Sunday Superbike Race Two
Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Cameron Beaubier came into the Circuit of The Americas round of the 2025 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship trailing Bobby Fong by 17 points. After two thrilling races in Texas, Beaubier leaves just eight points adrift of Fong.
Bring on New Jersey Motorsports Park.
All three of the championship contenders had good weekends at COTA. While Beaubier was second in race one and won race two, Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Fong was third in race one and second in race two. Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati’s Josh Herrin won race one and was third in race two.
So, here’s how it shakes down as the series heads to the finale at New Jersey Motorsports Park in two weeks: Fong leads the way with 314 points, eight more than Beaubier and 22 more than Herrin.
To make an already climactic ending even more so, the finale at NJMP is a tripleheader, which means there are 75 points on the table. Any of the three can leave the Jersey Shore with the championship.
Beaubier won Sunday’s race at COTA by 1.1 seconds over Fong with Herrin third, 14.2 seconds behind. Beaubier made his statement early in Sunday’s race, dropping the hammer, dicing a bit with Fong on the opening lap, and then getting a gap back to the championship points leader.
It didn’t take long for Herrin to figure out that he didn’t have the pace, and he was never a factor in this one. Instead, he ended up fighting off Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly and Fong’s teammate Jake Gagne.
He did so, ending up third by less than a second over Kelly with Gagne another half a second behind.
At the front, Beaubier was nearly flawless. Key word: Nearly.
On the seventh lap, Beaubier came as close to crashing a motorcycle as you can without going down. Fong took advantage, but Beaubier was quickly back on pace, caught the Yamaha man, and repassed him. From there, it was just a matter of keeping Fong behind him, which he did. By 1.1 seconds.
The win was the fifth of the year for Beaubier and the 70th of his Superbike career. It also sets him up nicely for the finale in New Jersey with his goal of becoming a six-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion.
Fong has other plans, as he considers his three-two finishes at COTA a win. He looks forward to NJMP as he’s always gone well there. Herrin, meanwhile, knows he’s in a bit of a pickle, but he’s in a better position than he was pre-COTA.
Kelly ended up fourth, besting Gagne by less than a second.
Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach inherited sixth place when his teammate Hayden Gillim crashed late in the race. Fortunately, Gillim was able to remount and finish seventh.FLO4LAW’s Benjamin Smith, Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates, and Aftercare Scheibe Racing’s Danilo Lewis rounded out the top 10.
Notable of the non-finishers – and winner of the cruelest weekend contest -was Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Richie Escalante. In Saturday’s race, Escalante’s motorcycle failed him on the last lap while he was running fourth. On Sunday, the bike failed him again on the first lap.
Superbike Race 2
- Cameron Beaubier (BMW)
- Bobby Fong (Yamaha)
- Josh Herrin (Ducati)
- Sean Dylan Kelly (Suzuki)
- Jake Gagne (Yamaha)
- JD Beach (Honda)
- Hayden Gillim (Honda)
- Benjamin Smith (Yamaha)
- Ashton Yates (Honda)
- Danilo Lewis (BMW)
Supersport Race Two
The 2025 Motovation Supersport Championship isn’t in Mathew Scholtz’ pocket yet, but it’s close.
With a doubleheader sweep of the two Motovation Supersport races at Circuit of The Americas, Strack Racing’s Scholtz has put himself in the enviable position of having a 21-point lead as the series heads to New Jersey Motorsports Park for the series finale in two weeks. Two races equal 50 points. If Scholtz gains four points over his championship rival PJ Jacobsen in race one at NJMP, he will be crowned champion.
Scholtz was perfect in Texas, winning both races. The second of the two was a bit harder. The race was stopped before it started as a blown motor left oil on the track, causing a delay in proceedings.
When the race finally started, there was a line of oil dry on the racetrack, and it made everyone a bit leery. Lap times were slower than the day prior, resulting in a tightly knit group at the front.
Initially it was Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s Jacobsen and Scholtz’ teammate Blake Davis battling at the front with a horde of riders giving chase – including Scholtz. Davis crashed on the third of eight laps (the race was shortened because of the delay), and it wasn’t long before Scholtz took over at the front from Jacobsen and stayed there.
