MotoAmerica 2025
Spherical One – Barber Motorsports Park, Birmingham, Alabama
Superbike Race One
Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Cameron Beaubier had a troublesome season final 12 months, lacking races because of damage, but nonetheless clawing his means again to complete second within the 2024 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship. This 12 months, the five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion is hoping for extra, and it’s a case of “up to now, so good” as Beaubier gained the opening race of the collection at Barber Motorsports Park on Saturday.
However it was removed from straightforward. The race was a Beaubier vs. Bobby Fong battle with Fong’s Assault Efficiency Progressive Yamaha Racing teammate Jake Gagne watching the proceedings from third place. Beaubier led early, stalked by Fong, then Fong took over, stalked by Beaubier. It seems that Beaubier was saving his finest for final as he dropped the hammer with two laps remaining, turning the quickest lap of the race on the ultimate lap.
On the end line it was Beaubier over Fong by .833 of a second. Gagne held on for a lonely third, 6.5 seconds behind the battle in entrance of him and an identical distance to the rider behind him.
That rider was Imaginative and prescient Wheel M4 Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly. Kelly didn’t get off the beginning line very nicely, however he stored pushing till entering into fourth place, a place he would maintain to the end. It was a superb outcome for the Floridian in what was his first Superbike race on a GSX-R1000R.
Defending MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Josh Herrin was a lonely fifth, nicely behind Kelly and a few seven seconds forward of Actual Metal Honda’s Hayden Gillim. FLO4LAW/SBU Racing’s Benjamin Smith was seventh with Superbike Cup winner JD Seaside eighth on his Inventory 1000-spec Actual Metal Honda.
BPR Racing Yamaha’s Bryce Kornbau and Aftercare Scheibe Racing’s Danilo Lewis rounded out the highest 10.
Notables who failed to complete the race had been Jones Honda’s Ashon Yates and Imaginative and prescient Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Richie Escalante. Yates was taken out by a mechanical problem whereas Escalante crashed out of fourth on the third lap.
Superbike Race One Outcomes
- Cam Beaubier – BMW
- Bobby Fong – Yamaha +0.833s
- Jake Gagne – Yamaha +6.503s
- Sean Dylan Kelly – Suzuki +12.402s
- Josh Herrin – Ducati +24.918s
- Hayden Gillim – Honda +32.357s
- Benjamin Smith – Yamaha +38.536s
- JD Seaside – Honda +42.481s
- Bryce Kornbau – Honda +42.823
- Danilo Lewis – BMW +71.331s
Superbike Race Two
Assault Efficiency Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Jake Gagne ended a winless drought of 350 days on Sunday at Barber Motorsports Park, and he did so in dominant trend with a runaway victory in an Alabama rainstorm.
The three-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion’s earlier race victory was a 12 months in the past in April when he gained race two at Michelin Raceway Highway Atlanta. Following his lone 2024 victory, Gagne suffered with carpal tunnel syndrome, which finally led to him ending his season to neglect early.
However Gagne confirmed that he’s again on type this weekend in Alabama, successful Sunday’s moist race two after ending third in a dry race one Saturday.
On Sunday, there was no stopping Gagne. He jumped into the lead in flip one and was by no means headed, main by as a lot as 13 seconds earlier than backing off within the closing phases on a treacherous racetrack. On the end line, Gagne had a snug 6.7 seconds in hand.
Saturday’s race-winner Cameron Beaubier completed second on the Tytlers Cycle Racing BMW M1000 RR, with the five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion crossing the road only a tick over a second forward of Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati’s Josh Herrin.
Herrin improved from his fifth-place end on Saturday to a combating third on Sunday, proper on Beaubier’s tail and 5 seconds forward of fourth-place finisher Sean Dylan Kelly. Kelly had a productive first weekend on the Imaginative and prescient Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki, with a pair of fourth-place finishes.
