A rare tripleheader in the pro classes meant more opportunity for records to be broken this past weekend at RAD Torque Raceway, and the Bridgestone Canadian Superbike Championship did not disappoint.
Below are just some of the key numbers from round three of the 2025 CSBK season.
Young ends ten-year Honda drought
When Jodi Christie won the last race of the GP Bikes Pro Superbike season in 2014, celebrating his first career Canada Cup, it would have been fair for Honda to envision many more feature class victories down the line.
Instead, Christie was in the crowd on Saturday cheering on his friend Ben Young as he became the next Honda winner – over ten calendar years later.
Young’s first victory with his new manufacturer came 3,975 days after they last won to close out 2014, ending an unfortunate dry spell for one of racing’s most iconic brands and one of the most successful in CSBK history.
The result is just the latest turnaround for Honda since signing Young this offseason, having scored the company long-overdue podiums, pole positions, and now victories already in 2025, all whilst still learning the CBR1000RR-R.
Honda’s 34th victory in Pro Superbike history also moved them closer to a potential dream championship, as Young enters the last round with a solid chance to become only the third Honda champion since 2001.
Dumas continues rapid climb up Superbike ladder
It’s only been four years since Alex Dumas made his debut north of the border, but you wouldn’t know it based on a quick look at his Superbike resumé.
The 2021 champion added his 17th career victory in race three on Sunday to move out of a tie with Pacal Picotte for the fourth most all-time, now just five behind rival Ben Young (22) and nine away from Steve Crevier (26) for the second-most in history.
Even more impressive is that Dumas has reached the top-four just prior to turning 23 years old, meaning at his current rate he would surpass Crevier for second all-time by the end of 2027 – then only age 25.
He will have a long way to go to even threaten Jordan Szoke’s record of 78 victories, even trailing Szoke on a “win percentage” basis (Szoke at 46.2%, Dumas at 41.5%), but the Quebec City native will have a chance if he chooses to pursue it.
Regardless, his strong weekend – where he also moved into the top-seven all-time with 36 podiums – has already put him amongst CSBK’s best in history, something that can be further added upon if he wins a second career Canada Cup in 2025.
Suzuki reaches record Supersport win streak
The “next-gen” era of the Supersport class has largely been dominated by Suzuki and their GSX-R750, and they now have a record-breaking win streak to prove it.
The brand won their 12th consecutive race on Sunday when Andrew Van Winkle claimed his second victory of the season – ironically, aboard an old-gen GSX-R600 – to surpass Honda’s previous record of eleven wins in a row, set mostly by Jodi Christie between St-Eustache 2012 and Mont-Tremblant 2013.
The stretch began with Sebastien Tremblay’s race two win in AMP last season and has been added on to by Trevor Daley, Torin Collins, and Van Winkle, though it was Van Winkle who preserved their shot at history with his AMP win earlier this year over Alex Michel (Kawasaki) and Laurent Laliberte-Girard (Yamaha).
Suzuki will now set their sights on a record-breaking podium streak, though they have more work to do in that department as they currently ride a 22-race stretch of podiums – twelve off Kawasaki’s record set between 2018 and 2023.
Young’s podium streak comes to a surprise end
It had been a while since Ben Young had gone straight to the Van Dolder’s Home Team tent following a race, but he was forced to do just that on Sunday after finishing a surprising fourth in race two – his first time missing the podium since CTMP 2023.
Young had compiled a 23-race podium streak over the last two seasons, the best stretch of his career, and was beginning to close on Jordan Szoke’s record of 36 races in a row when his momentum was suddenly stopped in RAD Torque.
The absence of the three-time reigning champion on the podium signifies just how unpredictable the last two seasons have been in the Superbike class, with Sam Guerin now inheriting the longest active streak at just five podiums in a row.
Young did rebound with a second-place finish in race three, perhaps the start of a new multi-year streak, though his focus will instead be on becoming only the second rider to ever win four consecutive championships at CTMP.
Bridgestone celebrates incredible lap record haul
The Bridgestone era has been a resounding success through the first three seasons, though mother nature hasn’t always allowed the lap record sheets to reflect that.
That changed at RAD Torque this past weekend, and it changed in a massive way.
Lap records were broken an astounding 17 times in round three, with every single class reaching new marks over the course of the weekend – in some cases over a full second faster than their previous bests.
Favourable weather on Friday and Saturday contributed massively to the record haul, as did revamped curbs in the tight bus-stop, but the field of national riders also showed plenty of confidence in their BATTLAX rubber after the series debuted at RAD Torque (then called Castrol Raceway) in 2015.
The pace was especially noticeable in the Pro Superbike and Pro Supersport classes, where Sam Guerin went nearly 1.3 seconds quicker and Torin Collins lowered the mark by over 1.7 seconds compared to the top times from the previous spec tire.
The entire lap record sheet at the Edmonton venue now belongs to Bridgestone, surpassing their previous best weekend to end the year at Shannonville in 2023 when they set six lap records (three of which were broken the next year).
