Attack Performance Progressive Insurance Yamaha’s Jake Gagne put his YZF-R1 on pole, and Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Cameron Beaubier led for three laps on his BMW M 1000 RR, but it was Warhorse HSBK Ducati’s Josh Herrin on his Panigale V4 R who was in charge for most of the weekend. Herrin led from start to finish in Race Two, finishing the weekend with 50 points and the Championship lead. Herrin now has 20 AMA/MotoAmerica Superbike wins, tied with Fred Merkel for eighth on the overall wins list. Beaubier took second in both races, happy enough with scoring 40 points at a track where he expected to struggle.
Gagne was unable to convert pole positions to wins, but a pair of podiums felt good, as did feeling like he was riding well and fast again, he said. “I’m happy with how I rode. I got to ride hard,” Gagne said. “I feel like I kind of am getting closer to trying to remember how to ride.”
Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Richie Escalante backed up fifth in Saturday’s race with fourth on Sunday. Escalante was less than two seconds off of the podium and less than 10 seconds behind winner Herrin.
Real Steel Honda’s Hayden Gillim had his Saturday race ruined when his CBR 1000 RR-R was hit by the sliding CBR 1000 RR-R of Ashton Yates, but Gillim ran strongly in Race Two, finishing fifth. Gillim ran the race’s fourth-fastest lap and was one of only four riders in the 1:40 range, on a bike that topped out 5.2 mph slower than Beaubier’s BMW, which was fastest through the speed traps at 161.2 mph.
Kira Knebel took all three Royal Enfield Build. Train. Race. victories, even though a nasty crash during Friday’s practice left her bike badly damaged. “I couldn’t be here without the team,” Knebel said, after her crew “rebuilt the entire thing” in time for Saturday’s sessions. “That was a very bad crash, and it’s incredible what they were able to pull off in the time that they (had).”
After riders on Harley-Davidson Pan America 1250 racebikes had locked out the podiums in the first four races of the 2025 season, MotoAmerica raised the minimum weight for the bikes dramatically. In Technical Regulations v6-20-2025, the minimum weight for the Pan America was set at 450 pounds. The Saddlemen Race Development bikes were required to add up to 38 pounds of ballast to meet the minimum weight requirement. The team made a kind of trough out of steel and poured in molten lead and bolted it to the bottom of the bike to bring it up to minimum weight. The minimum weight for machines 1000cc and below is 365 lbs, 377 lbs. for machines over 1000cc and 350 lbs for all air-cooled twins. Still, Pan America-mounted riders took five of the six podiums at The Ridge.
More, from a news release issued by MotoAmerica:
Prior to Saturday’s Superbike race one at Ridge Motorsports Park, Josh Herrin had never won three Superbike races in a row. On Sunday, he made it four straight, with a dominating victory in the Pacific Northwest.
If Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati’s Herrin was good on Saturday, he was even better on Sunday as he rode away from his challengers, never put a wheel wrong, and cruised home with five seconds in hand. The win was Herrin’s 20th career AMA Superbike victory, a win that puts the defending class champion in a tie for eighth with two-time World Superbike and three-time AMA Superbike Champion Fred Merkel.
For the second straight day, second place went to Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Cameron Beaubier with the five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion pleased with what he felt was the result he could get with the package he was dealing with. Although Beaubier’s two second-place finishes cost him the lead in the championship, he goes to his home track of WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in two weeks with high hopes.
Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Jake Gagne was third for the second straight day, making for identical podiums on both days in the Superbike class. Gagne is getting closer to being the Gagne of old and he turned in another solid ride on Sunday, finishing 2.8 seconds behind Beaubier.
Richie Escalante was fourth, one spot better than his Saturday result as the Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki rider showed good speed all weekend and ended up slightly less than 10 seconds behind race-winning Herrin.
Real Steel Honda’s Hayden Gillim was fifth for his best finish of the season thus far as his Honda CBR1000RR-R SP continues to improve.
Gillim was well clear of BPR Racing’s Bryce Kornbau with sixth also a high-water mark for the Californian and his Yamaha YZF-R1. Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach was seventh, which earned him the win in the Superbike Cup for those racing Stock 1000-spec motorcycles in the Superbike class.