Gagne’s teammate Bobby Fong was within the battle for second when he began to drop again with extreme imaginative and prescient points prompted by a fogged-up faceshield. Fong blindly rode to a fifth-place end a day after ending second to Beaubier.
Imaginative and prescient Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Richie Escalante was sixth, a day after crashing out of Saturday’s race. Escalante was nicely again of Fong and 5 seconds away from Actual Metal Honda’s JD Seaside on the completion of the 15-lap race. Along with his seventh-place end, Seaside once more claimed high honors within the Superbike Cup, which is a race inside a race for Inventory 1000-spec bikes.
Seaside’s teammate Hayden Gillim had a tipover, remounted, and completed eighth.
Edge Racing’s Jason Waters and Thrashed Bike Racing’s Max Flinders rounded out the highest 10.
Notable non-finishers included Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates and FLO4LAW/SBU Racing’s Benjamin Smith, with each riders crashing out in separate incidents.
Race two featured 4 completely different producers within the high 4: Yamaha, BMW, Ducati and Suzuki.
After the opening spherical of the 2025 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship, Beaubier leads Gagne by 4 factors, 45-41. Fong is third on 31 factors, 4 forward of Herrin. Kelly is fifth with 26 factors, only one behind Herrin, because the collection heads to Michelin Raceway Highway Atlanta for spherical two, Could 2-4.
Superbike Race Two Outcomes
- Jake Gagne – Yamaha
- Cam Beaubier – BMW +6.758s
- Josh Herrin – Ducati +7.781s
- Sean Dylan Kelly – Suzuki +12.893s
- Bobby Fong – Yamaha +45.288s
- Richie Escalante – Suzuki +60.999s
- JD Seaside – Honda +65.593s
- Hayden Gillim – Honda +101.477s
- Jason Waters – BMW +1 lap
- Max Flinders – Yamaha +1 lap
Jake Gagne – Race Two Winner
“I simply need to be combating with these guys – Cam, Josh, Bobby. I feel they’re going to be the fellows. Clearly, defending champ Josh (Herrin), and Cam (Beaubier) is hungry. He hasn’t had sufficient Superbike championships, I suppose. I simply need to be within the battle. Yesterday I used to be really actually proud of that trip. It felt a bit of higher than I assumed within the race, simply to be sort of staying with these guys for a short while. I used to be sort of excited for the rain right this moment, however even such as you mentioned, watching that Supersport race, the monitor was actually gnarly, particularly on the Superbike. It’s really easy to hydroplane. On the warmup lap, I used to be simply actually hoping all of us may very well be affected person and never see something dangerous occur, as a result of it actually was gnarly. Like I mentioned, this Yamaha simply works so nicely within the moist. I’ve been on it for thus a few years. We’ve had lots of rain races, so it simply appears like we received a superb setup that we are able to take anyplace within the moist. After all, you by no means know what’s going to occur. Guys like Cam and Josh and Bob (Fong) might throw down at any time, even within the rain, even in difficult situations. I’m simply joyful that primarily we stored it on two wheels. As soon as I received into the lead, having clear monitor in entrance of you is so useful. If you’re taking a look at splashes and you’ll’t see the place the puddles are, you’re apprehensive about hydroplaning. I don’t even keep in mind how I received into the lead, the primary or second lap. Then sort of put my head down. The bike simply was working actually good. I’m joyful to go away with two podiums. I’m psyched with that, truthfully.”
