Superbike Race Two
Mathew Scholtz piloted his Strack Racing Yamaha to a hard-fought victory on Sunday at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, emerging triumphant in a dramatic MotoAmerica Quad Lock Superbike Race 2, securing his fourth win of the 2026 season. Halted twice by red flags, Scholtz crossed the line a mere 0.177 seconds ahead of OrangeCat Racing’s Sean Dylan Kelly, with Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong securing third place as the race was called.
The afternoon was defined by high-stakes drama from the outset. Pole-sitter Benjamin Smith saw his hopes of a first victory evaporate on the opening lap. Smith suffered a significant crash that sent his Warhorse HSBK Ducati Flo4Law motorcycle across the track, creating a hazardous situation that forced an immediate red flag and a full restart.
Following the cleanup, the field was reset for an abbreviated race distance. The restart showed Saturday’s Race 1 winner SDK take advantage of the leading grid position, following Smith’s crash, while a familiar field with Fong and Scholtz giving chase, as M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Richie Escalante found himself in fourth.
One of the most notable storylines of the race involved PJ Jacobsen (Rahal Ducati Moto with XPEL), who made a charge that would see him setting an unmatched pace and a position as high as third. Jacobsen crossed the finish line with the fastest lap of the race (1:25.009) before the rider crashed out, causing the action to be interrupted a second time as it drew a red flag.
With nine laps completed at the time, official rules forced an early end, where results were awarded based on the standings at the time of stoppage. Under these conditions, Scholtz secured the win over SDK in second, while Fong was awarded third, the position Jacobsen was currently in, after the Ducati rider’s position received its appropriate time adjustment from the Race Stewards. Jacobsen dropped to 17th in the final classification.
Loris Baz, who topped the Sunday morning warm-up session with a time of 1:25.362, brought his Warhorse HSBK Ducati home in fourth place. He was followed by Wrench Motorcycles’ Cameron Petersen, who rounded out the top five. Jayson Uribe (OrangeCat Racing) and Brandon Paasch (M4 ECSTAR Suzuki) finished sixth and seventh, respectively.
Several top contenders faced a difficult Sunday, with Richie Escalante and Hayden Gillim both failing to finish (DNF) after starting from the front two rows of the grid but crashing out in the duration of the second race restart. Despite the chaotic nature of the day, the battle at the front remained fierce, with the top four riders separated by less than two seconds at the final tally.
With three rounds remaining, which include two triple-headers on the 2026 calendar, a maximum of 150 points remains available in the tightly contested Quad Lock Superbike and Superbike Cup championships as they head to Virginia International Raceway.
Superbike Cup Race Two
In the Superbike Cup, Andrew Lee delivered a standout performance, finishing 10th overall to claim the top spot on the Cup podium. Riding his Real Steel Honda, Lee navigated the abbreviated race distance to cross the line ahead of the Cup collective, in a championship that continues to add points to his already favorable lead.
Kaleb De Keyrel followed closely to secure second in the Cup class and 11th overall on his OrangeCat Racing BMW’s debut weekend, while Deion Campbell rounded out the category podium with a 12th-place overall finish aboard his BPR Racing Yamaha.
Quad Lock Superbike Race 2 Results
- Mathew Scholtz (Yamaha)
- Sean Dylan Kelly (BMW)
- Bobby Fong (Yamaha)
- Loris Baz (Ducati)
- Cameron Petersen (Ducati)
- Jayson Uribe (BMW)
- Brandon Paasch (Suzuki)
- JD Beach (Yamaha)
- Ashton Yates (Honda)
- Andrew Lee (Honda – Superbike Cup)
Superbike Cup Race Two
- Andrew Lee (Honda)
- Kaleb De Keyrel (BMW)
- Deion Campbell (Yamaha)
Supersport Race Two
Celtic/Economy Lube + Tire/Warhorse Ducati’s Darryn Binder completed a Mid-Ohio double victory over championship rival Rahal Ducati Moto with Desnuda Organic Tequila’s Josh Herrin in a shortened Supersport Race 2.
