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 slightly,” 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 spare sections were positioned in high-impact areas, ready to be swapped out in case an impact damaged one of the sections in use.
More, from a news release issued by MotoAmerica:
As improbable as it seemed just 24 hours earlier, Cameron Beaubier emerged from a suspenseful Sunday at New Jersey Motorsports Park with the 2025 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship – the sixth of his illustrious career.
It was a Sunday chock-full of shocking Superbike action with Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Beaubier somehow coming out of it all with the title, despite going into the final day of the season on the outside looking in and 13 points behind Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong. Overhauling Fong was going to be a difficult proposition. After all, he was having a career year, scoring points in every round, and winning his sixth race of the year in race one on Saturday at NJMP.
Then came Sunday. In the second of the three races, Fong was in a battle with championship rivals Beaubier and Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati’s Josh Herrin. The trio were at the front of the field and battling for victory and championship points. Herrin led Fong and Beaubier on the final lap with the trio together. Then it all went wrong for Fong as he crashed out of second and could only watch as Herrin won with Beaubier second.
Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Richie Escalante had caught the lead trio as they battled, watched as Fong crashed, and earned his third podium of the year after an impressive ride.
Real Steel Honda’s Hayden Gillim was fourth, a few seconds clear of Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly. Fong’s teammate Jake Gagne was sixth, well clear of OrangeCat Racing’s Jayson Uribe, who had his hands full with Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates. Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach and BPR Racing Yamaha’s Bryce Kornbau rounded out the top 10.
And, just like that, it had all changed at the top. The order was flipped, and it was Beaubier who was seven points ahead of Fong and 13 clear of Herrin. To take the title, Fong would have to win with Beaubier third or worse.
On to race three and more mayhem. This time, it was Fong out front with Beaubier, and his points lead, tucked in behind. Herrin didn’t have the pace of the top two and was instead being hassled by Kelly and Gillim for third.
On the eighth lap, the fight for the championship ended with Fong crashing for a second time and allowing Beaubier to race unmolested to victory. And a sixth title.
Herrin, meanwhile, ran a bit wide on the final lap, and Kelly didn’t waste any time in passing him up the inside. The gap was suddenly wide and Gillim liked what he saw and followed Kelly’s lead to move into third. The pair crossed the line in formation with Kelly second and Gillim third for his first-career Superbike podium.
Herrin was fourth with Uribe fifth, a tick ahead of Escalante. Gagne was seventh with Beach, BPR Racing’s Deion Campbell and Flo4Law’s Benjamin Smith completing the top 10.
The final championship standings have Beaubier on top with 371 points, 25 more than Herrin’s 346 and 32 more than Fong’s 339. Gagne and Kelly rounded out the top five with Escalante, Beach, Gillim, Yates, and Kornbau rounding out the top 10.
Superbike Race 2
- Josh Herrin (Ducati)
- Cameron Beaubier (BMW)
- Richie Escalante (Suzuki)
- Hayden Gillim (Honda)
- Sean Dylan Kelly (Suzuki)
- Jake Gagne (Yamaha)
- Jayson Uribe (BMW)
- Ashton Yates (Honda)
- JD Beach (Honda)
- Bryce Kornbau (Yamaha)
Superbike Race 3
- Cameron Beaubier (BMW)
- Sean Dylan Kelly (Suzuki)
- Hayden Gillim (Honda)
- Josh Herrin (Ducati)
- Jayson Uribe (BMW)
- Richie Escalante (Suzuki)
- Jake Gagne (Yamaha)
- JD Beach (Honda)
- Deion Campbell (Yamaha)
- Benjamin Smith (Yamaha)
Richie Escalante – Third Place
“All weekend I felt really good with the bike. The problem is the lap times are so close over the weekend, so I’m starting P9. Normally, I’m not a super-good start, so I lose a couple of positions, but my pace is good. I think the front group started battling, so helped to recover the gap. My Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki is working amazing. I feel really good with the bike. I’m every lap closing the gap, and then finally super close to the podium. We got a little bit lucky with Bobby’s (Fong) crash, so I finished on the podium. For me, the most happy is I’m super close to the podium, so I think we have the pace to fight for the win later. We’ll see.”
