAPS) Fast Begin
SUNDAY JULY 14TH
10:25 AM – 10:35 AM Mission Tremendous Hooligan Nationwide Championship WARM UP (10 min)
1:20 PM – Mission Tremendous Hooligan Nationwide Championship RACE 2 (8 LAPS) Fast Begin
Each races of the Tremendous Hooligan Nationwide Championship at Laguna Seca will likely be streamed LIVE on MotoAmerica’s YouTube channel and out there on MotoAmerica Dwell+ by way of subscription. Make sure that to not miss any of the motion in what’s going to be an electrifying weekend of bike racing as Energica takes as soon as once more the battle to the normal, Inside Combustion Engine machines.
And if you’re planning to attend the occasion, come say whats up and be a part of the #EnergicaOwners who will likely be there with their gorgeous, all-electric, Made-in-Modena bikes!
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