Scholtz crossed the finish line 1.8 seconds ahead of Jacobsen for his ninth win of the season and his 21-point lead. Jacobsen was left with his 15th podium finish of the season and diminishing hopes of earning the Supersport title.
Third place went to a heroic Cameron Petersen. The South African was back on the bike when most, including him, didn’t think it was possible. Petersen was highsided from his Celtic/Economy Lube+Tire/Warhorse HSBK Ducati in race one on Saturday and could barely walk on Sunday. But apparently, he could ride.
Petersen took advantage of Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s Kayla Yaakov and Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott, with the pair going at it on the final lap while in front of Petersen. Both were a bit zealous in the final corner and when they ran wide, Petersen was there to pounce, finishing third on a day when no one expected him to even ride.
Yaakov ended up fourth with Scott fifth.
MP13 Racing’s Aiden Sneed was an impressive sixth, holding off Altus Motorsports’ Torin Collins, 3D Motorsports’ Brandon Paasch, BPR Racing Yamaha’s Josh Hayes and Rahal Ducati Moto w/Roller Die’s Corey Alexander, with the New Yorker rounding out the top 10.
Mission King Of The Baggers Race Two
What a difference a day makes. Roughed up a bit from a recent crash in an Australian Superbike event, Herfoss struggled on Saturday. On Sunday, the S&S/Indian Motorcycle-backed Australian got out front and withstood everything that was thrown at him.
The win was just Herfoss’ second of the season in what has been a difficult year for the defending series champion. But on Sunday he was back to the Herfoss of a year ago.
With newly crowned 2025 Mission King Of The Baggers Champion Kyle Wyman breathing down his neck, Herfoss held tough, and it was Wyman who crashed out of the race just a few corners from the finish line.
That moved Herfoss’ S&S/Indian Motorcycle teammate Loris Baz to second with Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing’s Bradley Smith finishing third and ending a rostrum drought that dates back to Road Atlanta in May.
A badly bruised and beaten Cameron Petersen somehow not only finished the race but finished fourth on the SDI Racing Indian Challenger.
Smith’s teammate James Rispoli rounded out the top five.
Wyman wasn’t the only one to crash out of contention as Saturday’s winner, RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson’s Hayden Gillim, crashed out of third with two laps to go, remounted and finished eighth. Gilim’s teammate Rocco Landers, who was third on Saturday, went out of the race early with a mechanical issue.
Stock 1000 Race Two
While the battle heated up at the front between his championship rival JD Beach and his OrangeCat Racing teammate Jayson Uribe ahead of him, Andrew Lee was thinking big picture. Finishing fourth was all he needed to do to earn the 2025 Stock 1000 Championship, and that’s exactly what Lee did.
Final points tally: Lee 189. Beach 187. Two measly points separated the two after a thrilling season of Stock 1000 racing.
The season finale for Stock 1000 at COTA was much like Saturday’s race as it turned into a Beach vs. Uribe duel. Again, it was Uribe doing most of the leading and at one point it looked to be enough as Beach made a mistake with five laps to go. Uribe had a bit over a second lead, but Beach had his head down with his normal refuse-to-lose attitude. He reeled Uribe back in and with two laps to go he was back on the BMW’s tailpipe.
With a lap to go, Beach struck and made a pass on Uribe going into turn one. When they got to the all-important back straight, Uribe was in the perfect position to draft past Beach. And he did just that. But it all went wrong in the tight left-hander at the end of the backstraight as Uribe got in too hot and couldn’t get stopped in time. Real Steel Honda’s Beach was right where he needed to be, and he dove under Uribe and stormed away to his fifth victory of the year – by 1.5 seconds.
Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates was third for the second straight day, some four seconds ahead of now three-time Stock 1000 Champion Andrew Lee.
RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Rocco Landers rounded out the top five.
Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul Race Two
Warhorse Ducati/American Racing’s Alessandro Di Mario didn’t need to do much to become the 2025 Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul Champion on Sunday at COTA, but he ended up doing more than not much. He took the title in style, with a victory that wrapped up the title with two more races left to run in the debut season of the Talent Cup.
With two wins this weekend at Circuit of The Americas, Di Mario took his victory total to seven and his points total to an insurmountable 254 points.
