AMA VANCE & HINES HARLEY-DAVIDSON SERIES
HARLEY-DAVIDSON
BY PAUL CARRUTHERS
PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN J. NELSON
S
cott Russell may be Mr.
Daytona, but there's no
doubting that Kyle Wyman
is Mr. Harley-Davidson Daytona.
Wyman won his third Vance
& Hines Harley-Davidson final at
Daytona International Speedway
in the four-year history of the
class on a sunny Friday after-
noon. Three for four, and believe
it or not he was still stewing about
the one that he lost last year at
the Speedway – and he finished
second.
Wyman has nothing but fond
memories of the Speedway. And
why not? After all his first victory
here was the first AMA pro vic-
tory of his racing career. He also
admits that after winning that
first one he thought things were
going to get easy.
"Looking back at that, my first
season, winning my first race…
I thought I had arrived," Wyman
said. "I was like, 'alright, let's
go.' I went to the next race and
crashed out. Went to the next
race and finished like eighth. I
was learning a lot from there.
That was one of the biggest tran-
sition years for me as a rider, just
trying to learn that it wasn't going
to come easy. I knew I was going
to have to work every weekend."
And work he does. Wyman is
not just a motorcycle racer. He
also owns the KWR team with
sponsorship from Millennium
Technologies his main sponsor.
And at Daytona he was busier
than normal. In addition to rac-
ing in the Harley class, Wyman's
KWR team was fielding three oth-
er racers. And he was also racing
in the Daytona SportBike class.
Distractions? There were plenty
of those.
"Honestly, it really is," Wyman
said before his win on Friday
when asked if worrying about
the business end of racing was
a distraction to the racing itself.
ROUND 1/MARCH 14, 2014
DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY/DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA
P82
Kyle Wyman won his third Harley-
Davidson final at Daytona International
Speedway. In four tries.
THREE FOR FOUR
