The 2025 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship heads to the penultimate round at Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas, this weekend.
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Irvine, CA (September 9, 2025) – The 2025 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship is reaching what promises to be a fever-pitched conclusion as the series heads to the penultimate round at Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas, this weekend, with three riders within striking distance of earning the coveted Superbike crown.
The three men still in the fight are Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong, Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Cameron Beaubier, and Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati’s Josh Herrin.
Fong leads Beaubier by 17 points, with near-season-long points leader Herrin now on the outside looking in at 27 points behind. However, there are 125 points still on the board, with 50 of them up for grabs this weekend in Texas and 75 points more awaiting the pack with a tripleheader finale slated for New Jersey Motorsports Park, September 26-28.
So how did they get to this point?
Fong is atop the point standings because he has been on a heater for the past seven races, with five wins in a row, a second, and a third vaulting him to where he is now. At the top. Fong won race one at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course to take his streak to five, but his third-place finish in race two put an end to that.
It was Beaubier who snapped the streak with the five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion winning race two at Mid-Ohio in a record-breaking performance for the Californian. The win was Beaubier’s 90th career victory across all AMA road race classes, moving him out of a tie with Josh Hayes and making him the all-time leader in that category. It also ended a drought of 10 races without a victory for Beaubier, dating back to May and round two at Road Atlanta.
Of Beaubier’s 90 wins, 69 of them have come in the Superbike class.
If the most recent round at Mid-Ohio was a big one for Fong and Beaubier for different reasons, it was a disastrous one for Herrin.
It began with qualifying with the defending MotoAmerica Superbike Champion missing out on a front-row start for the first time this season. Herrin’s time was a tick over a second slower than Beaubier’s pole-winning lap time.
Things got worse in the two races with Herrin ending up seventh in race one after his Mid-Ohio meltdown started with him not wanting the race to start because of the oil-dry that was used in the right-hander at the end of the back straight. The race went on, however, with Herrin almost crashing in the same corner. By the time he regained his composure, he was well back and had to fight his way up to seventh by the end of the 16-lap race.
On Sunday, things got even worse for Herrin. After he and Fong bumped on the seventh lap, both went off track. Herrin, however, got the worst of it. While Fong was able to rejoin quickly, and ultimately finished third, Herrin tipped over at low speed when he ran out of real estate and hit the air fence. By the time he got going again, Herrin was well down the order. Then, to make matters worse, he ended up crashing out of the race and suffered a right-leg injury.
Herrin’s horrible three-race stretch (he also crashed out of the lead in race two at VIR) translated to just 11 points while Fong scored 66 points and Beaubier tallied 49 points in the same three-race span.
Thus, the standings heading into COTA are Fong (278), Beaubier (261) and Herrin (251).
The best of the rest heading into the 16th and 17th races of the season has been Fong’s Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing teammate Jake Gagne. Gagne and Fong are the only two riders in the top five who have scored points in all 15 races, and that consistency sees Gagne a comfortable fourth in the championship with one win and seven total podiums, including his second-place finish behind Beaubier in race two at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
Vision Wheel M4 Suzuki’s Richie Escalante is fifth in the standings. Escalante has two podiums in 2025 and has scored points in 14 of the 15 races. He will be fighting the rest of the way to keep his teammate Sean Dylan Kelly behind him in the title chase. The two are separated by just 15 points heading to COTA, the site of Kelly’s first-career Superbike win a year ago and one of Escalante’s favorite tracks on the calendar.
Lurking behind those two is Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach, the runaway leader of the Superbike Cup for those competing in the Superbike class on Stock 1000-spec motorcycles. Beach is just three points behind Kelly with the Kentuckian hot off a third-place Superbike finish in race one at Mid-Ohio.
Hayden Gillim is eighth, 19 points behind his Real Steel Honda teammate Beach and 36 points clear of BPR Yamaha Racing’s Bryce Kornbau.
Aftercare Scheibe Racing’s Danilo Lewis rounds out the top 10 in the championship point standings heading into the Texas round.
Pre-COTA Notes…
Last year’s Superbike round at Circuit of The Americas consisted of three Superbike races, with one on Saturday and two on Sunday. The big winner of the three was Cameron Beaubier with the five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion winning race one and three and finishing second in race two to Sean Dylan Kelly. On Saturday, Beaubier topped Josh Herrin and Richie Escalante in race one. In race two on Sunday, Kelly took the win with Beaubier second and Herrin third. Sunday’s finale was won by Beaubier over Herrin and Kelly.
