Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong topped the MotoAmerica Superbike warmup at VIRginia International Raceway on Sunday. He was followed by Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati’s Josh Herrin, Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Cameron Beaubier, Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Jake Gagne, and Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly.
OrangeCat Racing’s Jayson Uribe earned the top spot in the MotoAmerica Stock 1000 warmup at VIRginia International Raceway on Sunday. He was followed by Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach, OrangeCat Racing’s Andrew Lee, BPR Racing Yamaha’s Bryce Kornbau and Edge Racing’s Jason Waters.
Warhorse Ducati/American Racing’s Alessandro Di Mario took first place in the MotoAmerica Parts Unlimited Talent Cup warmup at VIRginia International Raceway on Sunday. He was trailed by Jones Honda’s Julian Correa, Tytler’s Cycle Racing’s Hank Vossberg, Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing’s Sam Drane, and MP13 Racing’s Ella Dreher.
Robem Engineering’s Alessandro Di Mario claimed the top spot in the MotoAmerica SC-Project Twins Cup warmup at VIRginia International Raceway on Sunday. He was followed by Bad Boys Racing’s Avery Dreher, Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle, RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Matthew Chapin and Robem Engineering’s Hank Vossberg.
Kira Knebel led the MotoAmerica Royal Enfield Build. Train. Race. warmup at VIRginia International Raceway on Sunday. Miranda Cain, Camille Conrad, Shea MacGregor, and Cassie Creer completed the top five.
Takumi Takahashi and Johann Zarco have won the 46th Coca-Cola Suzuka 8 Hours Endurance Race for Honda HRC, the Japanese manufacturer’s 31st victory in the FIM Endurance World Championship event, Takahashi’s record-extending seventh and MotoGP star Zarco’s second.
Starting from pole position, Honda HRC beat Yamaha Racing Team to EWC glory with Yoshimura SERT Motul edging out SDG Team HARC-PRO. Honda for third after an intense battle that raged for much of the race.
“It’s always a good race when you can control a gap,” Zarco said. “But doing it with two [riders] is really difficult, plus it’s too hot, you sweat a lot and the recovery time is too short. It’s tough sometimes when you go back on the bike but in the end the pace was quite good. We got two safety car [periods] and that always change a bit the game but we could keep an advantage. Thanks to Takumi because he’s always doing the job every stint and that’s so impressive. I try to do the same and I hope next year we’ll be three because we’ll be better. It’s a race I enjoy and having one of the best bikes is a pleasure to ride. It’s a nice week to do, you need to control your energy but it’s my special holiday to come in Suzuka.”
By finishing fifth overall, BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team heads to the season-deciding Bol d’Or next month just one point behind Yamalube YART Yamaha EWC Official Team, which retired after a succession of falls and an engine issue.
BMW-powered Team Étoile converted the Superstock category pole into its first win in the Dunlop-supplied FIM Endurance World Cup. TONE Team 4413 EVA 02 BMW, which headed Team Étoile home in 2024, finished second with Aprilia-powered Revo-M2 finishing third. Team Étoile will start the Bol d’Or equal on points with National Motos Honda FMA, which crashed out.
Honda HRC claimed perfect victory at Suzuka 8 Hours, marking Honda’s 31st win in the race.
Takumi Takahashi, the first rider to take to the handlebars of the Honda CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP #30, made a strong start, taking the lead, but lost it during the first lap. However, just on lap 14, Takahashi regained the race lead.
Back in the pits of his stint, he handed over the Honda #30 to his teammate Johann Zarco who rejoined the track in first place with around 13 seconds gap. The Frenchman controlled the advantage before handling the bike back to Takahashi.
The rest of the stints were perfectly managed and at half of the race, the Honda HRC continued to control the lead with a gap of 40 seconds.
Shortly after Takahashi began his seventh stint, still leading the race, the safety car appearance made the Japanese rider to build an advantage of over one minute.
After a lightning‑fast tyre change and refueling, Zarco had to wait for the safety car to complete its lap before rejoining the track, reducing the gap but the distance was enough for Zarco to cross the chequered flag in first place, winning his second Suzuka 8 Hours victory and seventh for Takahashi.
F.C.C. TSR Honda France was forced to retire from the 46th edition of the Coca-Cola Suzuka 8 Hours due to a technical problem, and is now counting on the Bol d’Or to finish the season on a high.
Starting from 14th on the grid, French rider Alan Techer rode a cautious first stint on the Honda CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP, without losing any positions. The oppressive heat did not prevent the rider from setting his pace, allowing the Honda#5 team to move into the top 10 on lap 19.
At the end of the first pit stop, Taiga Hada took over. A suspicious noise accompanied by a power loss forced the Japanese rider to return to the pits a few laps later.
After a meticulous examination by the technical team, F.C.C. TSR Honda France was forced to withdraw from the race only 1 hour and 10 minutes of racing.
F.C.C TSR Honda France is now in 6th place in the Championship and the team hopes remain high and looking ahead to victory in the Bol d’Or.
Tati Team AVA6 Racing started from 23rd on the grid and after three-hour race, the Honda#4 climbed up to 16th place. However, recurring electrical issues forced multiple pit stops, and the end Honda #4 was forced to withdraw at half of the race.
In the Superstock category, Kaedear-Dafy-Rac41-Honda, aboard the Honda CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP #41, was the best-qualifying Honda on the grid, with a second place in its category.
With Takeshi Ishizuka, Chris Leesch and Kevin Manfredi delivering a solid performance, the Honda #41 ran a competitive race, consistently posting strong lap times and holding a comfortable podium position for the first half of the event.
Unfortunately, a crash required Ishizuka to bring the bike into the pits for repairs. Thanks to the quick work of the technical crew, the team rejoined the race in eighth place in the SST category. Showing resilience and determination, the team staged a remarkable comeback to finish fifth in class, earning precious points for the championship.
The Wójcik Racing Team #777 started the race from seventh on the grid in the SST class and with an excellent pace and team work, the Honda #777 finished in a well-deserved 4th place in the SST class.
