Alvaro Carpe was quickest during Moto3 World Championship practice Friday morning at TT Assen Circuit, in the Netherlands. Riding his Red Bull KTM Ajo on Pirelli control tires, the Spaniard covered the 2.82-mile (4.54 km) road course in 1:46.078, topping the field of 26 riders.
Maximo Quiles was the best of the rest with a 1:46.189 on his CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team KTM.
Angel Piqueras was third with a lap time of 1:46.457 on his FRINSA – MT Helmets – MSI KTM.
Classification moto3 fp1
Hello friends. This is Carrie Hildebrand with news of David’s memorial services in Maryland. All are welcome.
Memorial Service In Loving Memory of David Andrew Hildebrand
A ceremony will be held at the Maryland Veterans Cemetery in Crownsville, in the committal shelter, on Thursday, July 10th, 2025.
Service Time: 10:45 AM (prompt)
Please arrive by: 10:30 AM
Location: Maryland Veterans Cemetery – Crownsville
1122 Sunrise Beach Rd, Crownsville, MD 21032
The service will last approximately 20 minutes. Following the service, David’s ashes will be placed in the columbarium. We are permitted to view the placement from our vehicles, but kindly note that approaching the columbarium during interment is not allowed.
Your presence in honoring David’s memory is deeply appreciated. Please let his parents or sister know if you plan to attend the service by July 6th if possible.
American rider Garrett Gerloff has extended his current contract with the Kawasaki WorldSBK Team to race the Ninja ZX-10RR in the 2026 FIM Superbike World Championship season.
Gerloff, now 29 years of age, came to WorldSBK after a successful MotoAmerica career, which saw him finish third in the Supersport category in 2015, securing two race wins on the way. His prowess and even greater potential was made clear by his successive MotoAmerica Supersport Championship wins in 2016 and 2017.
Promoted to the Superbike category in MotoAmerica in 2018, he would race there for two seasons. He progressed from fifth in year one to third in year two, before he was picked up by an officially supported WorldSBK satellite team for the 2020 season.
Having ridden for two different manufacturers before joining Kawasaki in 2025, Garrett has scored eight podiums in all, with this total including two second-place rankings.
Since he became the ‘Lone Star’ in the new Puccetti Racing-operated Kawasaki WorldSBK Team this season, the Texan rider has made progress in what is one of the most closely contested WorldSBK line-ups in a decade or more.
The continuation of an official Kawasaki entry in WorldSBK on the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10RR demonstrates in a very public way not only Kawasaki’s relentless focus on the Ninja brand through all levels of production-derived racing, it also underlines a desire to continue the success that has been achieved by several iterations of the Ninja ZX-10R and ZX-10RR including seven WorldSBK Rider Championship wins.
Despite being new in the WorldSBK entry list this season, the Kawasaki WorldSBK Team is already well established in the paddock. The current season is at the exact halfway point right now, making the signing of Gerloff for the 2026 campaign at such an early stage a strong vote of confidence on what the Kawasaki WorldSBK Team thinks can be achieved alongside Garrett – not just in the second half of 2025 but next year as well.
Manuel Puccetti:
“It is a pleasure to continue to work with Garrett because, for us, he is a real top rider, the same level as the front guys. I think we will have better and better results. Our collaboration started this year, together with our new Kawasaki supported team, in WorldSBK. This achievement makes me incredibly proud. It is also a big responsibility to do our best for a wonderful brand that we have worked with for more than 20 years, in one form or another. We have continuously improved with Garrett this year, and I am quite positive that for next year, we will make a good step and have better and better results. We are super-pleased to work with Garrett as he is such a nice guy. I saw in the history of Kawasaki’s collaboration with new riders that they only improve in their speed, progression, and performance.”
Garrett Gerloff:
“I am very happy to have signed again with the Kawasaki WorldSBK Team for the 2026 season. I have been confident in the team and everything we have been doing. We are moving forward, even if it has been tough at times. I am happy with the team, the progress that we have made in the first half of the season, and their belief in me. They have been great at not putting undue pressure on me. I can see that they believe in the project and they also believe in me. We all want to keep investing and developing the bike. I am excited to build on what I have come to know about the Ninja ZX-10RR. It’s going to be nice to continue with the same project, the same people, and while not having to re-learn anything fundamental. For 2026, I am sure that is going to be positive for us.”
Mr. Manabu Shinobu, Senior Manager – Marketing Department, Kawasaki Motors, Ltd:
“We are sure Ninja fans will be enthusiastic about Garrett Gerloff extending his agreement to ride for the Kawasaki WorldSBK Team into 2026. From a factory perspective, his feedback helps us to continually develop our Ninja machines for riders everywhere. The Ninja brand has a global significance – including in Garrett’s USA homeland where the Ninja concept was originally conceived. We join all Kawasaki fans wishing him good fortune in 2026.”
Assen is the only venue that has hosted a Grand Prix every year since our inaugural season in 1949, with the sole exception of 2020. This year also marks the 100th anniversary since racing began in the area.
The original Assen circuit used up to 1954 measured 16.54 km, reduced to 7.7 km in 1955 and then 6.1 km in 1984. The current layout has been used since 2006, with minor adjustments. In 2016, the Dutch TT was held on Sunday for the first time after previously taking place on Saturday.
The 500cc race at the 1975 Dutch TT is the only MotoGP race where the first two riders were credited with the same race time. Barry Sheene and Giacomo Agostini finished so close that the timekeepers of the day, using manual timing accurate to 0.1 seconds, were unable to split them.
The top 15 at the 2018 Dutch GP was the closest in MotoGP at the time, with 16.043 seconds between Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa. The record is now 8.928, from the 2021 Doha GP. Assen 2018 is now the fifth.
MOTOGP™ WINNERS IN ASSEN ON THE GRID
Francesco Bagnaia 3 (2022, 2023, 2024) – Marc Marquez 2 (2014, 2018) – Fabio Quartararo 1 (2021) – Maverick Viñales 1 (2019) – Jack Miller 1 (2016)
SPRINT WINNERS IN ASSEN
Marco Bezzecchi 1 (2023) – Francesco Bagnaia 1 (2024)
FACTORIES IN ASSEN: BEST RESULTS
GP wins:
Honda 21 – Yamaha 18 – MV Agusta 15 – Suzuki 9 – Gilera 7 – Ducati 4 – Norton 1
Sprint wins:
Ducati 2
Honda ’s most recent MotoGP win at Assen was Marc Marquez in 2018 from pole. Honda have seven MotoGP™ wins in the modern era here with six riders: Valentino Rossi, Sete Gibernau, Nicky Hayden, Casey Stoner, Marc Marquez and Miller.
Yamaha ’s most recent MotoGP win here was for Quartararo in 2021. Yamaha have 11 wins in the modern era with five riders: Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo, Ben Spies, Viñales and Quartararo.
Ducati ’s four MotoGP wins here are Stoner in 2008 (from pole), Bagnaia in 2022 (from pole), 2023 and 2024 (also from pole). Ducati have then taken the last three poles in Assen, including with Bezzecchi in 2023.
Aprilia ’s best MotoGP results in the modern era at the Dutch TT are Viñales, P3 in 2022, his maiden podium with the Noale factory, and Aleix Espargaro, P3 in 2023.
KTM have a best MotoGP™ result here of P4 for Brad Binder in 2023.
EXTRA FACTS AND STATS
11 riders on the grid have MotoGP podiums in Assen: Marc Marquez (7), Viñales (4), Bagnaia (3), Quartararo (2), Bezzecchi (2), Miller (1), Joan Mir (1), Alex Rins (1), Enea Bastianini (1), Jorge Martin (1) and substitute rider Aleix Espargaro (1). 7 have
taken pole: Bagnaia (2), M. Marquez (1), Johann Zarco (1), Quartararo (1), Viñales and A. Espargaro (1) and Bezzecchi (1).
Only two of the current riders have scored points in all ninth Tissot Sprints: Marc Marquez and Alex Marquez.
The only two riders to win the MotoGP™ race at Assen in successive years are Bagnaia (2022, 2023 and 2024), and Rossi (2004 and 2005). In the 500cc class, Giacomo Agostini and Mick Doohan both won the Dutch TT five years in a row.
WHAT HAPPENS IF…
90 If a Ducati qualifies in the top three, it will be the 90th consecutive GP that a Ducati rider starts on the front row, a run that stretches back to Valencia 2020.
76 Ducati are on a streak of 75 podiums in a row. Another will extend their own record to 76. The only manufacturer with more than 75 podiums in a row is Honda with 83 from the FIM GP 1993 to the Imola GP 1999.
68 If Marc Marquez wins the GP at the Dutch TT, it will be his 68th win in MotoGP, equalling MotoGP Legend Giacomo Agostini in second on the list riders with most MotoGP wins, behind MotoGP Legend Valentino Rossi (89).
20 Rookie Fermin Aldeguer will be 20 years and 85 days old on Sunday and would be the second-youngest MotoGP winner after Marc Marquez (20 years and 63 days old in Austin, 2013), if he wins on Sunday.
