With the Season Finale on the Horizon, riders took on the Long Track for one final time in 2024 with high speed, high heat and high intensity.

Round 4 saw the return of many regulars looking to join the on-track thrill and grab valuable championship points.  As such, Sportsman Light was the first race to kick off the festivities. The Edmonton, Alberta rider Dallas Reynolds set a blistering pace on his Aprilia 660. In the 15-rider field that included Stacey Nesbitt, JP Schroeder and Istvan Hidvegi, he was in for a tough challenge.

From the drop of the green flag, Reynolds didn’t get the greatest of starts as Nesbitt found her way around the Aprilia. However, Reynolds powered by to claim his third win of 2024. Further on back, it was a fight for the podium. Schroeder, Nesbitt and Hidvegi with veteran JF Cloutier fought it out. Despite everything, the race ended via the red flag allowing Nesbitt to seize a second pace finish while Schroeder finished third.

PRO Sportbike 600 saw the return of John Laing and Jordan Decarie. The last time these two shared the track in Super Series competition was during the 2023 finale. This time around, the pair of riders were joined by Alex Michel, as well as Rob Massicotte and Wes Barnes both 2024 rookie PROs. From the drop of the flag, Laing found himself deep in traffic with Decarie and Michel leading the charge but Laig’s aggressive riding style served him well as he cut through the field with surgical precision.

Keeping Alex Michel behind at a comfortable 4.607 second gap, Laing claimed the win in his return to the long track layout. Decarie completed the podium.

AM Sportbike 600 proved to be a classic in the making. Scott Szollos found himself on the pole for race no.1, with new 600 rider Zaim Laflamme and points leader Alexis Beaudoin making up the top row.

From the drop of the flag, Laflamme secured an early lead. Beaudoin moved up into second with a wild charge through the field, but coming from the back was a new challenger; Vincent Wilson.

Wilson had to start at the back due to a faulty transponder and made his way up to fourth. With a large AM Sportbike 600 field, Laflamme led hard and took his Triumph 615R to the top step of the podium.  He was ahead of Beaudoin by 4.724 seconds with Szollos rounding out the podium spot.

Novice saw a first-time win by Julien Boisvert. One of the July Race School additions, Boisvert outlasted tough charges from Craig Fraser and JS Lefebvre to pick up the win in his debut.

The Heavyweight Sportbike race saw a few odd occurrences, albeit mostly after the checkered flag. While Zaim Laflamme took the pole, it would be Alex Michel and Matt Simpson that stole the show.

Once Michel took the checkered flag his bike lost power. While he struggled to get the No.99 Kawasaki ZX6R back to pit road, it was a bittersweet win as his engine let go during the cooldown lap. To make matters even more interesting, Laflamme ran out of gas needing a tow back, and Alexis Beaudoin had a clutch failure ending his race early. In the end, it was Michel in first, Laflamme in second and Simpson in third.

Elie Daccache won Sprint Cup ahead of Michael Leon and Chris Fehr while Istvan Hidvegi took the top honours in a highly contested Lightweight Sportbike race. Once again, Stacey Nesbitt of St. Lazare, Quebec claimed the pole. When Nesbitt took the lead, Hidvegi began the chase. As Cloutier, Purdy and Adam Abnett began the pursuit, there was plenty of action all over the 15-bike grid.

Andrea Purdy patented her signature move to make up some seemingly impossible passes on the likes of Abnett and Quintin. With Purdy safely in 5^th, the top four saw individual fights between Abnett and Cloutier, and Nesbitt and Hidvegi. In the end, Hidvegi won over Nesbitt, while Cloutier finished 3^rd over Abnett to complete the podium.

In AM Superbike, points leader Matt Annable took the race lead from Beaudoin when his clutch issues reemerged. While Beaudoin stumbled, Glenn Brown found himself in position two trying to hunt down his first AM ranked win. Behind him, Corey Campbell, Martin Perrault and Eric Althuizen made moves to try and catch Annable’s GSXR1000.

Brown seemed to be in a groove sitting in third position on his GSXR750, however after he ran wide in turn 11, it opened the door for Campbell and Althuizen. Campbell pushed in the technical sections of the 4.03km layout, but Annable was too quick in flatout speed. Annable’s Suzuki powered machine held on for his second win of 2024, with Campbell’s Kawasaki Ninja ZX6R and Althuizen’s BMW S1000 completing the podium. Despite Brown’s amazing race start, he’d settle for fifth.

Finally, Daccache rounded out the day by winning PRO Superbike with a nearly identical podium, featuring Leon but swapping out Fehr for Marco Sousa.

With Sunday featuring scorching temperatures of over 40 degrees for a third day in a row, the Super Series officials made the call to cut one lap out of each race.

Reynolds once again dominated the Sportsman Light category, but this time JP Schroeder would take his Ninja ZX4-RR past Stacey Nesbitt to claim the second place.

Laing outlasted another duel with Decarie to win top honours in PRO Sportbike, with Rob Massicotte coming home third. Laing once again was bogged down on the start losing the lead to Decarie. Once Laing found a rhythm, he made a daring pass on Decarie in turn 7 to take the lead and never looked back.

AM Sportbike 600 saw another amazing performance from Laflamme, and this time, Wilson, with a better grid position was able to take an early lead – leading the first 4 laps – but made a mistake that allowed Laflamme to finish first and Beaudoin in second.  Wilson settled for third.

JS Lefebvre took his first Novice win of his Super Series career beating out Julien Boisvert, Craig Fraser and Thibault Gilbert. On his No.79 Ducati V4S, he led nearly flag to flag before pulling away late in the race with a margin of victory of 4.694 secs.

Matt Simpson dominated in Heavyweight Sportsman before he lowsided coming off turn 11 and handed the lead to Laflamme while Latta gave chase to the No.777. Before the last lap was done, Barnes lowsided in turn 14 but was able to finish the race from the Pit Lane. Laflamme took home another win, with Latta and Beaudoin completing the podium.

The Sprint Cup podiums remained the same with Daccache, Leon and Fehr, while Hidvegi doubled up in Lightweight Sportbike ahead of Stacey Nesbitt and first time Super Series podium sitter Norbert Joo.

Alexis Beaudoin’s AM Superbike season has been interesting to say the least. Beaudoin has either won the race of failed to finish, nothing in between. After failing to finish Saturday’s contest, it seemed fate that Beaudoin passed Annable just after halfway to pickup the win at the end. He finished ahead of Annable in second and Perreault in third.

The PRO Superbike results ended with Daccache winning out against Leon and Fehr.

The Super Series is back this September 6-7-8, where the champions will be crowned on the PRO Track.

Full results and standings can be found at Super-Series.ca.

Photo Credit: Sylvain Champagne (www.champhoto1.com)