On the opening lap, Liberty Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle and Ducati Pittsburgh/Mosites Motorsports’ Ryder Davis collided in Turn 1 and tumbled through the gravel. With riders and machines left in unsafe positions, race control halted the session to clear debris and escort competitors off the circuit. As a result of the stoppage, race distance was trimmed to 16 laps.
After the restart, Josh Herrin jumped out to the early lead before teammate Rahal Ducati Moto with Droplight’s Kayla Yaakov swept past to lead the opening lap. Celtic/Economy Lube + Tire/Warhorse Ducati’s Darryn Binder and BPR Racing Yamaha’s Josh Hayes rounded out a fast-forming lead group, 1.2 seconds clear of M4 ECSTAR Suzuki rider Tyler Scott in fifth.
On lap two, Yaakov slipped from first to fourth after a bobble in the Keyhole. Binder, who had worked past Herrin in P2 just before, inherited the lead and began to pull away with Californian’s Ducati in tow.
Herrin answered with a decisive pass back on the 28-year-old South African but ran wide at the exit of Turn 6, handing the position right back. The pair briefly broke away from Hayes and Yaakov, though the group had regrouped into a tight foursome by the race’s midpoint.
Herrin again passed Binder at Turn 6 with four laps to go, with Hayes still glued to the front group.
With two laps remaining, Binder made his move at the favored Turn 6 under heavy braking and rode a defensive final lap, covering every inside line. Out of the final corner, Herrin launched a thrilling attempt around the outside but came up 0.039 of a second short.
Yaakov worked past Hayes on the final lap to claim the last podium spot — her eighth podium of the season.
Binder now leads Herrin by 19 points in the championship standings and holds a 102-point advantage over Yaakov in third with three rounds and 150 points remaining.
Mission King Of The Baggers Race Two
J&P Cycles/Motul/Vance & Hines Factory Indian rider Hayden Gillim capped a weekend sweep in King Of The Baggers competition at Mid-Ohio, charging from P6 to win Race 2 by 0.25 of a second over teammate Troy Herfoss. Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing’s Bradley Smith completed the podium in third.
Gillim, who started from pole, slipped to sixth after a poor start.
Fellow Indian rider Herfoss jumped to the early lead, looking to capitalize on Gillim’s hiccup. Harley-Davidson teammates Wyman and Smith slotted into second and third, with SDI Racing’s Tyler O’Hara and Big Diehl x Harley-Davidson Factory Racing’s James Rispoli rounding out the top five.
By lap three of the nine-lap contest, Gillim had worked his way past Rispoli and O’Hara to sit just behind Smith in third. He then charged past both Harley-Davidson riders to close in on leader Herfoss with four laps to go.
The Aussie tried to hold off the Kentucky native at his home track, but Gillim’s charge could not be denied. The points leader took the lead in Turn 1 with three laps to go and held on to the finish, extending his championship lead to 23 points over Herfoss. Smith holds third, 54 points behind the leader.
With two rounds and 100 points remaining this season, any rider trailing the leader by 99 points or fewer retains a mathematical shot at the title, though it would take significant luck. The championship battle looks set to come down to the Indian stablemates in the closing rounds.
Twins Cup Race Two
Robem Engineering’s Hank Vossberg and championship rival Mathew Chapin (M4 ECSTAR Suzuki) thrilled the Mid-Ohio crowd with a close, one-on-one battle to the line in Twins Cup Race 2. The pair traded the lead twice before Vossberg came out on top at the line by just 0.25 seconds.
Vossberg led the opening six laps with Chapin in tow before the two swapped positions in Turn 6. The duo pulled 4.5 seconds clear of a three-way fight for the final podium spot involving Chapin’s teammate Bodie Paige, Sam Drane and Isaac Woodworth.
