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Josh Hayes took the win in a wet Supersport Race Two at Barber Motorsports Park on Sunday. PJ Jacobsen finished second for the second time this weekend, ahead of Race One winner Mathew Scholtz. Blake Davis finished fourth, ahead of Max VanDenBrouck.
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Alessandro Di Mario won the soaking, red-flagged Twins Cup Race Two on Sunday at Barber Motorsports Park. On the official timing and scoring, Di Mario is credited with winning by a lap from Dominic Doyle and Levi Badie, who finished second and third. Andrew Weyh was fourth, ahead of Zachary Foster.
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VICTORY ON DEBUT FOR JAYDEN FERNANDEZ WITH TEAM MMR IN THE APRILIA RS660 TROPHY AT THE ITALIAN CIV!
A weekend to remember for young American rising star Jayden Fernandez, who made a sensational debut with Team MMR in the Aprilia RS 660 Trophy, part of the opening round of the 2025 Italian CIV Championship, at Misano.
Coming straight from the MotoAmerica Junior Cup, Jayden faced his European debut with enthusiasm and grit on a track he had never seen before. The weekend started on Friday with a small setback: A minor crash during FP1 limited him to just four laps. But in FP2, he bounced back strong, closing the session with an impressive 5th place.
On Saturday, during qualifying, Jayden and Team MMR showed great chemistry and focus: In QP1 he secured P3, placing him on the front row for the race. Track conditions worsened in QP2, and with no one able to improve their times, the starting grid was determined by QP1 results.
Race day on Sunday was nothing short of spectacular. Jayden got off to a brilliant start from third position, immediately slotting into second at the first corner. Midway through the race, a technical issue forced rider Ferruccio Lamborghini to slow down, allowing Jayden to take the lead with six laps to go. From there, he managed the race like a seasoned pro, even setting the fastest lap (1:45.550) on lap 9 of 12, and crossed the finish line in 1st place, with a 3.6-second lead over runner-up Arnoud.
An outstanding performance that confirms Jayden — and Team MMR — as one of the combinations to watch this season, despite it being his very first European race weekend.
Jayden Fernandez:
“It was an amazing experience to win right away in my first race! I want to thank my family for their unconditional support, and a huge shoutout to Team MMR for being so professional and competitive. I felt confident going into the weekend, and I took full advantage of the opportunity. Now it’s time to keep training and stay focused for the next race at Mugello.”
Next round: June 1st, 2025 – Mugello Circuit
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Jake Gagne led a wet Superbike warmup session on Sunday at Barber Motorsports Park. Yamaha teammate Bobby Fong was second, ahead of defending Champion Josh Herrin. Cameron Beaubier was fourth, ahead of Sean Dylan Kelly in fifth.
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Corey Alexander led a wet Supersport warmup session on Sunday at Barber Motorsports Park. PJ Jacobsen was second, giving the Rahal Ducati squad a 1-2 for the session, ahead of Tyler Scott, with Max VanDenBrouck fourth, the Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki squad teammates less than half a second apart, and Josh Hayes finishing fifth.
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Foxborough, Mass., (April 6, 2025) – Rain, cold weather, and wind turned the Foxborough Supercross into a race of survival of both man and machine. Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Aaron Plessinger was untouchable in the mud and took a convincing win in the abbreviated 12-minute plus one lap Main Event. It was Plessinger’s second-ever victory in the class.
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Quadlock Honda Racing’s Shane McElrath followed up earning his career-first Heat Race win with his career-first podium finish with a steady ride to second place. Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing’s Cooper Webb pulled late-race magic from his hat yet again, using the final lap to turn a sixth-place position into a spot on the podium and extend his points lead in the 2025 Monster Energy AMA Supercross Championship. In the Eastern Divisional 250SX Class, Team Honda HRC Progressive’s Chance Hymas earned the win, making history as the sixth different winner in six rounds of 250SX Class racing. Plessinger and Hymas’s victories contributed to making 2025 the first season in the sport’s history to deliver 18 different winners, and there are still five rounds remaining.