Cameron Beaubier – Race Two Second Place
“Win yesterday, second right this moment. To be trustworthy with you, I’m simply joyful right this moment is over with. I haven’t had nerves like that going right into a race… You at all times have a bit of bit, however nerves from really simply the monitor floor. That warmup lap, I noticed how a lot standing water there was and watched the tip of Supersport. I used to be like, ‘Rattling, that is going to be an extended race.’ Fortunately, everybody was protected on the market and we received it accomplished. This man (Gagne) placed on a clinic and rode away from us. I couldn’t even see him 5 laps into the race. Hats off to him. Hats off to Josh (Herrin). Like I mentioned, glad right this moment is over with. I feel Josh and Bob (Fong) driving round in entrance of me, I felt like helped my confidence. I used to be in a position to begin discovering my groove and rolling across the monitor. There initially, I’d go into the quick chicane on the again straightaway, and I used to be hydroplaning, and I had no thought what was occurring. I observed they began going a bit of bit inside that, and I used to be hitting the puddle that I couldn’t actually see on the road you’ll hit within the dry. I tidied up some issues. Noticed Josh hydroplane huge time in entrance of me a pair occasions on the quick chute from Charlotte’s Net to Museum. That was a bit of scary. After that, Josh received tousled a bit of bit with some lap site visitors. I darted to the within, and I used to be in a position to put 4 or 5 laps collectively there on the finish. Felt fairly good. I used to be in a position to open up a bit of hole and introduced it dwelling in second.”
Josh Herrin – Race Two Third Place
“We come into this occasion figuring out it’s going to be troublesome for us, and clearly I come into it hoping that the bike feels good. However for some cause, if it solely occurs at one monitor, I’m completely okay with it, however this simply occurs to be that monitor for us. It doesn’t matter what we do, we all know precisely what the issue is, and we simply can not determine a solution to repair it. So, yesterday we simply gambled for the race to attempt one thing fully completely different. It was a bit of bit worse, however the outcome went most likely the identical. Fourth, fifth, sixth… Someplace in that spot. Then I awoke this morning and got here to the monitor simply praying that you simply guys had been going to cancel the race as a result of I simply suck so dangerous within the rain on this bike. The fellows simply made a change right this moment. Unexpectedly, I went out the primary lap and felt tremendous good. Dragged my knee for the primary time in my life within the rain and simply had tons of confidence. However then within the race, I nonetheless felt good. I used to be tremendous proud of the bike, however I didn’t have that confidence I had this morning. I got here to the rostrum and Mick from Dunlop mentioned my tire for some cause had seven kilos extra stress within the rear than the opposite guys, so I don’t know what occurred there. If it was a mistake. I used to be combating it tremendous onerous within the straight up and down areas. I feel simply that tensing me up a lot once I would hit these puddles, it simply made me trip a bit of bit extra tense than I wished. I used to be having a bit of bit extra momentum in corners than I wished due to that. So, to stroll out of right here with a podium within the rain is like successful a championship. It simply feels superb. Final 12 months when you added up the factors we misplaced within the rain, I can assure it was most likely 50-something factors. This can be a large breakthrough for us for the 12 months. Simply excited for the remainder of the season now.”
Superbike Championship Factors
- Cam Beaubier 45
- Jake Gagne 41
- Bobby Fong 31
- Josh Herrin 27
- Sean Dylan Kelly 26
- Hayden Gillim 18
- JD Seaside 17
- Max Flinders 11
- Richie Escalante 10
- Benjamin Smith 9
Supersport
Strack Racing’s Mathew Scholtz began the protection of his 2025 Motovation Supersport Championship in good trend on a sunny Saturday at Barber Motorsports Park. He led each session, put his brand-new Yamaha YZF-R9 on pole place, and stormed to victory within the opening spherical of the collection.
Scholtz topped Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s PJ Jacobsen, his championship rival from final 12 months, by 2.9 seconds within the red-flag-shortened 18-lap race with the New Yorker not in a position to fairly match the tempo of the South African.
Scholtz’s teammate Blake Davis was a formidable third with the 18-year-old solely 5 seconds behind his race-winning teammate and virtually 10 seconds forward of Imaginative and prescient Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott.
Scott, in the meantime, was busy combating off Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s Kayla Yaakov, who in flip was simply marginally forward of her Rahal Ducati Moto w/Curler Die’s Corey Alexander.