Cameron Beaubier – Second Place
“I got a good start but wasn’t very aggressive in the first corner. Then I ran wide on the paint in the second corner. In the back of my head, I was like, ‘It rained pretty good last night’ and I didn’t want to take too many chances out there. Got passed again going in there. I got slotted back to seventh or eighth, and then my race started from there. I was able to pick off some guys. Honestly, at the beginning of the race, I felt a lot better than I did yesterday. I found myself in the lead. Still, I’ve just been fighting my bike a little bit this weekend. I feel like I can run with the guys at the front, but it’s taking a lot of risk. It’s a little tough right now. Everyone has got their issues they’re dealing with. We’re going to see what we can do for race three. It’s probably going to be just as crazy as race two. Hats off to Josh (Herrin). He rode awesome. Bob (Fong) was riding great, too. That incident, to me, I didn’t even see Josh in front of me because of the way when you flick it left to right, it’s hard to see what really happened. I think it was just a racing incident. It sucks for Bob. I’m bummed for Bob. Somehow, we’re back in the championship lead, and we’ve got a race to go. So, it should be interesting.”
Josh Herrin – Winner
“I didn’t even know (that Bobby Fong had crashed). Honestly, that left, right, these guys click third, and I stay in second there, so I am constantly slower mid-corner speed than they are. He hit me earlier in the race in that same spot, I think. I felt something the first time I went around him. I don’t know. Honestly, I have no clue what happened. I just know that he was freaking out. I stopped on the side of the track, and he was already going like this to me. I was just trying to figure out what happened, and he just kept saying, “I’m going to F’ing kill you.” So, I don’t know what happened. In my book, he’s got a huge lead on us. I wouldn’t have been up there with us. I just would have cruised around in third knowing that’s all I had to do. All year, I’ve been saying to my guys, Cam (Beaubier) has had unlucky races. I’ve had unlucky races, and he (Fong) hasn’t had any yet. That’s all we can do is just do our best and hope that everybody has their unlucky day. I’m glad that he’s all right, but there were no ill intentions on my side. All I can assume is that he ran into the back of me, I don’t know, I’m just happy we got the win. We’ve got an exciting race three for all the fans. It’s coming down to the wire, which is awesome. It makes those times where I got up and finished the race whenever we had something go wrong worth it. I just wish that I would have got those last couple points in Ohio and not had that incident, but it is what it is. I’m just happy and grateful to be up here. All three of us had a chance for a championship today, so I don’t remember the last time that happened. Just excited.”
Quotes – Superbike Race 3
Cameron Beaubier – Winner
“I don’t even know what to say. This year has been one of the craziest Superbike years I’ve ever had, with the speed Bob (Fong) had at the beginning, and middle of the season, and then (Josh) Herrin coming on strong. Coming into this weekend, we struggled really bad here last year. We weren’t on the podium one day. I showed up with some confidence after COTA and went and fell down twice Friday and was scratching my head. I just have to thank my team for continuing to believe in me and making adjustments to the bike literally all weekend to get to where we were that last race. I felt awesome in the race. Bob had a great pace at the beginning. It sucks he fell over. Then after he did, I just kept nailing those laps, those high 20s, low 21s. My bike felt the best it’s felt all weekend. I just can’t believe it. Like I said, Bob rode incredible this year. His pace has been untouchable at times. We were able to get there this weekend, which we didn’t see that happening Friday. Shout out to the team, Bell, Alpinestars, the man above, my parents, family for coming out, Shelby and Brody for just everything they do for me. Brody is like the light of my life right now. He’s so fun. It’s so fun to be a dad. I don’t really know what else to say. I’m stoked.”