“When I got off to the start, I had Cooper [Webb] to the right of me and [Justin Cooper] in front of me; when they slowed down over here to go through the ruts I just stood up on the pegs, and just leaned back and pinned it. As soon as I got in the lead I knew I had to just ‘go’ and stay up, but I knew Shane was right there… It’s crazy. With how the season started I would have, man, I was sitting in California [during the early rounds] not two months ago and I was like, ‘What am I doing here? I don’t know what’s going on [with poor results].’ But I’ve just got to give it up to the whole team, Red Bull KTM Factory Racing, they never stopped believing in me. I’m kinda getting emotional, but it was a tough start to the season, and for these guys to stick behind me and not stop believing in me, that’s a lot for me to ask for. So, hat’s off to them… [Thank you to] these fans for sticking it out in the rain. I don’t know if I’m a fan of anything that I would stick out in pouring down rain for eight plus hours, but we’ve got the best fans in the world. The best fans ever in any sport, so I give it up to the fans, they had the best performance of the night.” – Aaron Plessinger
“Praise the Lord. We’re back up here again. This week was a really good week mentally… and tonight was all about opportunity. I was on the line and I was praying, ‘God, just give me traction.’ That’s all I want on the grate, and I got a good start, leaned back, and started shifting. I almost lost it in the first corner… I want to keep this progression going… This is the first time in the 450 class where my whole program has been in unison, and that’s what I’m really excited about, so we’ll keep at it.” – Shane McElrath
“In these kinds of conditions you don’t know what can happen. It’s so stressful when you’re leading the championship. You’re hoping your motorcycle makes it first of all, and then just getting into the Main you’re like, ‘All right I can breathe a little bit.’ These are bummer conditions. Nobody truly, I don’t think, wants to race in this unless you’re [Aaron Plessinger], maybe…. [Early on] I had a great pace… then I get excited, and I fall. So, I get up, and you kind of go into panic mode, and then you fall again. So, I fell twice and finally was like, ‘All right, I’m going to just calm down, I’ll take the points loss, but let’s minimize the points, let’s at least get as far up as we can.’ And that’s what happened. I shut my brain off and it’s crazy what happens. You start sending it, you start finding a flow. I don’t know what happened the last lap, I just jumped all the jumps, like my buddy says. It was cool. I’m stoked to be up here on the podium again.” – Cooper Webb
“Anything is possible with these conditions. My ankle has just gotten [worse]. I hurt it as I hurt my shoulder [15 days ago], but wasn’t paying attention to it. But as I kept putting my foot down, it would twist my toe out and I kept hurting it more and more… In practice today I caught it again and it was the worst I’ve hit it. So, I wasn’t even, honestly, going to race because it’s not getting better, it’s getting worse…. I ended up coming out here and giving it a whirl… Ended up fourth on the night, so I couldn’t be more stoked with how the night went. I’m glad I went out here [and raced]. This was a brutal race, it really was.” – Ken Roczen
Chance Hymas Earns Career-First 250SX Class Victory
In 250SX Class racing, Chance Hymas moved into the lead just before the mid-point of the Main Event, which was shorted to 8 minutes plus one lap due to the track conditions. Phoenix Racing Honda’s Cullin Park earned second, his career-first podium, after riding inside the top five for most of the race. Also earning his career-first podium, The Dirt Bike Depot’s Gage Linville fought forward to third place after a start that put him outside the top 15 in the abbreviated Main Event.
“This means so much to me. We’ve been working our butts off to get here. I took a step back this week and just tried to appreciate where I’m at. I wasn’t even planning on racing [a previous round] Tampa, with my knee [injury]. And just to be in this position – I know these are completely different circumstances, but you know, to finish first you’ve got to finish, first. I’m so excited to have the team behind me; they’ve been working their butts off and they’ve been believing in me since Day 1. I can’t thank those guys enough. And thank you to the fans for sticking it out in the rain… [regarding his outside gate pick] Sometimes you’ve got to take chances and right now I’ve got nothing to lose. Sometimes you take a shot like that and it doesn’t work, sometimes it works; and for me I’d say it worked. I feel like, at our level, everything’s so close you’ve got to be willing to take chances like that.” – Chance Hymas
“I’ll tell you what, I was getting a little too excited there with two laps to go. Something about Foxborough and just ripping some good starts. I nailed the start and [Trainer] Heath Harrison [had] told me, ‘You get a start, you ride a good first few laps, and you’ve got a podium,’ and honestly I kind of half believed him. And then I ripped a start and I said [to myself], ‘I’ve got this. I’m in the hunt tonight.’ I just stuck to my laps… My mechanic, with two laps to go, [signaled] ‘Just bring it home.’ Those were probably the two slowest laps I’ve ever done in my career, and they got the job done.” – Cullin Park
“I’m pretty speechless right now. I don’t even have words. As a kid you always dream for this moment and for it to come true is just unreal. I’m just really speechless right now.” – Gage Linville
Justin Rodbell on his fourth place 250SX Class finish – “I borrowed this bike from my boy Mason Kerr, so without him this wouldn’t be possible. I rode it one day, Monday, and I got P-4 [tonight]. That’s kind of insane. I worked [my HVAC job] Tuesday and Thursday, rode a little more on Wednesday. You probably wouldn’t believe my schedule and what I do, but we have fun and I love it.”
