With so much attention on the battles for each individual title and #1 plate in the Bridgestone Canadian Superbike Championship, it’s easy to lose track of the various awards that are also handed out at the end of each campaign.
Riders, teams, and manufacturers all left CTMP with a hard-earned batch of hardware this past weekend, and below is a recap of some of the most notable winners for 2025.
Team of the Year: Van Dolder’s Home Team Honda
After an unprecedented offseason move resulted in yet another Canada Cup for Ben Young, it was hard not to give the Team of the Year award to the now five-time champion and his Van Dolder’s Home Team crew.
After four Superbike championships and three in a row with BMW, the Van Dolder’s squad left the partnership to take on a new challenge with Honda, joining a brand that hadn’t even won a race since 2014.
Despite some early challenges, the program pushed on to take eight podiums in nine races, winning twice – including the decisive last race of the year – for Honda’s first championship in over a decade.
Young was as consistent as possible on the new machine, but much of the voting went the way of the Van Dolder’s Home Team due to the work of crew chief Willie Vass, as well as team members Scott Cartier, Nadine Vass, and Scott and Lynne Young, amongst others.
“Ben’s done such an amazing job out there as always, but it’s easy to look at the rider on-track sometimes and forget all the work that goes on behind the scenes,” Willie Vass said from the podium. “These guys worked so hard all year, and it takes so many people around you, so I’m glad to see them get rewarded.”
Also receiving multiple votes was the EFC Group BMW team of Sam Guerin and Ryan Beattie, and the Canadian Kawasaki Motors program of Jordan Szoke, Connor Campbell, and Alex Michel.
Superbike Constructors Championship: BMW
While Ben Young may have kept the #1 plate at Honda for 2026, his former manufacturer looked just fine with their new-look duo as BMW successfully defended their Constructors Championship for a fourth consecutive season.
The Motorrad brand recorded seven victories across nine races in 2025, winning four times with Sam Guerin and three with newcomer Alex Dumas to have both riders firmly in the title mix entering the last day of the year.
The duo would share the podium three times, scoring a one-two finish in race three at Edmonton, while BMW was the leading point-getter amongst manufacturers in all but the final race of the year.
Their record fourth Constructors title will come by 54 points over Honda and 129 over third-place Kawasaki, thanks in large part to being the only brand on the podium in every single race this year with Guerin and Dumas (each six times).
Also contributing crucial points in round one was rookie Zoltan Frast, who was the brand’s secondary point-scorer in both races amidst a difficult weekend for Guerin.
Brooklin Cycle Racing Pro Rookie of the Year: Laurent Laliberte-Girard
One of the biggest breakout stars of 2025, reigning Amateur Supersport champion Laurent Laliberte-Girard took home a popular Brooklin Cycle Racing Pro Rookie of the Year award even despite an unfortunate crash ruling him out of the finale at CTMP.
Laliberte-Girard was by far the most consistent newcomer this season, scoring points in seven races (no other rookie scored in more than four), but he also had plenty of pace to back it up with a season-best finish of eleventh in Edmonton, equalling the best result of any Superbike rookie in 2025.
Making his efforts even more impressive is that Laliberte-Girard captured the honours on his Supersport-spec Nadon Sport Yamaha YZF-R6, finishing seventh in the overall championship and ahead of full-fledged Superbike rookies Zoltan Frast (ninth), Alex Michel (tenth), and Tyrone Tavares (18th), amongst others.
The 21-year-old becomes the first Supersport-mounted rider to win Rookie of the Year honours since Nicolas Meunier in 2019, aided by a spectacular weekend out west where he finished eighth, fifth, and eighth in the Edmonton tripleheader.
Laliberte-Girard was every bit as impressive in the Pro Supersport category, finishing sixth in the overall standings with two podiums and five top-seven results, ending the year as the clear top Yamaha rider.
Supersport Constructors: Suzuki
After winning the inaugural Supersport version of the Constructors Championship in 2024, Suzuki delivered perhaps an even more convincing season to defend their title this year.
The brand entered the final round on a 12-race consecutive win streak dating back to AMP last season, having swept the first three rounds with Torin Collins (five wins) and Andrew Van Winkle (two).
Collins’ move to Ducati ended that run in race one, but former champion Sebastien Tremblay responded with their eighth win in nine races to end the year, finishing a whopping 160 points ahead of Ducati and 223 clear of third-place Kawasaki.
Six different riders would stand on the podium for Suzuki in 2025, with Collins, Van Winkle, Tremblay, Trevor Daley, John Laing, and Tomas Casas all contributing points to the Constructors table.
Multiple Suzuki riders would share the podium in all but one race this year, including three full podium lockouts, getting out-scored by a rival manufacturer just once in nine races this season.
Despite the blow of losing Collins, the new lead duo of Tremblay and Casas still managed to out-score Ducati across the CTMP weekend, taking 77 of a possible 90 points to cap off Suzuki’s incredible campaign.
BS Battery Pole Position Award: Ben Young
Usually a formality for Ben Young, the BS Battery Pole Position Award came down to the wire in 2025, though he still exited CTMP with a fifth consecutive trophy in the end.
Given to the overall best qualifier across the season using an independent points structure, Young is the only winner the award has ever known, taking the honour every year since its creation in 2021.
Eleven pole positions in his last 18 weekends with BMW made Young a virtual lock for the award in previous seasons, but a move to Honda opened the door for three different pole-sitters in three rounds to begin 2025.
Young would lead Alex Dumas by two points entering CTMP, qualifying first or second in every round while Dumas had to settle for third on the grid in Edmonton, but it wouldn’t matter anyways as a crucial second pole position of the year at the finale would keep Young’s perfect streak intact.
“It’s always nice to have a few awards to fight for, especially considering I’ve won a few of these now,” Young joked on Friday. “It’s great to see BS Battery so involved in the series. The support is always really appreciated.”
