The 2025 NEMRR championship season ended this past weekend of August 23 & 24, the earliest date in the series history. With New Hampshire Motor Speedway’s annnual NASCAR event being on the schedule for September, dates at the speedway for all the various organizations who compete there were no longer available. The riders got good news during the Saturday riders meeting that 2026 was back to normal, with NASCAR returning to a summer date and the NEMRR season spanning from early May through the first weekend in October. For only the second time in 2025, the riders were greeted with a perfect forecast for the weekend – welcome news for all the riders in the championship hunt. The final weekend of the NEMRR season has been a double points event, leaving virtually every season championship class open to multiple potential winners.
The feature races of the weekend featured a few twists and turns at this final round. With a few of the top performing Amatuers having graduated into the expert ranks over the course of 2025, the Amatuer division of the Seascoast Sport Cycle / Dunlop Dash for cash was wide open. Leading out of the gates was Sean Keech, followed by Rui Almeida and then a gap back Joseph Townsend. Almeida was riding a wave of confidence after some strong results earlier in the day and took over the lead on lap 3 of the final. Meanwhile Townsend, who had crashed earlier in the day, had got his bike back together and was clearly on a mission to showcase his speed in what was to be his last Amateur weekend. He took his Yamaha R6 and took command of the race on lap 6, after which he immediately set the fastest lap time of the event and won by an impressive 4 seconds over Almeida.
In the Expert ranks, the field would run for the final times as two separate races. The Seacost Sport Cycle / Dunlop Dash for cash had always been a Middleweight GP class in the past, but with the industry focusing more on the heavyweight “Gen 2” style supersport machines, NEMRR introduced a Heavyweight GP class for 2025. The two classes would run together and there would be purse money for the top riders in each class, as well as the overall winner. In the Middleweight division, Paul Duval and Ian Beam were primed for a battle for both the class and championship win. However, on lap 4 of the 12 lap main event Beam made a miscue in the final section of the course and ceded the championship to Duval. Adam Guyer, putting in another impressive ride on his Aprilia RS660 was stalking the lead duo and when Duval took a moment to process what had happened to Beam took the opportunity to strike. Guyer held the position through the halfway point when the race was prematurely ended due to a red flag, an impressive feat on a lightweight class legal machine. Duval would add three more titles to his 2025 collection before the weekend was over in a season motivated not just by his competitive spriit but also by his deisre to show appreciation for the unconditional support of his wife Kerry who is succesfully winning a battle of her own with cancer.
In the Heavyweight division, a two-rider battle emerged from the beginning for both the heavyweight division and overall win between Eli Block on his KTM 890 and Eric Wood, who chose to use his Middleweight-legal Yamaha R6 for the past several main events. The battle was perhaps emblematic of what the class may look like next year, with riders deciding between Heavyweight displacement machines and the better-handling Middleweight class bikes. The recent surge in interest in the Streetfighter style machines at NEMRR will certainly add to this mix. Wood set strong pace at the beginning, stretching his lead to about 3 seconds by the time the red flags came out to end the event prematurely. Wood would clinch the season championship in the Heavyweight GP class and would ultimately secure 5 class championships by the time the season was over. Block would claim a pair of titles as well, along with his class record lap on his motard set in round 5.
Other multiple-class champions with notable performances in 2025 include Lukas Doucette, who used both a Yamaha R3 and Kawasaki Ninja 400 to secure a trio of champioships in the Ultra-lightweight divisions. Doucette, the son of NEMRR legend Rick Doucette, secured his championships In style by winning all three of the critical races he needed to win.
Using both a Ninja 400 and KTM Motard bike, Adam Muscaro also secured a trio of championships in 2025. Muscaro showed impressive speed on both machines all season long, battling with past champions like Renee Franco and Eli Block on his road to success this season. It was Muscaro who pushed Block to his lap record pace on the Motard bike in round 5, and the young rider has enormous potential in the future as he contemplates a move to a larger displacement machine in the future.
In addition to his Middlewight Dash for Cash win, Adam Guyer collected 4 championships in 2025 and will be the first overall #1 plate holder to not be named Doucette or Greenwood for as long as most people can remember. Guyer showed impressive speed and consistency all season long across 6 different classes, earning the most points of any rider in the NEMRR series. His well-deserved accolades mark the dawning of a new era for NEMRR, one in which the younger generation of talent begins to truly flex their muscle in the premier classes, making for what should be an exciting decade to come for NEMRR!!