Celtic/Economic system Lube+Tire/Warhorse HSBK Ducati’s Cameron Petersen muffed the beginning however fought by to fourth solely to undergo from brake fade. The South African soldiered on to complete seventh.
Altus Motorsports’ Jake Lewis, ADR Motorsports’ David Anthony, and BPR Racing’s Josh Hayes rounded out the highest 10.
“The one factor that I’m sort of bummed about was that I couldn’t do higher than a 26 flat,” Scholtz mentioned. “Throughout the morning apply I used to be in a position to do 25s persistently. I used to be blowing a few corners. I do know that the wind was fairly onerous there, so possibly I used to be simply pushing into a pair corners, and braking a bit of bit earlier than I ought to have in a few different spots the place the wind was serving to you. General, I feel it’s positively going to be on the wets (tires) tomorrow. We haven’t examined the bike within the moist situations, so it’s going to be a bit of bit troublesome for us. However the bike has been very good up to now. I’m wanting ahead to it.”
Supersport Race One Outcomes
- Mathew Scholz – Yamaha
- PJ Jacobsen – Ducati +2.919s
- Blake Davis – Yamaha +5.053s
- Tyler Scott – Suzuki +14.964s
- Kayla Yaakov – Ducati +15.097s
- Corey Alexander – Ducati 15.895s
- Cameron Petersen – Ducati +17.425s
- Jake Lewis – Yamaha +20.687s
- David Anthony – Suzuki +23.222s
- Joshua Hayes – Yamaha +28.519s
Supersport Race Two
Josh Hayes got here into the 2025 MotoAmerica season with 88 victories throughout all lessons, making him the winningest racer in AMA historical past. On Friday, Hayes turned 50. In the present day, he added to the Hayes legacy by successful the 89th race of his profession in a rainstorm at Barber Motorsports Park. And all this after sitting out final 12 months’s championship.
Hayes and his BPR Racing Yamaha YZF-R9 didn’t have the tempo in Saturday’s dry race, with the four-time AMA Superbike Champion ending 10th. On a wet Sunday in Alabama, Hayes positively had tempo. He shot forward at the beginning and although he was by no means headed, he was most positively hounded from behind. Initially, the problem got here from Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s Corey Alexander, then Saturday’s race-one winner Mathew Scholtz took up the trigger and was all around the again of Hayes. With 4 laps to go, Scholtz crashed, leaving Alexander’s Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL teammate PJ Jacobsen to tackle the problem of attempting to beat Hayes.
Jacobsen waited for a miscue that didn’t come, and the victory went to Hayes by simply .789 of a second over the New Yorker. Scholtz, in the meantime, remounted to complete third on his Strack Racing Yamaha YZF-R9.
Scholtz’s teammate Blake Davis was fourth and proper on Scholtz’s tailsection. Davis had been in a battle with Imaginative and prescient Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott, with Scott crashing proper in entrance of Davis, who was pressured to take evasive motion. Davis rode on to fourth with Scott remounting to complete ninth.
Fifth place went to Scott’s teammate Max Van, who was nicely away from Altus Motorsports’ Jake Lewis. Jacobsen’s teammate Kayla Yaakov was on Lewis’ tail in seventh.
BPR Racing Yamaha’s Teagg Hobbs ended up eighth with Scott ninth. Altus Motorsports’ Jaret Nassaney rounded out the highest 10.
With spherical one full, Scholtz leads Jacobsen by one level, 41-40, with Hayes third on 31 factors.
