Superbike Race Two
The 2025 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship was flipped upside down on Sunday at VIRginia International Raceway with Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong racing to an immaculate doubleheader sweep while championship points leader Josh Herrin crashed out of the lead on the third lap of race two.
And just like that the complexity of the 2025 championship has changed, and things are now suddenly tight at the top as Herrin’s championship points lead has been cut down to just five points with three rounds and seven races left to run in the 2025 season.
Fong was even more unstoppable on Sunday than he was on Saturday as he simply raced at a different level than the rest of the class. After 20 laps of VIRginia International Raceway, he was a tick over 14 seconds ahead of the battle for second place.
And what a battle it was. Five riders raced to the checkered flag with the five separated by just .702 of a second.
Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly led the battle behind him for almost the entire race. The almost came in the final two laps when Kelly’s teammate Richie Escalante, who was having the best ride of his Superbike career, not only threatened but led Kelly with Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Cameron Beaubier, Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Jake Gagne, and Real Steel Honda’s Hayden Gillim all in position to pounce should it go badly for the two Suzukis.
The war went to the final lap and the run to the finish line with Kelly besting Escalante by .093 of a second. Beaubier, whose title hopes got a lot brighter with Herrin’s miscue, was a shadow fourth with Gagne and Gillim breathing down his neck in fifth and sixth, respectively.
It would have been the race of the year if not for Fong, who was miles up the road from the fighting fivesome.
BPR Racing Yamaha’s Bryce Kornbau was seventh, almost five seconds behind but four seconds clear of Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach, with the Kentuckian winning the MotoAmerica Superbike Cup for the top finishing rider on a Stock 1000-spec motorcycle.
Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates and Aftercare Scheibe Racing’s Danilo Lewis rounded out the top 10.
With Fong closing the gap on Herrin, who scored two points for remounting and finishing 14th (three laps behind), to just five points, 242-237, the race for the title is now white-hot. Beaubier was also a benefactor of Herrin’s tip over as he is now 16 points behind with 226 points.
Fong’s teammate Gagne is fourth in the title chase with 187 points, 50 points clear of fifth-placed Escalante. Beach is sixth but leads the Superbike Cup by 59 points over Jason Waters, 283-224. The win at VIR was Beach’s 12th in the class within a class.
Superbike Race 2
- Bobby Fong (Yamaha)
- Sean Dylan Kelly (Suzuki)
- Richie Escalante (Suzuki)
- Cameron Beaubier (BMW)
- Jake Gagne (Yamaha)
- Hayden Gillim (Honda)
- Bryce Kornbau (Yamaha)
- JD Beach (Honda)
- Ashton Yates (Honda)
- Danilo Lewis (BMW)
Supersport Race Two
Strack Racing’s Mathew Scholtz completed a perfect weekend in the Motovation Supersport class as he raced to victory on Sunday at VIRginia International Raceway after setting the precedent on Saturday.
While Scholtz was able to eke away at the front, the battle behind him went the distance after some back and forth between Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s PJ Jacobsen and Scholtz’s Strack Racing teammate Blake Davis.
Although it was Davis getting the holeshot, Jacobsen found a hole and came out of turn one with the lead. The New Yorker put his head down and opened a slight gap, but it all went away with Scholtz and Davis closing in. On the fourth lap, Scholtz went into the lead as the threesome ran together. A lap later, Davis moved past Jacobsen for second, but the three were still locked together with Celtic/Economy Lube+Tire/Warhorse HSBK’s Cameron Petersen getting chippy behind them as he tried to close in on the three-rider pack ahead of him.
By the halfway mark, Scholtz had started to pull away ever so slightly. At the end of the ninth lap, the South African clicked off a new lap record of 1:25.964 to lead Davis by almost a second.
On the 10th lap, Petersen was out of the race with a crash in turn four, Scholtz had given himself a lead that wouldn’t allow him to be caught, and Davis and Jacobsen were set to fight to the finish.
After 18 laps of the 2.24-mile racetrack, Jacobsen was .114 of a second ahead of Davis as the pair crossed the finish line – 3.3 seconds behind Scholtz.
The top three were in another league entirely as fourth-placed Tyler Scott and his Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki were almost 30 seconds adrift. Scott was half a second ahead of Rahal Ducati Moto w/ XPEL’s Kayla Yaakov, who barely beat BPR Racing Yamaha’s Josh Hayes for fifth with Rahal Ducati Moto w/Roller Die’s Corey Alexander right behind Hayes in seventh.
