VOLUME ISSUE JUNE , P87
MISSION KING OF
THE BAGGERS
It's taken him longer than
expected but current Mission
King of The Baggers Champion
Hayden Gillim (RevZilla/Motul/
Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson)
put on a clinic at Brainerd In
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ternational Raceway, taking all
three wins on offer and doing it
with relative ease.
In a depleted eight-rider field,
Gillim qualified on pole ahead of
the S&S/Indian Motorcycle team
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sters Troy Herfoss and Tyler
O'Hara, with the Harley-Davidson
Factory Racing team riders Kyle
Wyman and James Rispoli head
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ing row two from Gillim's team-
mate Rocco Landers in sixth.
In the two-lap Challenge race,
Gillim took the $5000 prize mon
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lost the front of the CBR on lap
three, the Honda barrel-rolling
itself to pieces in the grass.
That left Yates to take over the
running, the Georgian stretching
an eight-tenths of a second lead
but one that would eventually be
whittled down with Jason Uribe
(OrangeCat Racing BMW) going
for the kill on the final lap at turn
two. The Californian then put his
head down and fended off the
counterattack from Yates, eventu
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ally coming home 0.14 of a sec-
ond clear for his first career Stock
1000 win from Yates and Smith,
half a second back in third.
Gillim's no-score in race two
hasn't hurt his title aspirations
too much. He still holds the ad
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vantage on 75 points to Uribe's
59 and Bryce Price's 57.
firm on 171 points, two up on
Scholtz, with Jake Lewis (fifth
and sixth placed on the Altus
Motorsports Suzuki GSX-R750)
third on 85.
STOCK 1000
Round two of the 2024 Stock
1000 Championship was held
and, as expected, it was Hayden
Gillim (Real Steel Motorsports)
who qualified on pole by a
massive 1.3 seconds ahead of
Benjamin Smith (Flo4Law Rac
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ing Yamaha) and Ashton Yates
(Jones Honda).
That's how they finished in
race one, Gillim 7.4 seconds to
the good from Smith with Yates
taking third.
However, race two saw the
form book thrown out as Gillim
