HARLEY-DAVIDSON FACTORY RACING CLOSES OUT A MONSTER 2025

The Road Glide and the King 

Wyman’s 2025 season was the kind of campaign that reshapes a series. Seven wins, podiums in nearly every other start, and a points gap so wide by September it forced rivals into desperate gambits. 

And Daytona set the tone. Wyman added yet another chapter to his personal legend at the Speedway, sweeping the opener and reminding everyone why the Road Glide remains the benchmark in this class. At Road America, in front of Harley’s home crowd, he kept the Milwaukee faithful on their feet. By Laguna Seca, his lead had stretched to the point where the math started favoring inevitability. 

At COTA, inevitability became fact. Wyman needed only three points. He collected them with the same composure that had carried him through the year, climbing off the bike as a two-time King of the Baggers champion. 

The Hooligan Who Wouldn’t Quit 

If Wyman’s title felt like a coronation, James Rispoli’s was pure drama. 

Rispoli began the year as a dark-horse threat. He was fast enough to rattle cages, but hardly the bookie’s favorite. Cory West and Jake Lewis were the names everyone circled when the Super Hooligan paddock rolled out at Daytona. 

Then the season unfolded, and Rispoli refused to go away. Podiums at the opener. Nail-biting battles at Ridge. A double win at Laguna Seca that shifted the entire championship picture. Each round he clawed closer, the KWR-prepped Pan America ST beneath him growing sharper as the season wore on. 

By the time the series hit Mid-Ohio, Rispoli was still trailing in the points. The equation was brutal: win, and pray the math played out in his favor. Against the odds, that’s exactly what happened. He stormed to victory and leapfrogged both rivals in the tally, securing his first Mission Super Hooligan National Championship. 

For Harley-Davidson, the victory carried weight beyond the rider. The Pan America ST is largely perceived as an adventure touring machine, not a racebike. But in Super Hooligan trim, it’s become a serial championship winner.  

In Rispoli’s hands, it was proof of both adaptability and pure firepower. For fans, it was the story that racing dreams are made of: the underdog who never blinked, finally climbing to the top step of the season. And he did it on a Harley-Davidson. 

The Factory Muscle 

Titles for Wyman and Rispoli would have been enough to crown 2025 a success, but Harley-Davidson didn’t stop there. 

In American Flat Track, Briar Bauman and Brandon Robinson kept the XG750R thundering at the front of a seven-manufacturer melee. Their relentlessness paid off with the SuperTwins Manufacturer Championship, another reminder that Harley’s dirt-track roots still run deep. 

Meanwhile, the fledgling AdventureTrackers series showcased Harley’s versatility in a different arena. Jesse Janisch, Danny Eslick, and Henry Wiles traded blows with multi-brand grids all year. Janisch’s pair of wins late in the season sealed the Manufacturer title, giving Harley another #1 plate in a discipline where few expected them to dominate so quickly. 

Four championships, four different stages. A trophy case that stretches from baggers to dirt track to adventure. Few factories in modern motorcycle racing can claim that kind of breadth. 

Where the Smoke Settles 

The season didn’t end with a trophy hoist in Millville. It ended with Harley-Davidson riders on the podium, gold suits glinting under the lights, speakers thumping championship anthems, and a paddock full of teammates and fans taking it all in. 

Wyman capped his title year with steady rides in the top five. Gillim and Landers kept Harley colors on the box. Rispoli and the KWR crew signed off with another set of gritty finishes. And the Factory Racing team thanked its people—the mechanics, the engineers, the family behind the wall—for a season that lifted Harley-Davidson to the very top of the sport. 

Rivals will regroup this winter. Baz, Herfoss, O’Hara, West, and Lewis all have unfinished business. The grids will only get deeper, the margins slimmer. 

But for now, the story is complete. Harley-Davidson ends 2025 with two rider championships, two Manufacturer titles, and the kind of across-the-board dominance that leaves an entire paddock asking how to close the gap. 

The smoke has settled, and the answer is clear: 2025 belonged to Harley-Davidson Factory Racing.