Gagne’s teammate Bobby Fong struggled with mechanical ills on his Yamaha YZF-R1, and he barely topped Thrashed Motorcycles’ Max Flinders and BPR Racing’s Deion Campbell at the finish line with half a second covering the threesome that rounded out the top 10.
The top-five finishers were mounted on five different brands of motorcycles: Ducati, BMW, Yamaha, Suzuki and Honda.
Notable non-finishers were Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates, with the Georgian crashing for the second straight day, and FLO4LAW/SBU Racing’s Benjamin Smith failing to score a point over the course of the weekend as he also crashed out on Sunday.
After four rounds and eight races, Herrin leads Beaubier by eight points, 159-151. Gagne is third with 125 points, eight more than his teammate Fong. Escalante sits fifth with 81 points.
Superbike Race Two
- Josh Herrin (Ducati)
2. Cameron Beaubier (BMW)
3. Jake Gagne (Yamaha)
4. Richie Escalante (Suzuki)
5. Hayden Gillim (Honda)
6. Bryce Kornbau (Yamaha)
7. JD Beach (Honda)
8. Bobby Fong (Yamaha)
9. Max Flinders (Yamaha)
10. Deion Campbell (Yamaha)
Jake Gagne – Third Place
“It was good progress for me, just like my riding. Obviously, Bobby (Fong) has been showing that the bike is capable of running up there. He’s been smoking me. I feel like I kind of am getting closer to trying to remember how to ride after farting around all last year. Honestly, I’m happy with how I rode because I feel like I haven’t ridden that hard in a while. I had a lot of moments out there, especially today. Hats off to Josh (Herrin). He was railing. Cam (Beaubier) too. I kind of just tried to keep them in sight. At least Cam for a little while. I had a few moments out there. Hats off to the team because they’ve stuck behind me after last year and even these first couple rounds where we haven’t been so fast. But we’re trying to be smart about it. Like I said, I’m happy with how I rode. I got to ride hard. It’s going to be tough to beat these boys, but I’m ready for it and excited to go to Laguna and have a little bit of momentum.”
Cameron Beaubier – Second Place
“Coming in, I knew this was going to be one of the tougher tracks we are going to come to this year. All said and done, two second places… I’m stoked with. Especially being able to even fight for the win yesterday. Honestly, after yesterday I was hoping for a little more out of myself today. But I can say I rode as hard as I could. I didn’t have anything for Josh (Herrin). I was taking a lot of risks on the front, just trying to stay with him. There came a point he was probably seven-tenths up the road, and I just stopped lunging forward on the brakes. I was like, ‘I need to bring this thing home.’ He was on another level today. It was a tough race, though. I had Jake (Gagne) only one second, 1.5 behind me pretty much the whole race. So had to keep my head down. Big thanks to the team, Tytlers, for just putting in so much work this weekend. They flipped my bike upside-down. Especially this year, we haven’t really changed too much on the thing. It’s been working really good since we rolled it off the truck at all three of the first races. We made some big changes, and we learned a lot this weekend. So, thanks to those guys for working so hard. Laguna up next, one of my favorite places to go race. I’m looking forward to it.”
Josh Herrin – Winner
“It was weird yesterday. I don’t know what was going on after that win. I just was feeling down in the dumps. The only thing I can think of is I wasn’t feeling great, but then today it was like the same point in the race. I saw the exact same number, plus 1.2. As soon as I saw that yesterday, I just lost focus and slowed down too much. I thought I had a good cushion, and I just over-slowed and Cam (Beaubier) caught up. It was weird. I was obviously happy for the win, but not anything like today. Today I felt like I rode good. The team did a lot of work last night to try and think of anything we could get to just help me feel more comfortable on the brakes because Cam obviously was catching me a lot on the brakes. I’m stoked. Four wins in a row is huge. I’m going into Laguna with more momentum than I’ve ever had on a Superbike and more confidence than I’ve ever had. To have it be Laguna is just special. TJ Dillashaw was in our pit today so I couldn’t back down like I did yesterday. I had to fight to the end and not show him that I was weak like I was yesterday. So, I’m stoked. Happy to go to Laguna and happy to get home and see my kiddos. That’s for sure.”
