KurveyGirl.com brings you the results of this weekend’s events.
The Superbike Race Three podium was a reunion of sorts for 2025 MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier, race winner, and Sean Dylan Kelly, who finished second after a last-lap pass on Josh Herrin. Beaubier and Kelly were teammates in the Moto2 World Championship in 2022 on the American Racing team. After not achieving the goals they had set for themselves in International competition, both came back to the U.S. to race Superbike, and each has had success. Kelly is a race winner and has visited the podium frequently, three times a runner-up this season, and Beaubier added a sixth MotoAmerica Superbike title to the five he won with Yamaha in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
Mathew Scholtz won the final Supersport race of the season by a margin, then on the podium, Strack Racing owner Peter Strack said, “I’m making an official announcement: This man will be racing Superbike next year.” In the Supersport news conference, Scholtz said he was thrilled to be re-joining the Superbike class in 2026. Scholtz is a multi-time winner in MotoAmerica Superbike and finished runner-up in the class in 2021. When Scholtz lost his Superbike ride with Westby Racing at the end of 2023 and dropped back to Supersport, “It killed me a little bit,” he said. But Scholtz took the ride with Strack and won the Supersport title in 2024 on a Yamaha YZF-R6 and on the YZF-R9 in 2025. Scholtz said he was grateful for another opportunity to demonstrate that he belonged in Superbike, and that he was looking forward to a long relationship with Strack Racing. Scholtz’ chief title rival in the 2025 Supersport Championship, PJ Jacobsen, will also move up to the Superbike class with Rahal Ducati Moto in 2026.
Hank Vossberg had a very good Sunday, winning the Talent Cup race and the Twins Cup race, adding to his Talent Cup win from Saturday.
Tyler O’Hara looked like a samba dancer as he wiggled and gyrated, trying to describe what it was like to pilot an Indian King of The Baggers racebike to a new AMA land speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats. O’Hara said the surface was bumpy and that the ride was akin to ripping across a lake on a speedboat, that the bike was floating and weaving and sliding and that the tighter he hung on, the more unstable it became. And at terminal velocity, the aerodynamic drag was so great that the rear wheel was spinning because the bike made enough power to go faster but didn’t have the traction to use that power. “It was never going in a straight line,” O’Hara said in the paddock at New Jersey. “You had to just put your chest on the tank and be as loose as you could. I had to ride it the whole way.” Nevertheless, O’Hara said the 194.384 mph mark that he set left him anxious to go back and crack 200 mph. “I want a red hat,” he said, referring to the headgear reserved for those who have set records at the Salt Flats in excess of 200 mph.
New Jersey Motorsports Park requires several sections of soft barriers to make the track suitable for professional-level motorcycle road racing. Sections were placed in numerous locations around the track, and fully inflated sections were positioned in high-impact areas, ready to be swapped out in case an impact damaged one of the sections in use.
