MotoAmerica New Jersey 2026 came down to a two-point lead, a nor’easter and one slide on lap four. Bobby Fong won the Superbike championship by 11 points, 316 to 305 over Sean Dylan Kelly, after Kelly crashed out of Sunday’s Race 3 at New Jersey Motorsports Park. Fong finished fourth in that race, and fourth was all it took.
The finale ran September 25 to 27 in Millville, and the weather wrote most of the schedule. MotoAmerica cancelled Saturday’s Superbike qualifying and set the grid from Friday’s timed practice. Races 1 and 2 ran Saturday, Race 3 waited for Sunday, and the Superbike races were cut to 15 laps. The second Talent Cup and Twins Cup races were cancelled outright. MotoAmerica New Jersey 2026 capped the 50th anniversary of Superbike racing in this series.
MotoAmerica New Jersey 2026 Superbike Saturday: Fong Wins Both Races
Race 1 started three times, with two red flags, in rain that left standing water on the track. Fong led after every start and took the five-lap final restart by 3.287 seconds over Cameron Beaubier. Benjamin Smith’s third place was his first Superbike podium, which put two Ducatis on the box. Kelly was fourth, and Jayson Uribe beat Mathew Scholtz to the line for fifth by 0.015 seconds.
Race 2 was messier and closer. With five laps to go, Scholtz, Fong, JD Beach, Kelly and PJ Jacobsen were within a second of each other. Kelly led for a lap around halfway and Scholtz led later, before Fong took the lead back to win by 0.443 seconds. Beach edged Scholtz by 0.159 seconds for second, an all-Yamaha podium. Kelly finished fourth again.
Fong won twice and still went to bed two points behind, 305 to 303. Scholtz led Beach by a single point for third. The Warhorse HSBK Ducati team lost both bikes in Race 2, Beaubier to a grip problem and Smith to an engine issue, and then pulled them from Race 3 rather than send them out in Sunday’s standing water.
MotoAmerica New Jersey 2026 Race 3: Kelly Goes Down and Fong Takes the Title
The rain eased just before 2 p.m. Sunday, and the 15-lap Race 3 started at 2:49. Fong grabbed the holeshot and led the first seven laps, with Scholtz second and Kelly third through lap three. On lap four Kelly crashed out. He later said it came down to “all or nothing.” BMW says OrangeCat is the first official BMW Motorrad team in U.S. Superbike.
Fong was candid about what happened to him next. “I made a very long, hard race for myself,” he said, and the lap chart agrees. Scholtz passed him on lap eight, Cameron Petersen on lap nine and Beach on lap 12. Fong still crossed the line fourth, worth 13 points, and the gap to Kelly’s 305 ended up at 11.
Scholtz rode away from there, winning by 6.534 seconds for his fifth victory of the season and moving past Beach into third in the standings, 284 to 274. Petersen took second on his Ducati and Beach was third. Yamaha says Fong’s title is its 15th in AMA Superbike history, the most of any brand, and that Scholtz’s win gave it 218 race wins, an all-time record.
Beach had his own weekend of recovery. A near-highside in Race 1 dropped him to 18th and he still finished eighth, then he took second and third on the way to fourth in the standings, with three wins in his first full season on the team.
The arithmetic is brutal. Kelly was third on lap three. With Fong finishing fourth, Kelly needed fourth place or better to win the championship himself, and instead he took the first DNF of his season. He had won three races and stood on the podium 13 times.
MotoAmerica New Jersey 2026 Supersport and King of the Baggers Results
Josh Hayes won Supersport Race 1 in the rain, which Yamaha says was his 91st career AMA road racing win. Kayla Yaakov was second and Josh Herrin third. Darryn Binder, on pole, spun his rear wheel off the start and fell to 11th, then recovered to fourth. On Sunday he beat Herrin by 0.137 seconds after the two traded the lead early.
