At the most recent round of the 2018 Mopar CSBK National Superbike Championship held at Autodrome St-Eustache, Quebec, at the start of the month, a range of specifications were checked in post-practice, post-Qualifying and post-race Technical Inspection. As per the Rulebook, horsepower was measured on the official series Dynojet Dyno, weights were calculated “as is” post race, and fuel was checked to ensure that either the spec Sunoco race fuel or spec Shell 91 pump fuel was in each competition machine.
Following the Dalton Timmis Insurance SuperPole sessions on Saturday, June 30, the top five Feature class racers were checked for horsepower on the Official Series Brooklin Cycle Racing portable Dynojet Dyno. Fastest lap setter Jordan Szoke’s Express Lane BMW S1000RR registered 191.4 horsepower in the hot and humid conditions, safely under the specified 200 HP maximum.
Second quickest Ben Young measured 181.2 HP with his Scot Build BMW, followed by the third fastest Kawasaki ZX-10R Ninja of Motovan’s Trevor Daley at 179.5 horsepower. Fourth best Samuel Trepanier had fueling issues and was unable to complete a run on the Dyno, and therefore was moved back on the starting grid for Sunday’s Feature race as a penalty. Michael Leon was fifth overall, promoted to fourth, with the Royal Distributing BMW, measuring 190.7 horsepower post Q.
In Magneti Marelli Amateur Superbike Qualifying, Guillaume Fortin was fastest with his BMW S1000RR, and topped the Dyno output runs with 179.7 horsepower. Second quickest was the Yamaha YZF-R1 of ASM’s Pascal Bastien, and his power reading was 174.7. The third quickest Suzuki GSX-R1000 of Alexandre Cleary registered 174.4 horsepower when he spun the Dynojet’s drum.
Following the Magneti Marelli Amateur Superbike race, the top machines went to the official scales to be weighed. Winner Fortin’s BMW “thou” measured out at 429 pounds, with the runner-up Yamaha 1000cc of Bastien posting a weight of 410 pounds. Cleary’s third placed Suzuki 1000cc tipped the scales at 411 pounds.
In Liqui Moly Pro Sport Bike Post-Qualifying Tech for 600cc class sportsters, Louie Raffa’s fourth quickest Honda CBR600RR was lightest at 360 pounds. The heaviest bike in the top five belonged to Grand Bend-near winner David McKay, his Kawasaki ZX-6R Ninja measuring out at 366 pounds, wet, when it came off the track at the end of the Q Session.
In Sunday’s Liqui Moly Pro Sport Bike race, round three of their Championship, reigning Champ Tomas Casas took the win and his Yamaha YZF-R6 posted a run at 113.5 horsepower following his victory. Second overall Sebastien Tremblay registered 112.9 with his Kawasaki ZX-6R Ninja. Third placed Mitch Card was best performing middleweight, his Fast Company Yamaha YZF-R6 produced 120.9 horsepower on the Dynojet – the limit for Pro machines in Sport Bike is 125 horsepower.
In Parts Canada Amateur Sport Bike, also for middleweight bikes, fast Qualifier Luc Labranche was quickest on his well-developed Yamaha YZF-R6, and registered 109.7 horsepower on the CSBK Dyno. Second best time went to the Kawasaki ZX-6R Ninja of Christian Allard, and he posted a run on the Dyno at 118.9 horsepower.
Allard’s Sport Bike Category Ninja was just slightly over the legal horsepower limit for Amateur class competitors, and he was penalized one position on the grid. The third best lap time belonged to the Yamaha YZF-R6 of Danny Cayer, and that machine put out 103.9 HP post Q.
The most intensely inspected category on the 2018 National tour is the new Amateur Lightweight Sport Bike class, where series staff are careful to respect the very small differences between the varied equipment permitted in the category. In Sunday’s sixth race of the ten event Lightweight season, victor Jake LeClair’s Yamaha YZF-R3 weighed in at 331 pounds, safely over the 320-pound class limit for his Yamaha twin.
Ryan White was second on Sunday aboard his Kawasaki Ninja 300, and pushed the scales to 327 pounds following the Lightweight event. Saturday’s winner and Sunday third place “almost pass” man Alex Berthiaume’s Yamaha weighted 326 pounds, the fourth placed Kawasaki of Johann Plancque heaviest at 345 pounds.
Earlier in the program, the same LTWT machines were checked on the Dyno, Berthiaume’s R3 putting out the most power on the Dynojet Dyno at 40.2, LeClair second best at 39.9, just ahead of White’s Ninja with 37.2 horsepower. Class limit for most Amateur Lightweight Sport Bike machines in 42 on the Dynojet Dyno.