Honda No Limits team, riding the Fireblade #44 with Kaito Toba, Gabriele Giannini and Akito Haga, showed strong pace throughout the weekend. After qualifying third in the SST category, they took the class lead three hours into the race. However, a mechanical issue forced Giannini to push the bike back to the pits. A prolonged stop dropped them to 13th place, but the team fought back to eventually finish in 12th place.
National Motos Honda FMA, leaders of the SST World Championship, saw their race cut short after a crash with just two hours to go, forcing the team to retire from the Suzuka 8 Hours. The team still holds the first place in the standings together with Team Etoile and are now fully focused on scoring maximum points at the Bol d’Or to reclaim the SST World Title.
The 2025 FIM EWC championship final will take place on September 20 at the Bol d’Or, on the Paul Ricard circuit (France).
Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong won his third straight MotoAmerica Superbike race on Saturday at VIRginia International Raceway as the Californian begins to seriously start clawing his way into contention for the 2025 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship.
For the third race in a row, Fong kept championship rivals Cameron Beaubier and Josh Herrin behind him, and he’s now just one point behind Beaubier and 28 points behind championship leader Herrin.
Starting from pole position, Fong led every lap of Saturday’s race one at VIR, withstanding the near race-long pressure from Beaubier, who had passed Herrin for good on the third lap and set sail after Fong. Shortly thereafter, Beaubier set the fastest lap of the race, a 1:24.287.
Beaubier, however, had to back things down near the end of the race as he was fighting with a lack of grip and knew that he couldn’t match Fong’s late-race pace. At the end of the 20 laps, Beaubier was 7.3 seconds behind Fong, who never put a wheel wrong.
Herrin, meanwhile, had a fight on his hands with Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly and Fong’s teammate Jake Gagne. Kelly was the most persistent and he took the battle to the bitter end, giving Herrin a nudge in turn one and then striking him a bit harder later on the final lap. At the finish, Herrin was .144 of a second ahead of Kelly.
Gagne backed it off near the end of the race and was some five seconds behind at the finish.
Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach continues to impress on his Stock 1000-spec Honda CBR1000RR-R SP as he finished sixth in the Superbike class while winning the Superbike Cup race within a race.
Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates was seventh after beating BPR Racing’s Bryce Kornbau to the line by a few tenths. Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Richie Escalante struggled to a ninth-place finish and Aftercare Scheibe Racing’s Danilo Lewis rounded out the top 10.
Notable non-finishers included FLO4Law/SBU Racing’s Benjamin Smith, who ran into the back of Real Steel Honda’s Hayden Gillim causing both riders to crash. Gillim remounted to finish 15th.
After 12 races, Herrin leads the title chase by 27 over Beaubier, 240-213. Fong is third with 212 points. Gagne and Escalante round out the top five with 176 and 121 points, respectively.
Superbike Race 1
Bobby Fong (Yamaha)
2. Cameron Beaubier (BMW)
Josh Herrin (Ducati)
Sean Dylan Kelly (Suzuki)
Jake Gagne (Yamaha)
JD Beach (Honda)
Ashton Yates (Honda)
Bryce Kornbau (Yamaha)
Richie Escalante (Suzuki)
Danilo Lewis (BMW)
Josh Herrin – Third Place
“I thought that those guys would have just dusted by me. I wasn’t trying to really be protective until the last two or three laps. So, it didn’t surprise me, but the moves that Sean (Dylan Kelly) put on me on the last lap would have been like four races in a row of double long-lap penalty in MotoGP these days, so I was surprised about that. He hit me hard. The first time he rubbed me; it left some marks on the leathers. That surprised me, but it was fun. Then this time, it was just a blatant, like there’s no room. I’m not going to get by anywhere else. I’m making room. Slammed into the side of me. Fell off the inside of his bike. Almost took me out. Then knew what he did and waited for me to go by on the brakes, knowing that he needed to give up a position. What was in his head, I could tell. As soon as he saw me on the side of him, he just released brakes, rode around the outside of me and then tried doing the same thing going down the rollercoaster. It was the dirtiest riding that I’ve seen in a while. I’m an aggressive rider, like all these guys in the front. We’ll get aggressive when we need to, but that was straight-up unsafe, like ‘I’m just plowing through your right now riding.’ So hopefully these guys do something about it because if it was me, I would have been starting back of the pack tomorrow. I’ve seen it happen time and time again. I’ve had to clean up my riding a whole lot.”
Cameron Beaubier – Second Place
“Like you said, it was good to crawl a couple points back. Coming in here, we wanted to win. We come into every round wanting to win. I think I can say we had a little issue yesterday in the first practice, and we didn’t get a ton of dry time. But those are all excuses. He (Fong) was on freaking rails. He was riding so good. I kept looking at my dash and it was high 24s, high 24s, mid 24s on used tires. Then I saw a gap back to third. I was like, ‘wow, we are ripping.’ It was only a matter of time where I could hang on. I had to kind of let him go. I was taking a lot of risks getting into the corners to make up the lack of edge and grip I had compared to him. But at the beginning, I was really happy with how I was riding. I was able to take some time back to him. I was probably a half second to a second behind him and I was able to close that down. My bike is the best my bike has felt in a couple rounds now. So, I’m really happy with that. We’re trying a little bit different setup this weekend. I think it’s a good direction and we’re just going to keep trying to fine-tune it. Happy with how I rode at the beginning. Yes, we need to make some improvements on half race distance towards the end to run with this guy. Happy to be back at VIR and see what we can do tomorrow.”