10 If Marc and Alex Marquez both finish either P1 or P2 in the Sprint in Assen, it will be all 10 Sprints in 2025 that have been a Marquez 1-2 – Marc-Alex or Alex-Marc.
5 There are five riders on the grid who could take their maiden MotoGP win this weekend: Raul Fernandez, Pedro Acosta and rookies Ai Ogura, Somkiat Chantra and Fermin Aldeguer.
3 If Marc Marquez wins on Sunday at the Dutch TT, it will be the first time he wins in the three successive GP races since 2019 (five, from the San Marino GP to the Australian GP).
1 KTM and Aprilia riders could give their factory a maiden premier class win in Assen.
The new range of small Aprilia 125 sports bikes is further enhanced by the arrival of the
new Aprilia RS 125 GP Replica, a homage to the refined Aprilia RS-GP25, the prototype
used to compete in the MotoGP World Championship, ridden by World Champion Jorge
Martin and Marco Bezzecchi.
The Aprilia RS 125 GP Replica boasts the same edgy livery as the official MotoGP bikes,
dominated by black with red and purple graphics, including the logos of the Aprilia Racing
team sponsors.
A high-adrenaline “Race Replica”, with the aesthetics of the original reproduced in every
detail, it also stands out from the competition thanks to its superb standard equipment,
including the QuickShift electronic gearbox for rapid, precise gear changes and the
single-seat cover for an even sportier look.
A bold aesthetic that instantly evokes the track and a sense of competition, further
enhanced by the bold matte black paint finish of the swingarm and frame, crafted
from die-cast aluminium beams with cross-ribbed reinforcement – the result of Aprilia’s
extensive expertise.
The Aprilia RS 125 GP Replica also benefits from the major technical improvements
introduced on the RS 125 for 2025. The tuning of the single-cylinder engine with fourvalve timing and liquid cooling has also been overhauled, and boasts the same firstclass performance as the previous model, despite being compliant with the more stringent
Euro 5+ regulations: 15 hp (11 kW) at 10,500 rpm and 11.5 Nm at 8,500 rpm, figures
which set a new benchmark in this category.
Traction control (which can be disabled) and the cutting-edge dual-channel ABS
developed in collaboration with Bosch also come as standard, and the bike also features
a rollover prevention system in the event of emergency braking.
Full results from AHRMA at New Jersey Motorsports Park:
0725 AHRMA Full Results From NJMP
Things were going quite smoothly for Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Cameron Beaubier heading into the Road America round of the 2025 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship. He’d won three of the first four races, and it appeared to be clear sailing in his attempt to win a sixth MotoAmerica Superbike Championship. Even after making a few mistakes in race one in Wisconsin, Beaubier emerged from Saturday’s race with a third-place finish and a 26-point lead over Jake Gagne.
Then Sunday happened.
While battling with race-one winner Josh Herrin for the lead in race two, Beaubier crashed his BMW in the Carousel and could only watch as the defending MotoAmerica Superbike Champion won his second successive race on his Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati. And, just like that, the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship is a wide-open battle with just 18 points covering the top four and only two points separating the two men who fought for the title last year – Beaubier and Herrin.
Now the teams head west for the all-important three-week stretch with rounds five and six slated for Ridge Motorsports Park and WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, respectively.
First up, Ridge Motorsports Park in Shelton, Washington, June 27-29.
While his early-season points lead has evaporated, don’t expect Beaubier to panic as the series heads to the Pacific Northwest. And why would he? After all, he just needs to remember that he hobbled into the Ridge round last June (for what was round five) on crutches after suffering a broken heel at Road America. His points lead may be gone, but Beaubier is healthy and ready to restart a season in which he’s had race-winning pace in the first three rounds.
For Herrin, the 2025 season didn’t start great with three third-place finishes and a fifth in the first two rounds, but that all changed with his two wins at Road America. Herrin has made a habit of starting slowly and then building momentum as summer hits, and for all intents and purposes, the championship will start fresh in Washington – at least for the two at the top.
Beaubier and Herrin, however, aren’t the only ones in this title fight after the first three rounds. Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong has four second-place finishes to start his season, and only a semi-disastrous 10th-place finish in race two’s rainstorm at Road Atlanta have stopped him from being even closer than the 15 points between him and Beaubier.
Fong has shown that he’s comfortable in the Yamaha factory team, and he’s making the most of a situation that he’s always wanted to be in.
Fong’s teammate Jake Gagne is back and healthy with the three-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion just three points behind his teammate and 18 points from Beaubier. Gagne has three podium finishes so far, including his dominant wet-weather victory in race two at Barber. Gagne is coming off his worst finish of the season, an eighth in race two at Road America when he collided with Sean Dylan Kelly off the start, ran off track, and had to charge through the field to score his eight points.
Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Richie Escalante started his season with a crash in the first race of the year at Barber Motorsports Park, but he’s been consistent ever since as he tries to climb out of a points-deficit hole. Escalante earned his first podium of the season in race two at Road America with his third-place finish. He is fifth in the championship, 54 points adrift of Beaubier.
Real Steel Honda’s Hayden Gillim is sixth in the title chase on his Honda CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP as he continues to get Superbike upgrades race by race. Gillim has finished every race with a best of sixth on three occasions.
Escalante’s teammate Kelly will show up at Ridge tied with Gillim for sixth, and hopeful of having a short memory as he attempts to put a horrendous weekend at Road America behind him. After starting the season with four successive fourth-place finishes, Kelly earned just two points from the two races in Wisconsin.
Even though the point standings don’t reflect it, FLO4LAW/SBU Racing’s Benjamin Smith has been impressive. Two non-finishes blemish his standing in the championship, but he comes to Ridge Motorsports Park hot off a career Superbike best fourth-place in race two at Road America.
Gillim’s teammate JD Beach is tied with Smith for seventh in the Superbike standings with his non-finish in race one at Road America the only blemish in his season that sees him atop the title chase in the Superbike Cup, a class within a class for those racing Stock 1000-spec motorcycles. Beach’s mechanical DNF in race one in Wisconsin ended his hopes of a perfect Superbike Cup season, but he bounced back the next day, however, to start a new streak.
Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates rounds out the top 10 as the series heads west with the Georgian 10 points behind Smith and Beach.
Pre-Ridge Motorsports Park Notes…
The Ridge Motorsports Park round of the 2025 MotoAmerica Championship will feature five classes: Superbike, Motovation Supersport, SC-Project Twins Cup, the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship, and Royal Enfield’s Build.Train.Race.
Cameron Petersen beat Jake Gagne by a scant .032 of a second to win a wet Superbike race one at Ridge in 2024. Coincidently, the .032 matched Gagne’s number. Xavi Forés was third in his fill-in ride for the injured Richie Escalante on the Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki.
Race two featured a dry racetrack and a different outcome with Josh Herrin taking the victory over Bobby Fong and Cameron Petersen.
The difference between a wet racetrack and a dry racetrack? Almost 17 seconds a lap at Ridge Motorsports Park on a Superbike. At least according to last year’s best race laps. In the wet race one, Jake Gagne had the fastest lap of the race, a 1:57.079. In the dry race two, Josh Herrin clicked off a best of 1:40.167.
Frenchman Loris Baz earned pole position for the two Superbike races last year with his lap of 1:39.478. Baz was joined on the front row by Cameron Petersen and Josh Herrin.
The Superbike lap record at Ridge Motorsports Park is still held by Jake Gagne with his record-setting lap of 1:39.145 set during Q2 in 2022.
Cameron Beaubier and Josh Hayes arrive in Washington still tied atop the all-time AMA road race wins list with 89 vicxtories apiece.
With his 68 AMA Superbike wins, Beaubier is getting to the point of being within reach of all-time AMA Superbike wins leader Mat Mladin, with the Australian sitting at the top of the list with 82 Superbike victories.
Three-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Jake Gagne is the winningest rider in the five-year (10-race) history of MotoAmerica holding a round of its championship at Ridge Motorsports Park. Gagne has won five Superbike races at Ridge with Cameron Beaubier winning three, including the first two races in 2020.
More, from a another news release issued by MotoAmerica:
Although there have been four different race winners in the first three rounds of the 2025 Motovation Supersport season, the cream of a year ago has already risen to the top, giving us another PJ Jacobsen vs. Mathew Scholtz slugfest as the series heads to the Pacific Northwest for round four at Ridge Motorsports Park, June 27-29.
The name at the top of the heap is Jacobsen and his Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL Ducati Panigale V2, with the New Yorker consistently fast with two wins, three seconds, and a third, which translates to him finishing on the podium in all six races.
Scholtz and his Strack Racing Yamaha YZF-R9 have also won two races, but his non-wins haven’t been as strong as Jacobsen’s, with two thirds, a fourth, and a fifth. The South African rolls into Shelton, Washington, trailing Jacobsen by 20 points.
Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott hasn’t won a race yet in 2025, but you can sense that it’s coming. And he needs it, as he can’t let the top two get much farther ahead and still have a fighting chance in the championship. Scott is coming off a good weekend at Road America with a second in race one and a fifth in race two. He heads to round four 46 points behind Jacobsen and 26 in arrears of Scholtz.