Vossberg studied the leader’s lines before retaking the position with a clean pass at the end of the back straightaway with three laps to go. Paige briefly retook the lead from Vossberg at the same corner one lap later. The two began the final lap nose-to-tail with Chapin in front, before points leader Vossberg made another clean pass at Turn 6, withstanding a challenge from Paige to take the win at the line.
The podium was capped off by Chapin’s teammate, Bodie Paige while Vossberg extended his points advantage to 63 over Chapin in P2, and 70 over Paige in P3 with two rounds remaining.
Mission Super Hooligan National Championship Race Two
BPR Racing Yamaha continued its dominance of the Mission Super Hooligan class at Mid-Ohio, as the top two finishers from Saturday’s Race 1 swapped positions in Race 2. Andy DiBrino took the win over boss and teammate Bryce Kornbau, with Rodio Racing’s Gus Rodio — third in points — completing the podium.
DiBrino, starting second on the grid, grabbed the early lead with Kornbau right behind, Saddlemen Race Development’s Jake Lewis in third and Corey Alexander, aboard ARCH Motorcycle Racing’s bespoke 2s-R machine, in fourth. Rodio opened the race in fifth.
As the Yamahas broke away to a lead of more than five seconds, Kornbau moved past his employee DiBrino into P1 while the trailing riders jockeyed for the final podium spot, with Rodio coming out on top. Alexander brought it home in fourth for the ARCH Motorcycle Racing team, with Saddlemen Race Development’s James Rispoli making a late charge to pass teammate Lewis for fifth.
Kornbau held the lead until the final lap, when DiBrino lined up a pass in the esses and carried it to the line for the win by 0.216 of a second over his teammate. Though he settled for second, Kornbau smashed his own lap and race records set a day earlier, establishing a new outright Hooligan track record of 1:28.072. Rodio held on for third, 5.5 seconds behind the leaders.
DiBrino now leads the points chase by five over Kornbau in second and by 19 over Rodio in third. With one round and two points-paying races remaining in the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship, only the top three riders remain mathematically eligible for the title — defending champion James Rispoli sits fourth, 53 points behind with just 50 points left to award.
Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. Race Two
The final race of the 2026 Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. season saw Bryanna Everitt lead the field into Turn 1, with Brianna Cutler following in second and newly crowned class champion Jasmine Noelle in third.
Everitt built a small gap in the opening laps as a three-rider battle developed behind her for the final podium spot, with Brazil’s Tati Paze working past champion Noelle for third. The trio closed on Everitt but could not catch the Columbia, South Carolina, native, who pulled away to win by 0.7 of a second and close out the 2026 season.
Behind her, the battle for the podium escalated. Paze temporarily dropped to fourth during the final laps but launched a late-race comeback. She charged past both Cutler and the reigning champion to reclaim second place, ultimately demoting Cutler to third and pushing Noelle down to fourth.
Superbike Race One
In one of the closest qualifying sessions in recent memory, Benjamin Smith claimed the pole position for Saturday’s Quad Lock Superbike Race 1 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, where he piloted his Warhorse HSBK Ducati Flo4Law machine to a blistering 1:24.070 lap around the 2.4-mile circuit to secure the top spot, followed by 11 class riders that registered laps within the 1:24s.
Like much of the 2026 season, nothing was guaranteed and from the early stages Saturday’s race appeared to promise rain, and lap times suggested it could have been anyone’s race, as class leaders bounced between the front of the field to beyond the top 10 from Friday to Saturday.
When the lights went out, what unraveled was a race that featured three different leaders and razor-thin margins, and ended with Sean Dylan Kelly piloting his OrangeCat Racing BMW to a hard-fought third win, and ninth podium of the 2026 season.
The race began with a front row led by Smith, who had grabbed pole by a mere .005 of a second over SDK, and that qualifying intensity carried directly into the race as the lights went out. SDK grabbed the early advantage, leading the first two laps before pole-sitter Smith surged ahead on lap three. Smith held the lead through lap seven, fending off a charging pack that refused to let him escape.