Bobby Fong – Winner
“I think with both these guys behind you, it’s always a concern for all of us. You could hear him (Beaubier), too. I could hear his bike. I knew it wasn’t Josh (Herrin) because you always can hear the Ducati compared to the BMW. I could tell he was faster in some areas, because you could hear the bike getting a lot closer. I was like, ‘I just got to keep my pace, keep my head down.’ I was waiting for the moment for him to definitely make a move, for sure. It never came, fortunately for me. We’ve always been pretty good at that at these races. The bike always sounds pretty good at the end of the races. Somehow, I manage to keep the same pace at the end. We just got to keep doing our thing. It’s going to be a long season. We got some tracks where these two dudes are definitely a step above me. So, I need to work on some of the racetracks we’re going to. We’re just going to keep our head down and tomorrow is another day. I’m sure Josh (Herrin) is going to find something overnight and be a lot closer, and same with this guy (Beaubier). It’s definitely going to be more of a dogfight tomorrow with all three of us. Hopefully my teammate Jake (Gagne) could be up there. He’s had some pace here and there, and it would be good to see him back up here.”
More, from another news release by MotoAmerica:
Mathew Scholtz (1) leads Cameron Petersen (45), Josh Hayes (4), Blake Davis (22), PJ Jacobsen (15), Tyler Scott (70), Jake Lewis (85), Corey Alexander (23) and the rest of the Supersport pack on the opening lap on Saturday at VIRginia International Raceway. Photo by Brian J. Nelson.
After winning his fifth Motovation Supersport race of the season at VIRginia International Raceway, Strack Racing’s Mathew Scholtz admitted that he’s been focusing too much on things other than just riding the bike. Mainly things like PJ Jacobsen and the championship they are both trying to win. On Saturday afternoon in Virginia, Scholtz kept his head down, didn’t look back, and stormed to a 4.9-second victory over his championship rival Jacobsen.
Scholtz led every lap, making sure that any on-track battles would not include him. He was rewarded with a two-point lead in the championship at day’s end.
The best race was the one for second with Cameron Petersen and PJ Jacobsen going at it for most of the race before Petersen ran off in turn one. That not only allowed Jacobsen to pull away to a lonely second, but it also allowed Scholtz’s teammate Blake Davis to pass the South African to take over third. Petersen wasn’t done fighting, however, and he caught Davis a few laps later. From there to the finish, the pair fought it out with Petersen nabbing the final podium spot, and battled with him for the final laps, beating him to the flag by a scant .014 of a second.
BPR Racing’s Josh Hayes, the Supersport class winner the last time MotoAmerica visited VIR in 2022, was fifth, some three seconds clear of Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott, who had his hands full with Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s Kayla Yaakov and her teammate Corey Alexander.
Altus Motorsports’ Jake Lewis bounced back from injury at Laguna Seca to finish ninth, some two seconds ahead of 10th-placed Max Van on his Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki.
“The biggest mistakes I made… in qualifying there was a massive problem with guys sitting on the race line,” Scholtz said. “It is one thing if guys are slightly slower, and you’re coming up on them in a qualifying. That’s fine. But if fast guys are touring on the race line, that’s a serious problem and it’s something that we had to deal with. I think a lot of the front guys have been dealing with that with the race now, as well. The one lap I did a 28.4. There were three back-markers. The blue flags were there, and they’re out there racing together, which is all fine. But if you catch them in corner seven all the way up to corner 12 and you can’t pass. This is a very tight, twisty track and the race line is two-foot wide. So, that kind of messed me up a little bit in the middle part of the race. Otherwise, I was just really happy. I was able to kind of reel off 26.3, 26.5 for the first 10 or so laps. Kind of once I noticed I had a couple seconds gap, I was running high 26s comfortable. The R9 has been working great here. From the first session out, I think I had a .7 gap. So, I felt really confident. Kind of took my eye off the ball.
“We didn’t change too much in qualifying 1, and all these guys caught me. So, I woke up this morning for qualifying 2 angry. That kind of helped me push a little bit in some of the sectors that are a little bit faster that I was worried about crashing yesterday. I’ve been maybe just worrying about going down. Like I said at the last race, thinking too much about the championship and not just riding the motorbike. So, I think this race, I just went out there and knew what I could do and just rode free. Not kind of thinking of who was behind me. I didn’t look back once. That’s kind of something that I have been doing. I’ve been looking back, looking to see. If it’s Blake (Davis) or Cam (Petersen), I’ll ride fine. If I see PJ (Jacobsen) there I start riding tight and trying to brake too late. I forced myself not to look back once and I think that helped me just to kind of keep a pace. Thanks to the team. My crew chief, Jordan. Tyler and Josh working on the motorbike. It’s been a really great weekend for me. I think I’ve led almost every single session. Won this race. Obviously, I know PJ has picked up the pace. Cam is going to figure something out. Blake will be there tomorrow. So, I know that if I’m able to get out front, I’d better keep my nose clean and focused and keep those laps in the low 26s.”
After 11 races, Scholtz is now two points ahead of Jacobsen, 217-215. Davis is third with 170 points, Petersen has 129 and Scott rounds out the top five with 117.
Stock 1000 – Not An Easy Day At The Beach
What looked like a two-rider Honda runaway on the opening two laps of the Stock 1000 race with JD Beach and Ashton Yates clearing off at the front, turned into a Beach vs. Bryce Kornbau battle with Yates lurking from third place.
At the finish line, it was Real Steel Honda’s Beach by .194 of a second over the Yamaha YZF-R1 of BPR Racing’s Kornbau with Jones Honda’s Yates third and just 1.4 seconds behind.
Although Beach led every single lap of the 14-lap race, the closing laps were frantic with slower traffic in front of him and Kornbau all over his back tire. Kornbau had come from 10th on the grid, and he got to third on the second lap. That turned into second, and the fight was on.
Beach, who earned pole position in Q2 on Saturday morning, withstood the pressure to beat Kornbau to the flag by just .194 of a second.
With Yates third, fourth place went to the first of the OrangeCat Racing BMWs with Jayson Uribe beating his championship-leading teammate Andrew Lee.
Edge Racing’s Jason Waters was some 20 seconds behind in sixth, and he barely beat RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Rocco Landers, who in turn was well clear of Castrol/Lamkin Racing’s Nolan Lamkin. The Bike Experience USA’s Eziah Davis and Limitless Racing’s Joseph Giannotto rounded out the top 10.