Scholtz’s teammate Blake Davis is the third rider to win a Motovation Supersport race, with the youngster arriving at Ridge fresh off a race-two victory at Road America. Unfortunately, Davis crashed out of race one. The 19-year-old is two points behind Scott in the battle for third.
The fourth rider to win a race is BPR Racing’s Josh Hayes, with the four-time AMA Superbike Champion winning in the rain in the second race of the year at Road Atlanta. Hayes had a miserable Road America and has dropped down to eighth in the title chase.
Altus Motorsports’ Jake Lewis was happy to see Road America in his rear-view mirror, with the Kentuckian’s size always a problem at the track in Elkhart Lake. Lewis salvaged two seventh-place finishes to hold on to fifth in the championship, just two points ahead of Celtic/Economy Lube+Tire/Warhorse HSBK Ducati’s Cameron Petersen, with the South African scoring his first podium finish of the year in race two with his second-place finish.
Petersen is just four points ahead of Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s Kayla Yaakov and 10 ahead of Hayes.
SC-Project Twins Cup – Back To Work
The last time the SC-Project Twins Cup racers turned a wheel in anger was way back on April 4 at Barber Motorsports Park, which means that many of them haven’t raced a motorcycle since then.
Alessandro Di Mario isn’t among them, as the Robem Engineering-backed Kentuckian has been competing and is leading the Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul Championship. But this coming weekend, Di Mario will be back on his Aprilia RS 660 in an effort to successfully defend his 2024 Twins Cup title.
So far, so good for Di Mario, as he leads the title chase heading to Ridge by 19 points over RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Matthew Chapin.
Chapin leads the way in race wins with his two victories from Daytona back in March, but he has a non-score in race two at Barber, while Di Mario has been both fast and consistent with a win and three second-place finishes.
Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle is third in the championship by just five points over Bad Boys Racing’s Avery Dreher and seven over Koch Racing’s Sean Ungvarsky.
Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul race winner Hank Vossberg will make his SC-Project Twins Cup debut at Ridge Motorsports Park on a Robem Engineering Aprilia RS 660.
The top three in the championship are racing motorcycles from three different manufacturers – Aprilia, Suzuki, and Yamaha.
Mission Super Hooligan National Championship – Lewis Red Hot
Saddlemen Race Development’s Jake Lewis heads to the Pacific Northwest with the hot hand in the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship. Lewis has won three of the four races held thus far in 2025 – race two at Daytona International Speedway and a doubleheader sweep at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.
The three wins put him atop the championship standings by 15 points over his teammate Travis Wyman, who in turn is just five points ahead of his younger brother Cody and his KWR Harley-Davidson Pan America.
Saddlemen Race Development’s defending class champion Cory West is the only rider other than Lewis to win a race (race one at Daytona) and he’s currently fourth in the title chase, a point behind Cody Wyman and 21 points behind Lewis.
Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle is the first non-Harley in the championship point standings. Doyle and his Yamaha MT-09 SP are fifth in the title chase.
Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. – Tripleheader!
The women of the Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. program will race three times this weekend at Ridge Motorsports Park to make up for the race that was pushed off the schedule by inclement weather at Barber Motorsports Park in April.
With three races on their scorecard thus far in 2025, Miranda Cain is atop the point standings, with the Road America race-two winner leading Kira Knebel by four points in what promises to be a hotly contested championship.
Knebel is the only multi-time winner so far in 2025, with her wins coming in the lone Barber race and the recent race one at Road America.
Shea MacGregor is only six points out of the lead in third, with her two second-place finishes putting her just four points clear of Camille Conrad and eight ahead of Cassie Creer, who rounds out the top five in the championship as the series has its first tripleheader at Ridge.
Pre-Ridge Motorsports Park Notes…
Last year’s race at Ridge Motorsports Park was the fifth round of the MotoAmerica Championship, and Mathew Scholtz left the Pacific Northwest with four wins in a row, including his two at Ridge. Scholtz beat PJ Jacobsen and Kayla Yaakov to win race one prior to the controversial race two in which Scholtz and Jacobsen came together, with the latter crashing out of the race. Scholtz was able to carry on, beating Yaakov and Tyler Scott.
Cody Wyman and Jake Lewis were the winners in the two Mission Super Hooligan National Championship races at Ridge. Wyman beat Hayden Schultz and Tyler O’Hara in race one, with Lewis topping O’Hara and Cory West in race two.
Mikayla Moore won both races in the Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. program at Ridge in 2024, beating Camille Conrad and Kira Knebel in race one and Lauren Prince and Aubrey Credaroli in race two.
The SC-Project Twins Cup class didn’t race at Ridge last year, but Dominic Doyle and Rocco Landers emerged victorious in the two races in 2023.
PJ Jacobsen leads all active Supersport racers on the all-time MotoAmerica Supersport wins list with 13 career victories. That puts him sixth all-time and just one behind Josh Herrin (fifth) and two behind Richie Escalante (fourth). The all-time wins leader in the class is JD Beach with 32 career victories.
Seven riders have won Mission Super Hooligan National Championship races in the four-year history of the class: Tyler O’Hara, Cory West, Jake Lewis, Andy DiBrino, Jeremy McWilliams, Cody Wyman, and Troy Herfoss. O’Hara leads the way with eight wins.
Out with the renaissance, in with the tulips. From the euphoria of Mugello we head for the history of Assen as the Netherlands welcomes us for Round 10. There’s a snapshot of history at every turn, where battles have been a staple in this part of the world for a century and MotoGP has raced since our very first season in 1949. Marc Marquez (Ducati Lenovo Team) leads the charge to Assen – another one of his teammate Francesco Bagnaia’s happy hunting grounds. Will they repeat their showdown from Mugello?
Mugello was an opportunity for Bagnaia to assert himself as a contender against Marquez in the Championship but now, more than 100 points back, he needs some answers on the way to Assen as he tries to get one over his teammate. Marc Marquez’s record at Assen isn’t as sparkling as Bagnaia’s, with two wins from 2014 and 2018 against the #63’s three wins on the last three Sunday’s at ‘The Cathedral of Speed’. In between both in the standings, Alex Marquez (BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP) was second at Mugello but has never had a top five at Assen – something he corrected on Italian soil a week ago when faced with the same stat. 40 points ahead of his brother, Marc will leave as Championship leader regardless of Dutch results.
The battle behind is intensifying as well, with Franco Morbidelli (Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team) giving away points over the course of last weekend at Mugello to teammate Fabio Di Giannantonio. It could be more of the same at Assen, with ‘Diggia’ securing a double top five last year whilst two P9s were what Morbidelli brought home.For Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia Racing), Assen has special memories with pole, a Sprint win and P2 on Sunday in 2023 and Aprilia are also competitive there, so they’ll hope for a podium charge after a solid Mugello. Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) hopes to rekindle some magic after Mugello woes, with Assen being the scene of victory in 2021 and somewhere already earmarked as a venue likely to reward Yamaha. Having looked strong at Mugello but not finishing on Sunday, Maverick Viñales (Red Bull KTM Tech3) is another rider who enjoys at Assen and has been the benchmark KTM throughout the majority of our European tour.
That said, Pedro Acosta (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) remains 23 points ahead of Quartararo in the standings and despite struggling last year, will be optimistic of improvements in 2025. Fermin Aldeguer (BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP) struggled to find the groove at Mugello but Assen was the scene of pole and P2 last year in Moto2™. There’s then the Trackhouse MotoGP Team pairing of Ai Ogura and Raul Fernandez, both inside the top ten at Mugello and in good form. Fernandez was seventh last time out whilst Ogura battled to P10 on his comeback ride; don’t sleep on either of them to make waves.
Johann Zarco remains sixth in the standings but a double DNF at Mugello after a tricky Aragon have left the #5 dropping points across the last two rounds – he took his first MotoGP pole back in 2017 at Assen but is yet to take a podium; a top ten return will likely suffice this weekend for the CASTROL Honda LCR rider. Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) was a solid P9 on Sunday at Mugello and has been a podium contender in previous years at Assen; in need of a strong qualifying, he’ll hope that he’s further up the order again in the Netherlands. Fellow KTM rider Enea Bastianini (Red Bull KTM Tech 3) didn’t see the chequered flag on Sunday last weekend and seeks redemption this time out, whereas Joan Mir (Honda HRC Castrol) hopes for a top ten return after an under-the-radar weekend at Mugello.
Miguel Oliveira’s (Prima Pramac Yamaha MotoGP) best result of the year came last time out; teammate Jack Miller was a retiree but comes to the place of his heroic first MotoGP win in 2016. Alex Rins (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) will race at Assen with Yamaha for the first time having missed last season’s Dutch GP and Somkiat Chantra (IDEMITSU Honda LCR) continues chasing his first points in the class. Luca Marini (Honda HRC Castrol) is still out injured and replaced by Aleix Espargaro on this occasion – who has some good Assen form – and Lorenzo Savadori (Aprilia Racing) is in the saddle for Jorge Martin.
No venue has hosted MotoGP more times than Assen, whatever layout that may well have been. A whole country embracing the most exciting sport on Earth, past, present and future. A legacy venue which has welcomed just about every star this sport has ever seen, the last weekend in June can only mean one thing… we’re ready for another stunning show at the TT Circuit Assen.