Cameron Beaubier earned pole position for the three Superbike races with his lap-record-breaking 2:06.559 besting Josh Herrin and Loris Baz. Beaubier was the only rider to get into the 2:06s. Row two consisted of Sean Dylan Kelly, Richie Escalante, and Xavi Forés.
Of the 15 MotoAmerica Superbike races held at COTA, non-Americans have won nine of them. The all-time win leader at COTA is Toni Elias, the now-retired Spaniard winning six races in Texas. The riders with the second most victories at COTA are Danilo Petrucci, with the Italian winning both races in 2022; Josh Herrin, who won a race in 2019 and won race two in 2023; and Cameron Beaubier, who won two of the three races last year. The third foreigner to win at COTA is Mathew Scholtz with the South African winning race one in 2018 for Westby Racing.
Suzuki is the manufacturer with the most MotoAmerica Superbike wins at COTA with seven. Yamaha has four victories in Austin with Josh Herrin giving Ducati its third win in Texas in 2023. BMW won all three races last year with Cameron Beaubier (two) and Sean Dylan Kelly (one).
With Cameron Beaubier finally winning his 90th AMA race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course a few weeks ago, the victory brought his Superbike win total to 69. It wasn’t long ago that Mat Mladin’s Superbike win tally of 82 seemed to be out of reach. Beaubier, however, is now just 13 wins away from tying the Australian at the top of the all-time AMA Superbike win list.
Wyman Close To Baggers Title; Who Will Win Stock 1000 Championship?
Wyman Oh So Close, Lee In Catbird Seat In Stock 1000, Supersport Battle Rages On As Series Heads To Texas For Penultimate Round Of Championship
Irvine, CA (September 10, 2025) – With this coming weekend’s two races at the Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas, and two more in the series finale at New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville, New Jersey, it’s not a matter of if Kyle Wyman will be crowned champion, but when. It would take a brave man to bet against him earning the title in race one at COTA, however. After all, he only needs to score three measly points to make that happen.
Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing’s Wyman, the winningest rider in the history of the Mission King Of The Baggers class with 25 victories, is 97 points ahead of class rookie Loris Baz and his S&S/Indian Motorcycle Challenger, and there are only 100 points left on the table. In other words, this one is over. If all goes to plan, it will be Wyman’s second title in the class.
With that being said, we can still expect an all-out Baggers dogfight at COTA, with three factory Indian riders in a battle for second in the title chase. Baz leads that tussle by six points over teammate Troy Herfoss with the third Indian factory rider, Tyler O’Hara, just 16 points behind the Frenchman.
Herfoss will arrive in Texas a little hot under the collar after being disqualified from victory in race two at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course a few weeks ago. Neither of the three Indian riders has anything to lose, so beating as many Harley-Davidsons as possible will again be at the top of their lists.
The second-best Harley-Davidson Road Glide rider in the standings is RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson’s Hayden Gillim. Gillim, who won race one at Mid-Ohio for his only victory of the season thus far, is 20 points behind O’Hara and just five points clear of Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing’s James Rispoli in the battle for fifth in the championship.
Gillim’s teammate Rocco Landers, Harley factory rider Bradley Smith, SDI Racing’s Cameron Petersen and Saddlemen Race Development’s Cory West round out the top 10 with four races left to run.
Motovation Supersport – Seven Is Heaven
The Motovation Supersport class is the opposite of the Mission King Of The Baggers as this one promises to go the distance, with a class champion in doubt until the final race of the season at New Jersey Motorsports Park.
Heading into the COTA, Strack Racing’s Mathew Scholtz leads Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s PJ Jacobsen by just seven points after the two split wins and third-place finishes at the previous round in Ohio.
Scholtz arrives in Texas with 283 points, earned via seven victories and 12 total podiums. Jacobsen earned his 276 points by winning three races and finishing on the podium an impressive 13 times in 14 races. Jacobsen’s only non-podium came at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca when he finished fourth in race two.
Scholtz’s teenaged teammate Blake Davis sits third in the title chase, 73 points behind his teammate and 66 points behind Jacobsen. Davis is capable of winning, and he’s done so three times, including a clean sweep of the two races at Laguna Seca.
