Sunday Superbike Race Two
Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Jake Gagne ended a winless drought of 350 days on Sunday at Barber Motorsports Park, and he did so in dominant fashion with a runaway victory in an Alabama rainstorm.
The three-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion’s previous race victory was a year ago in April when he won race two at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. Following his lone 2024 victory, Gagne suffered with carpal tunnel syndrome, which eventually led to him ending his season to forget early.
But Gagne showed that he’s back on form this weekend in Alabama, winning Sunday’s wet race two after finishing third in a dry race one Saturday.
On Sunday, there was no stopping Gagne. He jumped into the lead in turn one and was never headed, leading by as much as 13 seconds before backing off in the closing stages on a treacherous racetrack. At the finish line, Gagne had a comfortable 6.7 seconds in hand.
Saturday’s race-winner Cameron Beaubier finished second on the Tytlers Cycle Racing BMW M1000 RR, with the five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion crossing the line just a tick over a second ahead of Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati’s Josh Herrin.
Herrin improved from his fifth-place finish on Saturday to a fighting third on Sunday, right on Beaubier’s tail and five seconds ahead of fourth-place finisher Sean Dylan Kelly. Kelly had a productive first weekend on the Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki, with a pair of fourth-place finishes.
Gagne’s teammate Bobby Fong was in the fight for second when he started to drop back with severe vision issues prompted by a fogged-up faceshield. Fong blindly rode to a fifth-place finish a day after finishing second to Beaubier.
Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Richie Escalante was sixth, a day after crashing out of Saturday’s race. Escalante was well back of Fong and five seconds clear of Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach at the completion of the 15-lap race. With his seventh-place finish, Beach again claimed top honors in the Superbike Cup, which is a race within a race for Stock 1000-spec motorcycles.
Beach’s teammate Hayden Gillim had a tipover, remounted, and finished eighth.
Edge Racing’s Jason Waters and Thrashed Bike Racing’s Max Flinders rounded out the top 10.
Notable non-finishers included Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates and FLO4LAW/SBU Racing’s Benjamin Smith, with both riders crashing out in separate incidents.
Race two featured four different manufacturers in the top four: Yamaha, BMW, Ducati and Suzuki.
After the opening round of the 2025 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship, Beaubier leads Gagne by four points, 45-41. Fong is third on 31 points, four ahead of Herrin. Kelly is fifth with 26 points, just one behind Herrin, as the series heads to Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta for round two, May 2-4.
Superbike Race Two
- Jake Gagne (Yamaha)
- Cameron Beaubier (BMW)
- Josh Herrin (Ducati)
- Sean Dylan Kelly (Suzuki)
- Bobby Fong (Yamaha)
- Richie Escalante (Suzuki)
- JD Beach (Honda)
- Hayden Gillim (Honda)
- Jason Waters (BMW)
- Max Flinders (Yamaha)
Sunday Supersport Race Two
Josh Hayes came into the 2025 MotoAmerica season with 88 victories across all classes, making him the winningest racer in AMA history. On Friday, Hayes turned 50. Today, he added to the Hayes legacy by winning the 89th race of his career in a rainstorm at Barber Motorsports Park. And all this after sitting out last year’s championship.
Hayes and his BPR Racing Yamaha YZF-R9 didn’t have the pace in Saturday’s dry race, with the four-time AMA Superbike Champion finishing 10th. On a rainy Sunday in Alabama, Hayes definitely had pace. He shot ahead at the start and though he was never headed, he was most definitely hounded from behind. Initially, the challenge came from Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s Corey Alexander, then Saturday’s race-one winner Mathew Scholtz took up the cause and was all over the back of Hayes. With four laps to go, Scholtz crashed, leaving Alexander’s Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL teammate PJ Jacobsen to take on the challenge of trying to beat Hayes.
Jacobsen waited for a miscue that didn’t come, and the victory went to Hayes by just .789 of a second over the New Yorker. Scholtz, meanwhile, remounted to finish third on his Strack Racing Yamaha YZF-R9.
