Bobby Fong, Cameron Beaubier Or Josh Herrin? Who Will Be Crowned at New Jersey Motorsports Park?
This is a press release / race preview from MotoAmerica…
Irvine, CA (September 23, 2025) – Three riders will go into the MotoAmerica finale at New Jersey Motorsports Park this weekend with a chance to leave the Garden State with the 2025 Superbike Championship.
Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong leads the way, eight points clear of Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Cameron Beaubier, and 22 points ahead of Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati’s Josh Herrin. With the New Jersey round a tripleheader, there are 75 points on the table. Fong’s teammate Jake Gagne is fourth, 77 points behind, so the title will go to one of the three.
If history means anything in this case, it’s worth noting that five-time champion Beaubier (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, and 2020) and two-time champ Herrin (2013 and 2024) already have Superbike titles on their résumés, while Fong (2019) has a MotoAmerica Supersport title. Beaubier has 70 Superbike wins to his credit, Herrin has 22 and Fong has 10.
As for 2025, Fong heads into the season finale with five Superbike victories. Ditto for Beaubier. Herrin leads the way with six wins in 2025. As for podiums, Fong and Beaubier are both tied with 13 top-three finishes out of 17 races. Herrin has 11 podiums.
Fong leads the championship as the series heads to New Jersey because he’s not only won five times and has 13 podiums, but he is also the only one of the three to score points in every single round. Beaubier and Herrin each have a no-score on their dance cards.
Three disastrous races in a row at VIRginia International Raceway and Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course put Herrin on his back foot heading into the most recent round at Circuit of The Americas a week and a half ago. The defending champion led the title chase before those three disastrous races but slipped to third at the end of the three races. Herrin, however, kept his hopes alive with a victory and a third-place finish in the two races in Texas. He’s on the outside looking in.
Beaubier’s only non-finish was his crash in race two at Road America. He’s put himself within striking distance of Fong with two wins and a second-place finish in the past three races.
While all three hummed the same tune about being happy that the series finale is at New Jersey Motorsports Park, they also know that NJMP is synonymous with “anything can happen.” We’ve seen it all there: heat, rain, wind… and perfect racing weather. It’s unpredictable, and that’s what makes it a fan favorite and the perfect place for the series finale.
With Gagne a comfortable fourth in the championship, the battle for fifth will go to the bitter end.
Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly holds the spot after his solid fifth/fourth weekend at COTA. Kelly is seven points ahead of Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach. With his pair of sixth-place finishes at COTA, Beach also wrapped up the Superbike Cup for those racing Stock 1000-spec motorcycles in the Superbike class. Those two sixths at COTA resulted in two more Superbike Cup victories for Beach.
The rider who suffered the most at COTA was Kelly’s Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki teammate Richie Escalante. Escalante had fourth place in the bag in race one when his Suzuki failed him on the final lap. In race two, he had another mechanical failure, this one early in the race.
With zero points scored, Escalante slid from fifth to seventh in the point standings. He trails Beach by seven points and Kelly by nine points with the three races at NJMP on the horizon.
Beach’s Real Steel Honda teammate Hayden Gillim was fourth and seventh in the two COTA races and he sits eighth in the title chase – 15 points behind Escalante and 49 points ahead of Jones Honda rider Ashton Yates.
Aftercare Scheibe Racing’s Danilo Lewis is one point behind Yates and one point ahead of Flo4Law Racing’s Benjamin Smith, with BPR Yamaha’s Bryce Kornbau another three points behind in the battle for 10th in the championship.
Pre-NJMP Notes…
Josh Herrin and Loris Baz split wins in last year’s Superbike series finale. Herrin beat Bobby Fong by .403 of a second with Baz third in race one. In the wet race two, Baz topped Sean Dylan Kelly by .151 of a second with Fong third, just .291 of a second behind. Cameron Beaubier finished fourth in both races a year ago.
Loris Baz earned pole position for the two Superbike races a year ago, with the Frenchman lapping a 1:22.737 on the 2.250-mile racetrack. Cameron Beaubier and Brandon Paasch joined Baz on the front row.
If Bobby Fong comes out of NJMP with the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship, he will be the 23rd different rider to win an AMA Superbike title in the 49 years of the series.
