Round 5 of the 2026 NEMRR Championship series ran at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on September 12-13, and the two days had nothing in common. Saturday was as good as New England gets in September: Sunny, mid-70s, a dry track from the first green flag to the last. Sunday brought warm rain from morning to night, and it never let up long enough for a dry line to appear. Anyone who had the weekend figured out by Saturday evening started over on Sunday morning.
The defending (2025) Champion Adam Guyer came into the weekend with a solid lead in his quest to repeat as the Overall NEMRR #1 plate holder, followed ironically by his father Brett in second place overall. The Dash for Cash title, along with most other expert classes, were largely undecided with Round 5 and the double points-paying season finale still to come. Riders were certainly anxious to get back racing after the long summer NASCAR layoff at NHMS.
The Seacoast Sport Cycle/Dunlop Dash for Cash started under perfect conditions, but never finished on Saturday. Eric Wood led off the grid on his Yamaha YZF-R6 and had already put in a 1:12.00 , the fastest lap anyone would turn all weekend, with R6-mounted Jacob Crossman 3.567 seconds back and Adam Guyer and his Ducati V2 Streetfighter 0.4-second behind Crossman. Two laps in, two riders came together and both needed extended attention from the ambulance crew, and with dusk approaching the day ended.
The feature went back on the schedule for the end of the day Sunday, by which point the weekend had turned over underneath it. About half of the 21 original entries took the restart in the rain. Wood’s R6 broke on Sunday, and he grabbed the holeshot on his Ducati V2, but Guyer claimed the lead into the bowl on lap one. Reinforcing his wet riding success earlier in the day Charles Keighley moved into second place before the halfway point, and from that point the finishing order was set. Guyer won by 3.4 seconds ahead of Keighley, with Wood third. Guyer’s 1:20.642 lap was quicker than anyone else turned in all day, and Guyer has clearly become the NEMRR rider to beat in the wet.
“I’m thankful to the guys at Seacoast Sport Cycle for giving me this great motorcycle to ride, we keep making it better every weekend. Thanks to everyone – especially the corner marshalls – for hanging with us all day in the wet weather, we couldn’t do it without you,” said Guyer.
That made seven race wins for Guyer on the weekend. He won the GTL, Lightweight Superbike and Lightweight Grand Prix races in Saturday’s sun and the combined Heavyweight Streetfighter race on top of them, then came back in the Sunday rain to win the Heavyweight Superbike and combined Supertwins races.
Wood was the quickest man at the track in the dry on Saturday. He won Formula 40 Unlimited and Unlimited Grand Prix on Saturday on his Yamaha R6 and Unlimited Superbike in Sunday’s rain, on his Ducati V2.
Keighley had the measure of the wet. He won the Middleweight Superbike and Middleweight Supersport races on Sunday, ran Guyer closest in the Dash, and his 1:20.036 in the Superbike race was the fastest lap of the day. Other multi-win Experts included Christopher O’Shea (Formula 40 Lightweight and Thunderbike), Nathan Baeyens (Super Singles and Ultra-lightweight Superbike) and Nathan Bettencourt (500 Supersport and GTU). Single wins went to Brett Guyer in Formula 50 Lightweight, Justin Landry in Formula 40 Middleweight, Jared Mileika in Heavyweight Supersport, Adam Muscaro in Motard, Chris Arrighi in GTO, Semir Fazlic in Unlimited Supersport and Fletcher Rood in Moto 3. Matthew Sweeney took both combined-class wins on offer, GT 500 and Ultra-lightweight Grand Prix.
The Amateur Dash for Cash was one feature that got its full run, eight laps on Saturday in the dry. David Komm won it in 10:56.547, holding off Miguel Betancourt Jr. by 2.496 seconds with Mark Parise third.
Parise led the Amateur ranks with four wins, and he did it on both surfaces: GTU and Unlimited Grand Prix in Saturday’s dry, then Unlimited Supersport and Middleweight Supersport in Sunday’s rain. Kyle Sackett, Michael Girard, Matthew Grilo and Dominic Petillo each took two wins.
Joshua Boise swept all three Middleweight Grand Prix waves in the Novice ranks and added Unlimited Grand Prix A, four wins across two days and two very different tracks. Brenden Wheeler took the Saturday Lightweight and Ultra-lightweight A races. Thomas Gerton won the Ultra-lightweight B and C waves, and Derek Wood took both of his Lightweight Grand Prix rounds in the rain.
In Super Street, Philip Couture swept Unlimited: The Saturday heat race, the A round, and the B round in the wet. Barry Conway took both Lightweight rounds and Zach Corona won Lightweight B. As always, the NEMRR Super Street class is the perfect low-pressure entry into road racing, allowing track-day riders the chance to mix it up on the same weekend as the rest of the paddock.
The final round of NEMRR will be at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on October 3-4. More information is available at www.nemrr.com. For those who want to plan ahead, the 2027 schedule is now available on the website as well, again featuring six rounds and the 104th running of the Loudon Classic over Fathers Day weekend in June.
