Dallas Daniels( 32) and two-time AFT champ Briar Bauman( 3) battled it out all season long, but Daniels came away with the 2025 SuperTwins crown.

KING OF THE BAGGERS The final three doubleheader King Of The Baggers events for 2025 concluded by late September, but it only took Harley-Davidson’ s Kyle Wyman three of the six races to claim the championship.

During the weekend of Aug. 16-17, the KOTB race teams headed to the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, where Vance & Hines H-D racer Hayden Gillim scored his first podium and win of the season. The second race saw the Indian rider and 2024 champ Herfoss atop the podium.

At the Circuit of the Americas doubleheader on Sept. 13-14, Wyman’ s 4th-place finish in the first race secured him the championship. It was a good thing for Wyman because he ran into the curbing on the last lap of the second race and did not finish. Instead, Herfoss finished in 1st.

With Wyman already in possession of the KOTB crown, the final doubleheader took place at New Jersey Motorsports Park, Sept. 27-28, where Gillim and SDI Racing’ s Cameron Petersen each scored wins. With all the points tallied, Indian’ s Loris Baz finished the season in 2nd overall, followed by Herfoss.

Congrats to Wyman and Harley-Davidson for winning the 2025 KOTB championship! The schedule for the 2026 season is already out, kicking off March 5-7 at Daytona International Speedway.

putting Daniels within two points of series-leader Bauman.

The Springfield Mile II, the second-to-final round, was the turning point, with seven riders crossing the finish line within one second of each other. Daniels finished a respectable 2nd behind Trent Lowe, but Bauman suffered mechanical issues that resulted in a black flag and a 14th-place finish, vaulting Daniels into a 13-point lead with only 23 points left in play.

Predictably, Daniels held steady in the season’ s final race at Lake Ozark with a 3rd-place finish. Bauman finished in 1st, but it wasn’ t enough to overcome Daniels’ points lead. The Estenson Racing team celebrated Daniels’ first Grand National Championship, and Harley-Davidson celebrated a highly competitive year with the most 1st-place finishes of the season.

AMERICAN FLAT TRACK In our last AFT update, Dallas Daniels and Briar Bauman had been swapping the points lead back and forth. A late-season mechanical mishap would alter the course of the championship.

The Peoria TT saw another 1-2 in the Bauman- Daniels rivalry, but the script was flipped at the Springfield Mile I & II doubleheader. The first event saw Daniels earn the win with Bauman finishing in 4th,

Harley and Indian have traded KOTB championships since the series began in 2021. Kyle Wyman( 33) secured the 2025 title during the first race at Circuit of the Americas.

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