Cameron Beaubier’s win in race two at COTA was the 70th Superbike victory of his career, and that puts him 12 wins behind all-time AMA Superbike winner Mat Mladin, who has 82 victories.
Beaubier owns the Superbike lap record at NJMP with his 1:19.806 coming in 2020.
Although it all depends on the results from this weekend’s three Superbike races at New Jersey Motorsports Park, the 2025 Superbike Championship will likely rank in the top three of close Superbike title chases in the MotoAmerica era. The closest finish thus far comes from the first season of MotoAmerica with Cameron Beaubier topping his Yamaha teammate Josh Hayes by just four points. In 2019, Beaubier beat Toni Elias for the crown by five points. The next closest is from 2022 when Jake Gagne won his second title by 20 points.
OrangeCat Racing’s Andrew Lee and Jayson Uribe will join the Superbike grid at NJMP after the pair recently wrapped up a highly successful Stock 1000 season that saw Lee take the title with Uribe third. The pair’s Stock 1000-spec BMW M 1000 RRs have been upgraded to almost full Superbike spec, with aftermarket swingarms, rear shocks, and triple clamps, and the duo stayed in Texas after the MotoAmerica round to test the bikes at COTA. Lee will run #67 on his BMW with Uribe using his familiar #36.
Plenty Of Action Expected As Curtain Closes On 2024 MotoAmerica Season At NJMP
There’s Plenty Left To Race For As The Season Finale At NJMP Awaits, September 26-28
(September 24, 2025) – The majority of champions may already be crowned heading into the MotoAmerica finale at New Jersey Motorsports Park, but there’s plenty of racing remaining as Motovation Supersport, SC-Project Twins Cup, Mission King Of The Baggers, and Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul will join the premier Superbike class at NJMP as the curtain closes on the 2025 season, September 26-28.
While the Superbike class won’t be decided until Sunday afternoon in New Jersey, three of the four other classes on display have already crowned champions: Alessandro Di Mario, who doubled up with titles in both Talent Cup and Twins Cup, and Kyle Wyman, who wrapped up his second King Of The Baggers Championship in Texas two weeks ago.
Motovation Supersport – Scholtz On The Verge
The class that still has a championship to fight for is Motovation Supersport, though Strack Racing’s Mathew Scholtz is on the verge of taking that title, and he could be crowned as soon as race one on Saturday at NJMP.
Scholtz leads Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s PJ Jacobsen by 21 points with 50 points up for grabs in New Jersey. To wrap up the title a race early, Scholtz needs to have at least a 25-point lead on Jacobsen heading into Sunday’s race two.
Scholtz has had a season to remember with his nine victories already topping his eight-win total from his championship-winning season a year ago. The South African has 14 total podiums from 16 races.
Jacobsen’s season is even more consistent as he has 15 podium finishes in 16 races. Unfortunately for Jacobsen, his three victories thus far in 2025 just haven’t been enough to keep pace with Scholtz. A year ago, Jacobsen won seven races on his Ducati to Scholtz’ eight wins, and the title went to the Yamaha rider.
Scholtz’ teammate Blake Davis has a virtual lock on third place in the title chase with the teenager having eight podium finishes, including three victories. He also has two races in which he didn’t score a point.
Davis is 45 points ahead of Celtic/Economy Lube+Tire/Warhorse HSBK Ducati’s Cameron Petersen, who in turn is just seven ahead of Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott.
Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s Kayla Yaakov’s points total shows consistency in her fourth-, fifth- and sixth-place finishes and she only has one non-finish as a blemish on her scorecard.
Josh Hayes is the fourth rider to win a Supersport race in 2025 and the four-time AMA Superbike Champion is a solid seventh in the championship. Altus Motorsports’ Jake Lewis and his teammate Torin Collins are separated by just a single point in the battle for eighth, with MP13 Racing’s Aiden Sneed only two points behind Collins in 10th place.
Mission King Of The Baggers – The War Continues
Kyle Wyman may have wrapped up his second Mission King Of The Baggers Championship two weeks ago in Texas, but that doesn’t mean the racing stops. This is Harley-Davidson vs. Indian Motorcycle. There’s no stopping that.