Davis is 41 points clear of Celtic/Economy Lube+Tire/Warhorse HSBK Ducati’s Cameron Petersen, with the South African getting more comfortable with each passing round on the Panigale V2. Petersen is coming off his best weekend of the season with two second-place finishes at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott is fifth in the title chase, 26 points clear of Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s Kayla Yaakov.
Four riders have won Supersport races in 2026 and four-time AMA Superbike Champion Josh Hayes is the fourth, with his victory on the BPR Racing Yamaha coming in the second race of the year in the rain at Barber Motorsports Park. Hayes is seventh in the championship as the series heads to Texas.
Stock 1000 – Lee On The Verge
Someone will be crowned as the 2025 MotoAmerica Stock 1000 Champion at the Circuit of The Americas as the two races in Texas will close out the Stock 1000 season.
OrangeCat Racing’s Andrew Lee is in the catbird seat with the Californian leading Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach by 26 points while leading his teammate Jayson Uribe by 29 points. One of those three will take the title as Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates and all those behind him have been mathematically eliminated from title contention.
Lee comes to Texas with four victories and seven total podium finishes in the eight races so far. Lee has 15 career Stock 1000 victories on his resume, which puts him second all-time to Hayden Gillim’s 18 class wins.
Beach held the hot hand with the Kentuckian winning three straight races – a sweep of the two VIRginia International Raceway races and a win in race one at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. It all went horribly wrong in race two in Ohio, however, as Beach suffered mechanical issues that kept him from scoring any points. It was a devastating blow, and Beach will need some help if he hopes to top Lee.
Uribe comes to Texas just three points adrift of Beach after a one-win, six-podium season thus far.
Yates and BPR Racing Yamaha’s Bryce Kornbau round out the top five heading into the final two races of the year for Stock 1000.
Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul – Not Over Till It’s Over
Based on past experience and a 44-point lead, Alessandro Di Mario is the odds-on favorite to win the Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul Championship in its debut season. But there are 100 points still up for grabs with the two races in Texas to be followed by two more at the season finale in New Jersey.
Warhorse Ducati/American Racing’s Di Mario has won five of the 10 races held so far in 2025, and he’s only finished off the podium one time – a fifth in race one at VIR. And that’s how he’s built a 44-point lead.
Sam Drane sits second behind Di Mario with the Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing-backed Australian easily the most consistent of the chasers. Drane has won once and has six total podiums and is the only rider other than Di Mario to have scored points in every race.
While Drane might hold the edge in consistency, Hank Vossberg has shown in the second half of the season that he’s a force to be reckoned with when it comes to flat-out pace. With three wins and six total podiums, Vossberg is seven points behind Drane and 51 behind Di Mario. In the last four races, the Tytlers Cycle Racing rider has two wins and two runner-up finishes.
There are two Australians in the top five, and the second of those is Bodie Paige, a one-time winner and six-time podium finisher in 2025. Paige will ride Julian Correa’s Jones Honda Krämer APX-350 MA in the two races at COTA with Correa not entered for this weekend’s two races.
MP13 Racing’s Ella Dreher earned her first podium finish of the season in race one at Mid-Ohio to put her fifth in the point standings, five points clear of Correa.
Pre-COTA Support Class Notes…
MotoAmerica Mini Cup GP 190 Champion Kensei Matsudaira will make his Talent Cup debut at COTA, riding a Roadracing World Young Guns Krämer APX-350 MA.
Neither of the two combatants in this year’s Supersport title fight had the best of weekends last year at Circuit of The Americas. With Mathew Scholtz crashing in race one and remounting to finish 16th, PJ Jacobsen didn’t take full advantage with his fifth-place finish. The race was won by Jake Lewis over Blake Davis with Corey Alexander rounding out the podium. In Sunday’s race two, the outcome was flipped as Scholtz won the race over Tyler Scott with Blake Davis third. Jacobsen, meanwhile, looked to have a lock on fifth place when he crashed on the final lap. Scholtz left Texas with a 39-point lead that he wouldn’t relinquish.
With his second- and first-place finishes in the two Mission King Of The Baggers races last year, Troy Herfoss pulled to within two points of championship points leader Kyle Wyman, who was fourth and second in the two races at COTA. Race one a year ago was won by Rocco Landers over Herfoss and Tyler O’Hara.
This weekend will mark the second time this year that the Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul class has raced at COTA. The new class started its season alongside MotoGP in Texas with Alessandro Di Mario and Bodie Paige winning the two races. Sam Drane was third in both.
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