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Reigning Bridgestone Canadian Superbike Champion Ben Young has enjoyed a busy couple of weeks recently; on Sunday, he unexpectedly clinched his sixth career GPBikes Pro Superbike title at CSBK round four of the National tour at Grand Bend, nabbing his second win of the weekend for the Van Dolder’s Home Team/Parts Canada Honda CBR1000RR-R effort....

Well I’m driving back in our truck from a racetrack, which seems to be the time when I write these things. It’s the moment I have time to reflect. One of the things I’ve been asked, which kind of keeps coming up is how have I come back from injury or a bad crash? So...

Yesterday, I was on a bus just outside the Suzuka Circuit when I got the word that Ben Young had just crashed in the final, early Sunday morning session for the 47th Annual Coca-Cola World Endurance Championship round. Others had crashed too in the damp to rainy conditions, at a time when you would expect...

The 47th running of the famed Coca-Cola Endurance World Championship round at Suzuka in Japan Sunday, July 5 had the making of a classic event, with a strong field and solid competition between brands at the front of the grid. But tricky intermediate conditions ruined qualifying, and Sunday’s race provided more of the same –...

The much-hyped “SuperPole” style Top Ten Qualifying for the 47th running of the Coca-Cola Suzuka 8 Hours round of the FIM World Endurance Championship failed to take place Saturday, with late arriving drizzle causing action to be halted early in the afternoon to the disappointment of fans. Instead, qualifying times from the first three Friday...

Reigning Bridgestone Canada Superbike Champion Ben Young, the points leader in this year’s national series with six of ten races completed, continues to show well in World Endurance Championship action at Suzuka, Japan. In his second outing at the prestigious Coca-Cola Eight-Hour round, Young has joined the Suzuka Honda effort, a team built around a...

Canada’s reigning National Superbike Champ shook off his jet lag and afternoon wet conditions to establish his spot as a key member of the Suzuka Honda World Endurance Team in preparation for the 47th annual running of the prestigious Coca-Cola 8 Hours in Suzuka, Japan, July 5. Currently holding the overall series Pro Superbike points...

Inside Motorcycles sat down with RACEMoto reigning Champion Elie Daccache at the opening round of the Shannonville Regional Series at the start of May to talk about his unprecedented run of success at S.M.P. Our main reason to talk on the record was to establish the length of his current winning streak at the fabled...

A cynic might suggest that the trends observed at the second round of the 2026 Bridgestone CSBK National Championships, at Atlantic Motorsport Park at the start of June, were close to what occurred at the Shannonville opener. Ben Young won both the GPBikes Pro Superbike features for the Van Dolder’s Home Team Honda squad, his...

I’ve started to write this blog 2,000 km away from home in the middle of northern Ontario and I will finish it sitting on my couch 3 weeks later after the X-rays, Ultrasounds, physio, massage and the drop off to our mechanic of a very bent bike. Next step for me is riding at RMM...

Race fans have specific expectations, and these come into focus during the long winter off for the Bridgestone CSBK national road racing championship tour. The consensus was, prior to the 88 Moto backed Shannonville Motorsport Park opener, that Ben Young was the solid favourite to take the overall GP Bikes Pro Superbike title once again...

The 49th summer season of regional competition opened at Shannonville Motorsport Park on the perimeter Pro layout May 8-10, and Milwaukee Yamaha YZF-R1 racer Elie Daccache continued to set the big bike pace. The reigning RACEMoto Series overall pro Superbike Champ, Daccache won both of those events (Saturday and Sunday) as well as one of...