Moto2: can anyone halt Gonzalez’ charge?
A three-place grid penalty down to P8 was no problem for Manuel Gonzalez (Liqui Moly Dynavolt Intact GP) at Mugello as the World Championship leader stormed to a relatively commanding fourth win of the season. Now, heading to Assen, Aron Canet (Fantic Racing Lino Sonego) is nine points down on his compatriot, so can the latter respond?
Who knows how pivotal Canet’s hard-fought P3 will prove to be come the end of the season. And what a scrap it was by the way. The Spaniard and Diogo Moreira (Italtrans Racing Team) treated us to a wonderful fight, and it’s those pair who act as Gonzalez’s closest challengers in the title race. Moreira is 40 points away, so the Brazilian could do with chipping away at Gonzalez’s lead as soon as possible.
Can Albert Arenas (ITALJET Gresini Moto2) build on his brilliant P2 finish from Mugello this weekend? And will there be a turnaround in fortunes for 2023 Dutch GP winner Jake Dixon (ELF Marc VDS Racing Team)? The two-time 2025 victor hasn’t finished inside the top 10 since the French GP, and the other two riders inside the top six in the championship, those being Barry Baltus (Fantic Racing Lino Sonego) and Senna Agius (Liqui Moly Dynavolt Intact GP), also failed to notch up top 10s at Mugello.
A red-hot Gonzalez, a ready-to-fight Canet, an in-form Moreira and a bucket full of hungry riders desperate for a podium return. Oh, and two home heroes for the fantastic Dutch fans to cheer on in the form of Collin Veijer (Red Bull KTM Ajo) and Zonta van den Goorbergh (RW-Idrofoglia Racing GP). Let’s see what unfolds in Assen, shall we?
Moto3: will the rookies stake their claim on more history?
It was coming, wasn’t it? And it had to be at Mugello. Mirroring mentor Marc Marquez, Maximo Quiles (CFMOTO Valresa Aspar Team) clinched his debut Grand Prix win on Italian soil in a rookie 1-2 finish. The Spaniard beat compatriot Alvaro Carpe (Red Bull KTM Ajo) by just 0.006s in a classic Moto3 battle, so what does Assen have in store for us?
That debut win, coupled with back-to-back P2s at Silverstone and Aragon, has seen Quiles catapult himself up to P5 in the overall standings. Carpe is on the up too following his double podium success in Aragon and Mugello, he’s just one point behind second place Angel Piqueras (FRINSA – MT Helmets – MSI). The latter, with a P7, lost a few more points to pacesetter Jose Antonio Rueda (Red Bull KTM Ajo) and is without a podium since Jerez. Will that change this weekend?
Rueda will be hoping he can continue building on his healthy 56-point advantage on a circuit on which he finished P4 last year. David Muñoz (Liqui Moly Dynavolt Intact GP) was a podium finisher in the Netherlands last season, so expect the Aragon GP winner to be strong again, as fourth place Joel Kelso (LEVEL-UP MTA) aims to end his three-race podium drought. And how good did that podium feel for the experienced Dennis Foggia (CFMOTO Valresa Aspar Team)? That was his first top three since the 2022 Thai GP, so is that now the catalyst for the Italian’s form to turn in 2025?
We’ve had three winners in the last three races in Moto3, and as we know, there’s a whole host of riders who will want to make that four in four on Sunday at ‘The Cathedral of Speed’.
Roadracing World’s Wild Card Editor Sam Fleming met up with World Superbike Champion Toprak Razgatlıoğlu and talked about the mental and physical preparation to win World Superbike races.
It was an serendipitous encounter so the audio quality is a little noisy due to the loud room.
The 2025 Vintage Cup Series continued June 21 and 22 at New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville, NJ, as part of the 2025 AHRMA National Roadracing Series presented by Motobilia.
Sponsored by Roadracingworld.com, and NYC Norton (nycnorton.com), AHRMA’s 2025 Vintage Cup features the 500 Premier class which includes 500cc four-stroke machines built up to and including 1968. Featured bikes from this era would include the 500cc Manx Norton, Matchless or Seeley G50, BSA Goldstar or 500cc BSA Twin “works” replica, Benelli “works” four, Harley KR, Honda Drixton Twin, and more.
On Saturday, Tim Joyce, piloting John Turner’s 1968 Seeley G50, led from the start, taking the hole shot with Kevin Dinsmoor, on Turner’s 1962 BMW R-50, Brian Larrabure riding a 1962 NYC Norton Manx, and Mark Heckles racing his father’s original 1959 Norton Manx close behind. Two-thirds through the race, Heckles experienced a mechanical and was forced to pull off. Dinsmoor stayed within a few bike lengths of Joyce, but wasn’t able to reel him in. Joyce maintained the lead, taking the checkered flag for the win, followed by Dinsmoor and Larrabure.
Sunday’s race had Joyce again taking the hole shot with Larrabure getting a great launch, having switched to his 1968 NYC Norton Seeley G50, then Dinsmoor, followed by Dave Roper, bumping up his 350cc 1970 Harley-Davidson ERTT. Dinsmoor was able to overtake Larrabure in turn 2, catching up to Joyce at turn 6 passing him going through turns 7-8 then setting the race pace. Dinsmoor held the lead with Joyce hot on his rear wheel until the beginning of last lap when Joyce passed him. Joyce put his head down and maintained the lead for the remainder of the last lap taking the checkered flag, Dinsmoor coming in second, Larrabure third and Roper fourth.
“As a famous fast racer once said, New Jersey was poised to be ‘Hot and Hazy, Fast and Crazy!’, and that it was! Tim Joyce, riding John Turner’s excellently prepared Seeley G50, put the bike on the top of the box both days for the AHRMA 500 Premier Vintage Cup. But not without Kevin Dinsmoor giving his beautiful Turner 500 BMW the berries the whole time. Special shout out to John Turner for fielding two very nice bikes this weekend with Tim and Kevin making him proud. I had the luxury of calling the Vintage Cup races from the air conditioned tower both days and must give a special mention to all the weekend’s track workers, volunteers, and riders who put in a great showing in the heat and humidity,” said Kenny Cummings of NYC Norton.
Kenny continued, “Another story that must be mentioned is fast guy Mark Heckles taking his father Keith Heckles’s original 19″-wheeled 1959 Manx Norton (ex Phil Read) out of the barn and getting it out onto the track after decades of quiet. These old bikes are cranky; a different beast than what Mark is used to pushing through the corners. But he’s a fantastic racer who honoured his dad with his outright enthusiasm throughout the weekend. Well done. This is the kind of fabric AHRMA is woven from.”
“We get a few weeks off, then set our sights for Blackhawk Farms just outside of Chicago on August 1-3rd. This event is always a big draw with a great cross section of our American classic racing demographic. See you there!”
On any weekend AHRMA works to have the safest race weekends possible. We have great news to share from the weekend at New Jersey Motorsports Park. “As AHRMA has had some generous donations toward the Airfence program through fundraising efforts for the Roadracing World Action Fund we are gaining access to more availability through the network. Our mission continues. At NJMP we collected $1000 in donations from riders and families during the Awards Ceremony from auctioning a new Hit-Air Safety vest,” Shared Bob Robbins, AHRMA Safety Committee Chair.
Rounds 13 and 14 of the AHRMA National Road Race Series Presented by Motobilia will be August 2-3 at Blackhawk Farms Raceway, South Beloit IL.
The annual Vintage Cup spotlights one of AHRMA’s road racing classes with extra attention on competitors in the selected class during each race event. Enhanced awards for the Vintage Cup competitors are presented separately from other class trophies during the Saturday awards ceremony at each AHRMA National Road Race event. Highlights from each Vintage Cup race will be reported in RoadRacingWorld.com’s online edition. At the conclusion of each season, the perpetual Vintage Cup trophy will be engraved with the national champion winner’s name and presented to the winner at the National Awards Banquet to keep for one year.
2025 AHRMA Roadracing Series Presented by Motobilia, 500 Premier – Vintage Cup Results:
Saturday, June 21, 2025
1. Tim Joyce, 1968 Seeley G50, Springfield, VT
2. Kevin Dinsmoor, 1962 BMW Turner R-50, Colchester, CT
3. Brian Larrabure, 1962 Norton Manx, Calabasas, CA
4. Mark Heckles, 1959 Norton Manx, Bedford, NY
Sunday, June 22, 2025
1. Tim Joyce, 1968 Seeley G50, Springfield, VT
2. Kevin Dinsmoor, 1962 BMW Turner R-50, Colchester, CT
3. Brian Larrabure, 1968 Seeley G50, Calabasas, CA
4. Dave Roper, 1970 Harley-Davidson ERTT, Hicksville, NY
About AHRMA:
The American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association (AHRMA) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to competing on fantastic classic and true vintage along with a wide range of modern motorcycles. With over 3,000 members, AHRMA is the largest vintage racing group in North America and one of the biggest in the world. The association has grown steadily over the years, reflecting the increasing interest in classic bikes.
