Sunday Superbike Race Two
Josh Herrin charged to his second MotoAmerica Superbike victory on Sunday, with the Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati rider completing a doubleheader sweep of the two races at Road America.
Herrin won Saturday’s Superbike race over Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong and Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Cameron Beaubier, beating those two by almost three seconds. Beaubier had made a few errors along the way, and Herrin felt a bit lucky in nabbing the 17th AMA Superbike win of his career.
On Sunday, Herrin was under pressure from Beaubier at the front when he made the first error of the race with an off-track excursion in the chicane on the second lap. But Herrin fought back and didn’t waste any time in repassing Beaubier for fear of the five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion pulling away at the front.
From there the two circulated in formation, with Herrin doing the leading, Beaubier the following. With four laps to go, the much-anticipated final-lap battle was over when Beaubier crashed at speed in the Carousel, ending his day and allowing Herrin to cruise to his 18th career Superbike victory.
With Beaubier’s crash, Fong inherited second place, finishing 8.6 seconds behind Herrin.
Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Richie Escalante was a popular third with the Mexican milking everything he had out of his dying Suzuki on the final lap. He made it to the finish, just three seconds ahead of Benjamin Smith.
For Smith it was another strong finish with the FLO4LAW/SBU Racing rider again showing speed in racing to a career-best fourth.
Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach was fifth, a little less than a second ahead of his teammate Hayden Gillim. Beach’s fifth also earned him the win in the MotoAmerica Superbike Cup for those racing Stock 1000-spec motorcycles in the Superbike class.
Gillim crossed the line just a fraction of a second in front of Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates with the three Hondas flying in formation in the final laps.
Fong’s teammate Jake Gagne had an eventful start to his race as he came together with Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly, with the incident ruining the race for both. Gagne ended up eighth and Kelly was 14th, ending a miserable weekend for the Floridian.
BPR Racing’s Bryce Kornbau and Aftercare Scheibe Racing’s Danilo Lewis rounded out the top 10.
Beaubier’s points lead evaporated with his crash, and he now leads Herrin by just two points, 111-109. Fong is third with 96 points while Gagne drops to fourth with 93.
Mission King of The Baggers Race Two
The Mission King Of The Baggers series has been a Harley-Davidson/Indian Motorcycle rivalry since day one. On Sunday at Road America, that rivalry was taken up a notch.
A day after watching Harley’s podium lockout in race one on Saturday, S&S/Indian Motorcycle’s Troy Herfoss was determined not to let it happen again. And he rode like it, battling at the front of the pack with an equally intense Bradley Smith in a race between two racers desperately wanting to win.
Smith led into the final corner on the last lap with the lead, ran wide and left a hole that Herfoss charged through. The pair came to together on the exit with Smith crashing his Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing Road Glide and Herfoss riding to victory.
Smith’s two teammates James Rispoli and Kyle Wyman, meanwhile, watched it unfold right in front of them and raced up the hill to finish second and third, respectively.
All involved parties spent some time in Race Direction with the outcome unknown at the time of this writing.
Defending series champion Herfoss ended up topping Rispoli by just .229 of a second. For Rispoli, it was a good weekend after a miserable start to his season. Two podium finishes always make a guy feel better and Rispoli had to be pleased with his results.
Wyman was 1.1 seconds behind and content with a championship points lead that continues to grow. After winning race one and finishing third in race two, Wyman’s points lead is now 57 points over Herfoss.
Herfoss’ teammate Tyler O’Hara finished fourth, hot on Wyman’s tail and slightly ahead of RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson’s Hayden Gillim.
S&S/Indian Motorcycle’s Loris Baz was sixth with Saddlemen Race Development’s Jake Lewis seventh. TAB Performance Racing’s Kyle Ohnsorg, SDI Racing’s Cameron Beaubier and Gillim’s teammate Rocco Landers rounded out the top 10.
Motovation Supersport – Davis Over Petersen
Eighteen-year-old Blake Davis races a motorcycle like a 30-year-old veteran, and he used his skill and maturity to win the second of two Motovation Supersport races at Road America, making up for a crash in race one after contact with Tyler Scott.
