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Ferguson sisters Ciel, from left, Katrine, Téa and Ani pose after Katrine became the first Manitoban to capture a championship in the Canadian WMX series with a gold medal in the Women’s Pro West Coast Nationals title last year. (Ciel Ferguson/FergzFilmz)

Fergusons head to Pilot Mound motocross race

Massimo De Luca-Taronno 5 minute read Tuesday, Jun. 9, 2026

The highest level of women’s motocross in Canada is coming to Manitoba this weekend.

The Triple Crown Series — which features North America’s top professional motorcycle riders racing in 20-minute motos across boggy terrains filled with sharp turns and jumps — is hosting Round 2 of its 2026 season at Prairie Hill MX in Pilot Mound on Sunday.

For Ciel Ferguson and her three younger sisters Ani, Katrine and Téa, a family from Ile-des-Chênes, but better known in the motocross world as Ferguson Racing, this competition means everything.

“The track in Pilot Mound is one of our home tracks, so we love this,” Ciel said ahead of the event. “We’ve grown up riding there, so I think it’s huge for the sport and for the local growth of the sport that this series is going to be coming to Manitoba.

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Winnipeg’s Shane Edington battles A.J. Diemel during the World of Outlaws late model series tour stop at River Cities Speedway in Grand Forks, N.D. on June 30. (Lucas Punkari/The Brandon Sun)

Dirt racing gets back on track in Manitoba

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Dirt racing gets back on track in Manitoba

Lucas Punkari 11 minute read Friday, Jul. 7, 2023

While dirt track racing was one of the first major activities to get back up and running in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, that wasn’t quite the case in Manitoba.

It took until near the end of the summer of 2020 before the Victory Lane Speedway in St. Adolphe and the Swan Valley Stock Car Club were having races again, and they weren’t fully up to speed until the following year.

Meanwhile, the Prairie Association of Stock Car Auto Racing (PASCAR) decided not to hold any races at their track at the Souris Glenwood Airport in August 2020 due to COVID-19 cases spiking in Westman.

Nearly three years later, there still hasn’t been any action at the facility.

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Friday, Jul. 7, 2023

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Michaela Solomon/The Brandon Sun Bev Buck, left, and Henry Lepp own Baseline Dragway outside Rivers. Their last event of the season will take place Sept. 22-23.

Baseline Dragway’s first season going well

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Baseline Dragway’s first season going well

Michaela Solomon 4 minute read Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017

Baseline Dragway is the brainchild of local couple Henry Lepp and Bev Buck, and the Westman drag racing community’s labour of love.

After their first day open for business on October 15, 2016, Lepp began planning for a three-event 2017 season which included an opener on June 3 and 4, closer on September 23 and 24, and a memorial weekend for Bill Osadchuk.

“He was from Brandon, and he was an engine builder and a racer,” Lepp said. “An amazing friend, he passed away in 2015 from cancer.”

The memorial for Osadchuk took place on July 22 and 23, and welcomed hundreds of spectators out to the dragway just outside Rivers, to pay tribute to the late member of the racing community.

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Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017

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