Professional Superbike – Race 2 Outcomes (Sunday)
Professional Superbike – Race 3 Outcomes (Sunday)
Extra, from a press launch issued by CSBK:
Younger wins once more in race two, Tremblay takes Sport Bike at CTMP
Bowmanville, ON – The battle for the 2023 Bridgestone Canadian Superbike Championship continued to warmth up on Sunday, as Ben Younger received race two within the GP Bikes Professional Superbike characteristic class at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.
Just like race one on Saturday, Younger noticed championship chief Alex Dumas seize the holeshot off the road, however once more wanted only a handful of corners to grab the lead from his principal rival.
In contrast to race one, nonetheless, Younger failed to interrupt away from the chasing pack, as Sam Guerin moved previous Dumas and rapidly latched onto the reigning champion with the lead trio separating from an eight-rider group.
Younger would ultimately squeeze out a barely extra comfy hole, which might power Dumas to ramp up the stress on Guerin in second, working nose-to-tail proper to the ultimate lap of the race.
Whereas Younger crossed the road for his second consecutive win, Dumas tried a daring cross into the ultimate nook, just for Guerin to reply with an attractive switchback and win the drag to the road for second.
That proved to be one other blessing for Younger, who scored the thirteenth Superbike victory of his profession – transferring him into sole possession of fourth all-time – and minimize his title deficit to simply 14 factors after trailing by 36 previous to CTMP.
“These guys pushed me proper to the tip, however our Van Dolder’s House Workforce BMW continued to work nice once more at the moment, and these Bridgestone tires held up rather well for all 18 laps,” Younger mentioned. “It’s been a attempting 12 months, however the highs are at all times actually good and the lows are a bit robust, so we’re attempting to place a smile on by all of it.”
Younger will proceed to thank Guerin for his efforts, because the EFC Group BMW rider has been a thorn within the facet of Dumas for 2 of three Superbike races this weekend, taking part in a large position within the championship battle whereas serving to elevate BMW to the highest spot within the Constructors standings.
“One other BMW one-two, it looks like a win,” Guerin mentioned. “I used to be attempting to latch on to Ben earlier than Alex obtained me a pair instances within the first few laps, however fortunately I managed to get him again on the finish.”
As for Dumas, the Purple Cranium Brewing/Liqui Moly rider confirmed he was nonetheless feeling below the climate on Sunday, however appeared a lot stronger on-track regardless of his last-corner cross developing simply quick.
“The tempo was good – sooner than yesterday – however Sam was additionally,” Alex mentioned. “I used to be attempting to avoid wasting power for the final lap, but it surely didn’t stick. We nonetheless have the factors lead, so hopefully we will maintain it constructive and get some higher ends in Shannonville.”
Not far behind the battle for third was one other 18-lap duel between Jordan Szoke and Tomas Casas, the place Casas led for majority of the primary half of the race earlier than Szoke took over within the second half.
Casas tried to launch a last-lap cross of his personal, however the Elements Canada Yamaha rider got here up simply quick as Szoke held onto fourth for the LDS Consultants Kawasaki crew, one other sturdy outcome for the 14-time champion.
Sebastien Tremblay turned the sixth totally different winner in seven races of the Liqui Moly Professional Sport Bike class, heading off Elliot Vieira for his first victory of the season.
The 2021 champion crashed out of the spherical three make-up race on Friday and didn’t make the beginning in race one on Saturday, however made up for all of it with a resilient effort to attain his first win since switching to Turcotte Efficiency Suzuki equipment.
“I knew Elliot had a bit extra prime pace, so I attempted actually arduous to push into flip 5 each time and construct a niche,” Tremblay mentioned. “Our weekend began actually badly – we truly needed to rebuild the bike on Friday – however it is a significantly better outcome.”
Vieira pushed Tremblay from start-to-finish however was unable to launch a correct transfer, even with a bonus down the Andretti Straightaway aboard his GP Bikes Ducati.
“Tremblay rode the ass of that Suzuki! I had the draft on him, however he was so constant within the first half of the monitor,” the race one winner mentioned. “It sucks to not win once more, but it surely’s the very best we might do at the moment.”
Whereas Vieira and Tremblay ran their very own race up entrance, the battle for the championship heated up behind them, as David MacKay ran a quietly stable race to finish the rostrum.
The ODH Snow Metropolis Cycle Kawasaki rider caught with the lead duo for the primary few laps earlier than fading again right into a lonely third, a sensible transfer for the championship frontrunner as rival Matt Simpson might solely handle fifth on the day.
“That was the purpose of the race at the moment, to simply maintain the factors intact,” MacKay mentioned. “I latched onto them on the entrance till there was a niche behind, after which I simply tried to keep away from any errors.”
The unlucky exhibiting for Simpson stretches MacKay’s result in 16 factors with two races to go in spherical 5, a still-manageable hole however one which went in the other way for the Blackstock Motorsports Yamaha rider.
His effort was partially unraveled by a profession day for rookie Nathan Playford, who denied a last-lap cross try to take fourth aboard his Playford Firm Inc. Ducati, marking a pair of V2 Panigale’s contained in the top-four.
Casas added to his day with a second consecutive victory within the Bickle Racing Professional Twins class, finishing a weekend sweep in his one-off look aboard the Acme Motorsports Yamaha machine.
Casas moved comfortably into third within the championship after simply two races, successful comfortably once more within the split-class race.
Full outcomes from Sunday’s races might be discovered on the collection’ official web site at CSBK.ca.
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