Alvaro Carpe was quickest during Moto3 World Championship practice Friday morning at TT Assen Circuit, in the Netherlands. Riding his Red Bull KTM Ajo on Pirelli control tires, the Spaniard covered the 2.82-mile (4.54 km) road course in 1:46.078, topping the field of 26 riders.
Maximo Quiles was the best of the rest with a 1:46.189 on his CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team KTM.
Angel Piqueras was third with a lap time of 1:46.457 on his FRINSA – MT Helmets – MSI KTM.
Classification moto3 fp1
Hello friends. This is Carrie Hildebrand with news of David’s memorial services in Maryland. All are welcome.
Memorial Service In Loving Memory of David Andrew Hildebrand
A ceremony will be held at the Maryland Veterans Cemetery in Crownsville, in the committal shelter, on Thursday, July 10th, 2025.
Service Time: 10:45 AM (prompt)
Please arrive by: 10:30 AM
Location: Maryland Veterans Cemetery – Crownsville
1122 Sunrise Beach Rd, Crownsville, MD 21032
The service will last approximately 20 minutes. Following the service, David’s ashes will be placed in the columbarium. We are permitted to view the placement from our vehicles, but kindly note that approaching the columbarium during interment is not allowed.
Your presence in honoring David’s memory is deeply appreciated. Please let his parents or sister know if you plan to attend the service by July 6th if possible.
American rider Garrett Gerloff has extended his current contract with the Kawasaki WorldSBK Team to race the Ninja ZX-10RR in the 2026 FIM Superbike World Championship season.
Gerloff, now 29 years of age, came to WorldSBK after a successful MotoAmerica career, which saw him finish third in the Supersport category in 2015, securing two race wins on the way. His prowess and even greater potential was made clear by his successive MotoAmerica Supersport Championship wins in 2016 and 2017.
Promoted to the Superbike category in MotoAmerica in 2018, he would race there for two seasons. He progressed from fifth in year one to third in year two, before he was picked up by an officially supported WorldSBK satellite team for the 2020 season.
Having ridden for two different manufacturers before joining Kawasaki in 2025, Garrett has scored eight podiums in all, with this total including two second-place rankings.
Since he became the ‘Lone Star’ in the new Puccetti Racing-operated Kawasaki WorldSBK Team this season, the Texan rider has made progress in what is one of the most closely contested WorldSBK line-ups in a decade or more.
The continuation of an official Kawasaki entry in WorldSBK on the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10RR demonstrates in a very public way not only Kawasaki’s relentless focus on the Ninja brand through all levels of production-derived racing, it also underlines a desire to continue the success that has been achieved by several iterations of the Ninja ZX-10R and ZX-10RR including seven WorldSBK Rider Championship wins.
Despite being new in the WorldSBK entry list this season, the Kawasaki WorldSBK Team is already well established in the paddock. The current season is at the exact halfway point right now, making the signing of Gerloff for the 2026 campaign at such an early stage a strong vote of confidence on what the Kawasaki WorldSBK Team thinks can be achieved alongside Garrett – not just in the second half of 2025 but next year as well.
Manuel Puccetti:
“It is a pleasure to continue to work with Garrett because, for us, he is a real top rider, the same level as the front guys. I think we will have better and better results. Our collaboration started this year, together with our new Kawasaki supported team, in WorldSBK. This achievement makes me incredibly proud. It is also a big responsibility to do our best for a wonderful brand that we have worked with for more than 20 years, in one form or another. We have continuously improved with Garrett this year, and I am quite positive that for next year, we will make a good step and have better and better results. We are super-pleased to work with Garrett as he is such a nice guy. I saw in the history of Kawasaki’s collaboration with new riders that they only improve in their speed, progression, and performance.”
Garrett Gerloff:
“I am very happy to have signed again with the Kawasaki WorldSBK Team for the 2026 season. I have been confident in the team and everything we have been doing. We are moving forward, even if it has been tough at times. I am happy with the team, the progress that we have made in the first half of the season, and their belief in me. They have been great at not putting undue pressure on me. I can see that they believe in the project and they also believe in me. We all want to keep investing and developing the bike. I am excited to build on what I have come to know about the Ninja ZX-10RR. It’s going to be nice to continue with the same project, the same people, and while not having to re-learn anything fundamental. For 2026, I am sure that is going to be positive for us.”
Mr. Manabu Shinobu, Senior Manager – Marketing Department, Kawasaki Motors, Ltd:
“We are sure Ninja fans will be enthusiastic about Garrett Gerloff extending his agreement to ride for the Kawasaki WorldSBK Team into 2026. From a factory perspective, his feedback helps us to continually develop our Ninja machines for riders everywhere. The Ninja brand has a global significance – including in Garrett’s USA homeland where the Ninja concept was originally conceived. We join all Kawasaki fans wishing him good fortune in 2026.”
Assen is the only venue that has hosted a Grand Prix every year since our inaugural season in 1949, with the sole exception of 2020. This year also marks the 100th anniversary since racing began in the area.
The original Assen circuit used up to 1954 measured 16.54 km, reduced to 7.7 km in 1955 and then 6.1 km in 1984. The current layout has been used since 2006, with minor adjustments. In 2016, the Dutch TT was held on Sunday for the first time after previously taking place on Saturday.
The 500cc race at the 1975 Dutch TT is the only MotoGP race where the first two riders were credited with the same race time. Barry Sheene and Giacomo Agostini finished so close that the timekeepers of the day, using manual timing accurate to 0.1 seconds, were unable to split them.
The top 15 at the 2018 Dutch GP was the closest in MotoGP at the time, with 16.043 seconds between Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa. The record is now 8.928, from the 2021 Doha GP. Assen 2018 is now the fifth.
MOTOGP™ WINNERS IN ASSEN ON THE GRID
Francesco Bagnaia 3 (2022, 2023, 2024) – Marc Marquez 2 (2014, 2018) – Fabio Quartararo 1 (2021) – Maverick Viñales 1 (2019) – Jack Miller 1 (2016)
SPRINT WINNERS IN ASSEN
Marco Bezzecchi 1 (2023) – Francesco Bagnaia 1 (2024)
FACTORIES IN ASSEN: BEST RESULTS
GP wins:
Honda 21 – Yamaha 18 – MV Agusta 15 – Suzuki 9 – Gilera 7 – Ducati 4 – Norton 1
Sprint wins:
Ducati 2
Honda ’s most recent MotoGP win at Assen was Marc Marquez in 2018 from pole. Honda have seven MotoGP™ wins in the modern era here with six riders: Valentino Rossi, Sete Gibernau, Nicky Hayden, Casey Stoner, Marc Marquez and Miller.
Yamaha ’s most recent MotoGP win here was for Quartararo in 2021. Yamaha have 11 wins in the modern era with five riders: Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo, Ben Spies, Viñales and Quartararo.
Ducati ’s four MotoGP wins here are Stoner in 2008 (from pole), Bagnaia in 2022 (from pole), 2023 and 2024 (also from pole). Ducati have then taken the last three poles in Assen, including with Bezzecchi in 2023.
Aprilia ’s best MotoGP results in the modern era at the Dutch TT are Viñales, P3 in 2022, his maiden podium with the Noale factory, and Aleix Espargaro, P3 in 2023.
KTM have a best MotoGP™ result here of P4 for Brad Binder in 2023.
EXTRA FACTS AND STATS
11 riders on the grid have MotoGP podiums in Assen: Marc Marquez (7), Viñales (4), Bagnaia (3), Quartararo (2), Bezzecchi (2), Miller (1), Joan Mir (1), Alex Rins (1), Enea Bastianini (1), Jorge Martin (1) and substitute rider Aleix Espargaro (1). 7 have
taken pole: Bagnaia (2), M. Marquez (1), Johann Zarco (1), Quartararo (1), Viñales and A. Espargaro (1) and Bezzecchi (1).
Only two of the current riders have scored points in all ninth Tissot Sprints: Marc Marquez and Alex Marquez.
The only two riders to win the MotoGP™ race at Assen in successive years are Bagnaia (2022, 2023 and 2024), and Rossi (2004 and 2005). In the 500cc class, Giacomo Agostini and Mick Doohan both won the Dutch TT five years in a row.
WHAT HAPPENS IF…
90 If a Ducati qualifies in the top three, it will be the 90th consecutive GP that a Ducati rider starts on the front row, a run that stretches back to Valencia 2020.
76 Ducati are on a streak of 75 podiums in a row. Another will extend their own record to 76. The only manufacturer with more than 75 podiums in a row is Honda with 83 from the FIM GP 1993 to the Imola GP 1999.
68 If Marc Marquez wins the GP at the Dutch TT, it will be his 68th win in MotoGP, equalling MotoGP Legend Giacomo Agostini in second on the list riders with most MotoGP wins, behind MotoGP Legend Valentino Rossi (89).
20 Rookie Fermin Aldeguer will be 20 years and 85 days old on Sunday and would be the second-youngest MotoGP winner after Marc Marquez (20 years and 63 days old in Austin, 2013), if he wins on Sunday.
