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Round one of the 2026 Quad Lock Superbike Championship concluded on Sunday at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta with Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong overtaking polesitter and Saturday’s race one winner Mathew Scholtz with only a couple of laps left to go. Strack Racing Yamaha’s Scholtz experienced a technical problem in the closing laps, and Fong pounced to take the checkered flag.

Scholtz’s return to the premier Quad Lock Superbike Championship after two years and two consecutive championships in MotoAmerica’s Supersport class was a dream come true up to that point. The South African, who has called Georgia his home for the past several years, earned the pole, won Saturday’s race, and was poised to make it a perfect weekend with an encore win on Sunday. But, with just two laps remaining, Scholtz suddenly dropped off the pace, enabling Fong to move into the lead and win the race by nearly three seconds over Scholtz.  

Meanwhile, Sean Dylan Kelly scored his second podium result of the weekend with a third-place finish. The Floridian logged a solid first Superbike weekend with his new OrangeCat Racing team. 

JD Beach had a lonely race in fourth aboard his Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha YZF-R1, but he salvaged valuable points after suffering a race one DNF from a mechanical failure.

Fifth-place finisher Cameron Beaubier left Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta third in points after a hard-fought weekend. The six-time and defending Superbike Champion started from 20th on the grid and made his way all the way up to sixth, ironically, by the sixth lap. Beaubier then overtook Wrench Motorcycles rider Cam Petersen to secure a top-five finish with Petersen coming home sixth.

In seventh place was the Real Steel Honda CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP of Hayden Gillim, just beating out M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Brandon Paasch in eighth aboard his GSX-R1000R.

Warhorse HSBK Ducati Flo4Law’s Benjamin Smith and Mission Foods M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Richie Escalante rounded out the top 10.

The following quote is from race two winner Fong:

“My confidence was kicked twice this weekend and as a racer, you have two crashes and you don’t know what the hell is going on, you’re kind of just looking around like, ‘I can’t do that again,’ especially with my team owner. Everybody knows he’d probably kill me if I did one more throwing it down. So, no. It wasn’t that great at the time. I just wanted it to be over with. But I knew at the end it was going to be a hell of a last-lap battle, if his bike didn’t break. We got a little lucky at the end. I’m sure it would have been fireworks, for sure. We’re both competitive riders. We try to be safe out there, but we want the win just as much as anybody. It was good to get 25 points on the board. Looking forward to Barber. This track, you don’t get that big a drop when the tire goes off. It’s not like a huge decline like most tracks. I feel like going to Barber, you get a huge drop off in the tires and stuff. I think we excel a little bit. I’m looking forward to that. It’s going to be a long season. These guys next to me are super-fast. I feel like, every weekend, we’re going to be seeing each other up here.”

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