MotoAmerica Superbike Race Three
The third and final MotoAmerica Superbike race at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca was a virtual replay of race two. Beaubier led the first three laps before giving way to Herrin, who put his head down and pulled a gap to Fong after the Yamaha rider had also found a way around Beaubier.
By the fourth lap, Kelly was knocked out of the battle with Gagne when his Suzuki tossed its chain and the battle at the top settled down with Herrin leading Fong and Beaubier. Gagne was a lonely fourth and turning lap times close to those being done by the top three.
Nothing much changed until the 14th of 20 laps when Fong made his move on Herrin in turn 11. From there, the Yamaha man steadily pulled away while Herrin turned his attention to keeping Beaubier at bay.
The two were close for a handful of laps until Beaubier threw in the towel with the BMW struggling to find traction. He ended up a few seconds adrift of Herrin, who was .991 of a second behind a celebrating Fong.
Gagne was alone in fourth, well clear of Escalante, who was some three seconds ahead of Beach. Gillim ended up seventh with Smith, Lewis, and Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates rounding out the top 10.
After five of nine rounds, Herrin leads Beaubier by 31 points, 224-193, with Fong closing the gap in third with 187 points. Gagne sits fourth with 165 points, 52 points ahead of fifth-placed Escalante.
Superbike Race 3
- Bobby Fong (Yamaha)
- Josh Herrin (Ducati)
- Cameron Beaubier (BMW)
- Jake Gagne (Yamaha)
- Richie Escalante (Suzuki)
- JD Beach (Honda)
- Hayden Gillim (Honda)
- Benjamin Smith (Yamaha)
- Danilo Lewis (BMW)
- Ashton Yates (Honda)
MotoAmerica Superbike Race Two
Herrin wasted little time slotting the Ducati into the lead of the first of Sunday’s two races as he led the field over the hill and into turn two. He then wasted little time in eking out a lead on the chasing pack, led by Fong and Beaubier.
When push came to shove, it was Fong who applied the most pressure as he started to close the gap to Herrin, getting the lead to 1.2 seconds on the ninth lap. Beaubier, meanwhile, was struggling to keep the pace and was over three seconds behind after nine of 20 laps.
It was setting up nicely to be a two-rider battle to the flag as Fong looked to be getting stronger while Herrin seemed to be tiring. Beaubier was still in no-man’s land but was well clear of the Kelly/Gagne battle for fourth.
On the 14th lap, Fong made his move, passing Herrin in turn 11 and holding it to the finish as everyone started to struggle with a lack of grip in the hot conditions. Fong crossed the line 1.6 seconds clear of Herrin.
Beaubier also found some second life as he started to pull back the gap to the lead duo and got that to under two seconds. He finally had to give up the chase, however, and cruised in to finish third, 6.5 seconds behind Fong.
Kelly made up for yesterday’s disappointment by holding off Gagne by a bit over half a second at the finish line in the race for fourth. Those two were less than a second ahead of Escalante, who crossed the line in sixth.
Beach won the intrateam battle with Hayden Gillim for seventh, taking the Superbike Cup win in the process. FLO4LAW/SBU Racing’s Benjamin Smith and BPR Racing’s Bryce Kornbau rounded out the top 10.
Superbike Race 2
- Bobby Fong (Yamaha)
- Josh Herrin (Ducati)
- Cameron Beaubier (BMW)
- Sean Dylan Kelly (Suzuki)
- Jake Gagne (Yamaha)
- Richie Escalante (Suzuki)
- JD Beach (Honda)
- Hayden Gillim (Honda)
- Benjamin Smith (Yamaha)
- Bryce Kornbau (Yamaha)
Motovation Supersport Race Two
The heated battle many expected between Strack Racing’s Mathew Scholtz and Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s PJ Jacobsen after Saturday’s post-race verbal warfare didn’t materialize in Sunday’s Motovation Supersport race as Jacobsen lost touch with race-one winner Blake Davis and his teammate Scholtz.