Scholtz’s teammate Blake Davis was fourth and right on Scholtz’s tailsection. Davis had been in a battle with Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott, with Scott crashing right in front of Davis, who was forced to take evasive action. Davis rode on to fourth with Scott remounting to finish ninth.
Fifth place went to Scott’s teammate Max Van, who was well clear of Altus Motorsports’ Jake Lewis. Jacobsen’s teammate Kayla Yaakov was on Lewis’ tail in seventh.
BPR Racing Yamaha’s Teagg Hobbs ended up eighth with Scott ninth. Altus Motorsports’ Jaret Nassaney rounded out the top 10.
With round one complete, Scholtz leads Jacobsen by one point, 41-40, with Hayes third on 31 points.
Sunday Twins Cup Race Two
Sunday’s SC-Project Twins Cup race was red-flagged on the seventh of 10 laps, and the only thing that was a certainty was that Alessandro Di Mario was the winner. The rest was as clear as mud, and it took a while to sort it all out.
When it was all said and done, it was Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle taking second with Karns/TST Motorsports’ Levi Badie finishing third in the rain-lashed race two. Weyh Racing’s Andrew Weyh was a career-best fourth with Moto-Ace Racing’s Zachary Foster fifth.
Di Mario was one of the few who didn’t crash in the race. With Di Mario out front, Doyle was battling with Speeddemon Racing’s Logan Cunnison until Cunnison crashed out. That left Doyle to fight it out for second with Karns/TST Industries’ Isaac Woodworth. Then Woodworth crashed.
Shortly thereafter, it was RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Matthew Chapin’s turn to crash out of fifth place. Chapin remounted only to crash again on the same lap when his throttle stuck wide open going into turn one.
With five laps to go, Doyle crashed out of second place, but a red flag was thrown, and the South African was credited with second place behind Di Mario.
In total, there were six DNFs and six non-starters in Sunday’s race two.
After two rounds of the SC-Project Twins Cup Championship, Di Mario leads Chapin by 19 points, 85-66. Doyle is third with 52 points, five ahead of Saturday’s race winner Avery Dreher.
Sunday Talent Cup Race Two
Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Hank Vossberg won the first Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul race of his promising young career on Sunday at Barber Motorsports Park, taking full advantage of the mistakes of others to earn victory in the wet race that was red-flagged on the eighth lap.
Vossberg, 14, rode a near-perfect race, topping Jones Honda’s Julian Correa, who was second, 7.6 seconds behind Vossberg and a little less than a second ahead of Saturday’s race winner Alessandro Di Mario. Di Mario ran off track on the fourth lap, which basically took him out of contention for another victory.
Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing’s Sam Drane was fourth after starting from the back of the grid after he missed the sighting lap following his crash in the track familiarization session that was held just prior to the race. Drane’s Australian countryman Bodie Paige, meanwhile, had a big crash on the fifth lap of the race that ended his day.
Envy Powered by Warhorse’s Derek Sanchez rounded out the top five.
Di Mario now has a 21-point lead in the Talent Cup Championship over Drane, 86-65. Vossberg and Correa are tied for third with 54 points, one ahead of Paige.
The collective age of the Talent Cup podium at Barber Motorsports Park was 46 years old – four years younger than Mr. Hayes.
Saturday Superbike Race One
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 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.
Superbike Race One
- Cameron Beaubier (BMW)
- Bobby Fong (Yamaha)
- Jake Gagne (Yamaha)
- Sean Dylan Kelly (Suzuki)
- Josh Herrin (Ducati)
- Hayden Gillim (Honda)
- Benjamin Smith (Yamaha)
- JD Beach (Honda)
- Bryce Kornbau (Yamaha)
- Danilo Lewis (BMW)
Supersport Race One
Strack Racing’s Mathew Scholtz started the defense of his 2025 Motovation 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.
