Strack Racing’s Mathew Scholtz had a perfect weekend at Ridge Motorsports Park with the South African riding his Yamaha YZF-R9 to two wins over his championship rival, Rahal Ducati Moto w/XPEL’s PJ Jacobsen.
The wins, combined with Jacobsen’s two second-place finishes, saw Scholtz cut the New Yorker’s championship points lead in half, and the two will head to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca separated by just 10 points.
Scholtz’s teammate Blake Davis improved by one spot from Saturday to finish on the podium on Sunday, with the youngster passing BPR Racing’s Teagg Hobbs on the last lap and beating him to the flag by .088 of a second after 15 laps.
Those two were some three seconds ahead of Rahal Ducati Moto w/Roller Die’s Corey Alexander, who was over 10 seconds ahead of Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott, who was running second prior to an off-track excursion.
Altus Motorsports’ Torin Collins ended up seventh, nipping Vesrah Racing’s Japanese import Ryota Ogiwara. Altus Motorsports’ Jake Lewis and 3D Motorsports’ Alexander Enriquez rounded out the top 10.
With Jacobsen and Scholtz separated by 10 points, Davis sits third, 59 points behind Jacobsen and seven points ahead of Scott. Lewis is fifth in the title chase.
“You can’t be sad taking the double home,” Scholtz said. “Like PJ (Jacobsen) said, the pace was definitely slower today. Unfortunately, the lap timer wasn’t working again for me. So, I couldn’t even see what sort of sector times, lap times, I was doing. So that really sucked. Luckily, the good thing for me is that I looked back on the second-to-last lap and I saw PJ wasn’t that close to me. So, I knew on the final lap I didn’t have to run into the corners defending and kind of pinching myself off. I just tried to flow better. I was told by my team that I set the fastest lap of the race on the final lap. It was the quickest lap, or the quickest second sector, which is a really strong point for me and the R9. So overall, I’m really happy for that. That whole race I was looking at the pit board – plus zero, plus zero, plus zero. Every lap I came around thinking it would just grow one time. So, obviously PJ figured something out. He kept me pushing throughout all 15 laps. I nearly screwed up on the third or second-to-last lap in corner two. That kind of shook me up slightly and I had to focus and get back into my groove. But, overall, taking 50 points home gives me a lot of confidence. At Laguna last year PJ got me on the last lap twice, so I need to get back something there. It’s always been a pretty strong circuit for me on the Superbike, so I’m really hoping that the R9 kind of translates into that. But overall, thank you to the Strack Racing guys. Well done to Blake (Davis) and PJ. This is turning into quite a common thing, seeing us three up on the podium.”
SC-Project Twins Cup – Di Mario Domination
Robem Engineering’s Alessandro Di Mario was on a different level in the two SC-Project Twins Cup races at Ridge Motorsports Park this weekend with the Kentuckian dominating both races on his Aprilia RS 660.
On Sunday, Di Mario sprinted away at the front of the field and was never headed, leading by almost eight seconds after just two flying laps at the start. By the time the flag was thrown on the 12-lap race, Di Mario’s margin of victory was 20.6 seconds.
With Di Mario long gone, the race for second was a good one with Robem Engineering’s Hank Vossberg and Bad Boys Racing’s Avery Dreher going at it with Vossberg ultimately getting the spot in his first weekend of racing in the Twins Cup class.
The battle for fourth was also a good one with Koch Racing’s Sean Ungvarsky battling with Speeddemon Racing’s Logan Cunnison, but that ended in tears with the pair crashing together when Cunnison ran into the back of Ungvarsky at speed.
That moved everybody up two spots, with Motorcycleupolstery.com’s Treston Morrison finishing two seconds clear of R2R Canada/Economy Lube+Tire Racing’s Mavrick Cyr in fourth with Cyr rounding out the top five.
Notable non-finishers were Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle, who pulled out with a mechanical problem, and Mathew Chapin, who crashed his RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki on the first lap.
After three rounds and six races, Di Mario has a 53-point lead over Chapin, 135-82. Dreher is third with 72 points, just one point more than Doyle.
“I want to thank the team. They put a bike together in like two hours yesterday after we crashed,” Di Mario said. “I’m really happy that I got them two wins. Hopefully they’re happy. I also want to congratulate Hank (Vossberg). He’s my teammate. He just turned 15 a couple weeks ago and he’s here on the podium. He’s really fast. I just want to congratulate him.”
