The final day of the 2025 Bridgestone Canadian Superbike Championship season kicked off with two familiar names at the top, as Ben Young narrowly bettered Alex Dumas to lead FP3 on Sunday at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.
The two former champions remain locked in one of the closest championship battles in series history alongside race one winner Sam Guerin, with just six points covering the trio entering the title decider this afternoon.
Young leads by just two points over Dumas with Guerin a further four points back, creating plenty of potential scenarios in race two as they fight for the GP Bikes Pro Superbike crown – though Young maintained it was “basically whoever wins on Sunday gets the championship.”
Should that be the case, it was Young who put himself in a good spot to do so on Sunday morning as he set a blistering time of 1:20.695 to lead the 20-minute warm up aboard his Van Dolder’s Home Team Honda, just a quarter-second shy of the lap record.
That pace wasn’t too much for Dumas to match, though, as he wound up only 0.173 seconds shy of the top of the leaderboard, having paced majority of Saturday’s race before a heartbreaking transmission issue relegated him to fourth.
The former championship leader seemed to have it sorted on Sunday, completing 12 laps (the most amongst the top four) aboard his Economy Lube/Fast Company BMW and practically matching Young’s pace throughout, hopefully a sign that there will be no more mechanical problems to come in race two.
A more distant third on Sunday morning was Jordan Szoke, who took over the final spot on the podium in race one after Dumas’ setback, though the Canadian Kawasaki Motors star will be more focused on his long-run pace after slipping back of the leaders in the late stages on Saturday.
Szoke still put in a respectable time at the end of the session to go 0.925 seconds slower than Young, enough pace to keep himself in the lead pack again as he looks for a record 79th career Superbike victory this afternoon.
That late time attack bumped race one winner Guerin to fourth, though he likely won’t be concerned too much after setting the fastest time on Saturday en route to a fourth victory of the season.
The EFC Group BMW rider will need to sweep the weekend and then have a bit of math to go his way behind him in race two, though that could certainly be the case after he won four of the last six races, including a dramatic showdown with Young yesterday.
David MacKay would continue his run in fifth, posting a strong time of his own with a best lap of 1:22.433 early in the session. The ODH Snow City Cycle Honda rider stuck with the leaders for two laps before fading into fifth on Saturday, something he’ll try to extend in race two as he looks for a debut Superbike podium.
Joining the session – and possibly the grid for race two – was newly-crowned Supersport champion Torin Collins, who was rewarded with some practice aboard the Economy Lube Ducati V4 Panigale.
Collins looked more than comfortable on the bigger machine, going sixth-quickest and just 0.475 seconds slower than MacKay, making him an interesting x-factor for this afternoon’s title deciding race – though he will need to start from the back of the field if he joins as a late entry.
Just marginally behind Collins was breakout Superbike rookie Alex Michel, who enjoyed a stellar debut in the feature class on Saturday in sixth. The B&T McFarlane Kawasaki rider was just 0.156 seconds behind Collins in FP3, as he continues to find more pace while filling in for the injured Connor Campbell.
The GP Bikes Pro Superbike class will now turn their focus to the last race of the year and one of the most anticipated finales in CSBK history, with Young, Dumas, Guerin, and even Szoke all entering with a chance at the title this afternoon.
Race two is currently scheduled for roughly 3 pm ET at historic Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, just an hour east of Toronto.
Full results can be found here.