Strack Racing’s Davis and Celtic/Economy Lube+Tire/Warhorse HSBK Ducati’s Cameron Petersen did most of the leading during the 11-lap race and, deservingly so, they were the two who led the five-rider duel for victory across the line on Sunday.
The win, by just .195 of a second over Petersen, was Davis’ second-career Supersport win and more than made up for Saturday’s miscue.
Rahal Ducati Moto w/ XPEL’s PJ Jacobsen made the best of his situation, with Saturday’s race winner didn’t have the pace to win, but he made hay while the sun shone and beat his championship rival Mathew Scholtz for third, keeping his perfect 2025 podium streak intact and extending his lead in the championship.
Scholtz, meanwhile, tried the only move he could in an effort to win, diving into the last corner low, but ruining his drive on the exit. At the finish line he was only .301 of a second behind his race-winning teammate Davis.
Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Scott ran with the lead pack and finished fifth, .734 off the lead.
Jacobsen’s teammate Kayla Yaakov rode to a lonely sixth, eight seconds from the lead pack and some nice seconds ahead of Altus Motorsports’ Jake Lewis.
ADR Motorsports’ David Anthony was eighth with the ageless Larry Pegram ninth on the Team Hammer Suzuki GSX-R750.
Altus Motorsports’ Torin Colins rounded out the top 10 right on the back of the Anthony/Pegram battle.
Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul – Di Mario In A Thriller
Seven riders were separated by a tick over a second in Sunday’s Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul race with championship points leader Alessandro Di Mario celebrating his high-school graduation in the best possible way with his third win of the season.
The race featured five riders at the front early on and that number grew to seven in the final laps. At the line it was Di Mario by a scant .021 of a second over Julian Correa, who matched his best finish of the season with a second runner-up. Correa also clocked the fastest lap of the race.
Next up at the finish, and just .029 of a second behind, was yesterday’s winner Sam Drane on his Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing Krämer. Drane’s countryman Bodie Page was just .077 of a second behind his fellow Aussie and only .371 of a second ahead of Royalty Racing’s Carson King.
The fast-improving Cody Kopp was a shadow sixth on his Team Roberts mount, with Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Hank Vossberg, who started on the back row after crashing in the first start of the restarted race, ending up seventh.
On the first start, Drane led into turn one and the Australian and Di Mario opened a quick gap. It was all for nothing, however, as three riders went down in turn five, bringing out a red flag. Those crashing were MP13 Racing’s Ella Dreher, Vossberg, and D&D Certified Racing’s Landon Smith.
Di Mario now leads Drane by 21 points, 127-106. Paige is third with 86 points, one better than Correa.
Stock 1000 – Lee Doubles Down
The MotoAmerica Stock 1000 Championship changed at the start of the second lap of Sunday’s race at Road America when OrangeCat Racing’s Jayson Uribe crashed out of the lead in the high-speed turn one, handing his teammate Andrew Lee a third victory and an expanded lead in the series point standings.
Even though his main championship rival and teammate was out of the race, Lee didn’t let up and he broke the lap record with his 2:12.730 midway through the eight-lap race.
Behind Lee was an all-Honda scrap between Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates and Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach for second place, with the spot ultimately going to Yates by 1.9 seconds over Beach.
BPR Racing’s Bryce Kornbau had a lonely race to fourth as he was well clear of Edge Racing’s Jason Waters and 5.6 seconds behind Beach.
3D Motorsports’ Gabriele Da Silva was able to beat The Bike Experience USA’s Eziah Davis to the line with the pair separated by just .705 of a second.
Hot on their heels came RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Rocco Landers, who was just .139 of a second behind. BPR Racing’s Deion Campbell and Top Pro Motorsports’ Alex Arango rounded out the top 10.
Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race.- Oh, So Close
Miranda Cain won the closest race in Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. history with Cain topping Camille Conrad by a scant .079 of a second.
Cassie Creer finished third, some 13 seconds behind the lead duo.