The Foxborough event marked the fourth Premiere Qualifying Event race of the SMX Next season, which gives the top amateur racers a chance to experience racing on a professional Supercross track in front of a stadium crowd. Yamaha’s Kade Johnson, in only his second SMX Next event, earned the win in a dramatic race. Johnson led at three different points, including when it mattered most. Kawasaki Team Green’s Landen Gordon grabbed the Holeshot, lost then re-gained the lead late in the race. Gordon crashed on the last lap and earned second place. Orange Brigade KTM’s Luke Fauser also held the lead, but a crash took him out of it; he eventually finished third. The young racers next meet for the SMX Next – Supercross AMA National Championship which takes place on April 26th as part of the Pittsburgh Supercross inside Acrisure Stadium.
“That was the craziest race that I’ve ever raced. I don’t ride in mud normally. I just went out there, I knew everyone was going to be wild, I was probably not setting the fast laps, but I was consistent. I heard the crowd going crazy, [to crowd] you guys are awesome. That was such a fun race… This is so hard on the bikes. My bike’s probably cooked right now. I don’t care, I just wanted to say that was so much fun. I heard the crowd lose their minds over in that corner, and I saw the leader down, and I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, I’ve just got to be calm.’ Thank you, fans, thank you!” – Kade Johnson
No stranger to Gillette Stadium, Rob Ninkovich was on hand to watch the Foxborough Supercross. Ninkovich is a two-time Superbowl champion who played for the New England Patriots for eight seasons. He rode dirt bikes as a kid and has done some riding since his retirement from the NFL. On the pre-race broadcast, Race Day Live, Ninkovich related football to Supercross, including, “In football you can kind of walk through – you can look at what the plays are going to look like. You can’t walk through moto, right? You have to just hit it and go, and you’re really just trying to control being on the edge.”
The Foxborough Supercross kicks off a rare four-city sweep through the Northeast. Each Monster Energy AMA Supercross race also pays points toward its season as well as for the SMX World Championship™. The SMX League™ seeds riders based on points totaled from the Supercross and the AMA Pro Motocross seasons. Two SMX Playoff rounds and the SMX World Championship Final deliver thrilling post-season racing throughout September.
Race fans can view the 2025 Monster Energy AMA Supercross season through an impressive array of options. Peacock streams every race live as well as the pre-race show Race Day Live which covers qualifying and racing news. Select races are also broadcast or streamed, live or in an encore presentation, on NBC, CNBC, USA Network, and NBC Sports digital platforms. CNBC airs each round on the Monday following the race at 1:00a.m. ET. Spanish-language coverage is available live in the US on Telemundo Deportes’ Facebook and YouTube channels. Live international coverage can be found on the SuperMotocross Video Pass (supermotocross.tv) with the option of English, Spanish and French language broadcast teams. Live audio coverage can be heard for each race on NBC Sports Audio on SiriusXM Channel 85 provides live audio coverage of each round.
The racing continues its Northeast sweep with Round 13 lining up the racers again on Saturday, April 12th at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Philly Supercross will run on a rare daytime schedule and air on NBC, with Opening Ceremonies kicking off the racing at 2:30p.m. ET. The event will also bring both 250SX divisions together for the season’s second East/West Showdown. For video highlights, race results, live timing during qualifying, and ticket sales to attend an event in-person, please go to SupercrossLIVE.com.