Sean Dylan Kelly – Second Place
“Honestly, I definitely had to think about that yesterday. Yesterday everything was wide open. There were still three races to go. I was behind the three championship guys yesterday. I finished tenths off of them. Not that I didn’t try to do it, I just knew that I couldn’t do anything stupid, because I probably wouldn’t be able to sleep or someone wouldn’t let me sleep if I did something stupid. That hurt a little bit, just not being able to give all my potential yesterday in race one. Today, in race two, I had a big issue and fell back even though I knew that I had more in the pocket. Definitely the best I felt with the Suzuki this race three. I felt way more confident and consistent. It was the last race of the season. It was pretty clear that it was between Bobby and Cam halfway through the race. Herrin was kind of catching, but kind of not. I was just sitting there behind him. Again, being smart. Once Bobby was out and I saw Cam was sitting there, I was like, ‘That means that I can fight. I can pull out the knife. I did exactly that with a few laps to go. I did a few passes on Josh (Herrin), and he would always get me back. Definitely got it done in the last lap. It felt pretty amazing to just get it done like that, finish on the podium, which was exactly the objective. Not just for the weekend, but the objective for the whole year. Super challenging year for me, but I didn’t stop believing. I didn’t stop fighting. I worked, I think, the hardest I’ve ever worked. I think it showed bringing some speed and some results that haven’t really been seen too much on this thing. It was nice also that Richie (Escalante) got on the podium earlier today, so the team atmosphere was pretty amazing. Huge thank you to the whole Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki, to my crew who worked extremely hard, all my sponsors. Still no contract for next year, so let’s see what happens.”
Hayden Gillim – Third Place
“I got lucky. I’ve had a lot of fourth places this year. The majority of them have been a little bit of luck – guys crashing or running off or something. This one isn’t any different, but it is my first Superbike podium, so it was really cool. Sean (Dylan Kelly) made his move on Josh (Herrin) and ended up running wider than even I was expecting him to. I figured he would get me back with the power that that thing’s got under it. I figured he’d be able to get me back before we got down into turn six. Whenever he didn’t, I was just like, ‘All right. Sean had already gone. I was struggling the first half of that lap, up to the point and they had got a little bit of a gap on me. It’s frustrating because with being back-to-back Superbike and Baggers, I’ve been dreading today because I know I’m not going to get to enjoy it as much as I feel like I want to. I didn’t get to go stand up on the box or anything. But it’s cool. I’ve got a big bucket list of racing stuff I have left to do, and today I finally got to check one of those off. It was really cool. Luckily, I think it actually might have helped a little bit for the Bagger race. I had a pretty big boost of adrenaline going into it, where normally I’m a little worn down before the start, and it takes me a couple laps to get going. It was just really good. I’ve got two really good teams and two really good crews. Both sides are super supportive. It’s really cool to have the guys I’ve got around me. Just can’t thank everybody enough.”
More, from a news release issued by MotoAmerica:
RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson’s Hayden Gillim and SDI Racing’s Cameron Petersen renewed their battle from the day prior in Sunday afternoon’s Mission King Of The Baggers season finale, with Petersen turning the tables on Saturday’s winner Gillim.
Petersen’s win, by .208 of a second over Gillim, was the perfect ending for an imperfect season for the SDI team and its South African rider. Plagued by mechanical issues for much of the season, Petersen and the team have started to hit their stride in the closing stages, and winning the season finale was the perfect finish for the squad.
The victory was Petersen’s first in the Mission King Of The Baggers Championship,
Coincidentally, Gillim and his V&H crew also started slowly to the season only to turn things around towards the three-quarter mark. Gillim’s podium finish was his fourth of the season, with three of those podiums coming via victories.
The third rider on Sunday’s podium was defending series champion Troy Herfoss, with the Australian also suffering through a mostly miserable season on the S&S Indian Challenger.
All three ended on a high, however, and all three are likely returning to the King Of The Baggers class in 2026.
Fourth place went to Herfoss’ teammate Loris Baz, with the Frenchman just a bit under a second ahead of newly crowned Mission King Of The Baggers Champion Kyle Wyman. Wyman’s Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing teammate James Rispoli was sixth. The battle for seventh went the distance with S&S Indian Motorcycle’s Tyler O’Hara narrowly defeating Bradley Smith.
TAB Performance Racing’s Kyle Ohnsorg and Saddlemen Race Development’s Jake Lewis rounded out the top 10.
With Wyman a runaway championship winner, Baz ended up second, 11 points ahead of teammate Herfoss. Gillim and O’Hara rounded out the top five.
