Former MotoGP riders Bradley Smith ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚand Loris Baz finished on the podium in their maiden outings in 💝the King of the Baggers series at Daytona last weekend.

Briton Smith raced in MotoGP full-time from 2013 to 2018, riding for Tech3 Yamaha and KTM’s factory team in its first two years.

A move to Aprilia as a test rider saw him contest a handful 🔜of races in 2019, while he competed in the full 2020 campaign before leaving the Italian manufacturer.

The 34-year-old announced recently that he would be taking part in this year’s King of the Baggers seriesℱ in♈ the US, which forms part of the MotoAmerica bill.

Smith hinted at th⛄ese plans last November when he turned up at a Harley-Davidson event on the Monday after the Solidarity Grand Prix.

Making his debut last weekend during the Daytona 200 weekend, Smith formed part of H🐻arley’s factory line-up alongside K𒆙yle Wyman and James Rispoli.

Smith came out on top in a last-lap battle with Cameron Petersen on the SDI Racing Indian in race one, beating him by four tenths of a second on the run to the cheq🐻uered flag.

It completed a 1-2 for the Harley factory team, as Smith’s team-mate Wyman won the e✱ight-lap race aཧround the Daytona International Speedway.

Wyman cleared away from the chasing pack, putting his Harley 2.6s up the road to score his fourth B🍌aggers victory at Daytona.

Petersen completed the podium, with Kyle Ohnsorg a🐷nd Jake Lewis rounding out the top five. Only eight riders were classified, with Tyler O’Hara, Rocco Landers and Troy Herfoss filling ꦕout the final few spots.

Ex-MotoGP a🦂nd World Superbike racer Baz didn’t make the finish for the S&S/Indian Motorcycle team in race one, but comple🥂ted the podium in race two.

Wyman won race two for the Baggers class in𝐆 a much tighter finish, as he beat Herfoss by 0.056s

Smith crashed in race two, b🌺ut remounted to finish last of the classified runners in 1ꩲ0th.