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September 17, 2026

Racing News from NEMRR, WSBK, MOTOGP, MOTO AMERICA, 

Formula 1, Indycar, and Sportscar Championships

Published each week by Steve Aspland, and Greg Sarni.



Marc Marquez is on a tear recently and has a realistic chance of surpassing Valentinio Rossi's number of premier class titles this season. He'll be looking to take his third consecutive weekend sweep at the Qatar Airways Grand Prix of Austria at the Red Bull Ring this weekend.


Likewise in F1, Kimi Antonellis is steaming towards a World Championship. The 20-year-old Italian won his eighth GP of 2026 at a brand new circuit in Madrid.


MotoAmerica raced at Austin's Circuit of The Americas, where Cameron Beaubier returned from injury and the 6-time AMA Superbike Champion promptly won his first race back. Keep reading for details about last weekend's races.


MotoGP is in Austria this weekend, before heading to the Far East and Middle East for five rounds. IMSA is back on track at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for this weekend's TireRack.com Battle on the Bricks. Race previews are below.


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Jay Geils Memorial TV Links:
Saturday, September 19th: MotoGP - Austria Sprint Race 8:55 AM ET
FS1

IMSA WTSC - Indianapolis Qualifying 5:00 PM ET PEACOCK

Sunday, September 20th: MotoGP - Qatar Airways Grand Prix of Austria 7:30 AM ET FS1

IMSA WTSC - TireRack.com Battle on the Bricks 3:00 PM ET NBC


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September 12-13, 2026 NEMRR: Round 5

Race Results from
NHMS in Loudon, NH


Roadracing World Publishing, Inc. From a press release issued by NEMRR 

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Round 5 of the 2026 NEMRR Championship series ran at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on September 12-13, and the two days had nothing in common. Saturday was as good as New England gets in September: Sunny, mid-70s, a dry track from the first green flag to the last. Sunday brought warm rain from morning to night, and it never let up long enough for a dry line to appear. Anyone who had the weekend figured out by Saturday evening started over on Sunday morning.

NEMRR Announced their 2027 Road Racing Schedule - CLICK HERE

Photos from the September 11th Penguin Racing School Inc. are ready! Go git 'em!

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UPDATE: The missing galleries have been added!

MOTOAMERICA - Cameron Beaubier marked his return to the MotoAmerica Quad Lock Superbike grid with a dramatic victory on Saturday at Circuit of The Americas, capturing his first win of the 2026 season. Beaubier, who had been sidelined for four months following a crash at Road America, capped off his comeback by reclaiming the lead on a final lap pass over fellow Ducati rider Cameron Petersen in a hard-fought 12-lap battle in Texas.


After taking pole, Beaubier started his Warhorse HSBK Ducati FLo4Law machine from the front row. OrangeCat Racing's Sean Dylan Kelly grabbed the initial lead on Lap 1 before Beaubier swept past the BMW on Lap 2.


Beaubier led until Wrench Motorcycles’ rider Cameron Petersen made his move on Lap 8, taking over the top spot. Petersen, who recorded the fastest lap of the race (2:08.284) on the second lap, led for four laps before Beaubier mounted a final-lap pass to take the win by 0.862 seconds.


Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong completed the podium in third, the top three finishing within two seconds. Sean Dylan Kelly placed fourth on his BMW, while Rahal Ducati Moto with XPEL’s PJ Jacobsen finished fifth in Race 1.

Beaubier Bests Petersen For COTA Race 1 Win

Cameron Beaubier: “At the beginning, I got in there up front, and I just tried to tick off some good, smooth laps, and, honestly, five laps into the race, I started getting pretty tired. Cam (Petersen) came by me, and kind of gave me a second wind, and I was able to latch onto him and roll through the track, and he was riding awesome. 


"I don't know what he's doing in the first section, but he was gapping me every lap, so hats off to him. Hats off to Bob (Fong), man, I feel so good to get this win. First win of the season. Honestly, I was on the couch the last four months, not having this inside at all, so... thank you to Dr. Brian, Travis, for getting my shoulder back together."


Sunday's Race 2 at COTA saw the aforementioned Bobby Fong put the pass on Petersen to take the win on his Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha. Fong’s result closes the championship gap to 26 points behind standings leader Sean Dylan Kelly as MotoAmerica heads to its season-ending triple-header weekend at New Jersey Motorsports Park on September 25th – 27th.