“Honestly, I think I got a little bit lucky,” Petersen said. “Hayden (Gillim) made the mistake coming out of turn five there and just opened the door just enough for me to think about it. At that point, I knew I had to go for it no matter what. It was pretty close. As soon as I got on the gas and came out the corner, I was pretty happy. Going in there when I was underneath him the front was making all kinds of shapes and was pretty close to going down and taking both of us out. Just so stoked. Like Hayden said, we were kind of in the same boat. A couple races into the season already we were ready to give up on the Bagger racing. Such a tough season. I think up until Ohio, I finished two races and just was lacking a lot of seat time. I think it’s pretty massive for the team to finish off the season like this and at least give them a taste of what it’s like and where the program should have been all season. I think it’s very, very capable. The bikes good. The crew that works on the bike and gets everything going are unbelievable. So, it’s just nice to finish off like we did for those guys. Hopefully it gives them some motivation to come back next year and keep pushing at this thing.
“Got off to a pretty good start again and just got smart going into turn one. Got stuck behind Kyle (Wyman) in the beginning there. The Harley, at least that bike, it’s got some legs on it, so I struggled to get by in the first couple laps. Once I did, Hayden had a pretty big gap. I thought I wasn’t going to be able to catch him. We’d been pretty damn similar all weekend. I just hit my marks, put my head down and slowly but surely, I got onto the back of him. I’m so stoked to get this done, especially after tipping off early on the Supersport bike. I didn’t want to end the season off like that. I would have had to think about it for a while. This kind of takes it out of my head. I can go enjoy this feeling. Just stoked to get a win. I think I said yesterday that this would have been the first season since 2020 that I hadn’t won a race. So, to get it done in the last race of the season, I’m pumped. Keep the streak going and then look forward to next year. Hopefully, we can come back and hit the ground running, kind of start off where we finished this season.”
SC-Project Twins Cup – Good Morning!
Robem Engineering’s Hank Vossberg scored his first-career SC-Project Twins Cup victory on Sunday morning at NJMP, with the 15-year-old coming out on top of a four-rider battle that went to the bitter end. The win also vaulted Vossberg to third in the final championship point standings.
The four riders – Vossberg, Karns/TST Industries’ Levi Badie, Bad Boys Racing’s Avery Dreher, and RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Matthew Chapin – battled for all 11 laps of the race and the foursome crossed the line with just .665 of a second covering all four, with Vossberg .439 of a second ahead of Badie.
Vossberg crossed the line just .038 of a second ahead of Badie.
The four all took turns at leading at some point in the race with Saturday’s winner Chapin doing most of the leading. Vossberg got the lead late and Chapin got the worst of the four in the exchange with lapped riders on the last lap. Vossberg rode an intelligent last few laps and his first victory in the class was his.
“It means a lot to me,” Vossberg said. “Going into this season, I didn’t think I’d have a contention in the top three of the championship. Getting on the box my first weekend at the Ridge was more than a dream come true. I just can’t give it up to the team enough for giving me such an amazing bike to ride, and Aprilia Americas for bringing it out. We go ride for them tomorrow (an Aprilia track day). Everyone else that’s helped me. HJC Helmets, and Alessandro Di Mario for being such a great teammate. It was just an amazing ride. Thank you, everyone.”
Robem’s Alessandro Di Mario, who wrapped up the Twins Cup title at Circuit of The Americas, finished seventh in the season finale.
Di Mario ended up 97 points ahead of Chapin with Vossberg snatching third in the title chase from Dreher by six points. Badie rounded out the top five in the championship.
Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul – Vossberg x 2
Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Hank Vossberg had a very good Sunday at NJMP with the teenager winning the finales of both the SC-Project Twins Cup and the Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul.
Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing’s Sam Drane made Vossberg work for the victory, with the Australian pressuring the Wisconsinite for the full 13 laps, only to come up .039 of a second short.
Bettencourt Racing’s Nathan Bettencourt was third with Royalty Racing’s Carson King just behind him in fourth.
Australian Jake Paige ended his first weekend of Talent Cup racing by rounding out the top five on the Team Roadracingworld.com Krämer. Paige’s older brother, Bodie, was 10th after crashing and remounting.
With Alessandro Di Mario wrapping up the title two weeks ago at Circuit of The Americas, second place ended up going to Vossberg by just a point over Drane. Bodie Paige ended up fourth with MP13 Racing’s Ella Dreher rounding out the top five.
