Round three of the FIM MotoMini Canada series came back to Shannonville in late July, and Cohen stood on the box in both races — results that go up on the series feed as the result cards I make between rounds.
Third in race one. Third in race two. In the Ohvale 190 class, at a national round, against a field that includes the rider who had won every 190 race of the season to that point.
I want to be careful about how I write this, because it is very easy for a parent to turn a third place into a coronation. So here is the plain version. Stefan Tanasic won both races. Eric Sergi was second in both. Cohen was third in both. Jäger Stockill, who had been undefeated in the class all season, had spark plug cap trouble in both races and did not finish the first one — the weekend that finally broke the streak was not the weekend anybody beat him straight up, and I am not going to pretend otherwise.
But the standings after that round had Cohen fourth in the championship, and that is not an accident of one weekend. That is the accumulation of a whole spring of test days at this track — the May ones nobody publishes results for, the ones where you go home with nothing but data.
The other thing about that weekend: it rained. Not for the races, but around them, enough to make the whole paddock rethink tires twice, and enough that I spent a good part of Sunday morning standing in a puddle looking at a sky that could not make up its mind.
Consistency is the least glamorous thing in racing. Two thirds in a weekend does not make a highlight reel. It moves you up the championship, it banks points, and it means the bike came home in one piece both times so you are not rebuilding a fairing on Monday night. At this level, in this class, that is the whole game.
Two podiums, one weekend, and a very quiet drive home because all three of them were asleep before Belleville.