Wyman won seven races en route to wrapping up the title, putting him an insurmountable 70 points clear of S&S/Indian Motorcycle’s Loris Baz with the Frenchman winning once with five additional podium finishes.
Although Wyman took the big prize, Indian riders are second, third, and fourth in the championship as the series comes to a close in New Jersey.
Baz leads 2024 Mission King Of The Baggers Champion Troy Herfoss, with the two teammates just 12 points apart in second and third. The third of the Indian Wrecking Crew is Tyler O’Hara and he’s fourth in the championship, albeit by just a single point over RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson’s Hayden Gillim.
Three riders have won Baggers races in 2025 – Wyman (seven), Herfoss (two), Gillim (two) and Baz (one).
Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul– Youth Is Served
Warhorse Ducati/American Racing’s Alessandro Di Mario arrives at NJMP with two championships tucked away, with the Kentuckian wrapping up both the Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul title and the SC-Project Twins Cup Championship.
Thus, the battle in Talent Cup will be for second place in the championship between Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing’s Sam Drane and Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Hank Vossberg, with the two teenagers just nine points apart.
Drane has been a model of consistency with point-scoring rides in all 12 rounds so far, including a win and six other podium finishes.
Vossberg has won three races, but the Wisconsinite has two non-finishes on his scorecard, putting him nine points behind the Australian.
Drane’s countryman Bodie Paige is a further 16 points behind Vossberg but has a solid hold on fourth as the Jones Honda-backed rider is 41 points ahead of MP13 Racing’s Ella Dreher, who in turn looks to have a top-five in the championship on the cards.
Team Roadracingworld.com will field Paige’s brother Jake on its Krämer APX-350 MA for the New Jersey finale, making it three Australians on the grid.
SC-Project Twins Cup – A Fight For Second
With Di Mario waltzing away with the SC-Project Twins Cup, the battles in the top five will wage on in the finale at NJMP.
Di Mario’s season was impressive with three seconds to start the season and seven straight victories to end it. All that amounts to a 106-point lead before a wheel is even turned in New Jersey.
Second place is currently held by RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Matthew Chapin and his Suzuki GSX-8R. Chapin started the season with two victories at Daytona International Speedway, but his tally was hampered by three non-finishes. The Marylander is 13 points ahead of Bad Boys Racing’s Avery Dreher.
Dreher is the third rider in the class to win a race in 2025 as he joins Chapin (two wins) and Di Mario (seven wins). Like Chapin, Dreher also has two non-finishes.
Di Mario’s teammate Hank Vossberg didn’t take part in the first two rounds (four races) of the series, but since joining the Robem Engineering team he’s been the strongest rider in the class. Vossberg started his Twins Cup season at Ridge Motorsports Park with a fourth and a second, and since then he’s had three second-place finishes and two thirds.
Vossberg is now just 11 points behind Dreher as the series lands in New Jersey.
Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle sits fifth in the title chase despite not making the trip west for the WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca round. Doyle and his Yamaha YZF-R7 have landed on the podium four times, and they are just 10 points behind Vossberg.
Pre-NJMP Notes…
PJ Jacobsen ended the 2024 Motovation Supersport Championship at NJMP with a third-place finish in race one and a win in race two, but that wasn’t enough to stop Mathew Scholtz from taking the title. Scholtz was fifth in race one and second in race two. The first of the two races was won by Blake Davis with Corey Alexander finishing second. In race two, Jacobsen topped Scholtz and Alexander.
Mathew Scholtz earned pole position for last year’s Supersport finale with his 1:27.889 besting Stefano Mesa and Corey Alexander.
Troy Herfoss won a dramatic Mission King Of The Baggers Championship last year in a battle that went to the last race of the year at NJMP. Herfoss was second in race one behind Rocco Landers with Kyle Wyman finishing third. In race two, Herfoss earned the title with his victory over Landers while Wyman was again third. The final tally had Herfoss over Wyman by just 11 points.
Rocco Landers started both Mission King Of The Baggers races from pole position after his 1:24.829. He was joined on the front row by Hayden Gillim and James Rispoli.
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