Cameron Petersen who led nine laps of the 12-lap contest had another great day, but once again couldn't close the deal. Petersen set the overall fastest lap of the race on Lap 3, but Fong worked methodically to reduce the gap, finding himself in the lead with two laps to go, beating Petersen to the line by a second.


Championship leader Sean Dylan Kelly took a key podium, extending his season point total while minimizing the damage from Fong’s victory. Saturday’s Race 1 winner Cameron Beaubier finished fourth after a race-long battle with SDK. Fong's Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing teammate JD Beach completed the top five.


Bobby Fong: “Our strategy worked this weekend. It was good. We had a really good strategy we haven’t really done since I’ve been on the team, and it worked. I knew I had a little pace at the end. I just kept chipping away, slowly but surely. I was trying to hit my marks. A few times I was out there and I was overcharging the corners and having some big moments. I’m like, ‘Man, I better back this thing down.’ I saw Cameron coming back to me, so I had another lunge at the end. Hell of a race. It was great. My Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha, on rails as always. Looking forward to New Jersey and just keep the ball rolling.”


With 75 total points remaining up for grabs across the final triple-header weekend at New Jersey Motorsports Park, September 25th – 27th, the Quad Lock Superbike title chase remains unresolved: Sean Dylan Kelly leads the standings with 279 points. Bobby Fong sits second with 253 points (26 points off the lead). Mathew Scholtz holds third with 233 points (46 points back). JD Beach ranks fourth with 230 points (49 points back). Cameron Petersen rounds out the top five with 185 points, but now is mathematically outside of championship contention.


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MOTOGP - Marc Marquez is truly one of the most sensational road racers in history. Enduring injury and adversity, he has experienced both success and failure, but he has risen more than once and now he has overcome a title-leading deficit of over 100 points seven rounds ago to lead the 2026 MotoGP Riders' World Championship.


MM93 is riding a Ducati that has not been the match of the Aprilia RS-GP this season. Marquez has five of Ducati's seven Sunday wins this season. His brother Alex and VR46's Fabio Di Giannantonio are the only other riders who have won on a Bologna bike. The Spaniard has almost singlehandedly turned the balance of power back in Ducati's favor.

Marc Marquez Has 6 San Marino GP Wins

Four Aprilia-mounted riders have won seven GPs. Marquez has six Sprint wins in 2026, which has tipped the Constructors' battle towards Ducati - 412 points to Aprilia's 410. The Spaniard has swept the two previous rounds, with Sprint and Sunday race wins in Aragon and Misano, where he took his 78th MotoGP victory at the Red Bull Grand Prix of San Marino and the Rimini Riviera.


Former World Championship leader Marco Bezzecchi, who won the season's first three rounds, made yet another mistake and crashed out at Misano from the front on Lap 1. Second place went to BK8 Gresini Racing's Alex Marquez at the team's home round. Alex came from P9 on the grid riding a beautiful Marco Simoncelli tribute Ducati.

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WORLDSBK - The MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship returns to action next weekend for the EICMA Italian Round at the Cremona Circuit. If not for Iker Lecuona's P2 at the French Round, his teammate would have been crowned WorldSBK Champion in France. Now Nicolo Bulega will have the opportunity at his home round.


Holding a 146-point lead with 186 points remaining pre-Cremona, not only can ‘Bulegas’ win the title in Race 1 if he can outscore Lecuona by 15 points, but the Italian will be crowned in Sunday’s Tissot Superpole Race if he outscores his teammate by just three points cumulatively over the two races. In other words, among the potential winning scenarios, Bulega could be crowned as early as Race 1 if he wins the race and Lecuona falls to sixth or lower, or if the Iker finishes P2 while Nicolo takes P11 or worse.

Bulega Can Clinch the Rider's Championship in Italy

The Barni Spark Racing Team is poised to hoist the Independent Teams’ Championship trophy in Cremona as well; the Independent Ducati outfit holds a 168-point lead with 186 points left on offer before the round. If the team’s riders can score at least six points less than Sam Lowes and the ELF Marc VDS Racing Team, they could take the lead.


In his three years in WorldSBK, Nicolo Bulega has been in championship contention. The first two years he ran into the Turkish Express, in the form of Toprak Razgatlioglu and is set to reunite with his old rival as he heads to the MotoGP Paddock in 2027 with the Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team, the Ducati Factory Supported Team.


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