Yesterday’s winner Kira Knebel crashed out of the race, bringing out the red flag. Shea MacGregor would also lead and would also crash. MacGregor remounted, however, to finish eighth.
Saturday Superbike Race One
There are good weeks and there are great weeks. Josh Herrin is having a great one. Just six days after the birth of twin girls, Herrin went out and won his first Superbike race of the year and the 17th of his career on a sunny Saturday at Road America.
Herrin’s 17th career AMA Superbike win moved him out of a tie with three-time 500cc World Champion Wayne Rainey and into a tie with 2006 MotoGP World Champion Nicky Hayden for ninth on the all-time AMA Superbike win list.
Herrin and his Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati Panigale V4 R led every lap of Saturday’s race as he took advantage of pole-sitter Cameron Beaubier’s miscue in turn one on the opening lap to take a lead he would never relinquish. Herrin, however, didn’t have it easy as Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong stuck with Herrin and the Ducati for the duration.
At the completion of the 12-lap race, Herrin was 2.827 seconds ahead of Fong.
Beaubier recovered from his first-turn blunder to gradually reel in both Fong and Herrin. But turn one again was a bogey corner for Beaubier and his Tytlers Cycle Racing BMW M1000 RR. After passing Fong and setting off after Herrin in the closing stages, Beaubier ran wide in turn one again, recovering again to make a final charge at Fong for second place. At the finish line it was Fong by .009 of a second over the five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion.
Fong’s teammate Jake Gagne was fourth, 21.5 seconds from the front and some five seconds ahead of fifth-placed Richie Escalante on the Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki. Escalante’s fifth-place finish was a lonely one as Real Steel Honda’s Hayden Gillim was 10 seconds behind in sixth.
Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates raced his Honda to seventh, well clear of BPR Racing’s Bryce Kornbau. Thrashed Bike Racing’s Max Flinders and Aftercare Scheibe Racing’s Danilo Lewis rounded out the top 10 finishers.
Notable non-finishers included MotoAmerica Superbike Cup series leader JD Beach, who pulled out with a clutch issue on his Real Steel Honda, and Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly, who crashed out in the early laps. FLO4LAW/SBU Racing’s Benjamin Smith was a non-starter after suffering a mechanical failure in qualifying.
Beaubier now leads the championship by 26 points over Gagne, 111-85, with Herrin moving to third – just a point behind Gagne. Fong, with his third runner-up finish of the season, is fourth – eight points behind Herrin. Kelly holds on to fifth, 59 points behind Beaubier.
Saturday Mission King of The Baggers
Kyle Wyman led teammates Bradley Smith and James Rispoli to a popular podium sweep of the Mission King Of The Baggers race at Road America on Saturday, with the Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing team dominating on a racetrack located just an hour up the road from The Motor Company’s Milwaukee headquarters.
Wyman was fast from the very first practice session and he had pace that the others didn’t seem to have. Fast and confident, the winningest rider in Baggers’ history won his fourth race of the year and the 22nd of his career. The win also built on an already large lead in the championship as the New Yorker now leads the title chase by 48 points over his new-for-2025 teammate Smith, 120-72.
Smith finished second for the second time in his debut season in both the class and the MotoAmerica Championship. In what was his first visit to Road America, the Brit was strong in the race and even closed on Wyman to come up just .255 of a second behind Harley’s team leader after setting the fastest lap of the race on the very last go-around.
Smith, in turn, was 4.2 seconds ahead of Rispoli at the finish. Rispoli was chased to the flag by S&S/Indian Motorcycle’s Tyler O’Hara, RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson’s Hayden Gillim and defending series champion Troy Herfoss, who was a disappointed sixth.
Motovation Supersport – Jacobsen Wins a Thriller
Five riders were in the lead group for the majority of Saturday’s Motovation Supersport race at Road America, with the five narrowing into three on the final lap. The man in the right spot at the right time was Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s PJ Jacobsen, with the New Yorker taking full advantage of others’ mistakes on the final lap to score his second win of the season and further extend his lead in the championship.