Karel Hanika took third in Race 2, his second MotoAmerica start as a fill-in for the injured Dominic Doyle, and Blake Davis was fourth. Hayes crashed at Turn 1 off the start and again with five laps left, remounted both times, and set the fastest lap of the race at 1:35.925 before finishing 11th, one lap down. That left him four points behind Yaakov for third in the standings.
Binder closed his rookie season on 406 points, 78 clear of Herrin, with 11 wins. Herrin, who won a fourth straight Daytona 200 this season, took second on 328. Yaakov, who earlier this year rode a Ducati Desmosedici, finished third on 249. Ducati says it is the first time the brand has swept the class podium, and that Yaakov is the first woman in the Supersport top three.
King of the Baggers split its two races. Troy Herfoss won Saturday by 0.035 seconds over Hayden Gillim, who had led every lap but the last. Both gambled on slick tires and both were right. Sunday went to Kyle Wyman, who won by 1.896 seconds over Harley-Davidson teammate Bradley Smith, with Gillim third after leading the first three laps and collecting the $5,000 Mission Foods bonus that MotoAmerica folded into the race.
Gillim took the championship on 287 points. Smith was second on 230, two ahead of Herfoss, who finished seventh Sunday and still held third on 228.
MotoAmerica New Jersey 2026 Talent Cup, Twins Cup and Superbike Cup Finales
Nathan Gouker was already Talent Cup champion before MotoAmerica New Jersey 2026 began, and Race 1 was a formality. The 15-year-old won his ninth race of the year, with Sam Drane second and Jake Paige third by 0.008 seconds over Derek Sanchez. Gouker finished on 314 points, 43 clear of Kensei Matsudaira, who skipped the finale for a Moto4 round in Europe. He left Monday for a Red Bull Rookies Cup tryout in Spain.
Twins Cup Race 1 was cut from 13 laps to seven and ended in confusion. Isaac Woodworth took his first career win after Gouker, making his Twins Cup debut, passed him under a yellow flag on the last lap and was penalized two positions. Gouker dropped to third behind Bodie Paige. Champion Hank Vossberg crashed on that same lap and finished 10th.
Vossberg ended on 274 points, with Paige second on 184, Drane third on 170 and Matthew Chapin fourth on 168. Race 2 never ran, so Saturday’s result stood as the final word.
In the Superbike Cup, Andrew Lee had clinched at COTA and still stood on the podium in all three races, winning Race 1 and taking second in Race 3 to finish on 441 points. Carl Soltisz was second on 285.
Danilo Lewis won Races 2 and 3, his first Cup wins of the year, after saying he crashed out of the Race 1 lead three corners from the finish. Those wins lifted him to third on 254, past Deion Campbell, who went out on lap five of Race 3.
What MotoAmerica New Jersey 2026 Said About the Season
Look at the winners list and the title result looks strange. Seven riders won Superbike races in 2026: Fong six times, Scholtz five, Beach and Kelly three each, and Petersen, Beaubier and Baz one apiece. Scholtz won five races and finished third. MotoAmerica’s official 2026 standings show him scoring nothing in five others, including a DNF at Laguna Seca that flipped the points lead to Kelly.
Kelly did the opposite. He held the lead from Laguna Seca through Mid-Ohio, through VIR and through COTA, where Scholtz’s weekend fell apart on a shift-linkage failure. Fong spent that stretch recovering from a Turn 1 pileup at VIR that ended his Race 3, and after the Texas round he arrived in New Jersey 26 points down.
MotoAmerica New Jersey 2026 also reset next year’s grid. Binder moves up to Superbike with Warhorse HSBK Ducati, alongside Beaubier. Harley-Davidson has said it will end its factory King of the Baggers program after 2026, so Wyman’s win was the factory team’s last race. “This team has changed my life,” he said. Gouker’s tryout in Spain will show whether Talent Cup is doing the job it was built for.
That is where I keep landing on 2026. Seven different riders won Superbike races, three of them were in the title fight until the last race, and Fong’s six wins mattered because they kept him close. But the title went to the rider who treated 13 points on a flooded Sunday as a good afternoon. In a season with seven winners, it belonged to the one still on the bike at the end.
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