10 If Marc and Alex Marquez both finish either P1 or P2 in the Sprint in Assen, it will be all 10 Sprints in 2025 that have been a Marquez 1-2 – Marc-Alex or Alex-Marc.
5 There are five riders on the grid who could take their maiden MotoGP win this weekend: Raul Fernandez, Pedro Acosta and rookies Ai Ogura, Somkiat Chantra and Fermin Aldeguer.
3 If Marc Marquez wins on Sunday at the Dutch TT, it will be the first time he wins in the three successive GP races since 2019 (five, from the San Marino GP to the Australian GP).
1 KTM and Aprilia riders could give their factory a maiden premier class win in Assen.
The new range of small Aprilia 125 sports bikes is further enhanced by the arrival of the
new Aprilia RS 125 GP Replica, a homage to the refined Aprilia RS-GP25, the prototype
used to compete in the MotoGP World Championship, ridden by World Champion Jorge
Martin and Marco Bezzecchi.
The Aprilia RS 125 GP Replica boasts the same edgy livery as the official MotoGP bikes,
dominated by black with red and purple graphics, including the logos of the Aprilia Racing
team sponsors.
A high-adrenaline “Race Replica”, with the aesthetics of the original reproduced in every
detail, it also stands out from the competition thanks to its superb standard equipment,
including the QuickShift electronic gearbox for rapid, precise gear changes and the
single-seat cover for an even sportier look.
A bold aesthetic that instantly evokes the track and a sense of competition, further
enhanced by the bold matte black paint finish of the swingarm and frame, crafted
from die-cast aluminium beams with cross-ribbed reinforcement – the result of Aprilia’s
extensive expertise.
The Aprilia RS 125 GP Replica also benefits from the major technical improvements
introduced on the RS 125 for 2025. The tuning of the single-cylinder engine with fourvalve timing and liquid cooling has also been overhauled, and boasts the same firstclass performance as the previous model, despite being compliant with the more stringent
Euro 5+ regulations: 15 hp (11 kW) at 10,500 rpm and 11.5 Nm at 8,500 rpm, figures
which set a new benchmark in this category.
Traction control (which can be disabled) and the cutting-edge dual-channel ABS
developed in collaboration with Bosch also come as standard, and the bike also features
a rollover prevention system in the event of emergency braking.
Full results from AHRMA at New Jersey Motorsports Park:
0725 AHRMA Full Results From NJMP
Things were going quite smoothly for Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Cameron Beaubier heading into the Road America round of the 2025 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship. He’d won three of the first four races, and it appeared to be clear sailing in his attempt to win a sixth MotoAmerica Superbike Championship. Even after making a few mistakes in race one in Wisconsin, Beaubier emerged from Saturday’s race with a third-place finish and a 26-point lead over Jake Gagne.
Then Sunday happened.
While battling with race-one winner Josh Herrin for the lead in race two, Beaubier crashed his BMW in the Carousel and could only watch as the defending MotoAmerica Superbike Champion won his second successive race on his Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati. And, just like that, the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship is a wide-open battle with just 18 points covering the top four and only two points separating the two men who fought for the title last year – Beaubier and Herrin.
Now the teams head west for the all-important three-week stretch with rounds five and six slated for Ridge Motorsports Park and WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, respectively.
First up, Ridge Motorsports Park in Shelton, Washington, June 27-29.
While his early-season points lead has evaporated, don’t expect Beaubier to panic as the series heads to the Pacific Northwest. And why would he? After all, he just needs to remember that he hobbled into the Ridge round last June (for what was round five) on crutches after suffering a broken heel at Road America. His points lead may be gone, but Beaubier is healthy and ready to restart a season in which he’s had race-winning pace in the first three rounds.
For Herrin, the 2025 season didn’t start great with three third-place finishes and a fifth in the first two rounds, but that all changed with his two wins at Road America. Herrin has made a habit of starting slowly and then building momentum as summer hits, and for all intents and purposes, the championship will start fresh in Washington – at least for the two at the top.
Beaubier and Herrin, however, aren’t the only ones in this title fight after the first three rounds. Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong has four second-place finishes to start his season, and only a semi-disastrous 10th-place finish in race two’s rainstorm at Road Atlanta have stopped him from being even closer than the 15 points between him and Beaubier.
Fong has shown that he’s comfortable in the Yamaha factory team, and he’s making the most of a situation that he’s always wanted to be in.
Fong’s teammate Jake Gagne is back and healthy with the three-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion just three points behind his teammate and 18 points from Beaubier. Gagne has three podium finishes so far, including his dominant wet-weather victory in race two at Barber. Gagne is coming off his worst finish of the season, an eighth in race two at Road America when he collided with Sean Dylan Kelly off the start, ran off track, and had to charge through the field to score his eight points.
Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Richie Escalante started his season with a crash in the first race of the year at Barber Motorsports Park, but he’s been consistent ever since as he tries to climb out of a points-deficit hole. Escalante earned his first podium of the season in race two at Road America with his third-place finish. He is fifth in the championship, 54 points adrift of Beaubier.
Real Steel Honda’s Hayden Gillim is sixth in the title chase on his Honda CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP as he continues to get Superbike upgrades race by race. Gillim has finished every race with a best of sixth on three occasions.
Escalante’s teammate Kelly will show up at Ridge tied with Gillim for sixth, and hopeful of having a short memory as he attempts to put a horrendous weekend at Road America behind him. After starting the season with four successive fourth-place finishes, Kelly earned just two points from the two races in Wisconsin.
Even though the point standings don’t reflect it, FLO4LAW/SBU Racing’s Benjamin Smith has been impressive. Two non-finishes blemish his standing in the championship, but he comes to Ridge Motorsports Park hot off a career Superbike best fourth-place in race two at Road America.
Gillim’s teammate JD Beach is tied with Smith for seventh in the Superbike standings with his non-finish in race one at Road America the only blemish in his season that sees him atop the title chase in the Superbike Cup, a class within a class for those racing Stock 1000-spec motorcycles. Beach’s mechanical DNF in race one in Wisconsin ended his hopes of a perfect Superbike Cup season, but he bounced back the next day, however, to start a new streak.
Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates rounds out the top 10 as the series heads west with the Georgian 10 points behind Smith and Beach.
Pre-Ridge Motorsports Park Notes…
The Ridge Motorsports Park round of the 2025 MotoAmerica Championship will feature five classes: Superbike, Motovation Supersport, SC-Project Twins Cup, the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship, and Royal Enfield’s Build.Train.Race.
Cameron Petersen beat Jake Gagne by a scant .032 of a second to win a wet Superbike race one at Ridge in 2024. Coincidently, the .032 matched Gagne’s number. Xavi Forés was third in his fill-in ride for the injured Richie Escalante on the Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki.
Race two featured a dry racetrack and a different outcome with Josh Herrin taking the victory over Bobby Fong and Cameron Petersen.
The difference between a wet racetrack and a dry racetrack? Almost 17 seconds a lap at Ridge Motorsports Park on a Superbike. At least according to last year’s best race laps. In the wet race one, Jake Gagne had the fastest lap of the race, a 1:57.079. In the dry race two, Josh Herrin clicked off a best of 1:40.167.
Frenchman Loris Baz earned pole position for the two Superbike races last year with his lap of 1:39.478. Baz was joined on the front row by Cameron Petersen and Josh Herrin.
The Superbike lap record at Ridge Motorsports Park is still held by Jake Gagne with his record-setting lap of 1:39.145 set during Q2 in 2022.
Cameron Beaubier and Josh Hayes arrive in Washington still tied atop the all-time AMA road race wins list with 89 vicxtories apiece.
With his 68 AMA Superbike wins, Beaubier is getting to the point of being within reach of all-time AMA Superbike wins leader Mat Mladin, with the Australian sitting at the top of the list with 82 Superbike victories.
Three-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Jake Gagne is the winningest rider in the five-year (10-race) history of MotoAmerica holding a round of its championship at Ridge Motorsports Park. Gagne has won five Superbike races at Ridge with Cameron Beaubier winning three, including the first two races in 2020.
More, from a another news release issued by MotoAmerica:
Although there have been four different race winners in the first three rounds of the 2025 Motovation Supersport season, the cream of a year ago has already risen to the top, giving us another PJ Jacobsen vs. Mathew Scholtz slugfest as the series heads to the Pacific Northwest for round four at Ridge Motorsports Park, June 27-29.
The name at the top of the heap is Jacobsen and his Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL Ducati Panigale V2, with the New Yorker consistently fast with two wins, three seconds, and a third, which translates to him finishing on the podium in all six races.
Scholtz and his Strack Racing Yamaha YZF-R9 have also won two races, but his non-wins haven’t been as strong as Jacobsen’s, with two thirds, a fourth, and a fifth. The South African rolls into Shelton, Washington, trailing Jacobsen by 20 points.
Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott hasn’t won a race yet in 2025, but you can sense that it’s coming. And he needs it, as he can’t let the top two get much farther ahead and still have a fighting chance in the championship. Scott is coming off a good weekend at Road America with a second in race one and a fifth in race two. He heads to round four 46 points behind Jacobsen and 26 in arrears of Scholtz.