The momentum shifted on lap eight when Bobby Fong, riding for Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing, took over at the front. Fong appeared to be the man to beat, setting the fastest lap of the race—a 1:24.770—while leading the field through the middle stages. However, SDK remained within striking distance, eventually reclaiming the lead on Lap 14 and holding firm until the checkered flag.
Fong secured second place, while his teammate JD Beach completed a strong day for the Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing squad by finishing third. Smith, after leading early, eventually crossed the line in fourth, followed closely by his Warhorse HSBK Ducati Flo4Law teammate, Loris Baz, in fifth.
Further down the order, Mathew Scholtz (Strack Racing) took sixth, while Hayden Gillim (Real Steel Honda) and Richie Escalante (M4 ECSTAR Suzuki) finished seventh and eighth respectively. Jayson Uribe (OrangeCat Racing) and PJ Jacobsen (Rahal Ducati Moto with XPEL) rounded out the top 10 in a field that saw high-paced action from start to finish.
SDK adds nine points to his championship lead (197) over Beach (177), as Scholtz falls further back (168) after today’s result. The three riders each have three wins this season as they enter Race 2 tomorrow at Mid-Ohio.
Superbike Cup Race One
In the Superbike Cup, Andrew Lee took top honors with a 13th-place overall finish on his Real Steel Honda. Following Lee was Kaleb DeKeyrel, who secured second in the category and 15th overall aboard his Orange Cat Racing BMW in his 2026 Superbike Cup debut. Deion Campbell rounded out the Superbike Cup top three, finishing 16th overall on the BPR Racing Yamaha. Lee increased his lead to a commanding 87 points over Carl Soltisz (Super Carl Racing 57 Rider Development).
Quad Lock Superbike Race 1
1. Sean Dylan Kelly (BMW)
2. Bobby Fong (Yamaha)
3. JD Beach (Yamaha)
4. Benjamin Smith (Ducati)
5. Loris Baz (Ducati)
6. Mathew Scholtz (Yamaha)
7. Hayden Gillim (Honda)
8. Richie Escalante (Suzuki)
9. Jayson Uribe (BMW)
10. PJ Jacobsen (Ducati)
Superbike Cup
- Andrew Lee (Honda)
- Kaleb DeKeyrel (BMW)
- Deion Campbell (Yamaha)
Supersport Race One
The rain held off Saturday morning, giving Supersport riders a dry Q2 session to improve their lap time and Josh Herrin made the most of it, stealing pole position away from Friday’s fastest qualifier, Josh Hayes. Herrin took the top spot with Kayla Yaakov slotting into second ahead of Hayes, pushing the four-time Superbike champion back to third on the grid to round out the front row.
Points leader Darryn Binder qualified fourth.
In Race 1 Herrin took the lead immediately from pole, and Binder moved up to second by Lap 2. At Lap 3, the pair had built a one-second gap over Hayes in third, with Yaakov running fourth early while nursing a stitched middle finger on her left hand.
On Lap 4, Binder passed Herrin, and the Supersport pole-sitter passed him back through the esses — but the jockeying for position allowed the four-time Superbike champion to close on the leaders and settle into a rhythm of low 1-minute-27-second lap times.
As the points leader led the pack into Turn 6, Herrin passed him on the inside, pushing Binder slightly off his line before the esses. That opened a brief opportunity for Hayes to pass for second, but Binder reclaimed the spot a few corners later, and the top three separated by about a second from one another. With three laps to go, Binder and Herrin pulled away again, leaving the veteran to settle for third.
On the final lap, Herrin led until Turn 6, Binder beat him to the inside under braking and took the lead for good. Herrin made one last attempt exiting the final corner, nearly drawing even, but the points leader held on for his sixth win of the season by just 0.05 seconds, extending his points advantage to 14 above Herrin. BPR Racing Yamaha’s Josh Hayes rounded out the podium, 12.236 seconds behind the leader. Kayla Yaakov finished P4 and retains third in points, 93 marks adrift.
