Colin Fraser

Colin Fraser One of the most popular motorcycle racetracks in the world is Australia’s Phillip Island, and the MotoGP world championship series returned to the oceanside venue for the first time since 2019, in mid-October. Famed for close racing and crucial moments, the third to last round of the World Championship...

Colin Fraser In late September, the final event of the 2022 MotoAmerica National Championships took place at Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama, the popular venue just outside of Birmingham with multiple layouts and a world class moto museum. When the dust settled on a mostly dry weekend, Jake Gage won his...

Colin Fraser Connor Campbell was optimistic heading into the 2022 CSBK National season, comfortable he had put in the necessary preparation work, during the winter of 2021-2022, for the upcoming campaign. “I had good focus, trained all winter, as hard as I could,” stated the 23-year-old from Ottawa. “I rode a...

Colin Fraser Canada’s best-ever Superbike competitor, Jordan Szoke, attended a number of races this year. Fourteen-time Canadian Superbike ‘number one’ Szoke made it to all but one of the 2022 National CSBK races, as well as a recent Flat Track Canada National, representing long-time sponsor Canadian Kawasaki Motors. Unfortunately, Szoke was...

Colin Fraser Last weekend, the 2022 CSBK National Championship returned to Grand Bend Motorplex for the first time since 2019, as the Championship works to return to a new normal. A strong turn out and mixed weather produced intense competition, with more pace at the front than expected. YOUNG ALMOST PERFECT...

Colin Fraser The central ‘European season’ of Moto GP is now underway, and the tour was back at its spiritual home of Jerez, for the Red Bull Grand Prix of Spain, on May 1. This was the sixth 2022 event, the second in a row after Portugal the previous weekend. Many...

Colin Fraser The Auto Parts 4 Less MotoAmerica 2022 Superbike National campaign launched at Austin Texas April 8-10, in support of the annual MotoGP World round at the Circuit of the Americas. The big story was bound to be the much-vaunted arrival of former MotoGP ace Danielo Petrucci, most recently a...

Colin Fraser Recently, I was in a meeting with various people involved in the planned post-COVID return of the CSBK National tour to Atlantic Motorsport Park in Nova Scotia on July 21 thru 24 of this year. The last time CSBK went to ‘Shubie,’ the two Pro Superbike races featured some...

Colin Fraser Triumph-mounted Brandon Paasch of New Jersey took his second straight Daytona 200 victory in epic style on Saturday, making an aggressive race and slipstreaming strategy work to win by just .007 of a second over the works Attack Yamaha of Cameron Petersen in the 80th running of the Florida...

Colin Fraser Recently, I got a chance to catch up with the Track Announcer’s Notebook (TAN), a weekly vlog hosted by long-time announcer Pat Gonsalves and former Pro racer Stuart Nodell. This duo produces an episode every Monday evening, but unfortunately, I have some Board of Director meetings that frequently take...

Colin Fraser At the end of last week, the second and final full blown off-season test for the MotoGP Series took place at the Mandalika International Street Circuit on Indonesia. For those who could be confused, this is the track that held the deciding event of the 2021 World Superbike Championship...

Colin Fraser Twenty years ago, the CSBK tour – or the Parts Canada Superbike Championship, as it was then known – was getting ready for a transitional season of National competition. It was already agreed that the rules would change for 2003, so the 2002 season would be the last for...