More, from another news release issued by MotoAmerica:
Strack Racing’s Mathew Scholtz had a perfect weekend at Ridge Motorsports Park with the South African riding his Yamaha YZF-R9 to two wins over his championship rival, Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s PJ Jacobsen.
The wins, combined with Jacobsen’s two second-place finishes, saw Scholtz cut the New Yorker’s championship points lead in half, and the two will head to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca separated by just 10 points.
Scholtz’s teammate Blake Davis improved by one spot from Saturday to finish on the podium on Sunday, with the youngster passing BPR Racing’s Teagg Hobbs on the last lap and beating him to the flag by .088 of a second after 15 laps.
Those two were some three seconds ahead of Rahal Ducati Moto w/Roller Die’s Corey Alexander, who was over 10 seconds ahead of Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott, who was running second prior to an off-track excursion.
Altus Motorsports’ Torin Collins ended up seventh, nipping Vesrah Racing’s Japanese import Ryota Ogiwara. Altus Motorsports’ Jake Lewis and 3D Motorsports’ Alexander Enriquez rounded out the top 10.
With Jacobsen and Scholtz separated by 10 points, Davis sits third, 59 points behind Jacobsen and seven points ahead of Scott. Lewis is fifth in the title chase.
“You can’t be sad taking the double home,” Scholtz said. “Like PJ (Jacobsen) said, the pace was definitely slower today. Unfortunately, the lap timer wasn’t working again for me. So, I couldn’t even see what sort of sector times, lap times, I was doing. So that really sucked. Luckily, the good thing for me is that I looked back on the second-to-last lap and I saw PJ wasn’t that close to me. So, I knew on the final lap I didn’t have to run into the corners defending and kind of pinching myself off. I just tried to flow better. I was told by my team that I set the fastest lap of the race on the final lap. It was the quickest lap, or the quickest second sector, which is a really strong point for me and the R9. So overall, I’m really happy for that. That whole race I was looking at the pit board – plus zero, plus zero, plus zero. Every lap I came around thinking it would just grow one time. So, obviously PJ figured something out. He kept me pushing throughout all 15 laps. I nearly screwed up on the third or second-to-last lap in corner two. That kind of shook me up slightly and I had to focus and get back into my groove. But, overall, taking 50 points home gives me a lot of confidence. At Laguna last year PJ got me on the last lap twice, so I need to get back something there. It’s always been a pretty strong circuit for me on the Superbike, so I’m really hoping that the R9 kind of translates into that. But overall, thank you to the Strack Racing guys. Well done to Blake (Davis) and PJ. This is turning into quite a common thing, seeing us three up on the podium.”
SC-Project Twins Cup – Di Mario Domination
Robem Engineering’s Alessandro Di Mario was on a different level in the two SC-Project Twins Cup races at Ridge Motorsports Park this weekend with the Kentuckian dominating both races on his Aprilia RS 660.
On Sunday, Di Mario sprinted away at the front of the field and was never headed, leading by almost eight seconds after just two flying laps at the start. By the time the flag was thrown on the 12-lap race, Di Mario’s margin of victory was 20.6 seconds.
With Di Mario long gone, the race for second was a good one with Robem Engineering’s Hank Vossberg and Bad Boys Racing’s Avery Dreher going at it with Vossberg ultimately getting the spot in his first weekend of racing in the Twins Cup class.
The battle for fourth was also a good one with Koch Racing’s Sean Ungvarsky battling with Speeddemon Racing’s Logan Cunnison, but that ended in tears with the pair crashing together when Cunnison ran into the back of Ungvarsky at speed.
That moved everybody up two spots, with Motorcycleupolstery.com’s Treston Morrison finishing two seconds clear of R2R Canada/Economy Lube+Tire Racing’s Mavrick Cyr in fourth with Cyr rounding out the top five.
Notable non-finishers were Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle, who pulled out with a mechanical problem, and Mathew Chapin, who crashed his RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki on the first lap.
After three rounds and six races, Di Mario has a 53-point lead over Chapin, 135-82. Dreher is third with 72 points, just one point more than Doyle.
