The 2026 NEMRR season closed out at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on October 3-4, and the weather cooperated from start to finish. Both mornings were cool, both afternoons were sunny and about as good as it gets for racing in New England. With double points on the table for the final round, several championships were still open when the riders rolled onto the grid Saturday, and the biggest of them came down to the last feature race of the year.
The Seacoast Sport Cycle / Dunlop Dash for Cash was a championship decider. Eric Wood came into it needing a win, and needing Adam Guyer to finish fourth or worse, to take the Dash for Cash title. Ben Gloddy was starting from the back of the grid and everyone in the paddock knew he would be coming forward, so Wood grabbed the holeshot on his Yamaha R6 and set about building the biggest cushion he could. Behind him Gloddy was carving through the field, and on lap five he got past both Jacob Crossman and Guyer as the two of them came together. Guyer went down on his Seacoast Sport Cycle Ducati Streetfighter V2, remounted quickly, and rode on to 13th. By the time Gloddy had clear track to chase the leader, Wood was nine seconds up the road, and that is where the gap stayed. Wood took the win by 9.120 seconds over Gloddy, with Crossman third another 8.1 back, all three on Yamaha R6s. Jared Mileika and Justin Landry rounded out the top five.
“With talent at the level we had in this field, I needed to go 100% from the drop of the green flag. Ben has been strong all year long and was super fast at the Classic, so I knew he would be coming. In order to win the championship I had to win and Adam needed to finish better than fourth, so my job was to put as much distance as I could on the field and hope Jacob and Ben were able to beat Adam,” said Wood.
The double-points win sealed the Dash for Cash championship for Wood over Guyer. His 1:12.00 in the Dash was the fastest lap of the weekend, and the four quickest laps turned over the two days were all his. He finished the season with five wins (and five championships) on the weekend: Formula 40 Unlimited, Unlimited Grand Prix and the Dash on Saturday, then Unlimited Superbike and Heavyweight Superbike on Sunday.
When the Dash for Cash was over, the racing stopped and the NEMRR family went to work. Riders, crews and families pitched in on a raffle, a barbecue and an auction in the paddock to raise money for injured riders, and the turnout was what anyone who has spent a weekend at a NEMRR event would expect. The club has always run on a family first, racing second mantra, and Saturday evening was that mantra in action: the same people who had been racing each other hard all afternoon sitting down together to take care of their own. It is a family feel you won’t find anywhere else in the sport.
Guyer’s Saturday afternoon did nothing to change the bigger picture for 2026. He took the Overall #1 plate for the second year running, and he closed the season the way he spent it, winning GTL, Lightweight Superbike, Lightweight Grand Prix and Thunderbike along with the combined Heavyweight Streetfighter and Supertwins races, six wins in all. His father Brett Guyer added a pair of his own in Formula 40 Lightweight and Formula 50 Lightweight.
The racing that had the fences lined, though, was happening in the single-cylinder classes. Renee Franco, Adam Muscaro, Gunnar Ouellette and TJ Bibeau, all on supermoto-based bikes of similar build, met three times over the weekend and never got more than a couple of seconds apart. Saturday’s Super Singles race set the tone. Muscaro took the holeshot with Franco in second, and the four of them ran nose to tail for all eight laps with the crowd on its feet. Franco got to the line 0.586 ahead of Muscaro, with Ouellette another three hundredths back and Bibeau fourth. Later in the day the same four lined up for Ultra-lightweight Superbike and went faster still. Franco turned a 1:15.483 in that one, and every rider in the group was in the 1:15s or 1:16s. Franco beat Ouellette to the flag by a mere 0.058 seconds, with Bibeau third and Muscaro fourth.
Sunday’s Motard race finished the set. Franco started fourth and worked her way forward at every opening, with Bibeau in the fight until late in the race. Franco was a demon on the brakes into Turn 3 all weekend, and she used lapped traffic there to make the final pass for the lead. The margin at the line was 0.056 seconds over Muscaro, with Ouellette third and Bibeau fourth. Three races, three wins for Franco, and a combined winning margin across all three of seven tenths of a second.
Two names in the Expert results deserve a mention of their own. Joel Laub and Thatcher Jaacks both started 2026 as Novices and finished it on the Expert grid, making the full climb in a single season. Laub made the most of his first weekend at the top level, finishing third in Moto 3 behind Fletcher Rood and Dominic Petillo, third in 500 Superbike, fourth in both Lightweight Grand Prix and 500 Supersport, and winning the combined GT 500 class on Saturday morning. His lap times told the story of a rider still finding time: a 1:21.6 in his first race of the weekend, a 1:19.1 in his last. Jaacks got his Expert weekend started with a finish in Saturday’s 500 Supersport race, but his motor let go on Saturday afternon and that was the end of his year.Both riders have a winter to get ready for a full season in the Expert ranks, and the paddock will be watching.
Elsewhere in the Expert ranks, Charles Keighley won GTU and Middleweight Supersport. Single wins went to Ben Gloddy in Heavyweight Supersport, Jared Mileika in Middleweight Superbike, Justin Landry in Formula 40 Middleweight, Fletcher Rood in Moto 3, Joseph Townsend in Unlimited Supersport, Nicholas Leighton in Lightweight Supersport, Rick Doucette in 500 Superbike, Robbie Nigl in GTO, Thomas Hynes V in 500 Supersport and Michael Zoner in Lightweight Sportsman.
David Komm won the Amateur Dash for Cash for the second round in a row, taking the eight-lap final by 9.431 seconds over Paul Berger. Mark Parise and Miguel Betancourt Jr. settled third by a single thousandth of a second, 13.350 to 13.351 behind the winner. Komm added GTU and Formula 40 Middleweight for three wins on the weekend, a tally matched by Brenden Wheeler, who won the Amateur class in both Super Singles and Motard along with Lightweight Grand Prix, and by Betancourt Jr., who swept the Heavyweight, Unlimited and Middleweight Supersport classes. Thomas Dixon, Kyle Sackett, Parise and Dominic Petillo each took two.
Among the Novices, Danny Jimenez swept all three Unlimited Grand Prix waves and Anthony Ferdon took three Grand Prix wins of his own across the Middleweight and Lightweight ladders. McKenna Smith won the Ultra-lightweight B and C waves, and Derek Wood took the Lightweight Grand Prix A and C rounds.
In Super Street, Barry Conway swept Lightweight, taking the Saturday heat and both the A and B rounds. Adam Rice, Stephen Holubiak and Philip Couture split the Unlimited wins. 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.
That wraps up the 2026 NEMRR season. The six round 2027 schedule has been posted online and information on 2027 licenses, the 2026 awards banquet and other series information will be posted at www.nemrr.com.
