Hoosier rider? Well, this weekend at Ridge Motorsports Park, it’s Carmel, Indiana’s Solomon Mervis. Last year and also at select rounds in 2023, Mervis competed in MotoAmerica’s Junior Cup Championship. For 2025, he and his Ice Barn Racing team switched to the new Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul Championship.
Talent Cup is not racing at Ridge, but you just can’t keep this budding engineer off the tracks. The 20-year-old student at the prestigious Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, ranked as the top undergraduate engineering college in the U.S., is exploring the space in the Pacific Northwest as he competes in the SC-Project Twins Cup Championship.
Mervis is aboard the #225 Ice Barn Racing Yamaha YZF-R7, which he acquired this weekend through fellow Twins Cup competitor, Diva Racing’s Mallory Dobbs. Pacific Northwesterner Dobbs is racing in both the two-banger class and the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship Powered By Harley-Davidson at her home track while there is a break in the FIM Women’s Circuit Racing World Championship (WorldWCR), which is her main racing gig this season.
“I am thrilled and very, very excited to ride my first MotoAmerica Twins Cup race on the Yamaha R7,” Mervis said. “I want to thank Mallory Dobbs for providing me the opportunity to race at Ridge, and I just want to do my best, and make everyone who is supporting me proud. I know the competition will be fierce, and I look forward to racing against a class of excellent riders, many of whom I got to know in Junior Cup, and they are really good people, as well as tough riders.”
Mervis is set up in the paddock right next to Dobbs, so if you’re with us at Ridge this weekend, be sure to stop by and say hello to the two riders and their respective crews.
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