“It was a tough weekend,” Beach said after what was his first-career victory in the Stock 1000 class in his rookie season. “We had a motor malfunction this morning and big hats off to my team, not only my team but all the guys under the tent. It was a fire drill, and they just went to work. It was a tough race. I didn’t know who was behind me, but I knew someone was breathing down my neck the whole time. Those last two laps with the lappers it was a little dicey, but we got ‘er done. We got a win. A big thank you to Hayden (Gillim). He brought me on to the team and I just want to get some wins. A big thanks to Honda and everybody. It was a great day.”
With his first Stock 1000 victory on Saturday, Beach has moved to second in the series point standings. He trails Lee by 19 points and is six points ahead of third-placed Yates. Uribe and Kornbau round out the top five in the championship with 74 and 55 points, respectively.
Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul – Vossberg Does It
After a frantic first two laps, Saturday’s Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul race one turned into an Alessandro Di Mario runaway. Right up until the time when it wasn’t. With three laps to go, Di Mario’s lead quickly evaporated as the shifter on his Krämer APX-350 MA failed, leaving him stuck in fourth gear.
With Di Mario on the rev limiter on the straights, he was a sitting duck for those giving chase and he was fortunate to salvage a fifth-place finish, his first time being off the podium in the first-year Talent Cup.
Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Hank Vossberg took over at the front with Di Mario’s demise, and he had an easy go of it to win his third Talent Cup race of the season.
The battle for what turned out to be second was between MP13 Racing’s Ella Dreher and Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing’s Sam Drane with Drane getting the best of a drafting battle to the finish line on the final lap. At the stripe, it was Drane by .005 of a second over Dreher.
Team Roberts’ Kody Kopp found some pace at mid-race and started to reel in the Drane/Dreher battle. On the final lap, Kopp was right on the duo ahead of him, and he came up just .155 of a second short.
Notable among the non-finishers was Bodie Paige Racing/Mission Foods/D&D Certified’s Bodie Page with the Australian crashing out on the opening lap. Royalty Racing’s Carson King and Jones Honda’s Julian Correa were involved in a crash together when King lost the front and took Correa down with him.
“I didn’t get the start I wanted to,” Vossberg said. “I was right behind Bodie (Paige) and Alessandro, but Bodie had a really big moment on the first lap, and I just tried to latch on to Alessandro, but he broke away really quick. I tried to catch up, but he kept pushing so I just wanted to manage my gap to third. It sucks what he had with the shifter. That’s not what we want to see, but at least I don’t have to shave my head.”
Di Mario leads the title chase by 29 points over Drane, 179-150. Vossberg is third, 17 points behind Drane and 11 clear of Paige. Dreher has moved up to fifth with 88 points.
SC-Project Twins Cup – Di Mario Wraps It Up Early
Robem Engineering’s Alessandro Di Mario won his sixth SC-Project Twins Cup race in a row to go with his three-second place finishes. The result? A second straight Twins Cup Championship for the talented teenager with one round remaining in the series.
When RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Matthew Chapin crashed out of the race on the opening lap, the championship was pretty much sealed. But Di Mario did things the right way by racing to the title in style with victory number six.
Di Mario’s teammate Hank Vossberg was second, .002 of a second ahead of Bad Boys Racing’s Avery Dreher with those two finishing over five seconds ahead of Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle, the first non-Aprilia RS 660 to cross the finish line.
Brown Town Racing’s Chase Brown rounded out the top five.
“I’ve been with Robem since I was 13 years old and the whole day today, I was thinking about it,” Di Mario said. “I don’t like doing math so I just wanted to go out there and win, and I can’t control what everybody else does. I just tried to go out there and do my best and it worked out. I just want to thank everybody who has helped me out.”
With three more races left to run (Sunday at VIR and the finale at New Jersey Motorsports Park), Di Mario has a 92-point lead over Chapin, 210-118. Dreher is third with 103 points, Vossberg is fourth on 89, and Levi Badie, who crashed out of today’s race, is fifth with 76 points – one more than Doyle.
Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. – Conrad’s First
Camille Conrad won her first-career Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. battle on Saturday with the Californian beating Shea MacGregor by 1.174 seconds after seven laps of VIRginia International Raceway.
Third place went to Miranda Cain with the Minnesotan well clear of fourth-placed Bryanna Everitt. Cassie Creer rounded out the top-five finishers.
Championship points leader Kira Knebel will have to wait another day to be crowned as she was forced to start the race from pit lane. Knebel knifed her way through the pack to finish seventh, earning nine points.
With just tomorrow’s race remaining in the Build.Train.Race. championship, Knebel is 14 points ahead of MacGregor, 134-120. MacGregor, in turn, is 14 points clear of Cain. Conrad and Creer round out the top five in the point standings.
Video: MotoAmerica Superbike And Supersport Race One Press Conferences From VIRginia International Raceway
Camille Conrad took Saturday’s MotoAmerica Royal Enfield Build. Train. Race. win at VIRginia International Raceway. Shea MacGregor was second, ahead of Miranda Cain, Cassie Creer and Kate West.
Robem Engineering’s Alessandro Di Mario won the MotoAmerica SC-Project Twins Cup race on Saturday at VIRginia International Raceway, followed by teammate Hank Vossberg and Bad Boys Racing’s Avery Dreher in second and third. Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle and Brown Town Racing’s Chase Brown rounded out the top five.
Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong took first place in the MotoAmerica Superbike race at VIRginia International Raceway on Saturday, followed by Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Cameron Beaubier and Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati’s Josh Herrin in second and third. Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly finished fourth, with Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Jake Gagne rounding out the top five.
Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong topped the MotoAmerica Superbike warmup at VIRginia International Raceway on Sunday. He was followed by Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati’s Josh Herrin, Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Cameron Beaubier, Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Jake Gagne, and Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly.