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(Editors Note: Sunday’s on-track activities have been delayed due to lightning storms in the area.)
Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Cameron Beaubier had a difficult season last year, missing races due to injury, yet still clawing his way back to finish second in the 2024 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship. This year, the five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion is hoping for more, and it’s a case of “so far, so good” as Beaubier won the opening race of the series at Barber Motorsports Park on Saturday.
But it was far from easy. The race was a Beaubier vs. Bobby Fong battle with Fong’s Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing teammate Jake Gagne watching the proceedings from third place. Beaubier led early, stalked by Fong, then Fong took over, stalked by Beaubier. It turns out that Beaubier was saving his best for last as he dropped the hammer with two laps remaining, turning the fastest lap of the race on the final lap.
At the finish line it was Beaubier over Fong by .833 of a second. Gagne held on for a lonely third, 6.5 seconds behind the battle in front of him and a similar distance to the rider behind him.
That rider was Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly. Kelly didn’t get off the start line very well, but he kept pushing until getting into fourth place, a position he would hold to the finish. It was a good result for the Floridian in what was his first Superbike race on a GSX-R1000R.
Defending MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Josh Herrin was a lonely fifth, well behind Kelly and some seven seconds ahead of Real Steel Honda’s Hayden Gillim. FLO4LAW/SBU Racing’s Benjamin Smith was seventh with Superbike Cup winner JD Beach eighth on his Stock 1000-spec Real Steel Honda.
BPR Racing Yamaha’s Bryce Kornbau and Aftercare Scheibe Racing’s Danilo Lewis rounded out the top 10.
Notables who failed to finish the race were Jones Honda’s Ashon Yates and Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Richie Escalante. Yates was taken out by a mechanical issue while Escalante crashed out of fourth on the third lap.
Supersport: Scholtz Perfect
Strack Racing’s Mathew Scholtz started the defense of his 2024 Supersport Championship in perfect fashion on a sunny Saturday at Barber Motorsports Park. He led every session, put his brand-new Yamaha YZF-R9 on pole position, and stormed to victory in the opening round of the series.
Scholtz topped Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s PJ Jacobsen, his championship rival from last year, by 2.9 seconds in the red-flag-shortened 18-lap race with the New Yorker not able to quite match the pace of the South African.
Scholtz’s teammate Blake Davis was an impressive third with the 18-year-old only five seconds behind his race-winning teammate and almost 10 seconds ahead of Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott.
Scott, meanwhile, was busy fighting off Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s Kayla Yaakov, who in turn was just marginally ahead of her Rahal Ducati Moto w/Roller Die’s Corey Alexander.
Celtic/Economy Lube+Tire/Warhorse HSBK Ducati’s Cameron Petersen muffed the start but fought through to fourth only to suffer from brake fade. The South African soldiered on to finish seventh.
Altus Motorsports’ Jake Lewis, ADR Motorsports’ David Anthony, and BPR Racing’s Josh Hayes rounded out the top 10.
“The only thing that I’m kind of bummed about was that I couldn’t do better than a 26 flat,” Scholtz said. “During the morning practice I was able to do 25s consistently. I was blowing a couple of corners. I know that the wind was pretty hard there, so maybe I was just pushing into a couple corners and braking a little bit sooner than I should have in a couple of other spots where the wind was helping you. Overall, I think it’s definitely going to be on the wets (tires) tomorrow. We haven’t tested the bike in the wet conditions, so it’s going to be a little bit difficult for us. But the bike has been superb so far. I’m looking forward to it.”
Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul – Di Mario In Control
Warhorse Ducati/American Racing’s Alessandro Di Mario made Saturday’s Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul his own, leading 99 percent of the race to win by 6.5 seconds at Barber Motorsports Park.
Although Yamaha bLU cRU Estenson Racing’s Sam Drane nabbed the holeshot into turn one, Di Mario wasted little time in getting to the front. Once he was there, he never faltered, taking the win by 6.5 seconds.
The battle for second went to the bitter end. Initially, it was three fighting for the spot but CTR/D&D Cycles’ Bodie Page, the winner of race two at Circuit of The Americas last weekend, crashed out of the battle. The Aussie, however, remounted and fought his way through to score valuable eighth-place points.