“I want to thank the team. They put a bike together in like two hours yesterday after we crashed,” Di Mario said. “I’m really happy that I got them two wins. Hopefully they’re happy. I also want to congratulate Hank (Vossberg). He’s my teammate. He just turned 15 a couple weeks ago and he’s here on the podium. He’s really fast. I just want to congratulate him.”
Mission Super Hooligan National Championship Powered By Harley-Davidson – It’s West
Saddlemen Race Development’s Cory West made up for Saturday’s miscue in the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship race by coming out on top of a thrilling battle for victory on Sunday at Ridge Motorsports Park.
Margin of victory? Just .027 of a second over KWR Harley-Davidson’s James Rispoli. Yesterday’s winner Jake Lewis was third on his Saddlemen Race Development Harley-Davidson Pan America, ending his four-race win streak in the class.
Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle was the first non-Harley racer in fourth place on his Yamaha MT-09 SP. Once he moved into fourth place, Doyle was gaining ground on the top three but ran out of laps.
The Wyman brothers were next with Cody fifth and Travis sixth.
Edge Racing’s Jason Waters, Fighting Charlie’s/HDR’s Hunter Dunham, Strack Racing’s Hawk Mazzotta and ARCH Racing’s Corey Alexander rounded out the top 10.
Defending class champion West led every single lap of Ridge on Sunday, challenged for most of the race by Lewis. Rispoli, however, got serious two laps from the end when he moved past the championship points leader and chopped into the gap that West had pulled on the chasing duo. From there it was a battle to the flag that West won. Barely.
“After the win at Daytona, I didn’t know if I was going to win again this year, the way Jake (Lewis) has been riding,” West said. “I just needed to shut that winning streak down from the 85. Kind of roughed him up on the first lap and then put my head down and just tried to do what I could. Led every lap. As it was coming to the stripe, I was like, ‘Don’t blow it now!’ Then I tucked the front huge coming up the hill. Thank goodness I do a lot of the Texas Tornado Boot Camps where we lose the front all the time, so I saved it and brought it home and got me a win.”
Lewis leads the title chase by 24 points over West, 123-99. Travis Wyman is third with 86 points, six more than his brother Cody. Rispoli moves to fifth with 67 points.
Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. – Knebel Sweeps The Three
The racing in the Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. series has never been closer than it is right now. And that was on display three times over the course of the weekend with Saturday’s lone race and Sunday’s doubleheader at Ridge Motorsports Park in the series that started in 2021.
Kira Knebel won race two on Sunday morning by 33.9 seconds over Camille Conrad, but that lead was deceptive.
Yesterday’s podium finishers Shea MacGregor and Miranda Cain were battling over second place, both within touch of Knebel, when MacGregor divebombed Cain going into the Waterfall section of the track, ran wide and crashed, taking Cain with her. While MacGregor remounted to finish third, Cain wasn’t as fortunate as she had a few tip-overs while unsuccessfully trying to remount.
Lucy Blondel was fourth with Bryanna Everitt rounding out the top five.
The Build.Train.Race. battle of the weekend was held on a sunny and warm Sunday afternoon, and it featured a back-and-forth battle between Knebel and Cain with the two rarely separated by more than half a second. With four laps to go, however, Knebel dropped the hammer and was able to get clear of Cain to make it a clean sweep of the three races.
Cain made up for her race-two blunder to finish second, a tick over five seconds behind Knebel.
Third place went to MacGregor, 20 seconds behind Knebel and almost 12 seconds clear of Camille Conrad. Lucy Blondel rounded out the top-five finishers.
With one round and two races left in the title chase, Knebel leads the title chase over MacGregor by 25 points, 125-100.
“I love this track, so I’m so happy to be back here at the Ridge,” Knebel said. “I was able to put new tires on for this race, but Dunlop did an awesome job getting those tires ready. I don’t think we had them on the warmers quite long enough to get an accurate PSI reading, so might have been running a little high there. It was kind of slick compared to what I would like, but I’m getting it all dialed in. K-Tech Suspension is getting there, and we’ve got the guys under the tent helping make that happen for us. I’m just really happy to be back up here. Good redemption for Miranda (Cain). She was right there. It was a really great battle. I can’t wait to watch the race.” Knebel leads the championship point standings with 125 points, 25 more than MacGregor. Cain is third with 90 points.