Altus Motorsports’ Torin Collins, Bauce BARTCON Racing’s Joseph LiMandri Jr. and MP13 Racing’s Aiden Sneed rounded out the top 10.
Stock 1000 Race Two
Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach cultivated a perfect weekend in the Stock 1000 class as he came out on top of a battle to the flag over OrangeCat Racing’s Jayson Uribe by .055 of a second after passing the Californian on the final lap. It was the second day in a row that Beach had won a close one as he topped BPR Racing’s Bryce Kornbau by just .194 of a second on Saturday at VIR.
The race was red flagged on the first lap due to a crash, and the restart saw a four-rider battle for victory. Uribe was doing the leading, with Beach, Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates, and Uribe’s teammate Andrew Lee flying in formation.
As they started the final lap, Yates’ Honda failed him, and he coasted to a stop on the outside of turn one. That left three riders, though Uribe and Beach had a slight gap to Lee. Beach made his move in the turn-three left-hander, diving under Uribe. Beach was perfect from there to the finish line as he managed to keep Uribe behind him, albeit by just .055 of a second.
Beach’s perfect weekend vaulted him into contention for the championship as he now trails Lee by just 10 points, 122-112. Uribe is third with 94 points with two rounds and four races remaining.
Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul Race Two
Warhorse Ducati/American Racing’s Alessandro Di Mario made up for yesterday’s disappointment in the Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul race by winning today’s race two after a game of cat and mouse with yesterday’s winner Hank Vossberg and his Tytlers Cycle Racing Krämer APX-350 MA.
On Saturday, Di Mario looked to have victory in the bag when his shifter broke, forcing him to slow to what was ultimately a fifth-place finish. All he could do was watch as Vossberg pulled away to victory.
Sunday’s race had a different sort of drama as the top two, Di Mario and Vossberg, pulled away from the pack and then, on the final lap, did the “you lead, no, you lead” game that was reminiscent of races at Daytona International Speedway where no one wants to lead out of the chicane. Di Mario put Vossberg in a position where he really had no choice but to try and lead to the flag.
But it didn’t work out for Vossberg as Di Mario’s plan worked to perfection as he was able to draft past at the finish line to win by .086 of a second.
Those two were 11 seconds ahead of the scrap behind them with Bodie Paige Racing/Mission Foods/D&D Certified’s Bodie Paige getting the better of a six-rider scrap for third place. It was ultra-close with the difference between third-placed Paige and seventh-placed Kody Kopp, on his Team Roberts Krämer, being just .326 of a second.
MP13 Racing’s Ella Dreher crossed the line on Paige’s tail with Jones Honda’s Julian Correa, Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing’s Sam Drane and Kopp crossing the line in a gaggle.
Bettencourt Racing’s Nathan Bettencourt and Rossi Motorsports Powered By 3:16’s Rossi Garcia rounded out the top 10.
SC-Project Twins Cup Race Two
Robem Engineering’s Alessandro Di Mario won his seventh SC-Project Twins Cup race in a row on Sunday at VIR, a day after the Kentuckian wrapped up the 2025 Twins Cup Championship.
Di Mario beat a three-rider battle for second by 4.5 seconds. That fight for the podium spots was won by Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle by .059 of a second over Di Mario’s Robem Engineering teammate Hank Vossberg. Bad Boys Racing’s Avery Dreher was a shadow fourth.
RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Matthew Chapin was about six seconds behind the podium battle and a second ahead of Brown Town Racing’s Chase Brown. Speeddemon Racing’s Logan Cunnison, Karns/TST Racing’s Levi Badie, Weyh Racing’s Andrew Weyh, and Koch Racing’s Sean Ungvarsky rounded out the top 10.
With just one round left, Di Mario has an insurmountable 106-point lead. Chapin is still second, though he’s just 13 points ahead of Dreher, who in turn is 11 points ahead of Vossberg. Doyle rounds out the top five, 10 points behind Vossberg.
Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. Race Two
Kira Knebel wasted little time getting to the front of the Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. finale on Sunday morning at VIR as she went about winning the class championship in style. Job one was winning the title, job two was winning the race. When Shea MacGregor, the only person in the race with a chance of stealing the title from Knebel, crashed on the second lap, the job was complete. She was champion in her second year after finishing third in the 2024 title chase.
