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CSBK Announces Tentative 2025 Schedule

Grandstand — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 23:29:53 +0000

The provisional 2024 Canadian Superbike race schedule is out, and there are some switches to the usual schedule—some surprising changes. Next year’s schedule will look a lot different from this year, starting with the absence of Grand Bend. There are only five race weekends in the year, and Grand Bend isn’t included. Instead, the series opens at Shannonville, like it usually does, in mid-May…

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Bimota Vs. World Superbike: Enter The KB998

Grandstand — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:19:08 +0000

Goodbye, Kawasaki. Hello, Bimota! As planned and announced earlier this year, Team Green is backing out of World Superbike, with their Italian friends at Bimota taking over their WSB factory effort—and now we see their first bike. If you’re wondering how this happened in the first place, remember that Kawasaki now owns a big chunk of Bimota and the Italian boutique bike firm uses their engines…

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New Deal With Dorna Sees FIM Sign Away MotoGP Broadcasts Until 2060

Grandstand — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 17:17:08 +0000

Want to watch World Superbike, or MotoGP? For the foreseeable future, Dorna Sports will continue to hold promotional rights for both these international roadracing series, thanks to a new deal with the FIM. The FIM is the world’s largest certifier of motorcycle racing. Its website says “FIM is the supreme and sole international authority empowered to control international motorcycling events…

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RIP Racer Grant Nesbitt

Grandstand — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:51:05 +0000

Grant Nesbitt, father to Canadian roadracing champ Stacey Nesbitt and a fine competitor in his own right, has died after a crash on the weekend. Nesbitt was probably first across most Canadian racing fans’ radar around the early 2010s, when daughter Stacey’s on-track heroics took her to the championship in Honda’s CBR125 and CBR250 spec series in the Canadian Superbike schedule before she…

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CSBK 2024: The Season Wraps Up In Shannonville

Grandstand — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 11:13:33 +0000

When it all came down to the finish, there were no real upsets at Shannonville’s Canadian Superbike finale—in the Pro categories, even the final races of the season went to the champs. In Pro Superbike, Alex Dumas nearly won the final race of the season on Sunday afternoon, with series champ Ben Young (who’d already clinched his title) in third on lap one after starting on pole.

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CSBK’s 2024 Season Wraps Up At Shannonville This Weekend!

Grandstand — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 20:23:18 +0000

Annnnd here we are—the final race weekend of the 2024 Canadian Superbike campaign, all happening at Shannonville, where the season started four months ago. This time, they’re running the facility’s Long Track layout. As we head into the weekend, a few titles are still up for grabs, although Pro Sport Bike is decided (Sebastien Tremblay nailed it down at the Mosport round) and Ben Young would…

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Fast Times At CTMP: The Mosport Round Sees CSBK Titles Decided, And A Lot Of Great Racing

Grandstand — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:02:33 +0000

The Canadian Tire Motorsport Park race weekend is in the books for 2024, and while this weekend is always the highlight of the summer’s racing, it was even better this year thanks to an all-new event: The debut of professional bagger racing in Canada. The Bagger Racing League ran a doubleheader at Mosport this weekend, and eight racers, including riders from all over the U.S. and even an Aussie…

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Wildcards Could Blow CSBK Open At CTMP This Weekend

Grandstand — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 13:10:23 +0000

It’s the pinnacle of Canadian Superbike racing—the annual visit to Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Bowmanville. The Track Formerly Known As Mosport always hosts the hottest race weekend of the season for two reasons: First, the Pro Superbike series hosts a tripleheader, not the usual doubleheader. Second, it attracts more wildcard talent than any other race. That’s true again this year…

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