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We caught up with Ben Young while the three-time Canadian Superbike Championship was on his way to the airport, scheduled to participate in a Blackfoot Cycle BMW launch event in Calgary that evening. Mostly recovered from two hours straight of racing a motorcycle in Florida last weekend, the Collingwood-based Young was looking forward to meet...

This year’s Daytona 200 reminded me of “back in the day,” in a number of ways. The field was deeper, stronger, and faster than it has been since the very start of the “tame Daytona” era when the old AMA switched to Formula Xtreme (600 cc Superbikes) way back in 2005, when Miguel Duhamel won...

The final component of the build up for the 82nd running of the Daytona 200 was the Time Attack session on Friday afternoon, March 8, for the top 12 riders by time (after two Q sessions) in the MotoAmerica Supersport category. A deep field for the unique season-opening event means that more than twenty racers...

On-track action opened at Daytona International Speedway in Florida on Thursday, March 7, in preparation for Saturday’s scheduled 82nd running of the 200-mile motorcycle road race on the 5.65km course. The opening race of the MotoAmerica season, but not a points round of the middleweight Supersport category, Daytona has enjoyed a rebirth since a change...

Many of the top Canadians planning to compete in this Saturday’s 82nd running of MotoAmerica’s season-opening Daytona 200-miler attended JenningsGP in North Florida on Tuesday, March 5, for the second annual pre-race test. Last year, three riders took part: Ben Young, Elliot Vieira, and a playing-through Brad Macrae. This time, there were way more racers,...

There is lots of excitement associated with the upcoming 82nd running of the Daytona 200, the first MotoAmerica event of 2024 season. The historic 200 format began on the coastal beach, then transitioned to the infield of the new, now famed NASCAR venue before eventually taking over part of the banking on a simple road...

Back in January, legendary Australian road racer Anthony Gobert passed away of unspecified health issues, age 48. Images of Gobert prior to his passing hinted at just how hard his post racing career has been since he finally ran out of competition options in 2008. After a wide range of legal problems, Gobert’s addiction issues...

The last couple of seasons have been up-and-down for 24-year-old Pro racer Connor Campbell. In 2022, he was showing considerable progress in the Liqui Moly Pro Sport Bike category, only to have a season-ending practice fall at Atlantic Motorsport Park. Campbell’s 2023 come back ride was a great one, coming from behind to win the...

Last September, Ben Young was justifiably preoccupied with his shot at the No. 1 plate. The Shannonville Motorsport Park final Bridgestone CSBK National, with an unusual three GP Bikes Pro Superbike class races, would decide the season long battle between the reigning No. 1, Young, on the Van Dolder’s Home Team BMW M 1000 RR...

Sunday’s final round of the 2023 MotoGP World Championship at Valencia, Spain was billed as a battle between the reigning World Champion Pecco Bagnaia’ s works Lenovo Ducati and the upstart Prima Pramac entry of Spain’s Jorge Martin. Martin won Saturday’s Tissot Sprint race in impressive style, knocking the points gap between the title contenders...

Last weekend, the penultimate round of the MotoGP World Championship took place under the lights in the desert at the Losail venue in Doha, Quatar. Round 19 of the 2023 campaign continued in the manner of recent races, with significant controversy between Ducati’s title protagonists, works Lenovo’s Francesco “Pecco” Bagnaia of Italy and the Prima...

Recently, I have wavered on a 2023 MotoGP update for this blog – reigning World Champ Pecco Bagnaia of the works Lenovo Ducati squad has controlled the action for most of the season, and there wasn’t much drama. This is hardly a surprise, since Bagnaia’ s most likely threat, team-mate Enea Bastianini, has been sidelined...