Brad McMann left the Lloyd Ex in style after winning a brand new Dodge Ram as the 2025 Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association (CPCA) High-Point Champion.
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The nine-year veteran CPCA driver finished the 2025 season with 1,083 points, 93 points ahead of second-place finisher Ryan Baptiste.
McMann may have had a slower start to the season, but his team came out firing on all cylinders throughout the second half.
“We had a lot of old boys in the lineup that didn’t make the lineup at the start of the year due to injuries, and we relied on a lot of young horses right out of the gate,” said McMann.
“With that, there’s a bit of a learning curve on the driver and the horses. We relied on a couple of the old boys to teach this young team. They won a lot of dashes for us, and three of the horses are only six years old in their second year.”
McMann also thanked his crew for keeping the horses healthy all year.
In addition to bragging rights, McMann drove off in a new Dodge Ram,
courtesy of Meadow Lake Chrysler, wrapped in a Ray Mitsuing memorial vinyl donated by Reid and Wright Advertising.
A new truck is always helpful to get these hard-working drivers down the road each season. This one, however, was special to McMann with its connection to the late Ray Mitsuing.
“When I started out, Ray mentored us and helped us out quite a bit, so it was pretty cool to win the very first one in his memory,” said McMann.
“It meant a lot. Everyone knows who Ray was and what he was about. He was there to win every single race. It was pretty special, that one.”
After accepting the keys to his truck, McMann and Mitsuing’s wife, Josephine went for a victory lap with the McMann Racing team in honour of Ray.
“Coming out of the bottom barrel, she’s like, ‘Let’s see what this thing’s got,’ and told me to stomp on it. We let her fly,” said McMann. “When Mama Jo speaks, you listen.”
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