Mission King Of The Baggers Challenge and Race One
The Bagger class completed Q2, setting the starting grid for the subsequent Bagger Challenge and Race 1. The front row was formed by J&P Cycles/Motul/Vance & Hines Factory Indian teammates Hayden Gillim, capturing the pole, and Troy Herfoss in second. Two-time and defending Bagger champion Kyle Wyman, of Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing, rounded out the front row.
In the Bagger Challenge, riders lined up for a two-lap sprint for a chance at $5,000 courtesy of series sponsor Mission Foods. Australian rider Herfoss took the win, followed by the defending champion in second and Gillim rounding out the challenge podium.
As Race 1 began, New York native Wyman jumped out to the early lead with Herfoss and Gillim in tow. The advantage was short-lived: just two laps in, while leading, the defending champion swapped into a tank-slapper exiting Turn 13, bringing out the red flag. The misfortune for the factory Harley-Davidson squad didn’t end there — on the ensuing sighting lap, Wyman’s teammate Bradley Smith also crashed his Factory H-D Road Glide, requiring a second red-flag stoppage to clear oil from the track and repair the airfence. Both riders posted a DNF in Race 1.
After a lengthy delay, Bagger riders returned to the grid for a third time, now for a five-lap sprint race. The Australian Herfoss jumped out to the early lead ahead of Gillim and the rest of the field. Gillim made quick work of his Indian stablemate, and the two broke away into their own race. Behind them, a three-way battle developed for the final podium spot between Big Diehl x Harley-Davidson Factory Racing’s James Rispoli, SDI Racing’s Tyler O’Hara and another J&P Cycles/Motul/Vance & Hines Factory Indian machine, with Rocco Landers at the controls.
By the end of the shortened race, Gillim had built a 3.3-second gap over Herfoss to take the Race 1 victory and extend his points lead to. Rispoli finished third after holding off a charging Landers in fourth, with O’Hara rounding out the top five.
Twins Cup Race One
The “two-banger” class continued their first ever weekend at Mid-Ohio with Q2 and Race 1. After Q2, times were combined to set the final starting order, trimming the 44 total entries from Friday to the fastest 36. Robem Engineering’s Hank Vossberg’s lap-record time from Friday held up for the pole, with M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Mathew Chapin and Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing’s Sam Drane rounding out the front row.
Twins Cup Race 1 faced the greatest threat of rain all day. Even with a few sprinkles on camera lenses during the sighting lap and light rain falling in parts of the track, riders started the race on Dunlop slicks. As the field appeared to tiptoe around the course on the first lap — many riders seemingly limiting lean angle to feel out the grip level — M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Bodie Paige felt confident enough to drop the hammer at the final corner, passing Vossberg and jumping out to a lead of more than four seconds by Lap 2. Behind him, a five-rider group fought for the final podium spots over the closing laps: Chapin, Vossberg, Karns/TST Industries Racing’s Isaac Woodworth and Drane picked up the pace as the track began to offer more grip.
The chase group closed a gap of more than six seconds on the leader, and by the final lap, Vossberg and Chapin had pulled within half a second of Paige — but ran out of time. Paige took the win over his teammate, with points leader Vossberg rounding out the podium.
Mission Super Hooligan National Championship Race One
BPR Racing Yamaha teammates Bryce Kornbau and Andy DiBrino locked out the front row for the second straight round, separated by just seven-tenths of a second. Rodio Racing’s Gus Rodio completed the front row as the last rider to register a time in the 1-minute-28-second range.
In Race 1, the front-row trio immediately established themselves as the lead pack, with Kornbau out front, DiBrino in second and Rodio in third. The pair of Yamaha’s and the single Ducati rider built a two-second gap over the chasing pack within the first two laps. ARCH Motorcycle Racing’s Corey Alexander pursued the leaders from fourth, with a four-rider train challenging him for the position.
