Professional Superbike – Qualifying Outcomes
Extra, from a press launch issued by CSBK:
Younger crushes Superbike pole in return to Shannonville
Shannonville, ON – Reigning Bridgestone Canadian Superbike champion Ben Younger will begin his title defence from pole place this weekend, torching the characteristic GP Bikes Professional Superbike subject in BS Battery qualifying on Friday at Shannonville Motorsport Park.
The latest winner of SMP in 2019 returned to the historic venue in triumphant style, although it didn’t at all times seem like that was going to be the case after rival Alex Dumas set the tempo in morning follow and finally the Q1 session.
The 2021 champion set an early time of 1:05.058 and was in a position to sit on it for the remainder of the Q1 battle, finally ending the primary stage simply 0.033 seconds off the 2019 pole place mark as the brand new Bridgestone tires tailored effectively to the warming situations.
Nevertheless, no matter hope Dumas had of that tempo staying the identical was rapidly shattered by Younger, because the Van Dolder’s Residence Workforce BMW rider blitzed the top-ten Q2 shootout with an early time of 1:04.749, at that time virtually a full second sooner than his subsequent closest competitor.
A pair of late stints for Dumas continued to shut the hole, however the Purple Cranium Brewing/Liqui Moly Suzuki rider finally may solely get inside 0.372 seconds of Younger, who takes house his third consecutive BS Battery Pole Place award.
“It’s good to be again at SMP, and actually good to be again on pole,” Younger mentioned. “It hasn’t been the simplest week, as we blew up the bike on the DynoJet and needed to rebuild it on the final minute, so it’s a pleasant reward for the workforce and their onerous work.”
Dumas would accept second in his nationwide race debut at Shannonville, although he feels he nonetheless has extra tempo to unlock within the two characteristic races this weekend.
“I acquired a great banker lap in, however then after we threw on recent tires, I simply wasn’t in a position to put collectively a clear lap,” Dumas mentioned. “We’ll work onerous within the race tomorrow and on Sunday to hopefully shut the hole a bit.”
Third within the last Q2 session was 14-time champion Jordan Szoke, a half-second behind Dumas, who’s late hopes for a file fifty fifth profession pole place had been minimize quick by a uncommon crash off the again straight.
Szoke was fortunately unhurt – the LDS Consultants Kawasaki workforce having already misplaced Trevor Dion to a hand damage this weekend – although the veteran was sincere about his state of affairs getting into his return to racing on Saturday.
“The crash was my fault. I figured the 1:05.5 wasn’t going to be sufficient, so I used to be pushing by means of visitors and acquired pinched on the nook and it slid out from beneath me,” he defined. “I instructed myself I used to be simply going to take it simple and experience good, however I’m simply so joyful to be right here. The final yr has been robust on everyone, so I acquired to offer an enormous because of the workforce.”
Szoke will admittedly be doing a rain dance in preparation for Saturday’s forecast of constant showers in Shannonville, organising a probably full moist race for the primary time in years – situations many consider will favour Szoke.
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The run of three totally different constructors on the entrance row was damaged up by Sam Guerin in fourth, who positioned his EFC Group BMW on the highest line of the grid for the primary time since his dazzling rookie season in 2020.
Guerin was briefly third earlier than getting displaced by Szoke, although he’ll nonetheless be joyful to have snatched the ultimate prime row spot from Trevor Daley, who made an excellent effort to grab fifth on his ‘B’ bike after crashing early in Q2.
The OneSpeed Suzuki rider may solely convey himself inside 1.5 seconds of pole on the second machine, however may have finished sufficient to climb again into podium competition on Saturday in situations that will even favour Daley.
On the center of the second row would be the IBEW BMW of Jordan Royds, who put in a formidable effort to complete only a second off a top-row spot. Subsequent to him and finishing the second row shall be Tomas Casas, who flashed moments of top-five tempo however in the long run may solely muster seventh for the Elements Canada Yamaha workforce.
Philip Leckie will begin eighth for Tanlans BMW, main off the third row and making 4 BMW machines contained in the top-eight, whereas rookie teenager John Fraser of Nova Scotia was the highest first-year rider in ninth for RLS Contracting Suzuki.
Hailing from the alternative coast and rounding out the top-ten Q2 session was Paul Macdonell, who put in a superb effort aboard his ACME Motorsports Yamaha to place two YZF-R1’s within the top-ten. Finishing the third row however simply lacking out on Q2 was rookie Julien Lafortune, who put his SpeedFactory67 Kawasaki eleventh.
The total qualifying outcomes for this weekend’s GP Bikes Professional Superbike subject might be discovered on the sequence’ official web site.