OrangeCat Racing’s Jayson Uribe earned the top spot in the MotoAmerica Stock 1000 warmup at VIRginia International Raceway on Sunday. He was followed by Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach, OrangeCat Racing’s Andrew Lee, BPR Racing Yamaha’s Bryce Kornbau and Edge Racing’s Jason Waters.
Warhorse Ducati/American Racing’s Alessandro Di Mario took first place in the MotoAmerica Parts Unlimited Talent Cup warmup at VIRginia International Raceway on Sunday. He was trailed by Jones Honda’s Julian Correa, Tytler’s Cycle Racing’s Hank Vossberg, Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing’s Sam Drane, and MP13 Racing’s Ella Dreher.
Robem Engineering’s Alessandro Di Mario claimed the top spot in the MotoAmerica SC-Project Twins Cup warmup at VIRginia International Raceway on Sunday. He was followed by Bad Boys Racing’s Avery Dreher, Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle, RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Matthew Chapin and Robem Engineering’s Hank Vossberg.
Kira Knebel led the MotoAmerica Royal Enfield Build. Train. Race. warmup at VIRginia International Raceway on Sunday. Miranda Cain, Camille Conrad, Shea MacGregor, and Cassie Creer completed the top five.
Takumi Takahashi, on the left, and Johann Zarco, on the right, won the Suzuka 8 Hours. Photo courtesy EWC.
Takumi Takahashi and Johann Zarco have won the 46th Coca-Cola Suzuka 8 Hours Endurance Race for Honda HRC, the Japanese manufacturer’s 31st victory in the FIM Endurance World Championship event, Takahashi’s record-extending seventh and MotoGP star Zarco’s second.
Starting from pole position, Honda HRC beat Yamaha Racing Team to EWC glory with Yoshimura SERT Motul edging out SDG Team HARC-PRO. Honda for third after an intense battle that raged for much of the race.
“It’s always a good race when you can control a gap,” Zarco said. “But doing it with two [riders] is really difficult, plus it’s too hot, you sweat a lot and the recovery time is too short. It’s tough sometimes when you go back on the bike but in the end the pace was quite good. We got two safety car [periods] and that always change a bit the game but we could keep an advantage. Thanks to Takumi because he’s always doing the job every stint and that’s so impressive. I try to do the same and I hope next year we’ll be three because we’ll be better. It’s a race I enjoy and having one of the best bikes is a pleasure to ride. It’s a nice week to do, you need to control your energy but it’s my special holiday to come in Suzuka.”
By finishing fifth overall, BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team heads to the season-deciding Bol d’Or next month just one point behind Yamalube YART Yamaha EWC Official Team, which retired after a succession of falls and an engine issue.
BMW-powered Team Étoile converted the Superstock category pole into its first win in the Dunlop-supplied FIM Endurance World Cup. TONE Team 4413 EVA 02 BMW, which headed Team Étoile home in 2024, finished second with Aprilia-powered Revo-M2 finishing third. Team Étoile will start the Bol d’Or equal on points with National Motos Honda FMA, which crashed out.
Honda HRC claimed perfect victory at Suzuka 8 Hours, marking Honda’s 31st win in the race.
Takumi Takahashi, the first rider to take to the handlebars of the Honda CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP #30, made a strong start, taking the lead, but lost it during the first lap. However, just on lap 14, Takahashi regained the race lead.
Back in the pits of his stint, he handed over the Honda #30 to his teammate Johann Zarco who rejoined the track in first place with around 13 seconds gap. The Frenchman controlled the advantage before handling the bike back to Takahashi.
The rest of the stints were perfectly managed and at half of the race, the Honda HRC continued to control the lead with a gap of 40 seconds.
Shortly after Takahashi began his seventh stint, still leading the race, the safety car appearance made the Japanese rider to build an advantage of over one minute.
After a lightning‑fast tyre change and refueling, Zarco had to wait for the safety car to complete its lap before rejoining the track, reducing the gap but the distance was enough for Zarco to cross the chequered flag in first place, winning his second Suzuka 8 Hours victory and seventh for Takahashi.
F.C.C. TSR Honda France was forced to retire from the 46th edition of the Coca-Cola Suzuka 8 Hours due to a technical problem, and is now counting on the Bol d’Or to finish the season on a high.
Starting from 14th on the grid, French rider Alan Techer rode a cautious first stint on the Honda CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP, without losing any positions. The oppressive heat did not prevent the rider from setting his pace, allowing the Honda#5 team to move into the top 10 on lap 19.
At the end of the first pit stop, Taiga Hada took over. A suspicious noise accompanied by a power loss forced the Japanese rider to return to the pits a few laps later.
After a meticulous examination by the technical team, F.C.C. TSR Honda France was forced to withdraw from the race only 1 hour and 10 minutes of racing.
F.C.C TSR Honda France is now in 6th place in the Championship and the team hopes remain high and looking ahead to victory in the Bol d’Or.
Tati Team AVA6 Racing started from 23rd on the grid and after three-hour race, the Honda#4 climbed up to 16th place. However, recurring electrical issues forced multiple pit stops, and the end Honda #4 was forced to withdraw at half of the race.
In the Superstock category, Kaedear-Dafy-Rac41-Honda, aboard the Honda CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP #41, was the best-qualifying Honda on the grid, with a second place in its category.
With Takeshi Ishizuka, Chris Leesch and Kevin Manfredi delivering a solid performance, the Honda #41 ran a competitive race, consistently posting strong lap times and holding a comfortable podium position for the first half of the event.
Unfortunately, a crash required Ishizuka to bring the bike into the pits for repairs. Thanks to the quick work of the technical crew, the team rejoined the race in eighth place in the SST category. Showing resilience and determination, the team staged a remarkable comeback to finish fifth in class, earning precious points for the championship.
The Wójcik Racing Team #777 started the race from seventh on the grid in the SST class and with an excellent pace and team work, the Honda #777 finished in a well-deserved 4th place in the SST class.
