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y buddy Alan Burns asked me in December
2017 about going to the 2018 Canadian
Superbike Championships series racing
(CSBK) event at Canadian Tire Motorsport
Park (CTMP; formerly Mosport) with him. He was trying to
entice me to race again, but instead of declining, I told him
I’d happily hold the umbrella for him. I was getting pretty
excited about riding up to CTMP on my VFR with all my
camping gear. I’d be back at the track just like in the good
ol’ days, except I wouldn’t be racing. My road-racing days
were a lot of fun for me and I have a lot of good memories
of racing at Mosport, so I was pretty excited to see the place
again. In the end, Alan was too broke to race, but I decided
to go anyway.
I also have a threadbare Mosport T-shirt from 2001 that
my wife bans me from wearing in public and has been
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I began racing in 1999, I was going only to tracks such as
Shannonville (east of Belleville, Ont.) and St-Eustache (near
Montreal), where I could “club” race. There wasn’t any club
racing at Mosport, but for one week a year, you could race
with the Canadian Superbike series on a national level. Two
years into my racing career, I went to Mosport and never
looked back. It became an annual must-race event for me. It
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