But if Jacobsen couldn’t match the pace of the lead duo, Celtic/Economy Lube+Tire/Warhorse HSBK Ducati’s Cameron Petersen showed that he certainly could as he reeled in the two Yamahas and split them up at the finish line to finish second – his best result of the season thus far.
Davis crossed the line first to make it a two-race sweep for the teenager, with the impressive young Virginian beating Petersen to the line by .320 of a second. Scholtz was third, .474 behind his teammate.
Some five seconds behind was Jacobsen, who was well clear of his teammate Kayla Yaakov.
Altus Motorsports’ Maxi Gerardo was a lonely sixth followed by Aiden Sneed in seventh with the Texan having his best weekend of racing on the MP13 Racing MV Agusta.
BPR Racing teammates Josh Hayes and Teagg Hobbs were eighth and ninth, respectively, with Altus Motorsports’ Torin Collins rounding out the top 10.
With Scholtz finishing second and third to Jacobsen’s third and fourth, the championship gap has shrunk to just three points with Jacobsen’s on top of Scholtz, 195-192. Davis is third in the title chase with 157 points.
Mission King Of The Baggers Race Two
Hayden Gillim’s already horrendous weekend reached a new low in Sunday’s Mission King Of The Baggers race two, as for the second straight day a mechanical failure knocked the RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson rider out of the lead
Sunday’s DNF was more painful as his Road Glide’s transmission went south with Gillim less than half a lap away from what looked like certain victory. It was a bad ending to a horrible weekend for the Kentuckian.
Gillim’s nightmare DNF handed Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing’s Kyle Wyman his sixth victory, though in fairness Wyman had been in a race-long battle with Gillim
Wyman crossed the finish line 1.4 seconds ahead of Gillim’s teammate Rocco Landers, with S&S/Indian Motorcycle’s Tyler O’Hara rounding out the podium to help ease his pain from a miserable Saturday for the Northern Californian.
O’Hara’s French teammate Loris Baz was fourth after losing out on a podium spot when he had to take evasive action not to hit Bradley Smith, who had crashed his Harley-Davidson Road Glide. The third Indian Challenger, ridden by defending series champion Troy Herfoss, was fifth.
Wyman now leads the championship by a massive 76 points over Baz, 186-110, with Herfoss a further six points behind with 104.
Mission Super Hooligan National Championship Race Two
KWR Harley-Davidson’s James Rispoli won his first Mission Super Hooligan National Championship race on Saturday at WeatherTech Raceway. On Sunday, he repeated the feat.
Rispoli again beat Saddlemen Race Development’s Cory West with the runner-up finish giving him the lead in the championship title chase with Jake Lewis knocked out of both races at Laguna with his crash on Friday. West now leads Lewis by 16 points, 139-123. Rispoli jumps to third in the series with 117 points.
Rispoli’s teammate Hayden Schultz was a fighting third.
It wasn’t an easy ride to the top spot of the podium for Rispoli as he was hit from behind by his second teammate Cody Wyman. The collision set Rispoli back a bit, but he charged through the field until he finally got to the West/Schultz battle.
SC-Project Twins Cup Race Two
Robem Engineering’s Alessandro Di Mario won Sunday’s SC-Project Twins Cup race at Laguna Seca in much the same fashion he won on Saturday. By a country mile. Or, in this case, a tick over seven seconds.
The win, Di Mario’s fifth in a row, was an impressive display of his dominance as he led from the start, pulled away from the pack and was never headed.
The battle for second place again consisted of RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Matthew Chapin vs. Robem Engineering’s Hank Vossberg and this time it was Vossberg coming out on top.
Chapin, who was second on Saturday, crossed the line a second behind Vossberg in the battle of the teenagers.
Fourth place went to Bad Boys Racing’s Avery Dreher with Karns/TST Industries’ Levi Badie rounding out the top five.
MotoAmerica Superbike Race One
Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati’s Josh Herrin won his fifth straight MotoAmerica Superbike race on Saturday at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, taking full advantage of a miscue by his championship rival Cameron Beaubier to extend his eight-point championship lead to 23 points.
Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Beaubier led from pole position but gave way to Herrin on the third lap. From there, Herrin used his slow-the-pace strategy and led for three more laps before Beaubier went to the front again. Just when it looked like Beaubier was ready to pull the trigger, he tucked the front in turn two and crashed. The five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion was able to remount and finish sixth, scoring 10 points that may prove valuable at season’s end.
If Herrin thought he was going to have it easy after watching Beaubier crash out, he had another thing coming in the form of Bobby Fong. Fong hounded Herrin for the duration but failed in his attempt to take victory with a last-lap, last-corner pass that came up just .367 of-a-second short at the finish line. It was Fong’s fifth second-place finish of the season.
Fong’s teammate Jake Gagne finished third for his sixth-podium finish of the season. Gagne knew he was a bit lucky with Beaubier’s crash in turn two and Sean Dylan Kelly’s crash in the Corkscrew.
Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach turned in a solid performance to finish fourth on his Stock 1000-spec Honda CBR1000RR-R SP, which also earned him victory in the MotoAmerica Superbike Cup Championship.
A beaten and bruised Richie Escalante was fifth on the Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki after a second practice crash in two days. Escalante was less than a second behind Beach at the finish and well clear of Beaubier.
BPR Racing’s Bryce Kornbau was seventh, a few seconds ahead of Aftercare Scheibe Racing’s Danilo Lewis. Thrashed Bike Racing’s Max Flinders was ninth with Edge Racing’s Jason Waters rounding out the top 10.
Notable among the non-finishers was Real Steel Honda’s Hayden Gillim, who went out with a mechanical issue, and crashers Kelly, Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates, and FLO4LAW/SBU Racing’s Benjamin Smith.
After nine races, Herrin leads Beaubier, 184-161, and Gagne is third with 141 points. Fong gained some ground on his teammate and now trails him by four points. Escalante rounds out the top five in the series standings with 92 points.
Superbike Race 1
- Josh Herrin (Ducati)
- Bobby Fong (Yamaha)
- Jake Gagne (Yamaha)
- JD Beach (Honda)
- Richie Escalante (Suzuki)
- Cameron Beaubier (BMW)
- Bryce Konbau (Yamaha)
- Danilo Lewis (BMW)
- Max Flinders (Yamaha)
Mission King of The Baggers Race One
Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing’s Kyle Wyman continued his dominant season of Mission King Of The Baggers racing with his fifth win of the season coming on a sunny Saturday at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.
RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson’s Hayden Gillim led off the start with Wyman in tow, but Gillim’s effort went for naught when his Road Glide expired, spewing oil on the racetrack and bringing out the red flag.
After a delay, the race was restarted, and Wyman led from the start and was never headed. S&S/Indian Motorcycle’s Loris Baz kept Wyman honest throughout, coming up a tick over two seconds behind the 23-time King Of The Baggers race winner.
RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson’s Rocco Landers was third, taking over the spot when Baz’s teammate Troy Herfoss made a last-gasp effort to pass his teammate going into the Corkscrew. The defending series champion, however, ran wide, which allowed Landers to scoot through to finish third.
Herfoss held on to fourth with the Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing Road Glides behind him, ridden by Bradley Smith and James Rispoli.
Saddlemen Race Development’s Cory West, Lyndall Brakes/M3’s Max Flinders and S&S/Indian Motorcycle’s Tyler O’Hara was the final finisher in ninth place.
Motovation Supersport Race One
Strack Racing’s Blake Davis has been looking forward to racing at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca and now we know why. The teenager beat two veterans, his veteran teammate Mathew Scholtz and Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s PJ Jacobsen, in winning his second Motovation Supersport race of the season and the third of his young career.
At the end of the first of two 17-lap races, Davis was .756 of a second ahead of Scholtz with Jacobsen 1.9 seconds behind after the three battled for most of the race.