Second place on the day went to Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Hank Vossberg, even though he was barely beaten to the flag by Roadracing World’s Kensei Matsudaira. Matsudaira, in his Talent Cup debut, was docked two seconds for not obeying track-limits.
Even with the penalty, Matsudaira was third, well clear of the battle for fourth that ultimately went to Team Roberts’ Kody Kopp over MP13 Racing’s Ella Dreher and Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing’s Sam Drane.
Saturday Superbike Race One
Superbike races don’t get much better than the one that took place on Saturday in Texas, with the top three in the championship exchanging blows for all 12 laps of the 3.40-mile Circuit of The Americas.
After 12 frantic laps, the top three crossed the line with less than half a second separating race winner Josh Herrin from third-placed Bobby Fong, with Cameron Beaubier sandwiched between the two. To make things even more interesting, the top three were on different brands of motorcycles: Ducati (Herrin), BMW (Beaubier), and Yamaha (Fong).
With the 2026 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship reaching a boiling point with just four races left in the championship, including tomorrow’s race two at COTA, only 18 points separate the top three in the chase for the crown.
Of the three, Herrin needed the win the most as he came into the COTA round trailing Fong by 27 points. That deficit is now down to 18. With his second-place finish today, Beaubier also gained on Fong. The five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion is now just 13 points behind.
Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati’s Herrin did most of the leading. Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Beaubier had a few shots at leading, but couldn’t make it stick, and Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Fong never led, but was always in earshot of whoever was leading.
It came down to the final couple of corners with Fong trying a desperation pass that didn’t work on Beaubier, who also made a last-ditch effort that saw him run off track, but he still had enough of a gap to beat Fong for second – by .031 of a second.
Late in the race it was Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Richie Escalante who was making the most noise as he was fourth and making inroads to the top three at a clip of half a second a lap. On the final lap, however, it all came apart as Escalante crashed out.
That left Real Steel Honda’s Hayden Gillim in fourth place, some four seconds ahead of Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly.
Gillim’s teammate JD Beach ended up sixth, which also gave him the victory and the Superbike Cup Championship – for those racing Stock 1000-spec motorcycles in the Superbike class.
FLOLAW’s Benjamin Smith was seventh with Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates eighth. Aftercare Scheibe Racing’s Danilo Lewis was ninth with Fong’s teammate Jake Gagne remounting and rounding out the top 10. Gagne was battling in the lead group when he crashed on the fifth lap.
Superbike Unlimited Racing’s Max Stauffer was 11th, with the Australian making his MotoAmerica debut this weekend at COTA.
Superbike Race 1
- Josh Herrin (Ducati)
- Cameron Beaubier (BMW)
- Bobby Fong (Yamaha)
- Hayden Gillim (Honda)
- Sean Dylan Kelly (Suzuki)
- JD Beach (Honda)
- Benjamin Smith (Yamaha)
- Ashton Yates (Honda)
- Danilo Lewis (BMW)’
- Jake Gagne (Yamaha)
Supersport Race One
Fast on Friday, a new lap record and pole position on Saturday morning, and a runaway lights-to-flag victory on Saturday afternoon. So far, it’s not a bad weekend to be Mathew Scholtz.
Strack Racing’s Scholtz, who earlier in the day broke Garrett Gerloff’s Supersport lap record that had stood since 2016, led every lap of Saturday’s race at Circuit of The Americas, crossing the finish line a tick over 10 seconds ahead of his nearest pursuer.
The early laps saw the top four together with Scholtz always leading, and with Celtic/Economy Lube + Tire/Warhorse HSBK Ducati’s Cameron Petersen, Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s PJ Jacobsen and his Strack Racing teammate Blake Davis giving chase.
The four ran in formation for the first five laps, but the foursome was broken up when Petersen had a huge highside on the exit of the left-hander that leads to the long backstraight. The crash cost Davis, as well, as he had to take evasive action and lost his hold on third place to Jacobsen.
Davis, however, didn’t give up, and the battle for second place turned into a good one as Jacobsen hit a false neutral, ran wide, and allowed Davis to catch up. From there it was a battle to the end between the two, with Davis beating Jacobsen by a scant .194 of a second.
Scholtz, meanwhile, crossed the finish line with some 10 seconds in hand, happy to have won his eighth Motovation Supersport race of the year, and also pleased that his teammate Davis took valuable points away from Jacobsen in the title chase.