Scholtz’s teammate Blake Davis is the third rider to win a Motovation Supersport race, with the youngster arriving at Ridge fresh off a race-two victory at Road America. Unfortunately, Davis crashed out of race one. The 19-year-old is two points behind Scott in the battle for third.
The fourth rider to win a race is BPR Racing’s Josh Hayes, with the four-time AMA Superbike Champion winning in the rain in the second race of the year at Road Atlanta. Hayes had a miserable Road America and has dropped down to eighth in the title chase.
Altus Motorsports’ Jake Lewis was happy to see Road America in his rear-view mirror, with the Kentuckian’s size always a problem at the track in Elkhart Lake. Lewis salvaged two seventh-place finishes to hold on to fifth in the championship, just two points ahead of Celtic/Economy Lube+Tire/Warhorse HSBK Ducati’s Cameron Petersen, with the South African scoring his first podium finish of the year in race two with his second-place finish.
Petersen is just four points ahead of Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s Kayla Yaakov and 10 ahead of Hayes.
SC-Project Twins Cup – Back To Work
The last time the SC-Project Twins Cup racers turned a wheel in anger was way back on April 4 at Barber Motorsports Park, which means that many of them haven’t raced a motorcycle since then.
Alessandro Di Mario isn’t among them, as the Robem Engineering-backed Kentuckian has been competing and is leading the Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul Championship. But this coming weekend, Di Mario will be back on his Aprilia RS 660 in an effort to successfully defend his 2024 Twins Cup title.
So far, so good for Di Mario, as he leads the title chase heading to Ridge by 19 points over RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Matthew Chapin.
Chapin leads the way in race wins with his two victories from Daytona back in March, but he has a non-score in race two at Barber, while Di Mario has been both fast and consistent with a win and three second-place finishes.
Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle is third in the championship by just five points over Bad Boys Racing’s Avery Dreher and seven over Koch Racing’s Sean Ungvarsky.
Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul race winner Hank Vossberg will make his SC-Project Twins Cup debut at Ridge Motorsports Park on a Robem Engineering Aprilia RS 660.
The top three in the championship are racing motorcycles from three different manufacturers – Aprilia, Suzuki, and Yamaha.
Mission Super Hooligan National Championship – Lewis Red Hot
Saddlemen Race Development’s Jake Lewis heads to the Pacific Northwest with the hot hand in the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship. Lewis has won three of the four races held thus far in 2025 – race two at Daytona International Speedway and a doubleheader sweep at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.
The three wins put him atop the championship standings by 15 points over his teammate Travis Wyman, who in turn is just five points ahead of his younger brother Cody and his KWR Harley-Davidson Pan America.
Saddlemen Race Development’s defending class champion Cory West is the only rider other than Lewis to win a race (race one at Daytona) and he’s currently fourth in the title chase, a point behind Cody Wyman and 21 points behind Lewis.
Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle is the first non-Harley in the championship point standings. Doyle and his Yamaha MT-09 SP are fifth in the title chase.
Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. – Tripleheader!
The women of the Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. program will race three times this weekend at Ridge Motorsports Park to make up for the race that was pushed off the schedule by inclement weather at Barber Motorsports Park in April.
With three races on their scorecard thus far in 2025, Miranda Cain is atop the point standings, with the Road America race-two winner leading Kira Knebel by four points in what promises to be a hotly contested championship.
Knebel is the only multi-time winner so far in 2025, with her wins coming in the lone Barber race and the recent race one at Road America.
Shea MacGregor is only six points out of the lead in third, with her two second-place finishes putting her just four points clear of Camille Conrad and eight ahead of Cassie Creer, who rounds out the top five in the championship as the series has its first tripleheader at Ridge.
Pre-Ridge Motorsports Park Notes…
Last year’s race at Ridge Motorsports Park was the fifth round of the MotoAmerica Championship, and Mathew Scholtz left the Pacific Northwest with four wins in a row, including his two at Ridge. Scholtz beat PJ Jacobsen and Kayla Yaakov to win race one prior to the controversial race two in which Scholtz and Jacobsen came together, with the latter crashing out of the race. Scholtz was able to carry on, beating Yaakov and Tyler Scott.
Cody Wyman and Jake Lewis were the winners in the two Mission Super Hooligan National Championship races at Ridge. Wyman beat Hayden Schultz and Tyler O’Hara in race one, with Lewis topping O’Hara and Cory West in race two.
Mikayla Moore won both races in the Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. program at Ridge in 2024, beating Camille Conrad and Kira Knebel in race one and Lauren Prince and Aubrey Credaroli in race two.
The SC-Project Twins Cup class didn’t race at Ridge last year, but Dominic Doyle and Rocco Landers emerged victorious in the two races in 2023.
PJ Jacobsen leads all active Supersport racers on the all-time MotoAmerica Supersport wins list with 13 career victories. That puts him sixth all-time and just one behind Josh Herrin (fifth) and two behind Richie Escalante (fourth). The all-time wins leader in the class is JD Beach with 32 career victories.
Seven riders have won Mission Super Hooligan National Championship races in the four-year history of the class: Tyler O’Hara, Cory West, Jake Lewis, Andy DiBrino, Jeremy McWilliams, Cody Wyman, and Troy Herfoss. O’Hara leads the way with eight wins.
Out with the renaissance, in with the tulips. From the euphoria of Mugello we head for the history of Assen as the Netherlands welcomes us for Round 10. There’s a snapshot of history at every turn, where battles have been a staple in this part of the world for a century and MotoGP has raced since our very first season in 1949. Marc Marquez (Ducati Lenovo Team) leads the charge to Assen – another one of his teammate Francesco Bagnaia’s happy hunting grounds. Will they repeat their showdown from Mugello?
Mugello was an opportunity for Bagnaia to assert himself as a contender against Marquez in the Championship but now, more than 100 points back, he needs some answers on the way to Assen as he tries to get one over his teammate. Marc Marquez’s record at Assen isn’t as sparkling as Bagnaia’s, with two wins from 2014 and 2018 against the #63’s three wins on the last three Sunday’s at ‘The Cathedral of Speed’. In between both in the standings, Alex Marquez (BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP) was second at Mugello but has never had a top five at Assen – something he corrected on Italian soil a week ago when faced with the same stat. 40 points ahead of his brother, Marc will leave as Championship leader regardless of Dutch results.
The battle behind is intensifying as well, with Franco Morbidelli (Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team) giving away points over the course of last weekend at Mugello to teammate Fabio Di Giannantonio. It could be more of the same at Assen, with ‘Diggia’ securing a double top five last year whilst two P9s were what Morbidelli brought home.For Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia Racing), Assen has special memories with pole, a Sprint win and P2 on Sunday in 2023 and Aprilia are also competitive there, so they’ll hope for a podium charge after a solid Mugello. Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) hopes to rekindle some magic after Mugello woes, with Assen being the scene of victory in 2021 and somewhere already earmarked as a venue likely to reward Yamaha. Having looked strong at Mugello but not finishing on Sunday, Maverick Viñales (Red Bull KTM Tech3) is another rider who enjoys at Assen and has been the benchmark KTM throughout the majority of our European tour.
That said, Pedro Acosta (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) remains 23 points ahead of Quartararo in the standings and despite struggling last year, will be optimistic of improvements in 2025. Fermin Aldeguer (BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP) struggled to find the groove at Mugello but Assen was the scene of pole and P2 last year in Moto2™. There’s then the Trackhouse MotoGP Team pairing of Ai Ogura and Raul Fernandez, both inside the top ten at Mugello and in good form. Fernandez was seventh last time out whilst Ogura battled to P10 on his comeback ride; don’t sleep on either of them to make waves.
Johann Zarco remains sixth in the standings but a double DNF at Mugello after a tricky Aragon have left the #5 dropping points across the last two rounds – he took his first MotoGP pole back in 2017 at Assen but is yet to take a podium; a top ten return will likely suffice this weekend for the CASTROL Honda LCR rider. Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) was a solid P9 on Sunday at Mugello and has been a podium contender in previous years at Assen; in need of a strong qualifying, he’ll hope that he’s further up the order again in the Netherlands. Fellow KTM rider Enea Bastianini (Red Bull KTM Tech 3) didn’t see the chequered flag on Sunday last weekend and seeks redemption this time out, whereas Joan Mir (Honda HRC Castrol) hopes for a top ten return after an under-the-radar weekend at Mugello.
Miguel Oliveira’s (Prima Pramac Yamaha MotoGP) best result of the year came last time out; teammate Jack Miller was a retiree but comes to the place of his heroic first MotoGP win in 2016. Alex Rins (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) will race at Assen with Yamaha for the first time having missed last season’s Dutch GP and Somkiat Chantra (IDEMITSU Honda LCR) continues chasing his first points in the class. Luca Marini (Honda HRC Castrol) is still out injured and replaced by Aleix Espargaro on this occasion – who has some good Assen form – and Lorenzo Savadori (Aprilia Racing) is in the saddle for Jorge Martin.
No venue has hosted MotoGP more times than Assen, whatever layout that may well have been. A whole country embracing the most exciting sport on Earth, past, present and future. A legacy venue which has welcomed just about every star this sport has ever seen, the last weekend in June can only mean one thing… we’re ready for another stunning show at the TT Circuit Assen.