Jacobsen topped Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott by 1.3 seconds with the lead pack getting splintered on the final lap. Strack Racing’s Mathew Scholtz was in the battle for the lead on the last lap when he overshot the chicane while trying to pass Jacobsen. The South African lost second place in the process as he was passed by Scott, but he regained his composure to finish a close third – .070 of a second behind Scott.
A fine fourth went to Kayla Yaakov and her Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL Panigale V2. Yaakov ran at the back of the five-rider lead pack and inherited fourth on the final lap when Celtic/Economy Lube+Tire/Warhorse HSBK Ducati’s Cameron Petersen and Scott came together with Petersen forced to take to the escape road on the outside of turn five. Petersen would rejoin to finish fifth after leading the most laps in the race.
Some 10 seconds behind Petersen came a heated battle for sixth with the spot going to BPR Racing’s Teagg Hobbs over Altus Motorsports teammates Jake Lewis and Torin Collins. ADR Racing’s David Anthony and BPR Racing’s Josh Hayes rounded out the top 10.
The race featured plenty of action, and it started on the very first lap when front-row starter Blake Davis and his Strack Racing Yamaha and Scott made contact on the exit of turn five with Davis crashing. Davis would remount to finish 18th.
Jacobsen now leads Scholtz by 17 points, 110-93.
Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul – Drane’s First
Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing’s Sam Drane won his first-career MotoAmerica race with victory on Saturday in the Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul after winning a drafting battle to the finish line.
The race turned into a three-way battle for victory with Drane joined by fellow Australian Bodie Paige and championship points leader Alessandro Di Mario, with just .040 of a second covering the top three.
Early on, it looked as though this was going to be a two-way fight between Warhorse Ducati/American Racing’s Di Mario and CTR/D&D Cycles’ Paige as those two gapped the field.
Meanwhile, three riders crashed together in Canada corner with Royalty Racing’s Carson King, Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Hank Vossberg and Envy Powered by Warhorse’s Derek Sanchez going down. All three were fortunate to escape injury.
Drane went about catching the two ahead of him and he did so, setting the fastest lap of the race and getting to the lead. From there the three swapped the top spot with no one able to gap the other two. It would come down to the final lap and the three could have been covered with a napkin as they crossed the line side by side.
Stock 1000 – Lee Gets It Done
OrangeCat Racing’s Andrew Lee was able to break clear in the early going of the first of two Stock 1000 races at Road America, never made mistakes, and pulled himself clear of the threesome battling for second to take his second victory of the Stock 1000 Championship.
With Andrew clearing off at the front to win by 1.94 seconds, the battle for second went to the finish with Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach taking second from Lee’s teammate Jayson Uribe, with Uribe setting a new lap record with two laps to go. Uribe was second at the time, taking advantage of Beach running wide in turn five, but then Uribe did the same thing on the last lap and Beach pounced. He was just .496 of a second clear of Uribe at the finish, with Uribe .410 of a second ahead of Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates.
BPR Racing Yamaha’s Bryce Kornbau was fourth, some 13 seconds behind the battle for second and well clear of RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki of Rocco Landers.
Edge Racing’s Jason Waters was right on Landers’ rear wheel at the finish line with 3D Motorsports’ Gabriel Da Silva a few seconds behind. Top Pro Motorsports teammates Alex Arango and Christopher Durbin were 10th and 11th, respectively.
Lee, who came into Road America tied atop the championship point standings with Uribe, pulled away a few points and now leads the title chase by nine points, 70-61, over his teammate.
Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. – Knebel’s Second
Kira Knebel kept her perfect win record intact today with her second Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race victory of the season coming in a red-flag-shortened race at Road America. Knebel led all five laps, besting Shae MacGregor by 2.750 seconds.
Miranda Cain rounded out the top three, 3.5 seconds behind, to earn her first podium of the season.
Casey Creer and Kate West rounded out the top five.
Knebel now leads MacGregor by 10 points, 50-40, with Cain third, 11 points behind MacGregor.