“I gained the final Nationwide I rode within the rain in 2023 at New Jersey,” Hayes mentioned. “My expectations weren’t this right this moment. Any individual requested me and I’m like, ‘Supersport within the rain proper now could be so stacked.’ We’ve seen what Mat (Scholtz) can do. We’ve seen what PJ (Jacobsen) can do within the rain. Blake Davis has actually grown within the rain. Kayla (Yaakov). There’s so many individuals which have proven nice velocity within the rain. I simply tried to be sensible. They’d some moments, and I actually tried to be taught as a lot as I might this morning and in that warm-up lap that we had. I dedicated to what my traces had been going to be, and I just about caught to them the entire race. I mentioned, okay, when Mat (Scholtz) caught me. ‘If he’s received the velocity to go, I’m going to do what I can to be taught from him and cling on, but when he goes… If I end right here on this space, I’m in fairly good condition.’ His (Scholtz) confidence has been unbelievable to look at him. I simply really feel fortunate to be part of the success of the R9 program proper from the start. What an unbelievable weekend. I watched these two guys battle final 12 months, and with any stroke of luck they’re going to need to take care of me greater than within the rain this 12 months, and that’s our objective and our hope. I’m wanting ahead to some extra racing.”
Supersport Race Two Outcomes
- Joshua Hayes – Yamaha
- PJ Jacobsen – Ducati +0.789s
- Mathew Scholtz – Yamaha +33.968s
- Blake Davis – Yamaha +34.151s
- Max Van Den Brouck – Suzuki +39.870s
- Jake Lewis – Yamaha +51.407s
- Kayla Yaakov – Ducati +52.925s
- Teagg Hobbs – Yamaha +59.447s
- Tyler Scott – Suzuki +67.562s
- Jaret Nassaney – Yamaha +78.495s
Supersport Championship Factors
- Mathew Scholtz 41
- PJ Jacobsen 40
- Joshua Hayes 31
- Blake Davis 29
- Kayla Yaakov 20
- Tyler Scott 20
- Jake Lewis 18
- Max Ven Den Bruck 16
- Teagg Hobbs 11
- Corey Alexander 10
Twins Cup
A day after strolling away unhurt from a giant crash, Unhealthy Boys Racing’s Avery Dreher ran down race-long chief Alessandro Di Mario to earn his first win of the season and his second-career SC-Venture Twins Cup victory.
This one a Di Mario romp because the quick qualifier took off from the pack to earn what seemed to be a snug victory. However together with his grip degree fading shortly, the Robem Engineering Aprilia RS 660-mounted Di Mario was a sitting duck as Dreher carved his means by site visitors to get to the again of Di Mario with only a lap to go. After which he made his move, crossing the end line simply .058 of a second forward of the defending Twins Cup Champion.
Third place went to RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Matthew Chapin, who got here out on high of a battle with Speeddemon Racing’s Logan Cunnison by .048 of a second. Chapin’s third-place end was his third straight podium end after his two victories within the season opener at Daytona.
With Cunnison fourth, it was Brown City Racing’s Chase Brown ending fifth and nicely away from Kock Racing’s Sean Ungvarsky, who in flip was nicely away from MotorcycleUpholstery.com’s Treston Morrison.
Weyh Racing’s Andrew Weyh, Wolfe Racing’s Ryan Wolfe, and Duffy Racing’s Tyler Duffy rounded out the highest 10.
“That is positively a superb turnaround from yesterday,” Dreher mentioned. “I used to be laying on the bottom at about 12 o’clock. The staff labored onerous to get the bike again collectively, so I used to be in a position to put it on the entrance row, which is first rate. I wasn’t proud of my occasions, however we found out a number of issues with the bike and I feel we’re fairly dialed now. I truthfully didn’t assume I had the rear tire left there on the finish. was spinning round in every single place and I didn’t need to push it too onerous and find yourself on the ground however I simply need to say a giant thanks to the entire staff.”
Twins Cup Race One Outcomes
- Avery Dreher – Suzuki
- Alessandro Di Mario – Aprilia +0.058s
- Matthew Chapin – Suzuki +11.464s
- Logan Cunnison – Aprilia +11.512s
- Chase Brown – Aprilia +18.803s
- Sean Ungvarsky – Yamaha +25.074s
- Treston Morrison – Yamaha +34.884s
- Andrew Weyh – Aprilia +38.023s
- Ryan Wolfe – Yamaha +38.058s
- Tyler Duffy – Aprilia +51.300s
Twins Cup Race Two
Sunday’s SC-Venture Twins Cup race was red-flagged on the seventh of 10 laps, and the one factor that was a certainty was that Alessandro Di Mario was the winner. The remaining was as clear as mud, and it took some time to kind all of it out.
