One national championship and two spots on Team Canada will be decided this weekend at Shannonville Motorsport Park, as the FIM MiniGP Canada series rolls into its thrilling final round on September 6. This Saturday’s deciding MiniGP races are part of the inaugural season of RACE Moto Ontario Regional racing at SMP.
It’s been another season to remember for last year’s championship runner-up Jager Stockill, who is looking to book his second consecutive appearance at the FIM MiniGP World Series in Spain this November and become Canada’s first repeat representative - only this time, with a #1 plate in hand.
Stockill lost out to Lincoln Scott in last year’s title duel but has dominated a much deeper field thus far in 2025, winning five of six races and taking 145 of a possible 150 points.
The 12-year-old has paired his 2024 consistency with even more pace and confidence this season, reaching a level that has made him the clear betting favourite for the MiniGP Canada crown even at an unfamiliar venue this weekend.
The only problem for Stockill is that rookie phenom Ethan Reardon has left him with very little margin for error, taking the lone other victory in race two at Lombardy and finishing on the podium in every contest, including four runner-up results.
That’s left Stockill with just a 24-point lead entering the finale at historic Shannonville, a comfortable margin but one that could shrink in a hurry with 75 points still up for grabs.
The ten-year-old Reardon will surely throw everything he has at Stockill in their battle for the championship, though the pair will need to be careful not to make any devestating mistakes, as two other riders still enter the finale with a mathematical shot at the title.
Leading them is Martina Cardenas, who trails Reardon in the second Valencia spot by 37 points but also sits just four points clear of Stefan Tanasic.
Cardenas and Tanasic have gone back-and-forth throughout the campaign, with Tanasic taking three consecutive podiums to begin the year before Cardenas rattled off two in her last three appearances to leapfrog him for third overall.
The ten-year-old Cardenas has already made plenty of history in 2025 and could create even more if she can become Canada’s first ever female representative in Spain, though she may need a bit of misfortune for the duo ahead.
The same applies for Tanasic, who has battled rollercoaster results over the last three rounds - a stretch that includes both a DNF and a career-best second place in Mont-Tremblant.
The 14-year-old Tanasic is a similar 41 points adrift of Reardon in second and 65 points back of Stockill’s championship lead, giving him an uphill battle as he tries to leapfrog both Cardenas and one of the two title hopefuls in Shannonville.
Looking to clinch a top-five finish in the final championship will be Mateen O’Brien, who has been as consistent as anyone this season with a fifth-place finish in five of the six races (earning a career-best fourth in race four).
Though he is mathematically eliminated from title contention, O’Brien is just 13 points back of Tanasic in fourth overall and 16 points behind Cardenas entering the finale, giving him a realistic shot at a top-three result in the year-end standings if he can carry his consistent run into the new venue.
He will have to contend with an equally consistent newcomer behind him though in Will Brown, who has wound up one place behind O’Brien in the last three races and trails him by just ten points on the year.
Brown will need to at least match his career-best fifth from race four as he aims to vault past O’Brien, having finished inside the top-seven in every race so far this season.
One rider expected to return to the finale will be Eric Sergi, who opened the year with three sixth-place finishes in a row before missing the trip to Mont-Tremblant.
Sergi finds himself a difficult 28 points back of Brown due to the absence, though he will likely retain at least seventh in the year-end standings barring a surprise in Shannonville.
The third MiniGP Canada Series champion in history will officially be crowned during the tripleheader action on Saturday at SMP, just an hour west of Kingston, Ontario, with the runner-up joining them for an opportunity to represent Canada at the FIM MiniGP World Final alongside the last round of the MotoGP season in Valencia, Spain this November.
