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Cycle News Issue 48 November 29

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have developed a knack for get- ting a bike off the line smoothly and got up to 10th from the start of race one. From there, another three riders were picked off, but I was miles from sixth place as I still tried to find any form of fast line around the track. A lonely sev- enth was the result, not too bad all things considered. Race two was a little better. Again, a good start had me up to ninth off the line, and I was stuck in seventh for a while that eventually became sixth when Honda's Ste- ven Nickerson hit the deck at turn three, named Quebec Corner. You don't want to crash any- where at Mosport, but turn three is a particularly nasty place to get off. The haybales are right near the FEATURE I RACING IN CANADA P70 there's a lot of any one model isn't really an issue because those guys sup- port each other. My main concern is hav- ing the industry support the teams effectively. And not even just the teams, but the series as well because they indirectly and directly benefit from having a healthy superbike championship. So, I feel like it should be at least a part of the manufacturer's deal to at least give back to the sport. You have to make it easy for them. You have to make it simple and be able to answer the questions. It doesn't happen in a vacu- um. They switch staff and have different philosophies and sometimes you learn that the thing that you were doing that you thought was great for brand X is now, that's not what they're after anymore. And of course, you watch all the other championships to try and understand what's working. Obviously, the American national championship is a fantastic champion- ship. The Japanese series has always been great. I think the benchmark is by far British Superbike. So, you try and understand. British Superbike has really strange rules and no prize money. But really, that's not important if the teams can work. It's a very unique model. Of course, it's probably a ten-hour drive at best to all the tracks in the UK. So, you try and see we're the reverse, right? It's a long drive to anywhere in Canada. But everybody who runs this series now, they're looking at what's a good idea? What are they doing? How are they doing it? From how you activate the pits, where you park, all of those things. We're all trying to get smarter, faster by looking at what every- body else does. This event at Mosport seems like a well-attend- ed race. Yeah, I think we've had other events that have been strong, but Mosport has for a long time been a consis- tently strong event. I would say, for 30 years it's been a solid, big crowd. In terms of motorsports in Canada, we have an IndyCar race in downtown Toronto and a Formula 1 race in down- town Montreal. We're not that sort of crowd, but as a crowd within context of general motorsports, we're quite strong. It's fun to race in front of a bunch of people. CN Rennie closes in on Suzuki's Trevor Daley for fifth in race three, having closed a 35-second gap over two races.

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