NewJersey VIP Magazine

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Slicer’s Corner

As the sun sets on New Jersey Motorsports Park, and the 2025 MotoAmerica Championship season comes to a close, we reflect on an incredible journey. Starting from the “World Center of Racing” at Daytona International Speedway, or Barber Motorsports Park, and finally to the Garden State of New Jersey, it has been a season to remember. For our VIP Superfans, New Jersey captured the very essence of ABC’s classic Wide World of Sports tagline: “The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.”

With two championships on the line, all eyes were on the premier Superbike and Motovation Supersport classes. Our cover highlights the dramatic Superbike finale, where Cameron Beaubier and his Tytlers Cycle Racing BMW clinched the Superbike crown. It was Cameron’s sixth championship and BMW’s second. Both rider and manufacturer returned to glory after several years away from the top step.

The closing rounds were anything but easy. Entering the final two races, Cameron faced a 14-point deficit after Bobby Fong’s dominant win in Saturday’s Race 1. In Race 2 on Sunday morning, after a fierce battle with Josh Herrin, Bobby experienced his own “agony of defeat,” crashing out of second place on the final lap. That heartbreaking moment swung the momentum, giving Cameron a seven-point lead over Bobby and 13 over Josh, with only one race left to decide the title. Bobby and Josh ultimately needed to win, while capitalizing on a possible miscue from Cameron in order to capture the championship!

In true mult-time champion style, Cameron rose to the occasion — winning the final race of the season and, as Jim McKay so often said, experiencing the “Thrill of Victory.” His performance dramatically secured the 2025 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship.

We hope you enjoyed your time with us in New Jersey. Inside this VIP Superfan Experience E-Magazine, you’ll find highlights of two unforgettable days of racing, along with in-suite and paddock activities that made the weekend special.

It’s been an outstanding season, made even better by sharing it with the best fans in racing — our VIP Superfans. Until next year, we thank you for your support and look forward to seeing you again in 2026!

Best Regards,

Ron “Slicer”Heben

GUEST SPEAKERS

How can you not enjoy hearing good things from MP13 Racing team owner Melissa Paris, Dr. Carl Price, or racers Ella Dreher, Ashton Yates and Max Flinders?

Saturday’s Mission King Of The Baggers pre-race grid was packed with fans and kids! With so many GREAT racers along with our VIPs it makes for a special day!

Packed podium, and why not? Who wouldn’t want to enjoy the celebrations with race winner Hayden Gillim, runner-up Cameron Petersen, and rounding out the top three, Rocco Landers?

More of what to expect when you’re a VIP Superfan: two days of special treatment and behind-the-scenes experience. NJMP was hopping!

Oh, did the Superbike racers put on a show! Race two was our time to meet the best of the best and, of course, with open arms, the riders. Our VIP Superfans were part of a history-making day!

We may need to get a bigger podium! Talk about a thriller, race two was epic, and our VIP Superfans were able to enjoy the podium with Josh Herrin, Cameron Beaubier and Richie Escalante

With the season champions in Motovation Supersport (Mathew Scholtz) and Superbike (Cameron Beaubier) receiving their number-one plates, and also, the podium finishers in five classes receiving their trophies, there was a lot of celebrating at NJMP. Best of all, the VIP Superfans got to join in on the festivities.

Duly Noted

Random notes, comments, statistics, musings, and bits of trivia from MotoAmerica Superbikes at New Jersey:

BMW: Bavarian Motorcycles Winning Superbike racing was invented right here in the U.S., and don’t let anyone tell you different. MotoAmerica’s premier race class debuted at Daytona International Speedway in 1976, and Reg Pridmore won the very first Superbike Championship aboard his Butler & Smith BMW R90S.

Thus, it was fitting that Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Cameron Beaubier won the 50th AMA/MotoAmerica Superbike Championship aboard his BMW M 1000 RR. The Bavarian Motor Works bookended the entire history of Superbike racing with their first championship in 1976 and their second championship in 2025

Firsts From The Last

The final round of the 2025 MotoAmerica Championship was a weekend of firsts for several riders. Warhorse Ducati/American Racing’s Derek Sanchez, who competed this season in the inaugural Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul Championship, notched his first-career MotoAmerica podium result when he finished third in Saturday’s race one. Also, Bettencourt Racing’s Nathan Bettencourt improved on his fourth-place finish in race one when he rounded out the podium with third place in Sunday’s race two for his first-career MotoAmerica podium.