Honda No Limits team, riding the Fireblade #44 with Kaito Toba, Gabriele Giannini and Akito Haga, showed strong pace throughout the weekend. After qualifying third in the SST category, they took the class lead three hours into the race. However, a mechanical issue forced Giannini to push the bike back to the pits. A prolonged stop dropped them to 13th place, but the team fought back to eventually finish in 12th place.
National Motos Honda FMA, leaders of the SST World Championship, saw their race cut short after a crash with just two hours to go, forcing the team to retire from the Suzuka 8 Hours. The team still holds the first place in the standings together with Team Etoile and are now fully focused on scoring maximum points at the Bol d’Or to reclaim the SST World Title.
The 2025 FIM EWC championship final will take place on September 20 at the Bol d’Or, on the Paul Ricard circuit (France).
Bobby Fong (50) leads Josh Herrin (1), Cameron Beaubier (6), Jake Gagne (32), Sean Dylan Kelly (40), Richie Escalante (54), Benjamin Smith (78), Hayden Gillim (69) and JD Beach (95) on Saturday at VIRginia International Raceway on Saturday. Photo by Brian J. Nelson
Precision Track Days brings you the results of this weekend’s events.
Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong won his third straight MotoAmerica Superbike race on Saturday at VIRginia International Raceway as the Californian begins to seriously start clawing his way into contention for the 2025 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship.
For the third race in a row, Fong kept championship rivals Cameron Beaubier and Josh Herrin behind him, and he’s now just one point behind Beaubier and 28 points behind championship leader Herrin.
Starting from pole position, Fong led every lap of Saturday’s race one at VIR, withstanding the near race-long pressure from Beaubier, who had passed Herrin for good on the third lap and set sail after Fong. Shortly thereafter, Beaubier set the fastest lap of the race, a 1:24.287.
Beaubier, however, had to back things down near the end of the race as he was fighting with a lack of grip and knew that he couldn’t match Fong’s late-race pace. At the end of the 20 laps, Beaubier was 7.3 seconds behind Fong, who never put a wheel wrong.
Herrin, meanwhile, had a fight on his hands with Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly and Fong’s teammate Jake Gagne. Kelly was the most persistent and he took the battle to the bitter end, giving Herrin a nudge in turn one and then striking him a bit harder later on the final lap. At the finish, Herrin was .144 of a second ahead of Kelly.
Gagne backed it off near the end of the race and was some five seconds behind at the finish.
Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach continues to impress on his Stock 1000-spec Honda CBR1000RR-R SP as he finished sixth in the Superbike class while winning the Superbike Cup race within a race.
Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates was seventh after beating BPR Racing’s Bryce Kornbau to the line by a few tenths. Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Richie Escalante struggled to a ninth-place finish and Aftercare Scheibe Racing’s Danilo Lewis rounded out the top 10.
Notable non-finishers included FLO4Law/SBU Racing’s Benjamin Smith, who ran into the back of Real Steel Honda’s Hayden Gillim causing both riders to crash. Gillim remounted to finish 15th.
After 12 races, Herrin leads the title chase by 27 over Beaubier, 240-213. Fong is third with 212 points. Gagne and Escalante round out the top five with 176 and 121 points, respectively.
Superbike Race 1
Bobby Fong (Yamaha)
2. Cameron Beaubier (BMW)
Josh Herrin (Ducati)
Sean Dylan Kelly (Suzuki)
Jake Gagne (Yamaha)
JD Beach (Honda)
Ashton Yates (Honda)
Bryce Kornbau (Yamaha)
Richie Escalante (Suzuki)
Danilo Lewis (BMW)
Josh Herrin – Third Place
“I thought that those guys would have just dusted by me. I wasn’t trying to really be protective until the last two or three laps. So, it didn’t surprise me, but the moves that Sean (Dylan Kelly) put on me on the last lap would have been like four races in a row of double long-lap penalty in MotoGP these days, so I was surprised about that. He hit me hard. The first time he rubbed me; it left some marks on the leathers. That surprised me, but it was fun. Then this time, it was just a blatant, like there’s no room. I’m not going to get by anywhere else. I’m making room. Slammed into the side of me. Fell off the inside of his bike. Almost took me out. Then knew what he did and waited for me to go by on the brakes, knowing that he needed to give up a position. What was in his head, I could tell. As soon as he saw me on the side of him, he just released brakes, rode around the outside of me and then tried doing the same thing going down the rollercoaster. It was the dirtiest riding that I’ve seen in a while. I’m an aggressive rider, like all these guys in the front. We’ll get aggressive when we need to, but that was straight-up unsafe, like ‘I’m just plowing through your right now riding.’ So hopefully these guys do something about it because if it was me, I would have been starting back of the pack tomorrow. I’ve seen it happen time and time again. I’ve had to clean up my riding a whole lot.”
Cameron Beaubier – Second Place
“Like you said, it was good to crawl a couple points back. Coming in here, we wanted to win. We come into every round wanting to win. I think I can say we had a little issue yesterday in the first practice, and we didn’t get a ton of dry time. But those are all excuses. He (Fong) was on freaking rails. He was riding so good. I kept looking at my dash and it was high 24s, high 24s, mid 24s on used tires. Then I saw a gap back to third. I was like, ‘wow, we are ripping.’ It was only a matter of time where I could hang on. I had to kind of let him go. I was taking a lot of risks getting into the corners to make up the lack of edge and grip I had compared to him. But at the beginning, I was really happy with how I was riding. I was able to take some time back to him. I was probably a half second to a second behind him and I was able to close that down. My bike is the best my bike has felt in a couple rounds now. So, I’m really happy with that. We’re trying a little bit different setup this weekend. I think it’s a good direction and we’re just going to keep trying to fine-tune it. Happy with how I rode at the beginning. Yes, we need to make some improvements on half race distance towards the end to run with this guy. Happy to be back at VIR and see what we can do tomorrow.”