Behind the top three came a battle for fourth between Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott and Jacobsen’s teammate Kayla Yaakov. Despite running off the track on two occasions, Scott was able to beat Yaakov to the line by .106 of a second.
With his win and Jacobsen’s third-place finish, Scholtz now leads the New Yorker by 16 points, 308-292. Davis is third with 230 points.
Mission King Of The Baggers Race One
RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson’s Hayden Gillim was nothing short of untouchable in Saturday’s Mission King Of The Baggers race one. Gillim, who dominated the Mission King Of The Baggers Challenge on Saturday morning, led the race that really counted on Saturday afternoon from start to finish.
While Gillim scored his second win in what has been a rough season for the Kentuckian, his win was overshadowed by Kyle Wyman’s fourth-place finish that resulted in him taking the 2025 Mission King Of The Baggers Championship – his second title in the class.
With Gillim out front, the final few laps saw a battle for second between S&S/Indian Motorcycle’s Loris Baz and RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson’s Rocco Landers. At the finish line, it was Baz getting the nod over Landers by .111 of a second.
With Wyman fourth, fifth and sixth went to his teammates Bradley Smith and James Rispoli, respectively.
Baz’s teammate Troy Herfoss gutted it out, with the Australian suffering with an injured shoulder and cracked pelvis to finish seventh.
With three races left to run, Wyman has an insurmountable points lead of 90 over Baz, 240-150. Herfoss holds on to third with 133 points.
Stock 1000 Race One
A thrilling Stock 1000 race went to Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach after a race-long dogfight with OrangeCat Racing’s Jayson Uribe that went to the last corner on the final lap. The win also gave Beach another day of life in the championship fight as points leader Andrew Lee and his OrangeCat Racing BMW finished fourth.
Lee now leads Beach by 14 points with only tomorrow’s race at Circuit of The Americas remaining in the Stock 1000 Championship, 176-162. Uribe is third with 154 points.
The margin of victory was .590 of a second, but it was actually much closer than that as Beach was on the inside going into the final corner and Uribe ended up in no-man’s land on the exit while Beach wheelied to victory. The pair were glued together for the majority of the race, with Uribe doing most of the leading.
Third place went to Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates by 3.2 seconds over Lee, who is obviously thinking about the championship at this point.
RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Rocco Landers was 2.3 seconds behind Lee and some 13 seconds ahead of BPR Racing Yamaha’s Bryce Kornbau, who emerged from a pack of five riders to finish sixth.
Kornbau’s teammate Deion Campbell was seventh, with Castrol/Lamkin Racing’s Nolan Lamkin, Edge Racing’s Jason Waters, and PDR Motorsports’ Diego Perez rounding out the top 10 finishers.
Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul Race One
Warhorse Ducati/American Racing’s Alessandro di Mario has one hand on the 2025 Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul Championship number-one plate after earning his sixth win of the season on Saturday at COTA.
Di Mario led from start to finish in the seven-lap race while those around him stumbled.
It started with Di Mario’s main challenger of late having a problem right off the start as Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Hank Vossberg had an issue off the start that left him well behind. He would finish 12th, a lap behind Di Mario.
Real Steel Honda’s Ian Fraley also had early issues and dropped down to 11th by the time the race finished. Roadracing World Young Guns’ Kensei Matsudaira was another to suffer a mechanical issue, as he was out of the race on the first lap.
Team Roberts’ Kody Kopp had something go wrong that caused his Krämer to slide violently, with Kopp using all of his flat track skills to make an impressive save from crashing. He was out of the race, however.
That left Di Mario to ride to victory, 3.8 seconds ahead of Jones Honda’s Bodie Paige at the finish line.
There was more action on the final lap with MP13 Racing’s Ella Dreher and Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing’s Sam Drane going at it in the fight for third. It came down to the final corner with both riders crashing out. Drane was able to remount to finish third, with Dreher taking more time and ending up eighth.
With Di Mario winning, Paige finishing second, and Drane recovering for third, a popular fourth-place finish went to Ice Barn Racing’s Solly Mervis, with the youngster turning in his best result of the season. Mervis was 1.4 seconds ahead of Bettencourt Racing’s Nathan Bettencourt, who rounded out the top-five finishers.