Real Steel Honda’s Hayden Gillim achieved a career milestone of his own on Sunday when he finished third in Superbike race three for the first Superbike podium of his career.

Ashton Yates put his Jones Honda CBR1000 RR-R Fireblade SP on the outside of row one for the weekend’s three Superbike races, marking the first time the Georgian has qualified on the front row in MotoAmerica’s premier race class.

Hitting For The Cycles

Cameron Petersen had himself quite a final weekend of the 2025 MotoAmerica season. Racing in both Motovation Supersport and Mission King Of The Baggers as he had done for the entire season, Petersen got things started when he won Saturday morning’s three-lap Mission King Of The Baggers Challenge aboard his SDI Racing Indian Challenger, pocketing the $5,000 winner-take-all check. On Saturday afternoon, Cam P. finished third in Supersport race one aboard his Celtic/Economy Lube+Tire/ Warhorse HSBK Ducati Panigale V2. Then, he climbed back aboard his SDI Racing/Indian Challenger and finished as runner-up in Mission King Of The Baggers race one. So, all told, he hit for the cycle on Saturday with a race win, a runner-up result, and a third-place finish. And, he wasn’t done yet.

On Sunday, Petersen notched his first-career Mission King Of The Baggers feature-race victory to cap off the 2025 MotoAmerica season and wrap up the South African’s incredible weekend in New Jersey.

Private Tiers

The Mission King Of The Baggers race one podium was historic. Never before in the six years that MotoAmerica’s uniquely American Big Twin touring bike championship has existed has a podium consisted exclusively of riders from non-factory teams. RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson rider Hayden Gillim’s win on Saturday, Cameron Petersen’s runner-up result, and Gillim’s teammate Rocco Landers’ third-place finish marked the first time that no rider from either Harley-Davidson’s or Indian Motorcycles’ factory teams stood on the podium.

Thunderbolt & Lap Records

It was a banner weekend for new lap records at New Jersey Motorsports Park. In MotoAmerica’s premier Superbike class, Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong got into the “nineteens” aboard his Yamaha YZF-R1 during Saturday morning’s Qualifying 2 with a new lap record of 1:19.716.

In Motovation Supersport, Strack Racing Yamaha’s Mathew Scholtz was in a class of his own all weekend long as he repeatedly broke and rebroke the middleweight lap record that had been owned by Garrett Gerloff since 2016. Scholtz’s 1:20.926 in Qualifying 2 on Saturday was just a little more than one second off the new Superbike lap record set by Fong. And, for good measure, Scholtz also broke JD Beach’s race lap record from 2016 with a 1:21.554 in Saturday afternoon’s Race 1.

Here are the new lap records set in MotoAmerica’s three other race classes that were in action at NJMP:

• Mission King Of The Baggers:

Lap Record: 1:22.409 – Hayden Gillim, Qualifying 2 (9/27/2025)

Race Lap Record: 1:22.565 – Cameron Petersen, Race 1 (9/27/2025)

• SC-Project Twins Cup: Race Lap Record: 1:24.940 – Matthew Chapin, Race 1 (9/27/2025)

• Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul: Lap Record & Race Lap Record: 1:29.624 – Bodie Paige, Race 2 (9/28/2025)

Run What Ya Brung

It was quite a season for Bad Boys Racing’s Avery Dreher. The SC-Project Twins Cup rider finished fourth in the season championship while fully “exploring the space” in MotoAmerica’s two-banger class. The Floridian raced three different brands of motorcycles during the year, starting out at Daytona with a Yamaha YZF-R7, then switching to a Suzuki GSX-8R at Barber, and finally ending up with an Aprilia RS 660 for the remaining four rounds at Ridge, Laguna Seca, VIR, and New Jersey.

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