With only two races remaining in the 2026 Super Tour Championship, the battle for the King of the Tour title will be decided at the Canadian Bracket Finals at Napierville Dragway.
Five of the top six drivers have never won a Super Tour National Championship. François Angers is chasing his first title, while Sacha Leblanc is looking to accomplish the feat in his rookie season.
Kyle Jessup is the only former champion among the six. He won the Super Pro Championship in 2016, during the very first season of the Super Tour. Ten years later, he has a chance to become a two-time champion.
FRANÇOIS ANGERS
Season average: 1,011 points per race
Angers arrives at Napierville in control of his own destiny. His magic number for the weekend is 3,200 points. That represents 13 round wins without a buyback out of a possible 16.
In other words, Angers can leave only three win lights on the table over the entire weekend and still make the championship mathematically unreachable.
He doesn’t need to win both races, but he will need to be very solid both days.
SACHA LEBLANC
Season average: 933 points per race
Only 700 points behind the leader heading into the finale, Leblanc is in the best position to put pressure on Angers.
His ideal scenario is obviously the maximum: 3,800 points and 16 round wins, meaning two victories without a buyback.
But unlike the drivers further back, Leblanc still has some room to work with. Every round he wins puts more pressure on Angers and reduces the number of win lights the leader can afford to leave on the table.
If Angers has a difficult weekend and collects only the 600 show-up points, Leblanc would need just 1,600 points this weekend, or 5 round wins, to move ahead. At the other extreme, the more win lights Angers collects, the closer Leblanc will need to get to his maximum of 3,800 points and 16 rounds.
KYLE JESSUP
Season average: 911 points per race
Jessup enters the finale 900 points behind Angers. At this point, he also needs to aim close to the maximum available. The more rounds he leaves on the table, the more he will depend on early exits from the drivers ahead of him.
Jessup doesn’t necessarily need a perfect weekend. If Angers and Leblanc both have difficult weekends and collect only 600 points each, Jessup could move ahead with just 1,600 points, or 5 round wins.
However, every round won by Angers and Leblanc will quickly increase the number of win lights Jessup needs.
ANDRÉ BALLABEY
Season average: 900 points per race
For Ballabey, the margin for error gets even smaller. Sitting 1,000 points behind the leader, he almost has to treat every round like a championship elimination round.
The door can still open quickly if the three drivers ahead of him go out early. If Angers, Leblanc and Jessup collect only 600 points each, Ballabey would need 1,800 points, or 6 round wins, to move ahead.
If the leaders go deep, however, his scenario can quickly turn into the need for a nearly perfect weekend.
NOÉMIE BALLABEY
Season average: 889 points per race
The scenario is very similar for Noémie Ballabey. She has almost no room left for a bad race. To stay in the championship battle until the end, she needs to start collecting win lights early and go deep into eliminations both days.
Ballabey can also take advantage of a difficult weekend from the drivers ahead of her. If Angers, Leblanc, Jessup and André Ballabey are all limited to 600 points, she would need 1,800 points, or 6 round wins, to move ahead.
Every additional win light collected by the drivers ahead of her will directly increase what she needs to accomplish.
DOMINIC GERMAIN
Season average: 889 points per race
Germain has the smallest margin for error among the six. His scenario almost comes down to one simple instruction: win.
He doesn’t necessarily need to win both races if the standings collapse ahead of him. If Angers, Leblanc, Jessup, André Ballabey and Noémie Ballabey collect only 600 points each, Germain could move ahead with 2,000 points, or 7 round wins.
His margin for error remains the smallest, however. The deeper the other contenders go into eliminations, the faster his scenario moves toward needing all 16 available round wins.
There is one thing all six drivers will absolutely want to avoid: the buyback.
With this many points at stake and so few rounds remaining, losing in the first or second round can completely change the championship scenario. A driver can still win the race after using a buyback, but the win lights that follow no longer build the same championship points total.
That means the first two rounds each day could be among the most important rounds of the entire season.
Two races. Six drivers. And now, every win light counts.