Bobby Fong – Winner
“I think with both these guys behind you, it’s always a concern for all of us. You could hear him (Beaubier), too. I could hear his bike. I knew it wasn’t Josh (Herrin) because you always can hear the Ducati compared to the BMW. I could tell he was faster in some areas, because you could hear the bike getting a lot closer. I was like, ‘I just got to keep my pace, keep my head down.’ I was waiting for the moment for him to definitely make a move, for sure. It never came, fortunately for me. We’ve always been pretty good at that at these races. The bike always sounds pretty good at the end of the races. Somehow, I manage to keep the same pace at the end. We just got to keep doing our thing. It’s going to be a long season. We got some tracks where these two dudes are definitely a step above me. So, I need to work on some of the racetracks we’re going to. We’re just going to keep our head down and tomorrow is another day. I’m sure Josh (Herrin) is going to find something overnight and be a lot closer, and same with this guy (Beaubier). It’s definitely going to be more of a dogfight tomorrow with all three of us. Hopefully my teammate Jake (Gagne) could be up there. He’s had some pace here and there, and it would be good to see him back up here.”
More, from another news release by MotoAmerica:
Mathew Scholtz (1) leads Cameron Petersen (45), Josh Hayes (4), Blake Davis (22), PJ Jacobsen (15), Tyler Scott (70), Jake Lewis (85), Corey Alexander (23) and the rest of the Supersport pack on the opening lap on Saturday at VIRginia International Raceway. Photo by Brian J. Nelson.
After winning his fifth Motovation Supersport race of the season at VIRginia International Raceway, Strack Racing’s Mathew Scholtz admitted that he’s been focusing too much on things other than just riding the bike. Mainly things like PJ Jacobsen and the championship they are both trying to win. On Saturday afternoon in Virginia, Scholtz kept his head down, didn’t look back, and stormed to a 4.9-second victory over his championship rival Jacobsen.
Scholtz led every lap, making sure that any on-track battles would not include him. He was rewarded with a two-point lead in the championship at day’s end.
The best race was the one for second with Cameron Petersen and PJ Jacobsen going at it for most of the race before Petersen ran off in turn one. That not only allowed Jacobsen to pull away to a lonely second, but it also allowed Scholtz’s teammate Blake Davis to pass the South African to take over third. Petersen wasn’t done fighting, however, and he caught Davis a few laps later. From there to the finish, the pair fought it out with Petersen nabbing the final podium spot, and battled with him for the final laps, beating him to the flag by a scant .014 of a second.
BPR Racing’s Josh Hayes, the Supersport class winner the last time MotoAmerica visited VIR in 2022, was fifth, some three seconds clear of Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott, who had his hands full with Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s Kayla Yaakov and her teammate Corey Alexander.
Altus Motorsports’ Jake Lewis bounced back from injury at Laguna Seca to finish ninth, some two seconds ahead of 10th-placed Max Van on his Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki.
“The biggest mistakes I made… in qualifying there was a massive problem with guys sitting on the race line,” Scholtz said. “It is one thing if guys are slightly slower, and you’re coming up on them in a qualifying. That’s fine. But if fast guys are touring on the race line, that’s a serious problem and it’s something that we had to deal with. I think a lot of the front guys have been dealing with that with the race now, as well. The one lap I did a 28.4. There were three back-markers. The blue flags were there, and they’re out there racing together, which is all fine. But if you catch them in corner seven all the way up to corner 12 and you can’t pass. This is a very tight, twisty track and the race line is two-foot wide. So, that kind of messed me up a little bit in the middle part of the race. Otherwise, I was just really happy. I was able to kind of reel off 26.3, 26.5 for the first 10 or so laps. Kind of once I noticed I had a couple seconds gap, I was running high 26s comfortable. The R9 has been working great here. From the first session out, I think I had a .7 gap. So, I felt really confident. Kind of took my eye off the ball.
“We didn’t change too much in qualifying 1, and all these guys caught me. So, I woke up this morning for qualifying 2 angry. That kind of helped me push a little bit in some of the sectors that are a little bit faster that I was worried about crashing yesterday. I’ve been maybe just worrying about going down. Like I said at the last race, thinking too much about the championship and not just riding the motorbike. So, I think this race, I just went out there and knew what I could do and just rode free. Not kind of thinking of who was behind me. I didn’t look back once. That’s kind of something that I have been doing. I’ve been looking back, looking to see. If it’s Blake (Davis) or Cam (Petersen), I’ll ride fine. If I see PJ (Jacobsen) there I start riding tight and trying to brake too late. I forced myself not to look back once and I think that helped me just to kind of keep a pace. Thanks to the team. My crew chief, Jordan. Tyler and Josh working on the motorbike. It’s been a really great weekend for me. I think I’ve led almost every single session. Won this race. Obviously, I know PJ has picked up the pace. Cam is going to figure something out. Blake will be there tomorrow. So, I know that if I’m able to get out front, I’d better keep my nose clean and focused and keep those laps in the low 26s.”
After 11 races, Scholtz is now two points ahead of Jacobsen, 217-215. Davis is third with 170 points, Petersen has 129 and Scott rounds out the top five with 117.
Stock 1000 – Not An Easy Day At The Beach
What looked like a two-rider Honda runaway on the opening two laps of the Stock 1000 race with JD Beach and Ashton Yates clearing off at the front, turned into a Beach vs. Bryce Kornbau battle with Yates lurking from third place.
At the finish line, it was Real Steel Honda’s Beach by .194 of a second over the Yamaha YZF-R1 of BPR Racing’s Kornbau with Jones Honda’s Yates third and just 1.4 seconds behind.
Although Beach led every single lap of the 14-lap race, the closing laps were frantic with slower traffic in front of him and Kornbau all over his back tire. Kornbau had come from 10th on the grid, and he got to third on the second lap. That turned into second, and the fight was on.
Beach, who earned pole position in Q2 on Saturday morning, withstood the pressure to beat Kornbau to the flag by just .194 of a second.
With Yates third, fourth place went to the first of the OrangeCat Racing BMWs with Jayson Uribe beating his championship-leading teammate Andrew Lee.
