THE Young Riders Fund’s very own YRF Junior, Charlie Atkins has been scouted to ride for Scott Redding’s first ever Young Riders Racing Team. Charlie has had an impressive second season in the FAB Racing British Minimoto Championship, only dropping out of the overall top three once throughout the whole season in the Junior 4.2 class. [...]
THE Final two rounds of the Scottish championship were hosted by Kartstart Kircaldy, the indoor venue in the Kingdom of Fife. At Round seven of the Scottish Championship, James contended two of the three classes he was eligible for, the air-cooled Junior C and the Lightweight Production class. In the Junior C class James got [...]
ROUND eight of the FAB Racing British Championship was held once again at Llandow in Wales. Being the final round all the YRF Juniors wanted to go out on a high. Charlie Atkins had secured third position in the championship at the previous round hosted by Whilton Mill, however it was still mathematically possible to [...]
ROUND six of the Scottish Minimoto Championship, came from just over the border at Warden Law near Sunderland. With the weather on their side, two of the YRF Juniors set out on a busy day of racing. With this being James Alderson’s home track he had decided to run all three classes, Junior [...]
The penultimate round of the Fab Racing British Championship was hosted by Whilton Mill. And with vital points up for grabs for the YRF Juniors, they set out to stake their claim in their rookie championship. Charlie Atkins does not favour the Northamptonshire circuit, but this did not dampen his spirit and will to win [...]
WHEN the Young Riders Fund first started thinking about forming the YRF Junior scheme, we had contacted Bob Brown of BWMBC (Bikewise Mini Bike Club) about a possible candidate that would benefit from what we had to offer in the North East. And from this James Alderson joined the YRF Junior scheme. Since then we [...]
THE Fab Racing British Championship Sixth round was hosted by Lydd Karting in Kent. With only three race meetings left in the calendar and valuable points left up for grabs, all three YRF Juniors were in the hunt. Charlie Atkins brought his race face along to Lydd, sitting eighth in the Mini GP50 championship on [...]
ROUND five of the Scottish championship once again visited Westland’s Activity Centre in the Scottish Border town of Annan. It was a perfect day for racing, the sun was out, the paddock was full and that heavenly sound of tiny two stroke engines pinging away filled the woodland that surrounded the track. The track it’s [...]
ROUND four of the Scottish Championship once again visited Kartstart Kirkcaldy and it was to prove a busy day for James Alderson as he tackled all three classes. With quite a bit of work ahead of them the Alderson’s started their Journey from Durham to Kirkcaldy at 05:00AM to get ahead start setting up [...]
ROUND five was hosted by Whilton Mill in Northamptonshire, the second of three visits to the venue on the Fab Racing calendar. Once again the bad weather greeted our three YRF Juniors on Friday for practise. Fortunately not for long, as the sun poked its unfamiliar face out from behind the dreary grey clouds [...]