Moto2: can anyone halt Gonzalez’ charge?
A three-place grid penalty down to P8 was no problem for Manuel Gonzalez (Liqui Moly Dynavolt Intact GP) at Mugello as the World Championship leader stormed to a relatively commanding fourth win of the season. Now, heading to Assen, Aron Canet (Fantic Racing Lino Sonego) is nine points down on his compatriot, so can the latter respond?
Who knows how pivotal Canet’s hard-fought P3 will prove to be come the end of the season. And what a scrap it was by the way. The Spaniard and Diogo Moreira (Italtrans Racing Team) treated us to a wonderful fight, and it’s those pair who act as Gonzalez’s closest challengers in the title race. Moreira is 40 points away, so the Brazilian could do with chipping away at Gonzalez’s lead as soon as possible.
Can Albert Arenas (ITALJET Gresini Moto2) build on his brilliant P2 finish from Mugello this weekend? And will there be a turnaround in fortunes for 2023 Dutch GP winner Jake Dixon (ELF Marc VDS Racing Team)? The two-time 2025 victor hasn’t finished inside the top 10 since the French GP, and the other two riders inside the top six in the championship, those being Barry Baltus (Fantic Racing Lino Sonego) and Senna Agius (Liqui Moly Dynavolt Intact GP), also failed to notch up top 10s at Mugello.
A red-hot Gonzalez, a ready-to-fight Canet, an in-form Moreira and a bucket full of hungry riders desperate for a podium return. Oh, and two home heroes for the fantastic Dutch fans to cheer on in the form of Collin Veijer (Red Bull KTM Ajo) and Zonta van den Goorbergh (RW-Idrofoglia Racing GP). Let’s see what unfolds in Assen, shall we?
Moto3: will the rookies stake their claim on more history?
It was coming, wasn’t it? And it had to be at Mugello. Mirroring mentor Marc Marquez, Maximo Quiles (CFMOTO Valresa Aspar Team) clinched his debut Grand Prix win on Italian soil in a rookie 1-2 finish. The Spaniard beat compatriot Alvaro Carpe (Red Bull KTM Ajo) by just 0.006s in a classic Moto3 battle, so what does Assen have in store for us?
That debut win, coupled with back-to-back P2s at Silverstone and Aragon, has seen Quiles catapult himself up to P5 in the overall standings. Carpe is on the up too following his double podium success in Aragon and Mugello, he’s just one point behind second place Angel Piqueras (FRINSA – MT Helmets – MSI). The latter, with a P7, lost a few more points to pacesetter Jose Antonio Rueda (Red Bull KTM Ajo) and is without a podium since Jerez. Will that change this weekend?
Rueda will be hoping he can continue building on his healthy 56-point advantage on a circuit on which he finished P4 last year. David Muñoz (Liqui Moly Dynavolt Intact GP) was a podium finisher in the Netherlands last season, so expect the Aragon GP winner to be strong again, as fourth place Joel Kelso (LEVEL-UP MTA) aims to end his three-race podium drought. And how good did that podium feel for the experienced Dennis Foggia (CFMOTO Valresa Aspar Team)? That was his first top three since the 2022 Thai GP, so is that now the catalyst for the Italian’s form to turn in 2025?
We’ve had three winners in the last three races in Moto3, and as we know, there’s a whole host of riders who will want to make that four in four on Sunday at ‘The Cathedral of Speed’.
Roadracing World’s Wild Card Editor Sam Fleming met up with World Superbike Champion Toprak Razgatlıoğlu and talked about the mental and physical preparation to win World Superbike races.
It was an serendipitous encounter so the audio quality is a little noisy due to the loud room.
The 2025 Vintage Cup Series continued June 21 and 22 at New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville, NJ, as part of the 2025 AHRMA National Roadracing Series presented by Motobilia.
Sponsored by Roadracingworld.com, and NYC Norton (nycnorton.com), AHRMA’s 2025 Vintage Cup features the 500 Premier class which includes 500cc four-stroke machines built up to and including 1968. Featured bikes from this era would include the 500cc Manx Norton, Matchless or Seeley G50, BSA Goldstar or 500cc BSA Twin “works” replica, Benelli “works” four, Harley KR, Honda Drixton Twin, and more.
On Saturday, Tim Joyce, piloting John Turner’s 1968 Seeley G50, led from the start, taking the hole shot with Kevin Dinsmoor, on Turner’s 1962 BMW R-50, Brian Larrabure riding a 1962 NYC Norton Manx, and Mark Heckles racing his father’s original 1959 Norton Manx close behind. Two-thirds through the race, Heckles experienced a mechanical and was forced to pull off. Dinsmoor stayed within a few bike lengths of Joyce, but wasn’t able to reel him in. Joyce maintained the lead, taking the checkered flag for the win, followed by Dinsmoor and Larrabure.
Sunday’s race had Joyce again taking the hole shot with Larrabure getting a great launch, having switched to his 1968 NYC Norton Seeley G50, then Dinsmoor, followed by Dave Roper, bumping up his 350cc 1970 Harley-Davidson ERTT. Dinsmoor was able to overtake Larrabure in turn 2, catching up to Joyce at turn 6 passing him going through turns 7-8 then setting the race pace. Dinsmoor held the lead with Joyce hot on his rear wheel until the beginning of last lap when Joyce passed him. Joyce put his head down and maintained the lead for the remainder of the last lap taking the checkered flag, Dinsmoor coming in second, Larrabure third and Roper fourth.
“As a famous fast racer once said, New Jersey was poised to be ‘Hot and Hazy, Fast and Crazy!’, and that it was! Tim Joyce, riding John Turner’s excellently prepared Seeley G50, put the bike on the top of the box both days for the AHRMA 500 Premier Vintage Cup. But not without Kevin Dinsmoor giving his beautiful Turner 500 BMW the berries the whole time. Special shout out to John Turner for fielding two very nice bikes this weekend with Tim and Kevin making him proud. I had the luxury of calling the Vintage Cup races from the air conditioned tower both days and must give a special mention to all the weekend’s track workers, volunteers, and riders who put in a great showing in the heat and humidity,” said Kenny Cummings of NYC Norton.
Kenny continued, “Another story that must be mentioned is fast guy Mark Heckles taking his father Keith Heckles’s original 19″-wheeled 1959 Manx Norton (ex Phil Read) out of the barn and getting it out onto the track after decades of quiet. These old bikes are cranky; a different beast than what Mark is used to pushing through the corners. But he’s a fantastic racer who honoured his dad with his outright enthusiasm throughout the weekend. Well done. This is the kind of fabric AHRMA is woven from.”
“We get a few weeks off, then set our sights for Blackhawk Farms just outside of Chicago on August 1-3rd. This event is always a big draw with a great cross section of our American classic racing demographic. See you there!”
On any weekend AHRMA works to have the safest race weekends possible. We have great news to share from the weekend at New Jersey Motorsports Park. “As AHRMA has had some generous donations toward the Airfence program through fundraising efforts for the Roadracing World Action Fund we are gaining access to more availability through the network. Our mission continues. At NJMP we collected $1000 in donations from riders and families during the Awards Ceremony from auctioning a new Hit-Air Safety vest,” Shared Bob Robbins, AHRMA Safety Committee Chair.
Rounds 13 and 14 of the AHRMA National Road Race Series Presented by Motobilia will be August 2-3 at Blackhawk Farms Raceway, South Beloit IL.
The annual Vintage Cup spotlights one of AHRMA’s road racing classes with extra attention on competitors in the selected class during each race event. Enhanced awards for the Vintage Cup competitors are presented separately from other class trophies during the Saturday awards ceremony at each AHRMA National Road Race event. Highlights from each Vintage Cup race will be reported in RoadRacingWorld.com’s online edition. At the conclusion of each season, the perpetual Vintage Cup trophy will be engraved with the national champion winner’s name and presented to the winner at the National Awards Banquet to keep for one year.
2025 AHRMA Roadracing Series Presented by Motobilia, 500 Premier – Vintage Cup Results:
Saturday, June 21, 2025
1. Tim Joyce, 1968 Seeley G50, Springfield, VT
2. Kevin Dinsmoor, 1962 BMW Turner R-50, Colchester, CT
3. Brian Larrabure, 1962 Norton Manx, Calabasas, CA
4. Mark Heckles, 1959 Norton Manx, Bedford, NY
Sunday, June 22, 2025
1. Tim Joyce, 1968 Seeley G50, Springfield, VT
2. Kevin Dinsmoor, 1962 BMW Turner R-50, Colchester, CT
3. Brian Larrabure, 1968 Seeley G50, Calabasas, CA
4. Dave Roper, 1970 Harley-Davidson ERTT, Hicksville, NY
About AHRMA:
The American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association (AHRMA) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to competing on fantastic classic and true vintage along with a wide range of modern motorcycles. With over 3,000 members, AHRMA is the largest vintage racing group in North America and one of the biggest in the world. The association has grown steadily over the years, reflecting the increasing interest in classic bikes.
