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And once more.
And once more.
Herrin’s second Daytona 200 victory got here in 2023, 13 years after his first. He wasted little time in working his whole to 4. Sunday, he turned the primary rider to win this historic cycle race three straight years. The race historical past dates again to 1937 on beach-and-road course.
Aboard a Ducati, Herrin completed 5.3 seconds forward of Richie Escalante’s Suzuki. Tyler Scott was practically side-by-side with Escalante on the stripe and completed third.
Englishman Peter Hickman and two-time Daytona champ Brandon Paasch, each using Triumphs, rounded out the highest 5 by way of 57 laps on the three.51-mile street course, which is sort of equivalent to the course used for the Rolex 24.
Saturday’s 200 included a mid-race purple flag as a consequence of a passing rain bathe, and a shorter stoppage after a nasty spill on the restart.
Saturday’s cycle racing capped the all-encompassing 2025 “Velocity Weeks” at Daytona Worldwide Speedway. It began in January with the Rolex 24, continued in February with NASCAR’s go to and the Daytona 500, and wrapped up in March with the Daytona SuperCross, American Flat Observe motion, and MotoAmerica road-racing on the Speedway’s street course.
Tremendous Hooligan, Twins Cup see tight finishes
In earlier Saturday motion, Harley-Davidson swept the highest 5 ending spots within the Tremendous Hooligan 6-lap race. Jake Lewis completed simply forward of Travis Wyman, by lower than a tenth of a second. Cory West completed third in a good battle that noticed the highest six end inside four-tenths of a second.
Subsequent up, the Twins Cup practically matched the Hooligans with its personal shut end, as 4 riders crossed stripe inside a tenth of a second of one another. Matthew Chapin, on a Suzuki, received the win by .019 over Alessandro DiMario.
American Flat Observe outcomes at Daytona
Congrats to Emma Gottsch of Sioux Falls, SD for taking the highest of the rostrum final night time within the BTR Fundamental Occasion! Final night time was the the season-opener of the 2025 Progressive AFT season – the Royal Enfield Quick Observe at DAYTONA I. Tune in tonight for Spherical Two to see if Gottsch…
The America Flat Observe opened its 2025 season with two straight nights of racing (Thursday-Friday) on the quarter-mile dust observe outdoors the west banking of Daytona Worldwide Speedway.
For the second straight night time, Dallas Daniels gained the principle occasion in SuperTwins with Briar Bauman ending runner-up.
Kody Kopp additionally swept each nights, profitable the AFT Singles important by practically 5 seconds Friday over Chase Saathoff. Kopp completed 2 seconds forward of Tom Drane on Thursday.
Within the AFT’s all-female division (Royal Enfield Construct. Practice. Race.), Taia Little gained Friday by .324 seconds over Emma Gottsch. That is a reversal of Thursday’s end, when Gottsch completed .242 seconds forward of Little.