Jacobsen’s championship points lead shrunk to just six points over his rival Scholtz, 182-176, with Jacobsen not overly pleased with some of Scholtz’s on-track antics and complaining of such in the post-race press conference.
Davis is a solid third in the title chase with 132 points, 25 more than Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott, who was ninth in Saturday’s race.
Celtic/Economy Lube+Tire/Warhorse HSBK Ducati’s Cameron Petersen was fourth, .6 of a second behind Jacobsen and some 10 seconds ahead of Altus Motorsports’ Maxi Gerardo.
Rahal Ducati Moto w/Roller Die’s Corey Alexander was sixth and hot on Gerardo’s rear wheel at the finish, and some three seconds ahead of MP13 Racing’s Aiden Sneed, who had his best finish of the season.
Scott and Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s Kayla Yaakov rounded out the top 10.
Mission Super Hooligan National Championship Race One
A thrilled James Rispoli stood on the top step of the podium in Saturday’s Mission Super Hooligan National Championship race at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on Saturday, the New Yorker having won in the class for the first time in his first season on the KWR Harley-Davidson Pan America.
Rispoli took over at the front from Saddlemen Race Development’s Cory West when the defending class champion ran a little wide in turn two to start the third lap. Rispoli didn’t need much of an invitation and he made an inside pass on West. From there it was clear sailing as Rispoli rode to a 2.7-second maiden victory.
Third place went to Rispoli’s KWR Harley-Davidson teammate Cody Wyman after a race-long battle with his teammate Hayden Schultz. Saddlemen Race Development’s Travis Wyman ended up fifth, barely besting the first non-Harley Pan America in the race, ridden by Competition Werkes Racing’s Andy DiBrino.
Edge Racing’s Jason Waters rode his Triumph to seventh, well clear of ARCH Racing’s Corey Alexander. Fighting Charlie’s/HDR’s Hunter Dunham raced his Yamaha to ninth with Strack Racing’s Hawk Mazzotta 10th.
With championship points leader Jake Lewis knocked out of this weekend’s racing after suffering injury in Friday practice, West has moved to within four points of the Saddlemen Race Development rider who had won four of the past races coming into the Laguna round.
SC-Project Twins Cup Race One
Robem Engineering’s Alessandro Di Mario is making a habit out of winning SC-Project Twins Cup races and that doesn’t bode well for anyone else in the class.
Di Mario won his fourth race in a row on Saturday at Laguna Seca, and it was again a runaway with the Kentuckian winning by a tick over nine seconds. Early in the season, Di Mario wasn’t winning, but he was second in those first three races. And he hasn’t lost since race two at Barber on April 4.
The battle for second went the distance with RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Matthew Chapin battling with fellow class rookie Hank Vossberg for the duration. At the finish line it was Chapin by just .124 of a second over Di Mario’s teammate Vossberg.
Karns/TST Industries’ Levi Badie was fourth after a battle with Bad Boys Racing’s Avery Dreher.
Friday MotoAmerica Superbike
Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati’s Josh Herrin cartwheeled his Ducati Panigale V4 R in turn four midway through Q1 at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on Friday afternoon, but it didn’t stop him from earning provisional pole based on the 1:23.880 he set before he crashed.
It was tight at the top with the top five within a half second of each other when the 40-minute session concluded. Herrin led the way, but by just .006 of a second from an on-form Bobby Fong and his Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing YZF-R1. Fong, who led the morning session, turned in a 1:23.886.
Fong’s best was just .185 of a second better than Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Cameron Beaubier. Then came Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly and Fong’s teammate Jake Gagne, who was the last rider within half a second of Herrin.
Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach was sixth-fastest on his Stock 1000-spec Honda CBR1000RR-R SP.
Richie Escalante had a scary highside on the exit of turn 11 early in the session that brought out the red flag. The Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki rider injured his wrist, but he was back on track later in the session, and he ended up seventh. He is not expected to miss any track time this weekend due to his sore wrist.
FLO4LAW/SBU Racing’s Benjamin Smith was eighth with Real Steel Honda’s Hayden Gillim ninth, one spot better than the third Honda CBR1000RR-R SP ridden to 10th by Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates.
