Motovation Supersport
Strack Racing Yamaha's Mathew
Scholtz capped off his second
straight MotoAmerica Super-
sport Championship-winning
season
in perfect style in New
Jersey. Pole position, the race-
one and championship win by
five-tenths of a second—after
chief title rival PJ Jacobsen
(Rahal Ducati Moto w/ Xpel)
retired with mechanical prob
-
lems on the Ducati Panigale V2
and
a blowout 14.2-second win
over Tyler Scott (Vision Wheel
M4 Ecstar Suzuki) and Blake Da-
vis—Scholtz made his ideal final
round
as a Supersport rider, with
news coming from owner Peter
Strack that Scholtz will return
to the MotoAmerica Superbike
category in 2026 for the team.
"Obviously, losing my ride at
the end of '23 and moving down
to the Supersport class, that kind
of killed me slightly, but I think
I've proven that I deserve to be
back up there," Scholtz said. "So,
I'm just super happy. Now just
celebrate, go smash some beers
and get ready for '26."
Scholtz leaves Supersport a
two-time champion to go with his
Stock 1000 title earned in 2017.
The South African earned 383
points to Jacobsen's 325, with
Blake Davis taking third on 266.
King of The Baggers
Cameron Petersen (SDI Racing
Indian) finally had a weekend
to celebrate in the 2025 Mis-
sion King of The Baggers as the
South
African took pole position
and two wins from three starts,
including the check for $5K as
the three-lap Challenge winner.
Petersen and former class
number one Hayden Gillim
(RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines
Harley-Davidson) were the class
of the field in New Jersey, the
two trading places across the
weekend as Petersen drew first
blood in qualifying and the Chal
-
lenge race, Gillim returned serve
in race
one ahead of Petersen
and Rocco Landers (RevZilla/
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Cam Petersen had a watershed
weekend with two wins from three
starts in the Baggers.
