Here Is The 2023 Canadian Superbike Calendar!

Here it is—next season’s CSBK calendar (with new sponsor Bridgestone)! And, alas, it’s not quite what we hoped, but there is one major change to the season’s schedule. See below:

2023 Bridgestone CSBK National Championship Schedule

Round 1   May 19 – 21   Shannonville Motorsport Park, ON

Round 2   June 8 – 11   Grand Bend Motorplex, ON

Round 3   July 20 – 23   Atlantic Motorsport Park, NS  *

Round 4   August 18 – 20   Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, ON  **

Round 5   September 15 – 17   Shannonville Motorsport Park, ON

*  Full double-header round: two races for all classes
** Full double-header round with three Pro Superbike races

Note that, just as we told you a few days back, the season will begin and end at Shannonville. That’s good news; in many ways, that starting round at Shannonville sort of defined the series, and it’s great to see the series return there after a few years’ absence.

Then the visit to Grand Bend, a regular stop over the past few years, which will be preceded by a test. That’s not the first official test for the year, though. There will be an official CSBK test weekend at JenningsGP in Florida in March—more details to come on that soon.

CSBK visits Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia for its traditional late-July double-header, and the only round outside Ontario this season. The Canadian Tire Motorsport Park race is once again a triple-header, and the season ends with a mid-September date at Shannonville.

That’s a far more spread-out race season than we’ve seen in a while, and it will be interesting to see how this affects the rider lineup. Speaking of which: No word yet on whether Jordan Szoke, the winningest guy in CSBK history, will be back for next year. It seems likely Ben Young, the 2022 champ will return, but we also haven’t heard about Alex Dumas (the 2021 champion).

Also unknown is the chance of further series expansion. Racing in Quebec seems unlikely in the near future, as there is no suitable and available facility. Even Calabogie is off the schedule for 2023, which is not a big surprise. But what about potential visits to British Columbia or Alberta? While that’s been talked about for years, there’s obviously no trip out west on the ’23 schedule. Maybe 2024?

See CSBK’s official press release below:

Press release

Bridgestone CSBK confirm 2023 National Event Calendar

The Bridgestone Canadian National Superbike Championship series will feature five events in 2023, a return to a full pre-pandemic calendar. Each weekend will host all six national classes that compete in the CSBK National tour, with “doubleheaders” (one race Saturday and one race Sunday) for the two featured Pro categories, Superbike and Liqui Moly Pro Sport Bike.

Every Pro Superbike and Pro Sport Bike races in the 2023 Bridgestone CSBK series will be broadcast on The Sports Network (TSN), Canada’s premier sports television channel. CSBK first appeared on TSN in 1995.

For the third year in a row, the weekend at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in August will provide three full points races for the top Pro Superbike class, a rare “tripleheader”. So far, no competitor has earned all three race victories at “old Mosport,” with 2021 national champ Alex Dumas (Suzuki) of Quebec City and newly crowned 2022 overall winner Ben Young (BMW) of Collingwood, ON, trading victories.

Both Dumas and Young, the only two feature Superbike winners in 2022, have earned “King of Mosport” honours, awarded to the Pro with the best overall finishing order over the three main races.

Canada’s most accomplished Superbike rider, 14-time champion Jordan Szoke of Lynden, ON, is expected to challenge the Young/Dumas rivalry up front next year after missing the entire 2022 CSBK season due to injuries suffered while training.

2023 Bridgestone CSBK National Championship Schedule

Round 1   May 19 – 21   Shannonville Motorsport Park, ON

Round 2   June 8 – 11   Grand Bend Motorplex, ON

Round 3   July 20 – 23   Atlantic Motorsport Park, NS  *

Round 4   August 18 – 20   Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, ON  **

Round 5   September 15 – 17   Shannonville Motorsport Park, ON

*  Full double-header round: two races for all classes
** Full double-header round with three Pro Superbike races

As previously announced, the tour will begin with a much-anticipated return to historic Shannonville Motorsport Park on the Victoria Day weekend, using the perimeter Pro layout.

Next up is a trip to Ontario’s “west coast” at Grand Bend Motorplex, where an official series Thursday Test will lead into three days of competition using the technical layout.

CSBK are back on the east coast at famed “Shubie” in July, the traditional date for the national event at Atlantic Motorsport Park in Nova Scotia. In 2022, events at the venue near Shubenacadie, NS were pivotal in deciding the season-long points battle between title rivals Young and Dumas.

August is the month for CTMP, the fan-favourite venue that hosted the FIM Canadian Motorcycle Grand Prix back in 1967.  Providing the unique triple header format, “old Mosport” is likely to be critical for the championship chase, only this time as the penultimate round as opposed to the traditional finale.

The 2023 Bridgestone CSBK series will instead finish back at Shannonville, the 23rd time the series has completed the tour at the former “Nelson International” circuit. The first SMP national was the second-ever Canadian Superbike weekend back in 1980, where Mississauga, ON’s George Morin clinched the inaugural crown for Kawasaki at Shannonville 43 years ago.

CSBK will continue to provide further news and updates for various items including homologated machinery, rules updates, and details of the March 2023 invitational Bridgestone Test at JenningsGP in north Florida, in the near future.