Kevin Lacombe Returns to Mopar CSBK

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Published on Thursday, May 5, 2016 12:34 EDT

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Long-time top Canadian Pro Superbike competitor Kevin Lacombe is returning to the Mopar CSBK National tour in 2016.  The 33-year-old from Granby, QC, is aiming to do the entire CSBK Series aboard a new Yamaha YZF-R1S.  

Lacombe last contested the National Championship in 2012 aboard a privateer BMW S1000RR, and previously had been a consistent front runner with the factory Yamaha, Honda and Suzuki squads. During the 2000s, Lacombe was a regular National combatant with the likes of defending and ten time CSBK overall Champ Jordan Szoke of Lynden, ON., and legendary, now retired six-time overall Champ Steve Crevier of Vancouver, British Columbia.

The versatile Lacombe’s first road race was in 1996 at Shannonville Motorsport Park, ON, aboard a Suzuki GSX-R600, so he will celebrate his 20th anniversary in the sport this season.  A teen-aged Lacombe started off his career as the protégé of fellow Granby area racer Pascal Picotte, at the time a works rider for the Yoshimura-Suzuki team in the U.S.A.

In 2002, Lacombe earned his first career Pro Superbike Feature race victory aboard a works Honda RC51 twin at the Shannonville season-ender.  That race marked the final ever event run to the non-restrictive, “wide open”, high horsepower rules package, before the current CSBK Series technical guidelines took over.  

“Right now, we are really busy with the bike, getting everything ready for the first Shannonville Regional,” explained Lacombe, who works at Dealer Motosport St-Cesaire Yamaha, one of his main sponsors.  “We have what we need in place to do the first two events at Shannonville and St-Eustache, and we are working to get the support needed to do all the Championship.”

Lacombe intends to make his debut with the Yamaha at the unofficial National warm up with the RACE SuperSeries Regional opener at Shannonville, May 13-15, before returning to the same Belleville, ON. area venue for the first National May 26-29.  The next rounds of the CSBK Series, including a debut double header Superbike event, takes place June 24-16 at Autodrome St-Eustache, QC., just north west of Montreal.

Support for Lacombe’s 2016 return to the National Series comes from Motovan Corporation, Motosport St-Cesaire, graphics company Kutvek Amerika and his chassis tech firm, Accel Suspension.

Other racers scheduled to use Yamaha YZF-R1 equipment in 2016 CSBK competition include top Pros Trevor Daley of Mississauga, ON, with One Speed Racing, and Bodhi Edie of Warman, Saskatchewan with Trip-Dub Racing and Z-1 Cycle Tech.