At the finish line of the seven-lap race, it was Knebel slowing in the final laps to beat Miranda Cain by 1.4 seconds. Cain was giving it her all and ended up turning in the fastest lap of the race on the final lap – a 1:46.428.
Third place went to Saturday’s race winner Camille Conrad after a race-long battle with Cassie Creer, Bryanna Everitt, and Kate West. Those four were covered by just 1.4 seconds.
The victory was Knebel’s sixth in the eight-race Royal Enfield season.
Superbike Race One
Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong won his third straight MotoAmerica Superbike race on Saturday at VIRginia International Raceway as the Californian begins to seriously start clawing his way into contention for the 2025 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship.
For the third race in a row, Fong kept championship rivals Cameron Beaubier and Josh Herrin behind him, and he’s now just one point behind Beaubier and 28 points behind championship leader Herrin.
Starting from pole position, Fong led every lap of Saturday’s race one at VIR, withstanding the near race-long pressure from Beaubier, who had passed Herrin for good on the third lap and set sail after Fong. Shortly thereafter, Beaubier set the fastest lap of the race, a 1:24.287.
Beaubier, however, had to back things down near the end of the race as he was fighting with a lack of grip and knew that he couldn’t match Fong’s late-race pace. At the end of the 20 laps, Beaubier was 7.3 seconds behind Fong, who never put a wheel wrong.
Herrin, meanwhile, had a fight on his hands with Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly and Fong’s teammate Jake Gagne. Kelly was the most persistent and he took the battle to the bitter end, giving Herrin a nudge in turn one and then striking him a bit harder later on the final lap. At the finish, Herrin was .144 of a second ahead of Kelly.
Gagne backed it off near the end of the race and was some five seconds behind at the finish.
Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach continues to impress on his Stock 1000-spec Honda CBR1000RR-R SP as he finished sixth in the Superbike class while winning the Superbike Cup race within a race.
Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates was seventh after beating BPR Racing’s Bryce Kornbau to the line by a few tenths. Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Richie Escalante struggled to a ninth-place finish and Aftercare Scheibe Racing’s Danilo Lewis rounded out the top 10.
Notable non-finishers included FLO4Law/SBU Racing’s Benjamin Smith, who ran into the back of Real Steel Honda’s Hayden Gillim causing both riders to crash. Gillim remounted to finish 15th.
After 12 races, Herrin leads the title chase by 27 over Beaubier, 240-213. Fong is third with 212 points. Gagne and Escalante round out the top five with 176 and 121 points, respectively.
Superbike Race 1
- Bobby Fong (Yamaha)
- Cameron Beaubier (BMW)
- Josh Herrin (Ducati)
- Sean Dylan Kelly (Suzuki)
- Jake Gagne (Yamaha)
- JD Beach (Honda)
- Ashton Yates (Honda)
- Bryce Kornbau (Yamaha)
- Richie Escalante (Suzuki)
- Danilo Lewis (BMW)
Supersport Race One
After winning his fifth Motovation Supersport race of the season at VIRginia International Raceway, Strack Racing’s Mathew Scholtz admitted that he’s been focusing too much on things other than just riding the bike. Mainly things like PJ Jacobsen and the championship they are both trying to win. On Saturday afternoon in Virginia, Scholtz kept his head down, didn’t look back, and stormed to a 4.9-second victory over his championship rival Jacobsen.
Scholtz led every lap, making sure that any on-track battles would not include him. He was rewarded with a two-point lead in the championship at day’s end.
The best race was the one for second with Cameron Petersen and PJ Jacobsen going at it for most of the race before Petersen ran off in turn one. That not only allowed Jacobsen to pull away to a lonely second, but it also allowed Scholtz’s teammate Blake Davis to pass the South African to take over third. Petersen wasn’t done fighting, however, and he caught Davis a few laps later. From there to the finish, the pair fought it out with Petersen nabbing the final podium spot, and battled with him for the final laps, beating him to the flag by a scant .014 of a second.
BPR Racing’s Josh Hayes, the Supersport class winner the last time MotoAmerica visited VIR in 2022, was fifth, some three seconds clear of Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott, who had his hands full with Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s Kayla Yaakov and her teammate Corey Alexander.
Altus Motorsports’ Jake Lewis bounced back from injury at Laguna Seca to finish ninth, some two seconds ahead of 10th-placed Max Van on his Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki.