Edge Racing’s Jason Waters was some 20 seconds behind in sixth, and he barely beat RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Rocco Landers, who in turn was well clear of Castrol/Lamkin Racing’s Nolan Lamkin. The Bike Experience USA’s Eziah Davis and Limitless Racing’s Joseph Giannotto rounded out the top 10.
“It was a tough weekend,” Beach said after what was his first-career victory in the Stock 1000 class in his rookie season. “We had a motor malfunction this morning and big hats off to my team, not only my team but all the guys under the tent. It was a fire drill, and they just went to work. It was a tough race. I didn’t know who was behind me, but I knew someone was breathing down my neck the whole time. Those last two laps with the lappers it was a little dicey, but we got ‘er done. We got a win. A big thank you to Hayden (Gillim). He brought me on to the team and I just want to get some wins. A big thanks to Honda and everybody. It was a great day.”
With his first Stock 1000 victory on Saturday, Beach has moved to second in the series point standings. He trails Lee by 19 points and is six points ahead of third-placed Yates. Uribe and Kornbau round out the top five in the championship with 74 and 55 points, respectively.
Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul – Vossberg Does It
After a frantic first two laps, Saturday’s Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul race one turned into an Alessandro Di Mario runaway. Right up until the time when it wasn’t. With three laps to go, Di Mario’s lead quickly evaporated as the shifter on his Krämer APX-350 MA failed, leaving him stuck in fourth gear.
With Di Mario on the rev limiter on the straights, he was a sitting duck for those giving chase and he was fortunate to salvage a fifth-place finish, his first time being off the podium in the first-year Talent Cup.
Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Hank Vossberg took over at the front with Di Mario’s demise, and he had an easy go of it to win his third Talent Cup race of the season.
The battle for what turned out to be second was between MP13 Racing’s Ella Dreher and Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing’s Sam Drane with Drane getting the best of a drafting battle to the finish line on the final lap. At the stripe, it was Drane by .005 of a second over Dreher.
Team Roberts’ Kody Kopp found some pace at mid-race and started to reel in the Drane/Dreher battle. On the final lap, Kopp was right on the duo ahead of him, and he came up just .155 of a second short.
Notable among the non-finishers was Bodie Paige Racing/Mission Foods/D&D Certified’s Bodie Page with the Australian crashing out on the opening lap. Royalty Racing’s Carson King and Jones Honda’s Julian Correa were involved in a crash together when King lost the front and took Correa down with him.
“I didn’t get the start I wanted to,” Vossberg said. “I was right behind Bodie (Paige) and Alessandro, but Bodie had a really big moment on the first lap, and I just tried to latch on to Alessandro, but he broke away really quick. I tried to catch up, but he kept pushing so I just wanted to manage my gap to third. It sucks what he had with the shifter. That’s not what we want to see, but at least I don’t have to shave my head.”
Di Mario leads the title chase by 29 points over Drane, 179-150. Vossberg is third, 17 points behind Drane and 11 clear of Paige. Dreher has moved up to fifth with 88 points.
SC-Project Twins Cup – Di Mario Wraps It Up Early
Robem Engineering’s Alessandro Di Mario won his sixth SC-Project Twins Cup race in a row to go with his three-second place finishes. The result? A second straight Twins Cup Championship for the talented teenager with one round remaining in the series.
When RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Matthew Chapin crashed out of the race on the opening lap, the championship was pretty much sealed. But Di Mario did things the right way by racing to the title in style with victory number six.
Di Mario’s teammate Hank Vossberg was second, .002 of a second ahead of Bad Boys Racing’s Avery Dreher with those two finishing over five seconds ahead of Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle, the first non-Aprilia RS 660 to cross the finish line.
Brown Town Racing’s Chase Brown rounded out the top five.
“I’ve been with Robem since I was 13 years old and the whole day today, I was thinking about it,” Di Mario said. “I don’t like doing math so I just wanted to go out there and win, and I can’t control what everybody else does. I just tried to go out there and do my best and it worked out. I just want to thank everybody who has helped me out.”
With three more races left to run (Sunday at VIR and the finale at New Jersey Motorsports Park), Di Mario has a 92-point lead over Chapin, 210-118. Dreher is third with 103 points, Vossberg is fourth on 89, and Levi Badie, who crashed out of today’s race, is fifth with 76 points – one more than Doyle.
Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. – Conrad’s First
Camille Conrad won her first-career Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. battle on Saturday with the Californian beating Shea MacGregor by 1.174 seconds after seven laps of VIRginia International Raceway.
Third place went to Miranda Cain with the Minnesotan well clear of fourth-placed Bryanna Everitt. Cassie Creer rounded out the top-five finishers.
Championship points leader Kira Knebel will have to wait another day to be crowned as she was forced to start the race from pit lane. Knebel knifed her way through the pack to finish seventh, earning nine points.
With just tomorrow’s race remaining in the Build.Train.Race. championship, Knebel is 14 points ahead of MacGregor, 134-120. MacGregor, in turn, is 14 points clear of Cain. Conrad and Creer round out the top five in the point standings.
Video: MotoAmerica Superbike And Supersport Race One Press Conferences From VIRginia International Raceway
Camille Conrad took Saturday’s MotoAmerica Royal Enfield Build. Train. Race. win at VIRginia International Raceway. Shea MacGregor was second, ahead of Miranda Cain, Cassie Creer and Kate West.
Robem Engineering’s Alessandro Di Mario won the MotoAmerica SC-Project Twins Cup race on Saturday at VIRginia International Raceway, followed by teammate Hank Vossberg and Bad Boys Racing’s Avery Dreher in second and third. Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle and Brown Town Racing’s Chase Brown rounded out the top five.
Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong took first place in the MotoAmerica Superbike race at VIRginia International Raceway on Saturday, followed by Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Cameron Beaubier and Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati’s Josh Herrin in second and third. Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly finished fourth, with Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Jake Gagne rounding out the top five.
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Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to