Friday Superbike
The first Superbike qualifying session began at 2:50 p.m. on Friday and ended 40 minutes later with an all-out war to see who would end up on provisional pole heading into Saturday’s Q2 and race one at Circuit of The Americas. With temperatures flirting with the 95-degree mark, the session was just as hot with the top six covered by less than a second.
When all was said and done, it was Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati’s Josh Herrin who came out on the top, with the defending MotoAmerica Superbike Champion lapping at a best of 2:08.034.
Herrin’s best was just .140 of a second ahead of Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Cameron Beaubier with the five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion lapping at 2:08.174.
Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong ended up third and less than a half a second behind Herrin despite two crashes in the session.
Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Richie Escalante ended up fourth-fastest to lead the second row, provisionally. Escalante was just .077 of a second ahead of his teammate Sean Dylan Kelly, who in turn was only .119 of a second ahead of Fong’s teammate Jake Gagne – the last rider on the same second as Herrin.
Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates, BPR Racing Yamaha’s Bryce Kornbau, FLO4LAW’s Benjamin Smith and Thrashed Bike Racing’s Max Flinders rounded out the top 10.
Beaubier’s lap record of 2:06.559 was still standing at the end of the day with Herrin’s best on Friday 1.4 seconds off the record mark.
Motovation Supersport
Strack Racing’s Mathew Scholtz struck first in Motovation Supersport as he earned provisional pole position while his championship rival, Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s PJ Jacobsen, ended the day fourth – 1.07 seconds behind.
Scholtz lapped at a best of 2:12.511 to better Celtic/Economy Lube+Tire/Warhorse HSBK Ducati’s Cameron Petersen’s 2:12.946, with the two South Africans the only riders to break into the 2:12s.
Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott ended the day in third, .625 of a second off Scholtz’ best and almost a half-second faster than Jacobsen.
Strack Racing’s Blake Davis was fifth-fastest, just a smidgen ahead of Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s Kayla Yaakov.
3D Motorsports’ Brandon Paasch, Altus Motorsports’ Torin Collins, BPR Racing Yamaha’s Josh Hayes and Altus Motorsports’ Jake Lewis rounded out the top 10.
Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul
Friday was already going swimmingly for Alessandro Di Mario as it was announced that the Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul Championship leader will be racing a Rahal Ducati Moto Panigale V2 in next year’s MotoAmerica Supersport Championship. Di Mario made a good day even better by snagging provisional pole position for this weekend’s two Talent Cup races.
Warhorse HSBK/American Racing’s Di Mario lapped at 2:26.955 to best Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Hank Vossberg by almost half a second. Jones Honda’s Bodie Paige was third-quickest, 1.3 seconds off Di Mario’s best.
Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing’s Sam Drane ended day fourth-fastest with Team Roberts’ Kody Kopp rounding out the top five heading into tomorrow morning’s Q2 session at Circuit of The Americas.
Stock 1000
Friday’s Stock 1000 Q1 saw a pair of Hondas at the top of the timesheets at COTA with Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates edging out Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach on a red-hot afternoon in Texas.
The two were separated by just .160 of a second heading into Saturday’s Q2 and race one, with the Stock 1000 season coming to a close on Sunday afternoon.
Following the pair of Hondas were a pair of BMWs with OrangeCat Racing’s Jayson Uribe and championship points leader Andrew Lee third- and-fourth-fastest, respectively. Uribe was .450 of a second off Yates’ best with Lee .740 of a second off the top spot.
RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Rocco Landers had his best Friday in a while with the fifth-fastest time to round out the top five.
Mission King Of The Baggers
Kyle Wyman took his first step toward his second Mission King Of The Baggers Championship by earning provisional pole position on Friday afternoon at Circuit of The Americas.
Wyman, who needs just three championship points to wrap up the title, narrowly edged RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson’s Hayden Gillim by just .005 of a second to take the top spot.
Wyman’s best lap was a 2:13.797 with Gillim coming out of the session with a best of 2:13.802.
Wyman’s teammate James Rispoli ended up third-fastest, a little over half a second behind. Rispoli, meanwhile, was just .137 of a second ahead of SDI Racing’s Cameron Petersen.