Stock 1000 Race One
What looked like a two-rider Honda runaway on the opening two laps of the Stock 1000 race with JD Beach and Ashton Yates clearing off at the front, turned into a Beach vs. Bryce Kornbau battle with Yates lurking from third place.
At the finish line, it was Real Steel Honda’s Beach by .194 of a second over the Yamaha YZF-R1 of BPR Racing’s Kornbau with Jones Honda’s Yates third and just 1.4 seconds behind.
Although Beach led every single lap of the 14-lap race, the closing laps were frantic with slower traffic in front of him and Kornbau all over his back tire. Kornbau had come from 10th on the grid, and he got to third on the second lap. That turned into second, and the fight was on.
Beach, who earned pole position in Q2 on Saturday morning, withstood the pressure to beat Kornbau to the flag by just .194 of a second.
With Yates third, fourth place went to the first of the OrangeCat Racing BMWs with Jayson Uribe beating his championship-leading teammate Andrew Lee.
Edge Racing’s Jason Waters was some 20 seconds behind in sixth, and he barely beat RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Rocco Landers, who in turn was well clear of Castrol/Lamkin Racing’s Nolan Lamkin. The Bike Experience USA’s Eziah Davis and Limitless Racing’s Joseph Giannotto rounded out the top 10.
Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul
After a frantic first two laps, Saturday’s Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul race one turned into an Alessandro Di Mario runaway. Right up until the time when it wasn’t. With three laps to go, Di Mario’s lead quickly evaporated as the shifter on his Krämer APX-350 MA failed, leaving him stuck in fourth gear.
With Di Mario on the rev limiter on the straights, he was a sitting duck for those giving chase and he was fortunate to salvage a fifth-place finish, his first time being off the podium in the first-year Talent Cup.
Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Hank Vossberg took over at the front with Di Mario’s demise, and he had an easy go of it to win his third Talent Cup race of the season.
The battle for what turned out to be second was between MP13 Racing’s Ella Dreher and Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing’s Sam Drane with Drane getting the best of a drafting battle to the finish line on the final lap. At the stripe, it was Drane by .005 of a second over Dreher.
Team Roberts’ Kody Kopp found some pace at mid-race and started to reel in the Drane/Dreher battle. On the final lap, Kopp was right on the duo ahead of him, and he came up just .155 of a second short.
Notable among the non-finishers was Bodie Paige Racing/Mission Foods/D&D Certified’s Bodie Page with the Australian crashing out on the opening lap. Royalty Racing’s Carson King and Jones Honda’s Julian Correa were involved in a crash together when King lost the front and took Correa down with him.
Di Mario leads the title chase by 29 points over Drane, 179-150. Vossberg is third, 17 points behind Drane and 11 clear of Paige. Dreher has moved up to fifth with 88 points.
SC-Project Twins Cup
Robem Engineering’s Alessandro Di Mario won his sixth SC-Project Twins Cup race in a row to go with his three-second place finishes. The result? A second straight Twins Cup Championship for the talented teenager with one round remaining in the series.
When RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Matthew Chapin crashed out of the race on the opening lap, the championship was pretty much sealed. But Di Mario did things the right way by racing to the title in style with victory number six.
Di Mario’s teammate Hank Vossberg was second, .002 of a second ahead of Bad Boys Racing’s Avery Dreher with those two finishing over five seconds ahead of Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle, the first non-Aprilia RS 660 to cross the finish line.
Brown Town Racing’s Chase Brown rounded out the top five.
With three more races left to run (Sunday at VIR and the finale at New Jersey Motorsports Park), Di Mario has a 92-point lead over Chapin, 210-118. Dreher is third with 103 points, Vossberg is fourth on 89, and Levi Badie, who crashed out of today’s race, is fifth with 76 points – one more than Doyle.
Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race.
Camille Conrad won her first-career Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. battle on Saturday with the Californian beating Shea MacGregor by 1.174 seconds after seven laps of VIRginia International Raceway.
Third place went to Miranda Cain with the Minnesotan well clear of fourth-placed Bryanna Everitt. Cassie Creer rounded out the top-five finishers.
Championship points leader Kira Knebel will have to wait another day to be crowned as she was forced to start the race from pit lane. Knebel knifed her way through the pack to finish seventh, earning nine points.
With just tomorrow’s race remaining in the Build.Train.Race. championship, Knebel is 14 points ahead of MacGregor, 134-120. MacGregor, in turn, is 14 points clear of Cain. Conrad and Creer round out the top five in the point standings.
