The opening round of the 2025 Bridgestone Canadian Superbike Championship returned to historic Shannonville Motorsport Park this past weekend, producing plenty of thrilling racing and a few new records to go with it.
Below are just some of the key numbers from round one of the 2025 CSBK season.
Szoke hits yet another Superbike milestone
The all-time leaderboards in the feature GP Bikes Pro Superbike class are practically just a snapshot of Jordan Szoke’s resumé, owning the record for most championships (14), wins (78), pole positions (54), and numerous other statistics.
Another one of those is podiums, where Szoke reached another new summit this weekend with his 125thcareer rostrum in the Superbike class with a second-place finish on Saturday, adding one more with a third-place result in race two.
That’s more than double the next highest mark on the all-time list (Ben Young with 59), while only five riders have even topped the 30-podium plateau since Szoke made his debut in 1998.
Records are made to be broken in sports, but it’s difficult to see anyone ever touching Szoke’s legacy as the most successful rider in CSBK history.
Collins rewrites Supersport record books
Torin Collins enjoyed one of the best debut weekends ever last season when he won his first Superbike race in just his second career start in Edmonton.
Now, he’s one-upped himself – and every other Supersport rider before him.
Collins became the first rider ever to capture pole position for his middleweight debut on Friday (and the fifth-youngest at 19), then later became the only competitor to ever win in his first career Supersport race, surpassing Trevor Dion’s rapid start to 2022 in both instances with a Saturday victory.
Alex Dumas notably won in his Superbike debut in 2021, meaning Collins isn’t the first outright pro to accomplish it, but his weekend sweep will nonetheless go down in history as the greatest Supersport introduction ever.
Dumas, Young add to incredible qualifying rivalry
It won’t surprise anyone to hear that Ben Young and Alex Dumas have had some razor-thin margins in qualifying, evoking memories of their infamous coin flip after tying for pole position at AMP in 2022.
While that 0.000 second difference may never be matched again, Young and Dumas have continued to add to their closest qualifying margins of all time, with Dumas earning BS Battery Pole on Friday by only 0.014 seconds – the second-narrowest margin ever.
What’s truly incredible is that Young and Dumas have now combined to own the four closest gaps for pole in Superbike history, with Young beating Dumas by 0.016 seconds in CTMP in 2021, and Dumas besting Young by 0.032 seconds in Shannonville two years ago.
Young himself has amazingly been involved in the entire top-five, out-qualifying Jeff Williams by 0.038 seconds in 2019.
Youth movement spans all classes to begin 2025
The emergence of future stars in CSBK tends to come in waves, with class veterans winning titles in some seasons while others are dominated by rising phenoms.
However, the series has never seen a group of championship leaders this young in its documented history, with the leaders of every single class combining for an average age of roughly 25 years old.
Three of them are teenagers, with Torin Collins – soon to turn 20 – leading the way in Pro Supersport while Cole Alexander headlines both Amateur classes and Dante Bucek paces Lightweight Sportbike.
Alex Dumas is next up at only 22 years old despite leading the feature GP Bikes Pro Superbike championship, while Jared Walker headlines the ZX-4RR Cup as the second-oldest of the group despite having just a couple of years on Dumas.
Former top pro J.P. Tache is the elder statesman atop the Twins Cup category, though he hardly looked the part after a pair of dominant wins on the weekend, looking like perhaps the biggest favourite of them all to earn a #1 plate in 2025.
Dumas joins versatile Superbike list
It’s been a whirlwind few years for Alex Dumas after winning his first (and thus far only) Canada Cup in 2021, leaving Suzuki after three seasons to join Ducati for the better part of 2024, only to then depart for BMW this offseason.
He’s had one thing in common with every manufacturer however: winning.
Dumas’ swept the opening round for Economy Lube BMW, becoming only the seventh rider ever to win for three or more different brands, doing so all before his 23rd birthday.
It’s an exclusive list, joining Jordan Szoke, Steve Crevier, Kevin Lacombe, Frank Trombino, Brett McCormick, and Rueben McMurter – a group totalling 148 wins, over half of all Superbike races in history.
Only Szoke, Crevier, and Lacombe have won with a fourth different manufacturer, though BMW will be hoping Dumas doesn’t join that list any time soon as they look to return to the top of the Superbike class for the foreseeable future.
