Round 4 of the Northeast Motorcycle Road Racing (NEMRR) series was held July 12-13 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and for the first time for the 2025 season the forecast was for sunny weather both days! Fresh off of a 4 week break after the Loudon Classic, NEMRR riders were excited to get back on track and pick up where they left off. Many riders set personal best lap times during the classic weekend and with favorable weather and lots of rest the atmosphere was perfect for making continued progress in their racing.
The weekend started off as it traditionally does, with Super Street riders taking to the track. Super Street is a special class pioneered by NEMRR several years ago as a bridge between track days and racing. Riders get a chance to be part of the NEMRR weekends without having to fully race prepare their motorcycles, and the popular class has brought scores of riders into the NEMRR family – many of whom then “graduate” into full club racers after they discover how much fun it is to be part of the racing community. This weekend in the Unlimited Division Greg Regan and Mark Roberto traded wins in the Unlimited division while Micheal Tower and Jason Feinberg split the wins in the Lightweight Super Street division.
The entry level NEMRR division is Novice, where new racers stay until they meet certain lap time thresholds that signal their readiness to advance into the Amateur ranks. This division is unique to NEMRR as the organization places a premium on making the transition into racing as safe as possible. This Novice division keeps new riders separate from the experienced Amateur and Expert riders, which keeps speed differentials down and helps riders build their skills around riders of similar skill and speed. The top performing Novice riders on this opening day were John Lopes in the large displacement classes and Nate Lamontagne in the lightweight divisions, both riders running times that will move them into the Amateur ranks in the near future!
In the Amateur ranks the weekend standouts were again Joseph Townsend and Charles Keighley. Both riders choose the Yamaha R6 as their platform for NEMRR, and each rider took several victories during the course of the weekend. In the feature Amateur race the of the weekend – the Amateur division of the Seacoast Sport Cycle Dash for Cash, it was
Keighley who put his stamp on an outstanding weekend with a solid victory over Rui Almeida, Sean Keech and Joseph Townsend. In speaking to him in victory lane after the event Keighley revealed plans to move to the expert ranks for the rest of the season in an effort to keep the forward momentum of his riding skills by learning from the riders in the top class at NEMRR.
In the lightweight Expert ranks, several riders put in solid performances over the weekend. The top performers were a trio of younger talent in Nathan Bettencourt, Adam Muscaro and Adam Guyer – all of whom took home 4 victories over the course of the weekend. Bettencourt, a 15 year old Moto America Talent Cup rider, won 4 out of his 4 races, highlighted by a victory in the 500 Superbike over rival Renee Franco. Bettencourt led from flag to flag and was able to run times in the impressive 1:16 range in the process. Adam Muscaro also won 4 out of 5 races on his KTM Supermoto and Kawasaki Ninja 500 machines. His strongest performance of the weekend was a solid victory over Franco and Bettencourt in the very competitive 500 Supersport class on Saturday afternoon. Adam Guyer was simply dominant in the lightweight classes on his Aprilia RS660, winning all 4 of the classes he contested. His crowning moment of the weekend was a win in the Thunderbike class where he dominated the competition and ran an incredible 1:13.4 lap time, clearly the fastest time of all the lightweight riders over the course of the weekend. Guyer even entered the featured Seacoast Sport Cycle Dash for Cash on Saturday and battled back and forth all race long with a group of 600cc 4 cylinder riders in
the process.
In the big bike classes, the trio of Paul Duval, Ian Beam and Eric Wood all put in impressive performances over the course of the weekend. Duval scored three victories on his Yamaha R6 and finished a strong second place in MWGP division of the Dash for Cash – bested by Triumph 675 Ian Beam who secured his second victory of the weekend when we came from behind and passed Duval in the Dash for Cash. The winner of the Heavyweight GP division and overall victor of the Seacoast Sport Cycle/Dunlop tires Dash for cash was Dunlop rider Eric Wood, who took his Ducati V2 to a 16 second victory in the premier event. Wood’s premier class victory capped off a fantastic weekend where he took is Ducati V2 and Yamaha R6 to dominant wins in all 5 of the classes he entered.
Round 5 of the NEMRR series is at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on August 2-3 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and riders interested in racing, participating in Super Street or volunteering and being a part of the organization and find more information at www.nemrr.com.