Motovation Supersport – Jacobsen Gets It Started
Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s PJ Jacobsen fired the first shot in the battle for the 2025 Motovation Supersport Championship with last year’s double winner at Laguna Seca snatching provisional pole position on Friday afternoon.
Jacobsen ripped off a 1:26.819 on his 13th go-around to barely beat out Strack Racing’s Blake Davis by just .050 of a second. Jacobsen’s championship rival Mathew Scholtz, meanwhile, was third-fastest on his Strack Racing Yamaha YZF-R9. Scholtz was .247 off Jacobsen’s best.
Celtic/Economy Lube+Tire/Warhorse HSBK Ducati’s Cameron Petersen was fourth-fastest and within a half a second of Jacobsen. Ditto for Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott, the last rider to get within half a second of provisional pole.
Jacobsen’s teammate Kayla Yaakov ended the session in sixth – the last rider to lap in the 1:27s.
BPR Racing teammates Josh Hayes and Teagg Hobbs were seventh and eighth with Altus Motorsports’ Maxi Gerardo and MP13 Racing’s Aiden Sneed rounding out the top 10.
Mission Super Hooligan National Championship – Rispoli!
KWR Harley-Davidson’s James Rispoli put his Pan America on provisional pole position on Friday afternoon at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca with his 1:29.103 topping defending class champion Cory West and his Saddlemen Race Development Harley-Davidson by .213 of a second.
Andy DiBrino was the last of the riders in the 1:29s as he broke up the Harley-Davidson party by putting his Competition Werkes Racing Triumph 765RS third on the provisional front row with a 1:29.725.
KWR Harley-Davidson’s Cody Wyman and Edge Racing’s Jason Waters, who like DiBrino was Triumph-mounted, rounded out the top five.
The session was red-flagged with a scary incident on the front straight when Saddlemen Race Development’s Jake Lewis ran into the back of KWR Harley-Davidson’s Cody Wyman on his first lap of Q1. Lewis, the championship points leader, was transported to hospital to get an MRI on his shoulder, and he also suffered a concussion in the crash. He will miss the remainder of the weekend.
SC-Project Twins – A Robem One-Two
Runaway championship leader Alessandro Di Mario led a Robem Engineering one-two by topping teammate Hank Vossberg with the two teenagers taking the top two spots in Q1.
Di Mario bested his teammate by .793 of a second with Vossberg continuing to impress in just his second weekend on the team’s Aprilia RS 660.
Bad Boys Racing’s Avery Dreher and Speeddemon Racing’s Logan Cunnison rounded out the top four with all four riding Aprilia RS 660s.
The first non-Aprilia was the Suzuki GSX-8R ridden to the fifth-fastest time by RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Matthew Chapin.
Mission King Of The Baggers – Wyman Over Gillim
Championship points leader Kyle Wyman and his Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing Road Glide earned provisional pole position in Mission King Of The Baggers Q1 action at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on Friday, narrowly beating out RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson’s Hayden Gillim by just .100 of a second.
Wyman’s best was a 1:28.057 that left him hungry for a 1:27 lap that he believes will be obtainable tomorrow. Wyman was one of seven riders in the 1:28s with Gillim the best of the rest on his Harley-Davidson Road Glide.
The first of the Indians was third with S&S/Indian Motorcycle’s Loris Baz’s best lap .385 of a second off Wyman’s provisional pole.
SDI Racing’s Cameron Petersen was fourth-fastest in his best qualifying effort to date, but his session ended early with a crash in the Corkscrew that brought out the red flag with just a few minutes remaining in the session.
S&S/Indian Motorcycle teammates Tyler O’Hara and Troy Herfoss were fifth and sixth, respectively. Gillim’s teammate Rocco Landers ended the day seventh with Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing’s James Rispoli and Bradley Smith eighth and ninth.
Lyndall Brakes/M3’s Max Flinders rounded out the top 10.
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