More, from a news release issued by Robem Engineering:
It turned out to be a stellar weekend for both Robem Engineering riders at The Ridge Motorsports Park. The reigning MotoAmerica Twins Cup Champion Alessandro Di Mario’s pace was untouchable from the start of the weekend, and he extended his 2025 Twins Cup points lead by recording victories on Saturday and Sunday by wide margins – as well as getting pole position and resetting the Twins Cup lap record for The Ridge.
Di Mario was joined under the Robem Engineering canopy for The Ridge round by Hank Vossberg in his Twins Cup debut. Vossberg’s talent showed through as the weekend progressed. He qualified seventh, finished his first Twins Cup race in fourth place and ended the June 27-29 round with a runner-up finish behind his teammate.
Di Mario’s fast pace was on display from the first on-track session of the round. He finished Friday practice at the top of the time sheets with a lap time 0.615 seconds faster than the next-fastest rider. Vossberg finished his first Twins Cup session as the 12th-fastest rider. Later Friday in Qualifying 1, Di Mario claimed provisional pole while increasing his one-lap pace over the rest of the field to 1.886 seconds. Vossberg finished the session 15th fastest.
Saturday morning in Qualifying 2, Di Mario cemented his grip on pole by putting in a 1:46.108 lap that reset the Twins Cup lap record at The Ridge and scored his third pole position of the 2025 season. Vossberg’s pace greatly improved in the second and final qualifying session, and he was able to secure seventh place on the starting grid for the round’s two Twins Cup races.
Race 1 on Saturday afternoon saw a masterclass performance by Di Mario. He got the holeshot, led every lap and won by a margin of more than 12 seconds. Vossberg had a very good outing for his first Twins Cup race, as he moved up three positions from where he qualified to finish in fourth place.
Sunday’s Race 2 featured a 1-2 finish for the Robem Engineering duo. Di Mario’s pace was even more unrelenting on Sunday, as he reset the Twins Cup lap record again on Lap 2 and went on to win the race by a margin of 20.610 seconds. Vossberg quickly moved up the running order in the opening laps and was running in third by the end of Lap 3. He made the move up to second place on Lap 7 and came out on top in a hard-fought battle to finish second in his second-career Twins Cup race.
Di Mario left The Ridge round with a 53-point lead in the points standings. And Vossberg – despite having competed in only two races – is now 10th in the Twins Cup standings with six races remaining.
The next MotoAmerica Twins Cup round takes place July 11-13 at Laguna Seca in Monterey, Calif.
Alessandro Di Mario / No. 1
“I want to thank the team. They put a bike together in like two hours yesterday after my crash, so I am really happy I got them these two wins, so hopefully they’re happy. I also want to congratulate Hank, he’s my teammate. He just turned 15 like a couple weeks ago, and he’s here on the podium. He’s really fast. I just want to congratulate him and thank all my sponsors, Dainese, KYT, Fast Line, Sara [Chappell], Ferracci, Moto Liberty, Dunlop, and everyone that has helped me out, thank you so much.”
Hank Vossberg / No. 131
“I saw that Avery was like just under a second behind me. I tried to go a little slow, thinking he would pass me, because I knew maybe I could make a move into the waterfall, but he was right on me. But yeah, stayed ahead and was consistent, the tire fell off at the end, had a couple moments, but we kept it good. The whole Robem team made an amazing bike, I can’t give it up to them enough driving all the way out here, 26 hours. It was amazing. Gotta thank Accossato for the brand-new master cylinder and the rear brake. Worked amazing. NGK spark plugs, Millenium Technologies, Dainese for the new suit, fits amazing. HJC Helmets, love this helmet, and everyone else that made this happen.”
Robem Engineering’s technical partners for the 2025 season include Accossato, Aprilia Racing, Blud Lubricants, Bitubo Suspension, Bonamici, Essex Parts, Millennium Technologies, Motovation, NGK, NTK, Piaggio North America, Sara Chappell Photos, SC Project and Sprint Filter.
