MotoAmerica racing resumed today at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course as five feature classes took to the track for qualifying and Race 1 action. Rain in the area threatened for much of the day but largely held off at the circuit itself, setting up tight battles from the Supersport class through the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship — and a title-clinching performance in Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. (B.T.R.). Here’s how the day unfolded, class by class.
Supersport
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.
The following quote is from Supersport Race 1 Winner Darryn Binder:
I didn’t want to lose any more points. Had to try and put a move. I figured the only place I could do one was at the end of the straight. I hadn’t been close enough until that last lap. I finally got in the draft. But when I went for the brakes, I’m like, “Yes, I’m coming in hot. I was just trying to get it stopped as good as I could. Managed to get past and hold it until the end of the lap. Really happy. The pace was quite hot there from Josh. I didn’t quite expect it, to be honest. It was a good race. Looking forward to tomorrow.
Mission King Of The Baggers
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.
The following quote is from Mission King Of The Baggers Race 1 Winner:
I needed a better start than what I got, but luckily had a really good run through turn one. I was able to do that last year. I got a run and I was like, I got to go for it. I didn’t know what it was going to be like. I didn’t know how hard it was going to be to pass him. I know at Laguna I had a tough time passing my teammate. So just really good. Really happy for myself and the team, the whole J&P Cycles, Motul Vance and Hines group is working really good. The Indian Challenger is on point right now. Just got to keep working. Troy is pushing me hard. It’s going to be a battle. That’s for sure.
Twins Cup
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.
The following quote is from Twins Cup Race 1 Winner Bodie Paige:
Yeah, it was a good race for sure. The first few laps I knew that it was going to be a little slick. It was just going to come down to who had the most confidence. I went on the out lap and I saw everyone was a little bit timid and I felt pretty good. The plan from the start was to get a good start and try and get out front, just be smooth and tick my laps off. I saw one lap I came across the line and it was like 8.9. I was like, I’ll take a little bit off. I didn’t really know how much to push the last few laps, so I just kind of went at a nice, comfortable pace. With five laps to go, it was like 6.6 seconds. So I just knew if I was a second or five-tenths faster every lap, or in the same kind of gap, I knew I had the win in. Came across the last lap and it was like 1.6 or 2.2. I was just like, now I just got to run it home. But other than that, it was a good race. First time me and Matt have been one and two in a race, so that’s pretty sick. Good weekend. Good first race for Team Hammer. Hopefully we can move it into tomorrow.
Mission Super Hooligan National Championship
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.
The following quote is from Mission Super Hooligan National Championship Race 1 winner Bryce Kornbau:
I actually got a good start, but Gus just rolled through turn one so good and almost got around Andy and I both on the first lap. I knew my goal was to try to be in first by the second lap down the back straight. I felt like I had some pace with how the track was and where I was to be able to try to break away a little bit. That’s kind of exactly what we were able to do. I just got to thank my wife, Savannah, for supporting me, and then all the BPR racing team for coming out here. Hats off to Andy for getting second. Now we’re tied again in the championship for the second time. It’s going to be a good one with him, I’m sure. Just super excited how everything went. Obviously the bikes are working super good, one and two, three races in a row now. Looking forward to tomorrow.
Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race.
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.
The following quote is from Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race Race 1 Winner and newly crowned 2026 champion Jasmine Noelle:
Thank you so much. Thank you guys so much. All the support has been overwhelming. I just love this program. I think everybody that has been a part of this, our mechanics, have been great. You’ve got Rybo, we’ve got Alex, Butch, Freddy. They’ve all taken such good care of us. There’s so much love around here and from this crowd. I thank everybody. Thank you so much to our sponsors. Dunlop. Oh, my gosh. Those tires caught just when I needed them. I’m really thankful. We had Arai and Accossato. We’ve got some awesome players that have been a part of this season. I’m overwhelmed with gratitude. Thank you everybody so much.
For the full 2026 MotoAmerica schedule and to purchase tickets for MotoAmerica events, CLICK HERE.
For information on how to watch MotoAmerica, CLICK HERE.