Friday Superbike
Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong has never been a fan of racing in the rain, but that didn’t stop the Californian from emerging from a wet session at Road America on Friday afternoon with the provisional pole position heading into tomorrow morning’s Superbike Qualifying 2 session.
With sunny skies in the forecast for the weekend’s Q2 and races, only four riders took part in the session, and Fong was by far the fastest of those to lead Zlock Racing’s Kevin Pinkstaff by 6.1 seconds on the wet track. Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly was third fastest with Zlock Racing’s Brian Pinkstaff rounding out the four who braved the conditions.
Fong’s fastest lap was a 2:34.951, and it’s worth noting that Stock 1000/Superbike Cup racer JD Beach was the fastest rider on a wet day with his 2:32.964 – some two seconds quicker than Fong’s best.
Motovation Supersport – Rain, Rain Go Away
The first class to get a taste of a wet session on Friday was Motovation Supersport, with only eight riders electing to brave the conditions in Qualifying 1.
Of those eight, the rider with the most bravado was Max Van with the Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki rider throwing down a 2:37.575 – a tad over five seconds quicker than ADR Motorsports’ David Anthony, who was just a few tenths quicker than Strack Racing’s Blake Davis.
Then came another big gap to fourth-fastest Joel Ohman and his LaRoche Tree Service-backed Suzuki GSX-R750.
Jansen Racing’s Jake Jansen rounded out the top five.
The other 23 entries didn’t go out, including championship leader PJ Jacobsen, who will attempt to qualify via tomorrow’s Q2 session.
Stock 1000 – Beach In The Rain
Thirteen of the 35 Stock 1000 entries took to the wet racetrack on Friday afternoon and none of them came close to Real Steel Honda’s Beach, with the Kentuckian leading the way in Q2 by 4.8 seconds over The Bike Experience USA’s Eziah Davis. Beach’s fastest lap was the fastest lap of the day in any class.
Edge Racing’s Jason Waters filled the provisional front row, 8.1 seconds off Beach’s pace.
Orange Cat Racing teammates Jayson Uribe and Andrew Lee, the two tied at the top of the Stock 1000 Championship point standings, did just two and one lap, respectively, before calling it a day.
Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul – Drane Over Di Mario
Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul racers were fortunate enough to have sunshine and a fast-drying track for their afternoon Q1 session, and it was Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing’s Sam Drane who came out on top of the 30-minute session. The 14-year-old Australian lapped at a best of 2:40.460 to best Warhorse Ducati/American Racing’s championship leader Alessandro Di Mario by .179 of a second.
Royalty Racing’s Carson King filled the provisional front row with the third fastest time, just .188 of a second behind Alessandro.
CTR/D&D Cycles’ Bodie Paige and Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Hank Vossberg rounded out the top five.
Mission King Of The Baggers – Wyman!
Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing’s Kyle Wyman was unstoppable on Friday afternoon as the Mission King Of The Baggers class was one of two classes to have a dry track for its Q1 session.
Wyman, who also led the morning session, lapped at 2:18.091 to break his lap record from a year ago.
Wyman’s teammate Bradley Smith proved to be a quick learner in his first race weekend at Road America, putting his Harley-Davidson Road Glide second with his 2:19.263. James Rispoli made it a factory Harley one-two-three on the provisional front row, despite having a vicious crash on the exit of turn 13.
RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines’ Hayden Gillim ended up fourth and the last rider to circulate in the 2:19s.
S&S/Indian Motorcycles’ Loris Baz was the first of the Indian Challengers with the Frenchman rounding out the top five, besting his teammate, Tyler O’Hara.
Gillim’s teammate Rocco Landers, defending class champion Troy Herfoss, TAB Performance Racing’s Kyle Ohnsorg and Saddlemen Race Development’s Cory West rounded out the top 10.
Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. – Knebel On Top
The Royal Enfield class hasn’t had the closest of races for the lead in past years, but this year things might be different.
Kira Knebel led the way in Q1 on Friday afternoon, but her 2:55.848 was just .685 of a second ahead of Shea MacGregor. Miranda Cain ended the session in third with Camille Conrad and Kate West rounding out the top five.
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