“Off the start, there was like five of us going at it,” Vossberg said. “I’ve got to give props up to Sam (Drane) He was keeping me honest the whole race, pushing. Had a couple moments out there and just had to remind myself it’s the last race of the season. Don’t want to go total a bike. Can’t thank the team enough, the whole Tytlers Cycle Racing crew gave me an amazing bike to ride. Dunlop Tires, HJC Helmets for all the help. See if we can go and do it in Spain.”
Motovation Supersport – Scholtzy Again!
Strack Racing’s Mathew Scholtz completed his perfect weekend in the Motovation Supersport class with his second win in two days. This one was pure domination by Scholtz, with the South African winning by some 14 seconds.
The newly crowned two-time Supersport Champion was rewarded with the announcement from his team owner Peter Strack that the team will field Scholtz in the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship in 2025.
Second place on Sunday at NJMP went to Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott, who got the better of Scholtz’s teammate Blake Davis by .013 of a second.
Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s PJ Jacobsen concluded his 2025 season with a fifth-place finish. Jacobsen topped 3D Motorsports’ Brandon Paasch by just .031 of a second.
BPR Racing Yamaha’s Josh Hayes was also in the battle for fourth, with the four-time AMA Superbike Champion .064 of a second behind Paasch.
Bauce BARTCON Racing’s Joseph LiMandri Jr., Rahal Ducati Moto w/Roller Die’s Corey Alexander, Altus Motorsports’ Jake Lewis and his teammate Torin Collins rounded out the top 10.
When all was said and done, Scholtz won the championship by 58 points over Jacobsen with Davis third, Scott fourth and Cameron Petersen, who crashed out of second place today, was fifth.
“No, I didn’t drink anything last night but I’m going to aggressively smash some beers now. It’s been a brilliant season,” Scholtz said. “The (Dunlop) R7 definitely slowed us down slightly. I think I did a 21.5. In the high 21s pretty consistently. I think I could have stayed there for all 19 laps if I really, really had to. The R7 tire definitely wasn’t nearly as good as the R4 on the side. I just kind of figured out where you had to push, where you had to kind of slow down. I think if you tried to get on the gas too quick, too soon, you lost grip very, very quickly out there. So, I just learned to slow the throttle down. Whether it’s the Japanese or the U.S. tire, I think it kind of proved that we were the quickest people here so I’m very happy. Just Peter (Strack) telling me that we got a Superbike ride next year makes me feel great. Obviously, losing my ride at the end of ’23 and moving down to the Supersport class, that kind of killed me slightly, but I think I’ve proven that I deserve to be back up there. So, I’m just super happy. Now just celebrate, go smash some beers and get ready for ’26.”
More, from a news release issued by MotoAmerica:
Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong had a disastrous final day of the Superbike season, and emotions were high for the championship contender. After some time to think about what happened and how he reacted, a calmer Fong gave his heartfelt thoughts on what transpired.
The following is from an interview with Fong post-race…
“Saturday was great. We had a good race, great battle with my competitors. We got the job done and I felt really good on the bike. The team provided a really good bike and there was some close racing. It was good leading into Sunday and getting an extra points gap for Sunday for myself, but I knew I had my work cut out for me in the next two races on Sunday.”
Race 2 – Sunday
“Usually, I just like to go out there and put my head down and try to be as fast as I can from lap one to the end of the race. One of my competitors, I just don’t like the style of one of my competitors and how he races. I think it’s dangerous and brake checking is not my style and slowing down the overall pace, so I did everything I could. Obviously, I was the second guy in line so you can’t really blame the rider in front on why someone crashed. I just wanted to set the record straight. I did everything I could, and he was the better man. He purposely didn’t get on the gas when he should have and I ran into the back of him, which was my fault. I wanted to apologize to all my fans, the team, and everybody because it looked like I was a sore loser and making hand gestures. The people who are closest to me know I’m not going to hurt anybody. It was just heat of the moment.”
“The hand gesture to me, you can take it a lot of different ways, but the people closest to me know that I’m not going to go and physically hurt one of my competitors. That’s not what we are here for. It’s a high-stakes situation and I felt like it was better giving that gesture than flipping someone off on live television. You can take it a lot of different ways. I personally meant it as he was done to me, and I’d lost all respect to him and how he races. That’s what I meant by it and all these other people saying otherwise, I just wanted to give you my two cents.”