When it was all mentioned and accomplished, it was Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle taking second with Karns/TST Motorsports’ Levi Badie ending third within the rain-lashed race two. Weyh Racing’s Andrew Weyh was a career-best fourth with Moto-Ace Racing’s Zachary Foster fifth.
Di Mario was one of many few who didn’t crash within the race. With Di Mario out entrance, Doyle was battling with Speeddemon Racing’s Logan Cunnison till Cunnison crashed out. That left Doyle to battle it out for second with Karns/TST Industries’ Isaac Woodworth. Then Woodworth crashed.
Shortly thereafter, it was RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Matthew Chapin’s flip to crash out of fifth place. Chapin remounted solely to crash once more on the identical lap when his throttle caught broad open going into flip one.
With 5 laps to go, Doyle crashed out of second place, however a pink flag was thrown, and the South African was credited with second place behind Di Mario.
In whole, there have been six DNFs and 6 non-starters in Sunday’s race two.
After two rounds of the SC-Venture Twins Cup Championship, Di Mario leads Chapin by 19 factors, 85-66. Doyle is third with 52 factors, 5 forward of Saturday’s race winner Avery Dreher.
“I simply received flashbacks from final 12 months,” Di Mario mentioned. “In race one final 12 months, it was within the rain, and I crashed, after which I gained on Sunday within the dry. So, this 12 months was cut up. I kinda misplaced within the dry after which gained within the moist. I wasn’t actually anticipating it. Earlier I used to be similar to, ‘I’m gonna go on the market and win.’ I used to be so pissed about yesterday. I had a giant second within the huge esses. I’m actually joyful, however I can’t actually get pleasure from it proper now. I’ve to go put my different helmet on and go race Expertise Cup.”
Twins Cup Race Two Outcomes
- Alessandro Di Mario – Aprilia
- Dominic Doyle – Yamaha +1 lap
- Levi Badie – Suzuki +1 lap
- Andrew Weyh – Aprilia +1 lap
- Zachary Foster – Aprilia +1 lap
- Romeo Chiavini – Yamaha +1 lap
- Sean Ungvarsky – Yamaha +1 lap
- Chase Brown – Aprilia +1 lap
- Treston Morrison – Yamaha +1 lap
- Josef Bittner – Aprilia +1 lap
Twins Cup Championship Factors
- Alessandro Di Mario 85
- Matthew Chapin 66
- Dominic Doyle 52
- Avery Dreher 47
- Sean Ungvarsky 45
Royal Enfield Constructed Practice Race
It wasn’t as dominating as most of Mikayla Moore’s victories within the Royal Enfield Construct. Practice. Race. collection the previous two years, however Kira Knebel’s victory on Saturday at Barber Motorsports Park exhibits the remainder of the pack that they’ve a bit of labor to do to maintain tempo.
Knebel, who completed third to Moore and Camille Conrad in final 12 months’s title chase, bested Shea MacGregor by 6.7 seconds. Regardless of being overwhelmed, MacGregor’s velocity has improved drastically as her finest outcome a season in the past was sixth place en path to ending seventh within the championship.
Knebel had this one in hand from the start, turning a finest lap of 1:47.041 to win the opening spherical of the championship.
Conrad opened her second season within the class with a third-place end, 4.7 seconds adrift of MacGregor. Miranda Cain and Cassie Creer rounded out the highest 5 with these three coated by lower than a second.
Royal Enfield Constructed Practice Race Outcomes
- Kira Knebel
- Shea MacGregor +6.722s
- Camille Conrad +11.517s
- Miranda Cain +12.061s
- Cassi Creer +12.450s
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