That left Drane and Tytler’s Cycle Racing’s Hank Vossberg fighting for the runner-up spot, with Drane winning the battle by just .076 of a second. It was Drane’s best finish of the early season after he posted two third-place finishes in the opening round in Texas.
Vossberg’s third-place finish was his best of the year and his first podium finish in the new class.
MP13’s Ella Dreher was fourth, her best finish of the young season, after winning a battle to the line with Royalty Racing’s King by .30 of a second.
Jones Honda’s Julian Correa would have been in that battle, but he was given a five-second penalty for jumping the start. Still, he managed to finish sixth.
SC-Project Twins Cup – Dreher’s Surprise
A day after walking away uninjured from a big crash, Bad Boys Racing’s Avery Dreher ran down race-long leader Alessandro Di Mario to earn his first win of the season and his second-career SC-Project Twins Cup victory, (on a CJ Czaia-sponsored Team Hammer Suzuki GSX-8R).
This one looked to be a Di Mario romp as the fast qualifier took off from the pack to earn what appeared to be a comfortable victory. But with his grip level fading quickly, the Robem Engineering Aprilia RS 660-mounted Di Mario was a sitting duck as Dreher carved his way through traffic to get to the back of Di Mario with just a lap to go. And then he made his pass, crossing the finish line just .058 of a second ahead of the defending Twins Cup Champion.
Third place went to RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Matthew Chapin, who came out on top of a fight with Speeddemon Racing’s Logan Cunnison by .048 of a second. Chapin’s third-place finish was his third straight podium finish after his two victories in the season opener at Daytona.
With Cunnison fourth, it was Brown Town Racing’s Chase Brown finishing fifth and well clear of Kock Racing’s Sean Ungvarsky, who in turn was well clear of MotorcycleUpholstery.com’s Treston Morrison.
Weyh Racing’s Andrew Weyh, Wolfe Racing’s Ryan Wolfe, and Duffy Racing’s Tyler Duffy rounded out the top 10.
“This is definitely a good turnaround from yesterday,” Dreher said. “I was laying on the ground at about 12 o’clock. The team worked hard to get the bike back together, so I was able to put it on the front row, which is decent. I wasn’t happy with my times, but we figured out a few things with the bike and I think we’re pretty dialed now. I honestly didn’t think I had the rear tire left there at the end. was spinning around everywhere and I didn’t want to push it too hard and end up on the floor but I just have to say a big thank you to the whole team.”
Royal Enfield Build. Train. Race. – Knebel Starts It Off
It wasn’t as dominating as most of Mikayla Moore’s victories in the Royal Enfield Build. Train. Race. series the past two years, but Kira Knebel’s victory on Saturday at Barber Motorsports Park shows the rest of the pack that they have a bit of work to do to keep pace.
Knebel, who finished third to Moore and Camille Conrad in last year’s title chase, bested Shea MacGregor by 6.7 seconds. Despite being beaten, MacGregor’s speed has improved greatly as her best result a season ago was sixth place en route to finishing seventh in the championship.
Knebel had this one in hand from the beginning, turning a best lap of 1:47.041 to win the opening round of the championship.
Conrad opened her second season in the class with a third-place finish, 4.7 seconds adrift of MacGregor. Miranda Cain and Cassie Creer rounded out the top five with those three covered by less than a second.
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Kira Knebel pulled away from the field and took a clean win in Race One of the Royal Enfield Build. Train. Race. series at Barber Motorsports Park. Knebel finished 6.722 seconds ahead of Shea MacGregor, who was five seconds clear of Camille Conrad. Miranda Cain was fourth, ahead of Cassie Creer.
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Cameron Beaubier won the Superbike Race One on Saturday at Barber Motorsports Park, holding off Bobby Fong by 0.833 seconds after 20 laps. Jake Gagne took the final podium spot, and Sean Dylan Kelly took fourth, ahead of defending Superbike Champion Josh Herrin.
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Mathew Scholtz took a clear win in Supersport Race One at Barber Motorsports Park on Saturday. PJ Jacobsen and Blake Davis completed the podium in second and third, with Tyler Scott fourth and Kayla Yaakov fifth.
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