By the halfway point, Kornbau had set a new race lap record of 1:28.203 and consistently turned laps in the 1-minute-28-second range while the rest of the field ran in the minute-29s or slower. He led every lap to take the win by 1.4 seconds over his teammate, with Rodio rounding out the podium, 1.6 seconds behind the leader.
Kornbau and DiBrino are now tied atop the points standings with 143 points apiece. Rodio sits 10 points behind them in third.
Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. Race One
Jasmine Noelle took the Race 1 victory in Build.Train.Race. action at Mid-Ohio, clinching the 2026 class championship in the process. The 24-year-old polesitter withstood a race-long challenge from Brianna Cutler, who trailed her for the entire eight-lap race. Cutler briefly took the lead in the closing laps after a mistake from the points leader, but with two laps remaining, Noelle worked her way back past Cutler with a smooth move for the lead at Turn 6 and held on to win by 0.7 seconds.
The win gives the New Mexico native a 39-point lead over Tati Paze in the championship standings — Paze finished fourth in Race 1 — with only one race remaining in the season. Brianna Everitt rounded out the podium, crossing the line six seconds behind the leader.
With a maximum of 25 points available in Sunday’s finale, that cushion cements Jasmine Noelle as the 2026 Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race champion.
Friday Superbike
The Quad Lock Superbike class finished day one at Mid-Ohio with Sean Dylan Kelly’s OrangeCat Racing BMW M 1000 RR at the front.
Kelly had to work for the top time, capturing the fastest lap by the narrowest margins in Timed Practice. The points leader ended the session just four-hundredths of a second ahead of Rahal Ducati Moto with XPEL rider PJ Jacobsen, who looked comfortable aboard the 2026 Ducati Panigale V4R.
Warhorse HSBK Ducati Flo4Law rider Loris Baz rounded out the top three.
Baz’s teammate Benjamin Smith and Wrench Motorcycles’ Cameron Petersen, aboard the 2025 model Ducati Panigale V4 R registered matching times of 1:25.130 to slot in 0.387 seconds behind the top time.
The field at Mid-Ohio looks extremely tight based on today’s lap times. Looking all the way back to 10th, there is just over one second between the top nine riders. OrangeCat Racing’s Jayson Uribe finished day one in fifth, ahead of M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Richie Escalante in sixth aboard the GSX-R1000R and Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s JD Beach in seventh on the YZF-R1.
Strack Racing’s Mathew Scholtz clicked off a 1:25.500 for eighth fastest. The South African, however, has missed track time in each session of the day. In the first practice session, he discovered smoke coming from his Yamaha YZF-R1 during the morning’s Free Practice, cutting that session short. Later, in the timed session, Scholtz missed more valuable track time as the team sorted out the problem further before turning only eight laps.
Rounding out the top riders within a second of the leader’s pace was Real Steel Honda’s Hayden Gillim aboard the Honda CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP. Gillim, like Scholtz, will head into tomorrow’s Final Practice with less track time after crashing following his fifth lap, destroying the bike and ending his session early.
In Superbike Cup, Real Steel Honda’s Andrew Lee was once again fastest in the first sessions here in Ohio. The California native set a time of 1:26.621 to take the fastest Cup lap.
Friday Supersport
Supersport Q1 was topped by BPR Racing Yamaha’s Josh Hayes aboard the Yamaha YZF-R9. The 51-year-old, four-time Superbike champion clicked off a blistering 1:27.521, shaving six-tenths off his morning practice time and edging out Rahal Ducati Moto with Desnuda Organic Tequila rider Josh Herrin and his Ducati Panigale V2 by a tenth of a second for provisional pole.
The top three was completed by Kayla Yaakov aboard the Rahal Ducati Moto with Droplight Ducati Panigale V2, four-tenths of a second behind the leader, and the final rider in the minute-27s.