Talent Cup Race One
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.
Twins Cup Race One
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.
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.
Royal Enfield Build. Train. Race. Race One
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.
Friday Superbike
Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Cameron Beaubier got his 2025 season off to a fast start as he led both sessions on Friday at Barber Motorsports Park, earning provisional pole heading into tomorrow’s final qualifying and race one.
Beaubier’s best lap came late in the session on his 18th lap with the five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion ripping off a 1:22.871 to lead Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong by .484 of a second.
Beaubier’s best was .836 of a second off Jake Gagne’s Superbike lap record for 2022.
Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly ended up third fastest in his first non-testing outing on the team’s GSX-R1000 R. Kelly was .798 off Beaubier’s best and just .004 of a second ahead of his teammate Richie Escalante.
Fifth fastest on day one at Barber was lap record holder Gagne on the Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing YZF-R1. Gagne was the last rider within the same second as Beaubier.
Defending MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Josh Herrin was a tick over a second slower than Beaubier in his first day with the number one plate on his Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati.
Real Steel Honda’s Hayden Gillim was seventh fastest with Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates eighth on his Honda CBR 1000RR-R SP.
BPR Racing Yamaha’s Bryce Kombau and Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach rounded out the top 10.
Superbike Q2 will be held on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. with Superbike Race One slated for a 4:10 p.m. start
Motovation Supersport – The Champ’s On Top
Strack Racing’s Mathew Scholtz doesn’t appear to be feeling the weight of his new number-one plate as the defending series champion led the way in today’s Supersport Q1 at Barber Motorsports Park.
Scholtz rode his new Yamaha YZF-R9 to a 1:25.865 to lead his teammate Blake Davis by half a second.
Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s PJ Jacobsen, last year’s championship runner-up, was third fastest and just .037 of a second behind Davis. Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott was fourth fastest.
BPR Racing Yamaha’s Josh Hayes rounded out the top five with the ageless four-time AMA Superbike Champion just a second off Scholtz’s best.
Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul – Di Mario Starts It Off
Warhorse Ducati/American Racing’s Alessandro Di Mario led the way in Q1 for the Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul on Friday at Barber, with his 1:35.524 earning him provisional pole position heading into Saturday morning’s Q2.
Di Mario, who won race one at Circuit of The Americas last weekend, bested COTA’s race-two winner Bodie Paige with the 14-year-old CTR/D&D Cycles-backed Australian ending up second and a tick over a second slower than Di Mario.
Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Hank Vossberg was third fastest with Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing’s Sam Drane ending the session in fourth.
SC-Project Twins Cup – More Di Mario
Robem Engineering’s Alessandro Di Mario is pulling double duty this weekend at Barber Motorsports Park, with the Kentuckian racing in the Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul and the SC-Project Twins Cup. So far, it doesn’t seem to be affecting Di Mario as he ended up earning provisional pole for both classes.
In the SC-Project Twins Cup Q1, Di Mario was dominant, leading the qualifier by 1.7 seconds over Speeddemon Racing’s Logan Cunnison after turning a 1:29.109 on his 13th lap.
Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle ended the day third with championship points leader Matthew Chapin fourth on his RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki GSX-8R.
Karns/TST Industries’ Levi Badie rounded out the top five on his Suzuki GSX-8R
Royal Enfield Build. Train. Race. Knebel Steps Up
The Royal Enfield Build. Train. Race. class began its first race in the post-Mikayla Moore era with everyone hopeful of taking Moore’s spot as the champion of the class.
The first person to step up? Kira Knebel, who earned three podiums en route to third in the 2024 championship. Knebel led last year’s championship runner-up Camille Conrad by 2.8 seconds in Q1, turning a 1:48.523 to Conrad’s 1:51.334. Shea MacGregor, Miranda Cain and Cassie Creer rounded out the top five on Friday afternoon with second through fifth separated by just a tick over half a second.
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