With this coming weekend’s two races at the Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas, and two more in the series finale at New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville, New Jersey, it’s not a matter of if Kyle Wyman will be crowned champion, but when. It would take a brave man to bet against him earning the title in race one at COTA, however. After all, he only needs to score three measly points to make that happen.
Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing’s Wyman, the winningest rider in the history of the Mission King Of The Baggers class with 25 victories, is 97 points ahead of class rookie Loris Baz and his S&S/Indian Motorcycle Challenger, and there are only 100 points left on the table. In other words, this one is over. If all goes to plan, it will be Wyman’s second title in the class.
With that being said, we can still expect an all-out Baggers dogfight at COTA, with three factory Indian riders in a battle for second in the title chase. Baz leads that tussle by six points over teammate Troy Herfoss with the third Indian factory rider, Tyler O’Hara, just 16 points behind the Frenchman.
Herfoss will arrive in Texas a little hot under the collar after being disqualified from victory in race two at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course a few weeks ago. Neither of the three Indian riders has anything to lose, so beating as many Harley-Davidsons as possible will again be at the top of their lists.
The second-best Harley-Davidson Road Glide rider in the standings is RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson’s Hayden Gillim. Gillim, who won race one at Mid-Ohio for his only victory of the season thus far, is 20 points behind O’Hara and just five points clear of Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing’s James Rispoli in the battle for fifth in the championship.
Gillim’s teammate Rocco Landers, Harley factory rider Bradley Smith, SDI Racing’s Cameron Petersen and Saddlemen Race Development’s Cory West round out the top 10 with four races left to run.
Motovation Supersport – Seven Is Heaven
The Motovation Supersport class is the opposite of the Mission King Of The Baggers as this one promises to go the distance, with a class champion in doubt until the final race of the season at New Jersey Motorsports Park.
Heading into the COTA, Strack Racing’s Mathew Scholtz leads Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s PJ Jacobsen by just seven points after the two split wins and third-place finishes at the previous round in Ohio.
Scholtz arrives in Texas with 283 points, earned via seven victories and 12 total podiums. Jacobsen earned his 276 points by winning three races and finishing on the podium an impressive 13 times in 14 races. Jacobsen’s only non-podium came at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca when he finished fourth in race two.
Scholtz’s teenaged teammate Blake Davis sits third in the title chase, 73 points behind his teammate and 66 points behind Jacobsen. Davis is capable of winning, and he’s done so three times, including a clean sweep of the two races at Laguna Seca.
Davis is 41 points clear of Celtic/Economy Lube+Tire/Warhorse HSBK Ducati’s Cameron Petersen, with the South African getting more comfortable with each passing round on the Panigale V2. Petersen is coming off his best weekend of the season with two second-place finishes at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott is fifth in the title chase, 26 points clear of Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s Kayla Yaakov.
Four riders have won Supersport races in 2026 and four-time AMA Superbike Champion Josh Hayes is the fourth, with his victory on the BPR Racing Yamaha coming in the second race of the year in the rain at Barber Motorsports Park. Hayes is seventh in the championship as the series heads to Texas.
Stock 1000 – Lee On The Verge
Someone will be crowned as the 2025 MotoAmerica Stock 1000 Champion at the Circuit of The Americas as the two races in Texas will close out the Stock 1000 season.
OrangeCat Racing’s Andrew Lee is in the catbird seat with the Californian leading Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach by 26 points while leading his teammate Jayson Uribe by 29 points. One of those three will take the title as Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates and all those behind him have been mathematically eliminated from title contention.
Lee comes to Texas with four victories and seven total podium finishes in the eight races so far. Lee has 15 career Stock 1000 victories on his resume, which puts him second all-time to Hayden Gillim’s 18 class wins.
Beach held the hot hand with the Kentuckian winning three straight races – a sweep of the two VIRginia International Raceway races and a win in race one at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. It all went horribly wrong in race two in Ohio, however, as Beach suffered mechanical issues that kept him from scoring any points. It was a devastating blow, and Beach will need some help if he hopes to top Lee.
Uribe comes to Texas just three points adrift of Beach after a one-win, six-podium season thus far.
Yates and BPR Racing Yamaha’s Bryce Kornbau round out the top five heading into the final two races of the year for Stock 1000.
Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul – Not Over Till It’s Over
Based on past experience and a 44-point lead, Alessandro Di Mario is the odds-on favorite to win the Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul Championship in its debut season. But there are 100 points still up for grabs with the two races in Texas to be followed by two more at the season finale in New Jersey.
Warhorse Ducati/American Racing’s Di Mario has won five of the 10 races held so far in 2025, and he’s only finished off the podium one time – a fifth in race one at VIR. And that’s how he’s built a 44-point lead.
Sam Drane sits second behind Di Mario with the Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing-backed Australian easily the most consistent of the chasers. Drane has won once and has six total podiums and is the only rider other than Di Mario to have scored points in every race.
While Drane might hold the edge in consistency, Hank Vossberg has shown in the second half of the season that he’s a force to be reckoned with when it comes to flat-out pace. With three wins and six total podiums, Vossberg is seven points behind Drane and 51 behind Di Mario. In the last four races, the Tytlers Cycle Racing rider has two wins and two runner-up finishes.
There are two Australians in the top five, and the second of those is Bodie Paige, a one-time winner and six-time podium finisher in 2025. Paige will ride Julian Correa’s Jones Honda Krämer APX-350 MA in the two races at COTA with Correa not entered for this weekend’s two races.
MP13 Racing’s Ella Dreher earned her first podium finish of the season in race one at Mid-Ohio to put her fifth in the point standings, five points clear of Correa.
Pre-COTA Support Class Notes…
MotoAmerica Mini Cup GP 190 Champion Kensei Matsudaira will make his Talent Cup debut at COTA, riding a Roadracing World Young Guns Krämer APX-350 MA.
Neither of the two combatants in this year’s Supersport title fight had the best of weekends last year at Circuit of The Americas. With Mathew Scholtz crashing in race one and remounting to finish 16th, PJ Jacobsen didn’t take full advantage with his fifth-place finish. The race was won by Jake Lewis over Blake Davis with Corey Alexander rounding out the podium. In Sunday’s race two, the outcome was flipped as Scholtz won the race over Tyler Scott with Blake Davis third. Jacobsen, meanwhile, looked to have a lock on fifth place when he crashed on the final lap. Scholtz left Texas with a 39-point lead that he wouldn’t relinquish.
With his second- and first-place finishes in the two Mission King Of The Baggers races last year, Troy Herfoss pulled to within two points of championship points leader Kyle Wyman, who was fourth and second in the two races at COTA. Race one a year ago was won by Rocco Landers over Herfoss and Tyler O’Hara.
This weekend will mark the second time this year that the Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul class has raced at COTA. The new class started its season alongside MotoGP in Texas with Alessandro Di Mario and Bodie Paige winning the two races. Sam Drane was third in both.
