Most of the Canadian contingent on hand for the Ohvale 160 World Championships gathered for the first time in Valencia, Spain, on Monday, November 10. The CMA sanctioned group, lead by Team Captain Toni Sharpless of the Super Sonic Road Race School, are entering the annual International event for the third time.
At the most recent RACEMoto Regional round at Shannonville Motorsport Park September 6, Jager Stockill of Arnprior, Ontario and Ethan Reardon of Calgary, Alberta (and recently Spain) fought the MiniGP Title and the right to represent Canada in Spain in the fourth and final Mini National of 2025. They split wins, Stockill earning the Championship and Reardon confirming he would also head to Spain for Canada.
After a recent spate of announcements, the World sanctioning group FIM (Federation Internatonale de Motorcycliste) has renamed this feeder series in the “road to MotoGP” program as FIM MotoMini World Series. Racers on the Ohvale machines are 10 to 14 years of age.
Previously, Stockill (age 12) has raced for Canada last year at the Worlds in Aragon while Reardon (age 10) had competed in China as well as running regional events in Spain. Both would head to Spain prior to Valencia, attending the Sallent venue to test and train. In total, the duo did four days over a week, encouraged by Canadian Coach and CSBK front runner Tomas Casas and Reardon’s Spanish Trainer Alvaro Castano.
Casas, Jager and Stockill rode Kayo 220 machines, and later Ohvale 190s, Stockill doing two days on the bigger wheeled Ohvale single machine. Unfortunately, when Stockill switched to the Moto5 class MIR belonging to the RS Academy from a Spanish spec series, he fell in his second session.
“I got going too soon,” reflected Stockill of the incident that tweaked his pelvis. “I didn’t ride after that, but I think I will be all right for Valencia. I blame me – it was a rookie mistake.”
While no official races are held at the Sallent circuit where Stockill fell, Reardon headed to the circuit de Juneda in Andalucia, where he would continue his 2025 campaign in the FCM (Federacio Catalana de Motociclisme) Catalunyan Regional Series on a Dunlop-shod Ohvale 160.
For a pair of races held on Sunday, November 9, Reardon was disappointed to qualify “only 8th” but raced confidently to a pair of fourth place finishes, ready to battle in the World Championships on spec Pirelli slick tires.