Mission Super Hooligan National Championship Powered By Harley-Davidson – It’s West
Saddlemen Race Development’s Cory West made up for Saturday’s miscue in the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship race by coming out on top of a thrilling battle for victory on Sunday at Ridge Motorsports Park.
Margin of victory? Just .027 of a second over KWR Harley-Davidson’s James Rispoli. Yesterday’s winner Jake Lewis was third on his Saddlemen Race Development Harley-Davidson Pan America, ending his four-race win streak in the class.
Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle was the first non-Harley racer in fourth place on his Yamaha MT-09 SP. Once he moved into fourth place, Doyle was gaining ground on the top three but ran out of laps.
The Wyman brothers were next with Cody fifth and Travis sixth.
Edge Racing’s Jason Waters, Fighting Charlie’s/HDR’s Hunter Dunham, Strack Racing’s Hawk Mazzotta and ARCH Racing’s Corey Alexander rounded out the top 10.
Defending class champion West led every single lap of Ridge on Sunday, challenged for most of the race by Lewis. Rispoli, however, got serious two laps from the end when he moved past the championship points leader and chopped into the gap that West had pulled on the chasing duo. From there it was a battle to the flag that West won. Barely.
“After the win at Daytona, I didn’t know if I was going to win again this year, the way Jake (Lewis) has been riding,” West said. “I just needed to shut that winning streak down from the 85. Kind of roughed him up on the first lap and then put my head down and just tried to do what I could. Led every lap. As it was coming to the stripe, I was like, ‘Don’t blow it now!’ Then I tucked the front huge coming up the hill. Thank goodness I do a lot of the Texas Tornado Boot Camps where we lose the front all the time, so I saved it and brought it home and got me a win.”
Lewis leads the title chase by 24 points over West, 123-99. Travis Wyman is third with 86 points, six more than his brother Cody. Rispoli moves to fifth with 67 points.
Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. – Knebel Sweeps The Three
The racing in the Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. series has never been closer than it is right now. And that was on display three times over the course of the weekend with Saturday’s lone race and Sunday’s doubleheader at Ridge Motorsports Park in the series that started in 2021.
Kira Knebel won race two on Sunday morning by 33.9 seconds over Camille Conrad, but that lead was deceptive.
Yesterday’s podium finishers Shea MacGregor and Miranda Cain were battling over second place, both within touch of Knebel, when MacGregor divebombed Cain going into the Waterfall section of the track, ran wide and crashed, taking Cain with her. While MacGregor remounted to finish third, Cain wasn’t as fortunate as she had a few tip-overs while unsuccessfully trying to remount.
Lucy Blondel was fourth with Bryanna Everitt rounding out the top five.
The Build.Train.Race. battle of the weekend was held on a sunny and warm Sunday afternoon, and it featured a back-and-forth battle between Knebel and Cain with the two rarely separated by more than half a second. With four laps to go, however, Knebel dropped the hammer and was able to get clear of Cain to make it a clean sweep of the three races.
Cain made up for her race-two blunder to finish second, a tick over five seconds behind Knebel.
Third place went to MacGregor, 20 seconds behind Knebel and almost 12 seconds clear of Camille Conrad. Lucy Blondel rounded out the top-five finishers.
With one round and two races left in the title chase, Knebel leads the title chase over MacGregor by 25 points, 125-100.
“I love this track, so I’m so happy to be back here at the Ridge,” Knebel said. “I was able to put new tires on for this race, but Dunlop did an awesome job getting those tires ready. I don’t think we had them on the warmers quite long enough to get an accurate PSI reading, so might have been running a little high there. It was kind of slick compared to what I would like, but I’m getting it all dialed in. K-Tech Suspension is getting there, and we’ve got the guys under the tent helping make that happen for us. I’m just really happy to be back up here. Good redemption for Miranda (Cain). She was right there. It was a really great battle. I can’t wait to watch the race.” Knebel leads the championship point standings with 125 points, 25 more than MacGregor. Cain is third with 90 points.
Results
https://www.motoamericaregistration.com/Results/2025/RIDGE/25_8_RIDGE_SSP_R2_res.pdf
https://www.motoamericaregistration.com/Results/2025/RIDGE/25_8_RIDGE_TWN_R2_res.pdf
https://www.motoamericaregistration.com/Results/2025/RIDGE/25_8_RIDGE_MSH_R2_res.pdf
https://www.motoamericaregistration.com/Results/2025/RIDGE/25_8_RIDGE_BTR_R2_res.pdf
