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Canadian Superbike

Motor racing is not big in Canada to be honest (we are mostly a stick and ball sports Country), yes we have a F1 race, and a few other series make stops here now and then from the US, but other than that it is mostly Saturday night amateur stock car racing, amateur automobile and motorcycle road racing (mostly in Southern Ontario and Quebec, primarily at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park formerly known as Mosport, Calabogie, Trois Rivieres, etc.), and a smattering of amateur drag racing events here and there during the summer mostly.

Colin Fraser tried his best to have a Canadian Superbike Series, but it has hobbled along for decades with on and off support from the industry. The series has recently been purchased by someone who plans to try to elevate the series, I say good luck with that and hope you can do it.

The average Canadian these days couldn't care less about car or motorcycle racing, in fact many young adults don't even see the need to rush out to get a drivers license if they live in a big City like Toronto. Some here want to put an end to racing in the name of climate change, it has not gained traction, at least not yet, but who knows as time goes on. It would be easier to take a trip to Mars these days than try to build a new race track here in much of Canada, some projects got killed by environmentalists shenanigans before a shovel ever hit the ground (gotta protect those precious toads and mice out in the field there).

The golden age of motorcycle racing in Canada was during the 1960's and 1970's, we used to have World MX and Road Racing events here, been all down hill since to a great degree.

 
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Motor racing is not big in Canada to be honest (we are mostly a stick and ball sports Country), yes we have a F1 race, and a few other series make stops here now and then from the US, but other than that it is mostly Saturday night amateur stock car racing, amateur automobile and motorcycle road racing (mostly in Southern Ontario and Quebec, primarily at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park formerly known as Mosport, Calabogie, Trois Rivieres, etc.), and a smattering of amateur drag racing events here and there during the summer mostly.

Colin Fraser tried his best to have a Canadian Superbike Series, but it has hobbled along for decades with on and off support from the industry. The series has recently been purchased by someone who plans to try to elevate the series, I say good luck with that and hope you can do it.

The average Canadian these days couldn't care less about car or motorcycle racing, in fact many young adults don't even see the need to rush out to get a drivers license if they live in a big City like Toronto. Some here want to put an end to racing in the name of climate change, it has not gained traction, at least not yet, but who knows as time goes on. It would be easier to take a trip to Mars these days than try to build a new race track here in much of Canada, some projects got killed by environmentalists shenanigans before a shovel ever hit the ground (gotta protect those precious toads and mice out in the field there).

The golden age of motorcycle racing in Canada was during the 1960's and 1970's, we used to have World MX and Road Racing events here, been all down hill since to a great degree.


Well, Canada does have the awesome Circuit Mont-Tremblant. If they spent a bit of money updating the facilities, runoff, and pitlane exit, it would be one of the great tracks left on this planet. An old school high-speed drive through the woods.

All of the national series are a shell of their former glory, and all of them can contribute their decline to some issue or another. In CSBK it seems to be visual because the infrastructure is not being updated. In MotoAmerica the problem is mainly political. People dedicated their lives to ousting DMG and their performance-balance rules. Well, the series still has performance balancing, and now it's controlled in large part by the FIM and Dorna, not a US company. MotoAmerica has lost much of its ability to run alternative formulas.

Any country with a national series, even if they are racing monkey bikes on public sidewalks, should be proud, especially if it's still owned and operated by people who care what happens in their country.
 
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