MotoAmerica Goes To Mid-Ohio For Scholtz Vs. Jacobsen, Round Seven

The Supersport Title Battle Headlines An Action-Packed Weekend Of Racing At Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course

IRVINE, CA – August 14, 2025 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – Although both riders won races at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course a year ago, Strack Racing’s Mathew Scholtz came away with the most Supersport points. When he didn’t win, he finished second. Meanwhile, his championship rival, Rahal Ducati Moto’s PJ Jacobsen, won race one but finished fourth in race two. When the MotoAmerica series departed Ohio in 2024, Scholtz did so with a 25-point lead over Jacobsen with two rounds remaining.

Mathew Scholtz leads the Supersport Championship point standings by seven over PJ Jacobsen as the series heads to Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio. Photo by Brian J. Nelson

Fast forward to 2025. Jacobsen has been exceptional when it comes to damage limitation on days when Scholtz is at his best. Case in point: The New Yorker has finished second in all six of Scholtz’ victories. That’s how you keep yourself in a title chase.

The pair comes to Mid-Ohio this year with just seven points separating them in the Motovation Supersport Championship, with Scholtz leading Jacobsen, 242-235. Scholtz has six wins to Jacobsen’s two victories, but Jacobsen has only been off the podium once – a fourth in race two at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Scholtz has two non-podium races on his scorecard – a fifth in race one at Road Atlanta and a fourth in race two at Road America.

Scholtz’s teenage teammate Blake Davis is on the outside looking in. The recent high-school graduate has won three races and is third in the title chase, albeit 56 points in arrears. Davis has seven total podiums and has shown he can win on any given weekend.

Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott is fourth in the championship and is coming off a difficult weekend at VIRginia International Raceway, as a pre-VIR testing crash left him bruised and beaten.

Celtic/Economy Lube+Tire/Warhorse HSBK Ducati’s Cameron Petersen finished a fighting third in race one at VIR but crashed out of the battle in race two. The South African is fifth in the championship, just one point behind Scott.

Mission King Of The Baggers – Back On Track 

It’s been a month since the last time Mission King Of The Baggers turned a wheel in anger, but the big V-twins are back in business this weekend at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

They come to Ohio with not much of a championship battle, but with the promise that, as always, the class will provide plenty of action and heated on-track scraps.

Harley-Davidson x Dynojet Factory Racing’s Kyle Wyman arrives at Mid-Ohio with a 76-point lead in the championship. Surprisingly, it’s not defending class champion Troy Herfoss who is the closest to Wyman. Instead, it’s his class rookie teammate Loris Baz who sits second, with the Frenchman impressive in his first year on a Bagger. S&S/Indian Motorcycle’s Baz has a win and three additional podiums.

Herfoss is third, 82 points behind Wyman and six behind Baz. Herfoss is one of three riders to win a race in 2024, joining Wyman and Baz. The Aussie is hoping to turn things around after spending a month at his Gold Coast home.

Herfoss’ teammate Tyler O’Hara is fourth, with RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson’s Rocco Landers fifth in the title chase.

Stock 1000 – Lee Over Beach 

Real Steel Honda’s JD Beach is brimming with confidence after winning both Stock 1000 races at VIRginia International Raceway and vaulting himself into serious championship contention.

However, if Beach has championship aspirations, he will have to go through OrangeCat Racing’s Andrew Lee to get there. Lee, and his three victories in 2025, sits atop the standings with a 10-point lead over a red-hot Beach, 122-112.

Lee’s teammate Jayson Uribe could throw a monkey wrench into all of it. Uribe is third, 28 points behind Lee and 18 behind Beach. He is also just two points ahead of Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates.

Mission Super Hooligan National Championship – West Takes Over 

Saddlemen Race Development’s Jake Lewis had everything going his way prior to the WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca round of the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship Powered By Harley-Davidson. With four wins in the first five races, Lewis was in complete control of the point standings.

Then it all fell apart, with a big crash before racing even started at Laguna Seca that left him beat up and out of the weekend’s two races. Lewis could only watch as KWR Harley-Davidson’s James Rispoli won both races. More importantly for Lewis, his teammate Cory West was second in both.

And just like that, a cushy points lead had turned into a 16-point deficit, with defending class champion West now in front of Lewis, 139-123.

Now it all comes down to the final two races of the 2025 Super Hooligan Championship this weekend at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

If Lewis were to win both with West second in both, the title would go to West by six points. But this is Hooligan racing, and there will be battles aplenty at the front of the pack with the likes of Rispoli, Travis Wyman, Cody Wyman, and others, all capable of being a spoiler and all hungry to finish their season with race wins.

Pre-Mid-Ohio Support Notes…

PJ Jacobsen and Mathew Scholtz split wins in the Supersport races last year at Mid-Ohio with Jacobsen beating Scholtz and Larry Pegram in race one and Scholtz topping Tyler Scott and Jake Lewis in race two.

Troy Herfoss won the first of two Mission King Of The Baggers races at Mid-Ohio last year, with Kyle Wyman second and Rocco Landers third. Wyman flipped the results in race two by winning over Herfoss and Landers.

Jake Lewis and Cory West won the two Mission Super Hooligan National Championship races last year. Lewis topped West and Hayden Schultz in race one with West beating Tyler O’Hara and Troy Herfoss in race two.

Kyle Wyman is far and away the winningest rider in the six-year history of the Mission King Of The Baggers series. Wyman has 23 victories in the class, while Troy Herfoss is second on the all-time win list with eight victories.

Rahal Ducati Moto’s PJ Jacobsen set a new Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Supersport lap record of 1:27.427 last year in Qualifying 1.