M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott finished the first qualifier in fourth, followed by Celtic/Economy Lube + Tire/Warhorse Ducati points leader Darryn Binder in fifth. Strack Racing Yamaha’s Blake Davis sat sixth, with 3D Motorsports’ Aiden Sneed closing out the one-second gap to the leader in seventh.
Friday Mission King Of The Baggers
Mission King Of The Baggers Q1 is in the books, and Hayden Gillim smashed the previous lap record to set provisional pole with a 1:27.245 around the 2.4-mile Ohio circuit. Gillim, from neighboring Kentucky, crashed in the morning practice session, but his J&P Cycles/Motul/Vance & Hines Factory Indian team got the bike back together in time for Q1. Teammate Troy Herfoss finished four-tenths back in second place.
Behind the leading Factory Indians came Kyle Wyman in third aboard the Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing entry. The two-time King Of The Baggers champion found himself 1.1 seconds off the pace when the red flag came out for Saddlemen Race Development’s Cory West, who crashed entering Turn 2, struck the leading edge of the concrete curbing and sent the bike across the chicane into the path of Turn 3. West would exit the course holding his right wrist. During the stoppage, Wyman’s team went to work making gearing changes to his Factory Harley-Davidson Road Glide.
The two-time and defending Bagger champion pushed to make up time on the leading duo, but the order at the top held. J&P Cycles/Motul/Vance & Hines Factory Indian’s Rocco Landers and Big Diehl x Harley-Davidson Factory Racing’s James Rispoli rounded out the top five heading into Q2.
Friday Twins Cup
The Twins Cup class is making its first-ever appearance at Mid-Ohio this weekend, and the entry list swelled to 44 riders in the welterweight class. With the inaugural trip, current points leader Hank Vossberg wasted no time setting the tone with a 1:29.809 for a new Twins Cup Lap Record aboard his Robem Engineering Aprilia RS 660. The Wisconsin native was followed closely by M4 ECSTAR Suzuki teammates Matthew Chapin and Bodie Paige aboard their Suzuki GSX-8Rs. Chapin closed to within four-tenths of Vossberg by the end of the session, with Paige just over a second off the leader’s pace.
Behind the leaders, Karns/TST Industries Racing rider Isaac Woodworth continued his solid results aboard his Suzuki GSX-8R, claiming fourth ahead of tomorrow’s Q2 session and sitting just over a second off the pace. Yamaha BLU CRU Estenson Racing’s Sam Drane completed the top five aboard his Yamaha YZF-R7, 1.3 seconds back.
Friday Mission Super Hooligan National Championship
The BPR Racing Yamaha MT-09 SPs of teammates Bryce Kornbau and Andy DiBrino took provisional pole and P2, respectively, in this morning’s Q1 session. The duo picked up right where they left off at Laguna and brought Rodio Racing’s Gus Rodio along for the ride to the provisional front row aboard his Ducati Streetfighter V2. Kornbau set a new lap record in the session with a 1:28.187 on his eighth lap.
Behind the front row, rounding out the top five in the first qualifier, were Saddlemen Race Development teammates Jake Lewis (+0.8 seconds) and James Rispoli (+1.1 seconds) aboard their Harley-Davidson Pan America.
Friday Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race.
Jasmine Noelle opened her final weekend of the season with a strong bid for the championship title by taking the top spot in Q1. If the New Mexico native wins B.T.R. Race 1 tomorrow, she will officially clinch the 2026 Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. championship.
Noelle ripped off a 1:53.038 lap time, three-tenths ahead of second-place Brianna Cutler. The two were the only riders in the minute-53s, and third in points, Bryanna Everitt, rounded out the top three from day one. Fourth fastest was Tati Paze, second in B.T.R. points, who needs to win tomorrow to keep her championship hopes alive into Sunday’s Race 2.