Friday Superbike
Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong rolled into VIRginia International Raceway on a high after winning two of the three races at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca a few weeks ago. Fong kept the hot hand on opening day in Virginia, earning provisional pole position after leading both morning practice and Friday afternoon’s storm-interrupted Q1 session.
With severe weather entering the area with some 11 minutes left in the session, Q1 was stopped and ultimately scrapped. To make up for the missed time, Saturday’s Q2 will get an extra 10 minutes.
Fong ripped off a 1:24.568 on his fourth lap in Q1, and that time wasn’t bettered. Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly came the closest with his best of 1:24.846 just .278 of a second off Fong’s best.
Championship points leader Josh Herrin completed the provisional front row on his Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati Panigale V4 R, just .327 of a second slower than Fong’s pace.
Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Cameron Beaubier’s return to VIR hadn’t gone smoothly to start as he spent most of the morning session on pit lane. Things turned around, however, for the five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion in Q1 as he moved to fourth-fastest, just a tick over half a second off Fong’s pacesetter.
Fong’s teammate Jake Gagne also fared well on Friday, putting his YZF-R1 into fifth – .045 of a second behind Beaubier.
Motovation Supersport – Chasing Scholtz
Strack Racing’s Mathew Scholtz and his Yamaha YZF-R9 led the Q1 session for the Motovation Supersport class at VIR on Friday afternoon with two Ducatis nipping at his heels in the form of Celtic/Economy Lube+Tire/Warhorse HSBK Ducati’s Cameron Petersen and Rahal Ducati Moto w/ XPEL’s PJ Jacobsen.
Scholtz’s fast lap was a 1:26.380, which was .298 of a second better than Petersen’s best lap and .606 faster than Jacobsen’s best on the 2.250-mile North Course at VIR.
Strack Racing’s Blake Davis was fourth-fastest, .941 of a second behind his teammate Scholtz, and .221 of a second ahead of fifth-fastest Tyler Scott and his Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki GSX-R750.
BPR’s Josh Hayes was sixth-fastest, despite suffering through a day of mechanical woes on his Yamaha. Altus Motorsports’ Jake Lewis ended up seventh and back to health after his scary crash at Laguna Seca on Friday morning that forced him out of the race weekend in California.
Rahal Ducati Moto w/Roller Die’s Corey Alexander and Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s Kayla Yaakov were eighth and ninth, respectively.
Altus Motorsports’ Torin Collins rounded out the top 10.
Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul – Vossberg Gets It Started
Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Hank Vossberg struck first in the Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul with the Wisconsinite earning provisional pole position with his lap of 1:36.462 putting him just .061 of a second ahead of championship points leader Alessandro Di Mario and his Warhorse Ducati/American Racing Krämer APX-350 MA.
Royalty Racing’s Carson King was third-fastest, .665 of a second behind Vossberg and just .157 of a second ahead of Team Roberts’ Kody Kopp. Bodie Paige Racing/Mission Foods/D&D Certified’s Bodie Paige rounded out the top five, just a tick over a second slower than Vossberg.
Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race – MacGregor!
Shea MacGregor waited until the very end to turn in her quickest lap in Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. action at VIR on Friday, and her fast lap was her last lap of the session, and it earned her provisional pole position heading into tomorrow’s Q2.
MacGregor’s 1:50.133 knocked Camille Conrad from the top spot, with Conrad ending up half a second behind with her 1:50.640.
The top two were the only ones to crack into the 1:50s as third-placed Bryanna Everitt was 1.4 seconds adrift to round out the provisional front row.
Championship points leader Kira Knebel ended up fourth-fastest with Kate West rounding out the top five.
Stock 1000 – Rain, Rain, Go Away
Eleven riders braved soaking wet racetrack and heavy rain on Friday afternoon at VIR with Emanuel Nicolas Aguilar and his Corrientes Racing Team/MPR Motorsport Kawasaki leading the way with his best lap of 1:49.468, which was over four seconds faster than Edge Racing’s Jason Waters
OrangeCat Racing’s Jayson Uribe and Elliott Racing Powered By Kat Works LLC’s Keece Elliott were third and fourth, respectively, with Ikonic Yachts’ AJ Blackmon rounding out the top five.
SC-Project Twins Cup – No Go
Inclement weather forced the postponement of the SC-Project Twins Cup Q1 session.
