The Bridgestone Canadian Superbike Championship capped off its coast-to-coast adventure this weekend, leaving Alberta for a thrilling fourth round at Atlantic Motorsport Park in Nova Scotia.
Below are just a few of the key numbers from round four at AMP.
Guerin’s gamble moves BMW up win list
Sam Guerin’s second career Superbike victory was a meaningful one for his own resumé, joining a far more exclusive list of two-time winners. In fact, of the 44 different winners in feature class history, only 26 have achieved it more than once (59%).
However, Guerin’s victory will also put him further into the good graces of BMW, as he helped his manufacturer celebrate victory number 64 – enough to vault them out of a tie and past Suzuki for second on the all-time wins list.
Ben Young would add win 65 on Sunday to move them to within ten of Kawasaki for the all-time lead, but it will be Guerin who can say he helped BMW to their latest achievement – joining Young, Jordan Szoke, and Brett McCormick on the list of historic BMW victories.
Szoke’s incredible 50/50 run comes to an end
Jordan Szoke won two out of seven races as a rookie in 1998, capturing his first Superbike title. He followed that up with four out of seven in 1999, and added four more in 2000 to bring himself to ten victories in his first 21 career races.
The season opener of the following season would be the last time Szoke ever sat below a 50% win rate in his career – until now.
An astonishing 137 races later, Szoke finally dipped to 49.2% after Sam Guerin and Ben Young split victories in AMP, an unbelievable run that spanned over 23 seasons without falling below a 50/50 rate.
For reference, Alex Dumas currently sits second with a 40% success rate, but in just 30 starts compared to Szoke’s 158. At that pace, Dumas would need 195 race starts – or roughly 14 more seasons – to catch Szoke’s incredible win record.
Tremblay reaches Mount Rushmore of Sport Bike history
Sebastien Tremblay is widely considered to be one of the greatest Sport Bike riders in CSBK history, and now he’s finally tallying the stats to prove it.
Tremblay’s victory over Andrew Van Winkle on Sunday handed him win number 15 in his middleweight career, tying Jodi Christie for fourth on the all-time list and moving him past Frank Trombino for fifth in all-time podiums with 26.
Assuming the 2021 champion breaks his tie with Christie – potentially as soon as CTMP – he will trail just Jordan Szoke, Pascal Picotte, and Steve Crevier in the record books, while he tries to become just the ninth multi-time champion at year’s end.
Cyr adds to unpredictable Sport Bike trend
Despite Sebastien Tremblay’s consistency, the Sport Bike class has been anything but certain in the last three seasons, as Mavrick Cyr became the latest new winner in race one at AMP.
The 19-year-old rookie is the sixth different rider to win this season – already tying the record with four races to go – and the 13th different winner in the last 25 races dating back to the start of 2022.
In fact, only five seasons have ever featured five or more different winners, and now three of them have come in consecutive years (five in 2022, six in 2023). Only 2002 and 1991 have compared in terms of unpredictability, ensuring that this is easily the most wide-open era of the Sport Bike category.
Wilson creates history in amateur classes
Riding at his home track, Vincent Wilson gave himself an ambitious goal for round four: to become the first rider ever to win a Twins, Sport Bike, and Superbike race in the same weekend.
The Moncton, New Brunswick native ultimately fell short, but did manage to create history anyways, becoming the first rider to podium in each category at a single round. Wilson would manage a third-place finish in Amateur Superbike race one, his official “big-bike” debut, before adding another third-place result in Sport Bike race two.
Sandwiched in between, of course, were his sixth and seventh victories of the season in the amateur split of the Pro-AM Twins class, clinching a historic weekend as he brought home four trophies across six races.
